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Species Interactions - From Phenotypes to Ecosystems
(2019)Interactions between species can structure populations and communities, affect the flow of energy and matter within and across ecosystem boundaries, and shape the biotic and abiotic environment. Thereby, species interactions can also feed back on the participating species themselves, and on other members of the community. Complex interaction networks can arise that may influence the stability of ecosystems and potentially make them resilient ...Doctoral Thesis -
Data-driven uncertainty quantification for high-dimensional engineering problems
(2019)In the context of complex industrial systems and civil infrastructures, taking into account uncertainties during the design process has received much attention in the last decades. Although there is significant progress in modelling such systems, there are always discrepancies between ideal in-silico designed systems and real-world manufactured ones. Starting from a realistic computational model that reproduces the behaviour of an ...Doctoral Thesis -
Dissipation and Interactions in Quantum Optics
(2019)Quantum optics, the study of light at the level of its building blocks, has been one of the frontiers of science. The arena of quantum optics has been fruitful for investigations of a wide range of interesting questions, from those on the fundamental structures in driven dissipative systems to those on applications of quantum information processing and quantum communication. The first part of this thesis is concerned with one of the ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Coherent spin dynamics in optically excited antiferromagnets
(2019)Antiferromagnetic spintronics emerged in the last decade as a promising approach to overcome limitations of current information technology. Owing to the vanishing net magnetization, antiferromagnetic materials exhibit spin dynamics on sub-picosecond timescales potentially allowing not only for data storage and logic circuit applications that are orders of magnitude faster than their established ferromagnetic counterparts, but also the ...Doctoral Thesis -
Clean Energy Activated Micro- and Nanocatalysts Towards Environmental Remediation
(2019)Global water shortages due to rapidly shrinking clean water reserves, increasing industrial activity, and growing world population, is one of humanity’s biggest challenges that requires immediate attention. Over the years, our water resources in particular, have witnessed severe contamination with domestic wastes, insecticides and herbicides, food processing waste, pollutants from livestock operations, volatile organic compounds ...Doctoral Thesis -
Development of Droplet-Based Microfluidics to Assess the Stochastic Behavior of Crystal Nucleation
(2019)Nucleation, the very early stage of crystallization processes, is of fundamental importance on defining crystal properties such as purity, size distribution and polymorphism. Since it is a stochastic phenomenon, a number of challenges to obtaining experimental reproducibility exists. In this thesis we have proposed to study nucleation in microdroplets. Droplet-based microfluidics is a high-throughput technique that enables generating large ...Doctoral Thesis -
Development of effective sorbents and catalysts for the capture and conversion of CO2
(2019)Doctoral Thesis