‘Combining molecular dynamics simulations and atomic force microscopy experiments to rationalize the mechanical properties of double-stranded DNA and RNA’

PhD Student: Alberto Marín González. Date: 06/03/2020 PhD Supervisors: Fernando Moreno Herrero (CNB-CSIC), Rubén Pérez Pérez (UAM) Featured publication: Understanding the mechanical response of double-stranded DNA and RNA under constant stretching forces using...

‘Advanced Force Spectroscopy Applications: Three-Dimensional AFM and Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy’

PhD Student: Manuel Ralph Uhlig. Date: 04/03/2020 PhD Supervisors: Ricardo García Garcia (ICMM-CSIC) Featured publication: Atomic-scale mapping of hydrophobic layers on graphene and few-layer MoS2 and WSe2 in water / NATURE COMMUNICATIONS / 10.1038/s41467-019-10740-w...

‘Tuning dynamical properties of nanoscale systems via atomic-level modifications: insights from all-atom Molecular Dynamics simulations’

PhD Student: María Ortega Cruz. Date: 31/01/2020 PhD Supervisors: Rubén Pérez Pérez (UAM), Guilherme Vilhena (Universidad de Basel) Featured publication: Bioengineering a Single-Protein Junction / JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY / 10.1021/jacs.7b0613 Link:...

‘Quantum dynamics in low dimensional topological systems’

PhD Student: Miguel Bello Gamboa. Date: 30/01/2020 PhD Supervisor: Gloria Platero Coello (ICMM-CSIC) Featured publication: Long-range doublon transfer in a dimer chain induced by topology and ac fields / SCIENTIFIC REPORTS / 10.1038/srep22562 Link:...

“Vortex lattices under stress: Visualizing the superconducting vortex lattice in presence of disorder and magnetism”

PhD Student: José Benito Llorens  Date: 16/01/2020 PhD supervisors: Hermann Suderow(UAM) and Isabel Guillamon(UAM). Featured publication: Vortex creep at very low temperatures in single crystals of the extreme type-II superconductor Rh9In4S4 / PHYSICAL REVIEW B /...