Internships Students 2009-2018
2018
Student: Laura Piperno
Period: 01/05/2018-30/10/2018
Place: ENEA, Italy
Title: new solutions (exchange)
Director: Teresa Puig and Cornelia Pop
Student: Estel Rueda Hernandez
Period: 01/05/2018-30/10/2018
Place: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Master Enginyeria medioambiental )
Title: All oxide heterostructures for solar energy (TFM)
Director: Mariona Coll
2017
Student: Andreea-Andrada Luscalov
Period: 01/03/2017-30/06/2017
Place: Technical University of Cluj – Napoca, Baia Mare University Centre
Title: Synthesis and characterization of CeO2 nanoparticles for biochemistry applications (TFM Erasmus)
Director: Susagna Ricart and Cornelia Pop
Student: Pamela Machado
Period: 01/2017-07/2017
Place: UB
Title: Compositional tuning of BiFeO3 thin films for PV applications /Preparation of novel nanoengineered ferroelectric oxide materials for photovoltaics (TFM)
Director: Mariona Coll
Student: Agnes Reig
Period: 09/2016-07/2018
Place: Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
Title: Energy Storage and energy carriers conversion: Hybridation of energy systems (TFM)
Director: Xavier Granados
2016
Student: Raquel Aymerich
Period: 01/07/2016- 31/12/2016
Place: UAB
Title: 1D functional oxide nanostrucutres by chemical methods (Laboratory Practices).
Director: Narcis Mestres
Post-doc: Mehtap Büyükyazi
Period: 01/09/2016-31/09/2016
Place: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany
Title: Study of Co(II) and Co(III) Heteroarylalkenolates as efficient precursors for ALD cobalt oxide nanostructures
Director: Mariona Coll Bau
Student: Sebastian de Vrieze
Period: 01/01/2016-30/06/2016
Place: Ghent University
Title: Influencing the superconducting performance by the size and nature of preformed nanocrystals in YBa2Cu3O7-d nanocomposites (TFM)
Director: Susagna Ricart
Student: Alejandro Fernandez
Period: 01/2016-07/2016
Place: UAB
Title: Tuning the electronic structure in High Temperature Superconducting films (TFM)
Director: Anna Palau
Student: Isabel García Poncet
Period: 01/2016-07/2016
Place: UAB
Title: Control and reduction of water content from YBa2Cu3O7-x precursor solutions to obtain high-performance superconducting films (TFG)
Director: Susagna Ricart
Student: Júlia Gassol
Period: 06/2016-07/2016
Place: Bath University
Title: IR studies (Practices)
Director: Susagna Ricart
Student: Pamela Machado
Period: 01/2016-07/2016
Place: UAB
Title: Influence of Co incorporation in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films on surface morphology, structure and optical properties (TFG)
Director: Mariona Coll
Student: Juan Carlos Martin
Period: 01/2016-07/2016
Place: UAB
Title: Functional Perovskite oxides for photovoltaic applications (TFM)
Director: Mariona Coll
Student: Agnes Reig
Period: 01/2016-07/2016
Place: Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
Title: Caracterització d’un prototip de màquina elèctrica amb estàtor de cinta superconductora (TFG)
Director: Xavier Granados
Student: Claire Ribiere
Period: 2015-29/08/2016
Place: Ecole Nationale Supérieur d’Ingénieurs de Caen, France
Title: Etude de l’utilisation de supraconducteurs pour les technologies de demain (Erasmus stay)
Director: Xavier Granados
Student: Marijn Van de Putte
Period: 03/09/2016-18/12/2016
Place: University of Twente (Nederland)
Title: Growth and characterization of functional oxide nanostructures by chemical solution deposition (Erasmus stay)
Director: Narcis Mestres
2015
Student: Sara Marti Sanchez
Period: 18/09/2014-17/07/2015
Place: UB
Title: Growth and characterization of YBCO-BaCeO3 nanocomposite films (TFM).
Director: Teresa Puig and Anna Palau
Student: David Batet
Period: 09/06/2015-31/07/2015
Place: UAB – Nanotechnology
Title: Optimization of sputtering and etching processes to define ohmic contacts on functional oxide thin films (summer internship).
Director: Narcis Mestres
Student: Júlia Jareño Cerulla
Period: 01/2015- 15/07/2015
Place: UAB
Title: Preparation and characterization of rare-earth nickelates by CSD (TFM).
Director: Teresa Puig and Mar Tristany
Student: Cristiano Matricardi
Period: 01/07/2015- 30/09/2015
Place: Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Title: Technical thin film synthesis by polymer assisted deposition (PAD) (Erasmus stay).
Director: Narcis Mestres
2014
Student: Jordi Antoja
Period: 01/2014-07/2014
Place: UAB
Title: Towards nanofabricated pinning sites in high Tc superconducting thin films based on the resistive switching phenomenon (TFG).
Director: Anna Palau
Student: Katrien De Keukeleere
Period: 05/05/2014-17/05/2014
Place: Dep. Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Ghent University
Title: Caracterització de nanoparticules de ZrO2 i la seva estabilitat en TFA-YBCO.
Director: Susagna Ricart
Student: Jonathan De Roo
Period: 05/05/2014-17/05/2014
Place: Dep. Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Ghent University
Title: Caracterització de nanoparticules de HfO2 i la seva etabilitat en TFA-YBCO.
Director: Susagna Ricart
Student: Tom Malarde
Period: 15/04/2014-14/08/2014
Place: Universitat de Caen
Title: Preparació i caracterització de solucions sense Fluor.
Director: Susagna Ricart
Student: Jorge Marqués Silva
Period: 09/2014- 02/ 2015
Place: Univerdsidade Nuova de Lisboa
Title: Modellingt of Superconducting Bulks and Stacks for Electrical Machines Application (Erasmus stay).
Director: Xavier Granados
Student: Jose Antonio Peña
Period: 03/07/2014- 31/07/ 2014
Place: UAB
Title: The preparation and characterization of CZO buffer layers (Research practices and TFG).
Director: Cornelia Pop
2013
Student: Jeremy William Ward
Period: 09/07/2013-31/07/2013
Place: Wake Forest University, USA
Title: Deposición y caracterización de capas de Al2O3 por atomic layer deposición sobre sistemas orgánicos.
Director: Mariona Coll Bau
Student: Marine Serazin
Period: 08/04/13 08/07/13
Place: École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Caen and Centre de Recherche (ENSICAEN)
Title: Study and testing of Mechanical properties of HTS coated conductors.Development of FEM analysis
Director: Xavier Granados
Student: Cornelia Pop
Period: 31/01/2013-actualitat (2014)
Place: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Title: Growth of fluorine free YBCO films
Director: Teresa Puig Molina
Student: Júlia Jareño Cerulla
Period: 01/07/2013-02/08/2013
Place: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Title: Preparación de capas de óxidos complejos por vía de soluciones químicas.
Director: Mar Tristany
Student: Paula Andrea Garces Constain
Period: 03/02/2013-31/01/2014
Place: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Title: Crecimiento y Caracterización de Nanocomposites YBCO-Ta. Growth and characterization of YBCO-Ta nanocomposites.
Director: Mariona Coll Bau
2011
Student: Paula Andrea Garces Constain
Period: 20/07/2011-02/04/2012
Place: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Title: Crecimiento y Caracterización de Nanocomposites YBCO-Ta. Growth and characterization of YBCO-Ta nanocomposites.
Director: Xavier Obradors Berenguer
Student: Thomas Villeger
Period: 26/05/2011-15/08/2011 (2011)
Place: Universite Nantes
Title: Epitaxial growth of LSMO thin films and nanodots from chemical solutions
Director: Narcis Mestres
Student: Maud Sichet
Period: 23/05/2011-12/08/2011
Place: Universite Nantes
Title: Electron Beam Lithography on LSMO Thin Films
Director: Anna Palau Masoliver
Student: Duta Raul-Lucian
Period: 01/04/2011-31/07/2011 (2011)
Place: University of Pitesti, Rumania
Title: Fabrication of Al2O3 films by Atomic Layer Deposition
Director: Mariona Coll Bau
Student: Cornelia Pop
Period: 28/02/2011-30/06/2011
Place: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Title: Growth of fluorine free YBCO films
Director: Teresa Puig Molina
Student: Bassile de Parscau Du Plessix
Period: 23/05/2011-19/08/2011
Place: Universite Nantes
Title: TEM investigation of nanoscale materials
Director: Prof. Jordi Arbiol
Student: Baudouin Pierre
Period: 23/05/2011-19/08/2011
Place: Universite Nantes
Title: Atomic Layer Deposition of nanocrystalline CeO2 films
Director: Mariona Coll Bau
Student: Céline Molle
Period: 23/05/2011-12/08/2011
Place: Universite Nantes
Title: Low fluorine solution precursors for YBCO films
Director: Dra. Susagna Ricart
Student: Buzoiu Ilie-Daniel
Period: 01/04/2011-31/07/2011
Place: University of Pitesti, Rumania
Title: Preparation of YBCO sintered pellets
Director: Dr. Xavier Granados
Student: C.H. Hsu
Period: 29/05/2011-27/07/2011
Place: Cambridge University, Department of Engineering Science
Title: Study of high permeability materials effects in magnetization of HTS ceramics by Flux Pumping
Director: Dr. Xavier Granados
Student: Lucile Dumont
Period: 27/06/2011-27/07/2011 (2011)
Place: École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Caen and Centre de Recherche (ENSICAEN)
Title: Fabrication of ceramics
Director: Dr. Xavier Granados
Student: Paula De Azambuja
Period: 28/02/2011-28/03/2011
Place: Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Title: YBCO thin film preparation by MOD
Director: Xavier Obradors Berenguer and Teresa Puig Molina
2010
Student: S. Ye
Period: 2010 (1 Year)
Place: Applied Superconductivity Research Center Tsinghua, Beijing, China
Title: Study of novel YBCO nanocomposite films from complex metallorganic solutions
Director: Mariona Coll Bau
Student: Michael Rasch
Period: 6/2010-7/2010
Place: University of Texas at Austin
Title: Cryo-TEM applied to the characterization of magnetic nanoparticles inside lipids and micelles
Director: Jordi Arbiol
Student: M. Nasui
Period: 2010 (6 months) (2010)
Place: Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Rumania
Title: New pecursor solutions with low fluorine content for YBCO epitaxial film growth
Director: Teresa Puig Molina
Student: R. B. Mos
Period: 2010 (6 months)
Place: Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Rumania
Title: Polymer assisted deposition of CeO2 buffer layers
Director: Teresa Puig Molina
Student: M. Erbe
Period: 2010 (6 months) (2010)
Place: IFW Dresden, Germany
Title: Growth of YBCO nanocomposites from colloidal solutions with Fe3O4 nanoparticles
Director: Teresa Puig Molina
Student: Gianantonio Busato
Period: 12/2010
Place: Italy
Title: Growth of functional thin films and nanostructures by chemical solution deposition
Director:Teresa Puig Molina
Student: M. Allain
Period: 2010 (6 months)
Place: Université de Nantes, France
Title: Growth of ultrathin LSMO layers for electronic applications
Director: Teresa Puig Molina
Student: H Chen
2009
Place: Applied Superconductivity Research Center Tsinghua, Beijing, China
Title: Director: Teresa Puig Molina
Student: Mauro Epifani
Period: 2 weeks
Place: IMM-CNR, Lecce, Italy
Title: SYnthesis and NanoCharacterization of Advanced Metal Oxide Nanostructures
Director: Prof. Jordi Arbiol
Sebastiaan de Vrieze, master student of Ghent University. From february to june 2016 he has been doing a short stay in “Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures” group at ICMAB (in collaboration with UAB) untitled “Synthesis , deposition and characterization of ex-situ nanocomposite YBCO layers containing ZrO2 and HfO2 Nanoparticles” under the supervision of Dr. Susagna Ricart.
Alejandro Fernández Rodríguez, student of the master “Advanced nanoscience and nanotechnology” at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). From January to July 2016 he had been doing his master thesis in “Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures” group at ICMAB. The title is “Tuning the electronic structure in high temperature superconducting films” and it was directed by Dr. Anna Palau.
Juan Carlos Martin Romano, from Madrid, He is a chemist graduated as of last year. He is currently doing the UAB Master on Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which has given me the opportunity to get to know Barcelona. He has been doing his master thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mariona Coll in the group of Superconducting Materials. The theme is the engineering of perovskite materials to be applied in the field of photovoltaic energy.
Isabel García Pon
cet , 4th-year-student of Nanocsience and Nanotechnology degree at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has been doing her final degree thesis thesis in the group of Supercondu cting Materials and Nanostructure at Large Scale at ICMAB under the supervision of Dr. Susagna Ricart concerning the synthesis and characterization of YBCO superconductor layers.
Pamela Ma
chado is in her last year of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology degree in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been doing her final degree thesis in the group of Superconducting Materials and Nanostructure at Large Scale under the supervision of Dr. Mariona Coll. She worked with a perovskite ferroelectric material and studied its electrical and optical properties to apply it to photovoltaic devices.
Orjan Artursson, he comes from Sweden and he is Project Engineer. He will be in charge of the installation of the new lab of the group in MATGAS building.
Roger Guzman, after a first postdoc in Zaragoza he comes back to the group to work as a postdoc in STEM and EELS characterization of YBCO nanocomposites samples.
Flavio Pino, he comes from Italy and he is joining us as a postdoc to work on the inkjet deposition and UV curing of superconducting thick films.
Juri Banchewsky, he comes from Germany and he is starting his PhD in the group concerning Vortex pinning studies in YBCO nanocomposites samples.
