Doctoral Thesis
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Advancing the mechanistic understanding of CaO-based sorbents for CO2 capture
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Evaluating the effect of vegetation in urban microclimate using remote sensing technologies
(2024)At present time, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and many regions of the world are experiencing rapid urbanization. The increasing urbanization combined with the effects of climate change have resulted in the intensification of urban heat islands. Urban heat islands decrease outdoor thermal comfort and create feedback loops on energy consumption. Furthermore, the more frequent temperature extremes directly ...Doctoral Thesis -
Bridging The Gap: School-to-Work Transitions and Youth Labor Market Dynamics in Informal Economies
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Investigations on Wood- and Wood-Hybrid-Joints and their Moisture Stability
(2024)Wood is a highly valued, renewable resource with excellent mechanical properties. However, the natural heterogeneity of wood and its dimensional restrictions limit the use of wood in its natural state. Engineered wood products (EWP) have been developed to overcome or improve those limitations by assembling smaller wood pieces into larger structures. Especially adhesive-bonded EWPs allow for increased utilization of wood in construction ...Doctoral Thesis -
Enhancing Physical Interactions of Untethered Miniature Magnetic Robots for Biomedical Applications
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Optimization of the High-Intensity Muon Beamlines for MEG~II, Mu3e and HIMB
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Characterizing liquid-solid phase transitions for mechanistic model-based process design
(2024)Freezing, freeze-drying and crystallization are central to the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. They all involve a phase transition from the liquid to the solid, and it is the inherent complexity of this transition that renders process design challenging. This thesis aims to deepen the mechanistic understanding of the liquid-solid phase transition and to utilize the knowledge gained for rational process design. It has ...Doctoral Thesis -
Advanced-Glycation-Endproducts cross-linking in collagen fibrils - a nanoscale study on tissue
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A Scientific Event Camera: Theory, Design, and Measurements
(2024)This thesis explores the physical limits of neuromorphic event cameras and proposes a novel highly-sensitive event camera targeting scientific applications. Certain scientific applications, such as fluorescent imaging of neural activity (especially voltage imaging), as well as tracking of particles/objects moving at high speed, require vision sensors operating near the limits of physics. These applications consist in the detection of ...Doctoral Thesis -
Synthesis and dynamics of carbonaceous nanoparticles during enclosed spray combustion
(2024)Carbonaceous nanoparticles are both pollutants (soot) with negative effects on human health and the environment and valuable nanomaterials (carbon black). Understanding the processes which form such particles is therefore essential for designing combustion engines and reactors that minimize harmful emissions and enhance commercial profit. Aviation is a growing industry and an important source of soot. Soot from aviation tends to have a ...Doctoral Thesis -
Enabling Responsible Digital Health Innovation: From Ethical Principles To Innovation And Regulation Practice
(2024)Digitalization is disrupting the very nature of how people live and how societies operate. While this has led to major gains in welfare and productivity over the last 20 years, digital technologies also raise novel ethical and societal challenges. The importance of these challenges is aggravated by the fact that quickly emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, are hard to predict and thus regulate. In healthcare, one ...Doctoral Thesis -
Forward modelling and theoretical predictions for cosmological galaxy surveys
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Enhancing Interfacial Stability in Oxide Solid-State Batteries: Diffusion Barriers and Seed Layers
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Computational Approaches for Identifying Causal Effects in Online Social Platforms
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The rising Solar Orbiter/STIX era: new insights on microflares and early flare emission
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Unsupervised Robot-Assisted Therapy: From the Clinic to the Home
(2024)Stroke affects more than 12 million people every year. Many stroke survivors are left with upper limb impairments, which negatively impact their independence in daily life and their quality of life. Giving individuals after a stroke the opportunity to perform more upper limb therapy sessions than those offered during usual care might improve their functional outcomes and overall well-being. However, providing more therapy sessions (i.e., ...Doctoral Thesis