UPM Expresion of Interest MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Physics 2026
More efficient and sustainable photovoltaic silicon technology
Keywords: Photovoltaic Solar Energy, Solar Cells, Silicon Technology, Optoelectronic Characterisation
Department and Center / Institute: Instituto de Energía Solar
Supervisor: Carlos del Cañizo
Bubble and Droplet Modeling in Liquid Metals for Hydrogen and Solar Applications
Keywords: CFD, Bubbles, Droplets, Hydrogen, Solar
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering
Supervisor: Luis F. González-Portillo
Mobile Heliostats for Concentrating Solar Power Systems
Keywords: Solar, CSP, heliostat
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering
Supervisor: Luis F. González-Portillo
CO₂-Free Hydrogen Generation via Methane Pyrolysis in Liquid Metal Reactors
Keywords: Hydrogen, Methane Pyrolysis, experimental
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering
Supervisor: Luis F. González-Portillo
Quantum Information as a resource in Game Theory
Keywords: Quantum Information, Game Theory, Epistemics
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Information Systems
Supervisor: Giannicola Scarpa
Materials under extreme conditions
Keywords: Materials engineering, Nano-materials, Condensed matter physics, Computational modelling.
Department and Center / Institute: Instituto de Fusión Nuclear “Guillermo Velarde”. Departamento de Ingeniería Energética, E.T.S.I. Industriales
Supervisor: Carlos J. Ruestes
Induction heating of PBTES system
Keywords: FEM-CFD-electromagnetic coupling; Electrified Thermal Energy Storage; Power-to-Heat; Industrial decarbonization
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering, Departamento de Ingeniería Energética, E.T.S.I. Industriales
Supervisor: Ruben Abbás
Decision support systems for the assessment of Parkinson’s Disease using videoculographic sequences
Keywords: Screening of Parkinson’s; videoculographic signals, eye movements; decisión support systems, artificial intelligence
Department and Center / Institute: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones. ETSI Telecomunicación
Supervisor: Juan Ignacio Godino Llorente
Developing Laser Shock Processing as a method for the mechanical strengthening of laser-assisted additively manufactured components (LSP-AM-STRENGTH)
Keywords: Laser shock waves, materials behaviour; residual stresses; fatigue; corrosion; surface functionalization
Department and Center / Institute: UPM Research Group on Laser Engineering and Applications
Dept. of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (ETSII-UPM)
Supervisor: José L. Ocaña
Unlocking the Potential of Small Turbomachinery for Heat Pumps: Simulation, Design & Manufacturing of Soft Centrifugal Compressors
Keywords: Turbomachinery, heat pump, 3D printing, centrifugal compressors, FEM.
Department and Center / Institute: Thermal Energy for Sustainability (TE4S) Research Group; School of Industrial Engineering
Supervisor: Andrés Sebastián
Hybrid methods to solve energy balances in complex radiant systems
Keywords: Concentrated Solar Thermal, Renewable energy, Decarbonization, Solar energy.
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering
Supervisor: Charles-Alexis ASSELINEAU
Advanced thermo-radiative models for thermophotovoltaics systems
Keywords: Thermophotovoltaics, Monte-Carlo ray-tracing, Energy balance, multiphysics
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering
Supervisor: Charles-Alexis ASSELINEAU
Improved Monte-Carlo methods for light-matter interactions in the wave-optics regime
Keywords: Monte-Carlo methods, electromagnetics, light-matter interactions
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering
Supervisor: Charles-Alexis ASSELINEAU
Advanced optical models for bifacial photovoltaic systems
Keywords: Monte-Carlo ray-tracing, Photovoltaics, Multiphysics
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Energy Engineering
Supervisor: Charles-Alexis ASSELINEAU
Understanding and Applying Generative modelling
Keywords: Machine Learning, Restricted Boltzmann Machine, Unsupervised learning, Statistical Physics, Disordered Systems
Department and Center / Institute: Departamento de Matemática Aplicada a la Ingeniería Industrial
Supervisor: Aurélien Decelle
Exploring Coupled Thermal–Hydrodynamic Phenomena in Sensible‑Heat Packed‑Bed Energy Storage through Physics‑Based Numerical Modelling
Keywords: Sensible heat packed-bed system, thermal energy storage, heat transfer mechanisms, numerical modelling, energy‑storage efficiency.
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Engineering in Mechanical, Chemistry and Industrial Design at Higher Technical School of Engineering and Industrial Design.
Supervisor: Carmen Martínez Arévalo
FANTOM-MC: Field-Adjacent aNd ouT-Of-field dose estimation using Monte Carlo methods
Keywords: Neutron Dosimetry, Out-of-Field Dose, Proton Therapy, Computational Phantoms, Monte Carlo codes.
Department and Center / Institute: Energy Engineering, Nuclear Area / Faculty of Industrial Engineers.
Supervisor: Gonzalo Felipe García Fernández
Multimodal Artificial intelligence for treatment decision making
Keywords: Biomedical image processing, multimodal AI, generative AI, advanced therapies, lung cancer, breast cancer, brain turmors, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases.
Department and Center / Institute: Biomedical Image Technologies, Department of Electronic Engineering. ETSI Telecomunicación and Center for Information Processing and Telecomunications.
Supervisor: María J. Ledesma Carbayo
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage Using a Laboratory‑Scale PTES Cycle
Keywords: Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage (PTES); Laboratory‑scale demonstrator; Thermodynamic performance; Experimental–numerical analysis; Energy‑storage efficiency.
Department and Center / Institute: Department of Engineering in Mechanical, Chemistry and Industrial Design at Higher Technical School of Engineering and Industrial Design.
Supervisor: Mathieu Legrand