Notícies
Study links anthropogenic noise in the ocean to changes in marine animals and their ecosystems
Feb. 4, 2021
An international team of researchers, including IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researcher Víctor Eguíluz, has documented the impact of human-caused noise on marine animals (from invertebrates to whales) and their ecosystems. The scientists have found evidence of its negative effect, altering the behavior, …
IFISC People: David Abella, Annalisa Caligiuri, Juan Manuel García and Lucía Ramírez
Feb. 1, 2021
We are glad to introduce David Abella, Annalisa Caligiuri, Juan Manuel García and Lucía Ramirez to the other IFISC members. David Abella studied physics at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and took the IFISC's Master in Physics of Complex Systems. At …
Experimental evidence of the Radar COVID application
Jan. 27, 2021
Identifying the contacts with whom an infected person has been is key in any pandemic to stop the spread of the pathogen. This can be done manually, by asking the sick person, however it is an extremely slow and complex …
Conseller d’Educació, Universitat i Recerca visits IFISC (UIB-CSIC)
Jan. 22, 2021
On January 22, the conseller d'Educació, Universitat i Recerca del Govern de les Illes Balears Martí March, accompanied by the secretaria autonómica de Universitat, Recerca i Política Lingüística, Agustina Vilaret, and the director general de Política Universitària i Recerca, Josep …
Defining the 'temperature' of language features
Jan. 22, 2021
It is estimated that 'modern' human language has been with us for at least 100,000 years. Unfortunately, the historical evolution of languages is often poorly documented, and evidence does not go further back in time than the moment when writing …
IFISC researcher coedits a book on Mesoscopic Physics
Jan. 12, 2021
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researcher David Sánchez recently edited, together with Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute researcher Michael Moskalets, a book entitled Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems. The book includes 19 review papers and research articles from a Special Issue published in the interdisciplinary …
The Andreev-Coulomb effect in quantum dots
Dec. 28, 2020
Quantum dots are nanoscale systems where electrons are confined in the three spatial dimensions. This unique feature allows us to control the current that passes through a quantum dot, which thus shows properties similar to a transistor. A remarkable transport …
The University of the Balearic Islands and the Sicomoro Foundation sign a collaboration agreement
Dec. 17, 2020
The Rector of the University of the Balearic Islands, Llorenç Huguet, and the President and founder of the Sicomoro Foundation, José María Fuster van Bendegem, signed today a collaboration agreement between UIB, FUEIB and the foundation through the Institute of …
IFISC places its Non-linear Photonics Laboratory at the forefront of ultra-fast information processing research worldwide
Dec. 17, 2020
In order to upgrade and extend its experimental capabilities in the field of complex photonics research, IFISC (UIB-CSIC) has acquired new equipment for its Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory consisting of an ultra-fast system for the generation and detection of photonic signals. …
IFISC publishes a monograph on the COVID-19 pandemic in the Medicina Balear journal
Dec. 14, 2020
A multidisciplinary approach, which comes from collaboration between different branches of knowledge, is key to being able to analyse how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our society. For this reason, since the state of alarm was activated in March, researchers …