Tomás Sintes

IFISC (CSIC-UIB)
Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears
E-07122 Palma de Mallorca. Spain
Despacho 207
+34 971 17 13 80

Contact
Página web: http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/~tomas

Perfil

My main scientific activities focus in the field of polymer physics with applications to biological macromolecules, polyelectrolytes and magnetic filaments. One of the main objectives is the design of artificial self-propelling structures and tunable devices that, controlled by external magnetic fields, can be used as selective filters. In addition, my research also includes the study of the pattern formation and growth in out of equilibrium systems with applications to marine ecosystems (seagrass meadows and seaweeds). Our results are expected to be of great relevance in marine restoration programs, estimates of the carbon dioxide capture and their role in the climate change mitigation; the existence of tipping points that identify the risk of plant extinction and the mapping of the genetic diversity as a measure of their adaptability to environmental changes.

UIB page: https://www.uib.eu/personal/ABDg3MjQ/

Publicaciones recientes

A generalized numerical model for clonal growth in scleractinian coral colonies.

Llabrés, E.; Re, E; Pluma, N; Sintes, T; Duarte, CM
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291, 20241327 (2024)

Efficiency in the self assembly of viral capsids.

Aguilar Rosero, Daniel (Sintes, Tomas)
Master Thesis (2024)

Clonal Growth Patterns in Colonial Anthozoan Corals

Re, E; Schmidt-Roach, S; Llabres, E; Sintes, T; Duarte, CM
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 62, 248-266 (2024)

Dynamic response of a ferromagnetic nanofilament under rotating fields: effects of flexibility, thermal fluctuations and hydrodynamics

Sánchez, PA; Cerrato, A; Cerdà, JJ; Bona-Casas, C; Sintes, T; Massó, J
Nanoscale 16, 11724-11738 (2024)

Mapping the distribution of seagrass meadows from space with deep convolutional neural networks

Giménez-Romero, Àlex; Ferchichi, Dhafer; Moreno-Spiegelberg, Pablo; Sintes, Tomàs; Matías, Manuel A.
Submitted (2024)

Proyectos de investigación vigentes

Ocean Citizen

Marine forest coastal restoration: an underwater gardening socio-ecological plan

I.P.: Damià Gomila

Following the non-achievement of the AICHI targets and most of the Good Environmental Status objectives for 2020, active restoration has been emerged (also envisaged by the EU) as one of the preferred ...

CYCLE

Complex DYnamics of CoastaL Ecosystems: Resilience to Climate Change. Modelling and Simulations.

I.P.: Damià Gomila, Tomás Sintes

Complex Dynamics of Coastal Ecosystems: Resilience to Climate Change (CYCLE) is a coordinated multidisciplinary research project that brings together the efforts of experts in the fields of marine ecology and the physics ...

SEDIMENT

SEagrass DIversity in the MEditerranean basin in a global change scenario: a machine learNing approach from saTellite images

I.P.: Manuel Matías, Tomás Sintes

The main challenge of this project is to correlate the changes in the sea surface temperature (SST) in the Mediterranean basin with the spatial distribution and size of different seagrass species. We ...

Validació d’un model de graus-dia per predir l’aparició de les primeres nimfes de Philaenus spumarius a les Illes Balears

I.P.: Manuel Matías

This is a contract (encàrrec de gestió) with the Conselleria d'Agricultura of the Balearic Government that has as goal to develop an informatic tool to predict the time of hatching of eggs ...