Laureano Ramirez de la Piscina Millan

Full professor
Campus Sud (UPC), Edifici P, Despatx 119
Doctor Marañon, 44-50
08028 Barcelona

Telèfon: +34 4017995
E-Mail: laure.piscina

upc.edu
Web del grup de recerca: http://biocomsc.upc.edu/en
Web personal: http://futur.upc.edu/LaureanoRamirezdeLaPiscinaMillan

Laureano Ramírez de la Piscina has a degree in Physics for the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) where he earned his Ph.D. in 1990 doing research on stochastic dynamics. He carried out a postdoctoral stay in Université Paris 7 on instabilities in solidification (1992-1993). Currently he performs his research and teaching in the Department de Física at UPC, where he has been PI of several research projects in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics. His research covers Biophysics, Fluctuations, Complex Fluids, Pattern Formation, and Microgravity.

Short CV

2021 - present: Catedrático de Universidad. UPC
1993 - 2021: Profesor Titular de Universidad. UPC
1990 - 1993: Prof. Titular Escuela Universitaria. UPC
1988 - 1990: Profesor Asociado (T. completo). UPC
1986 - 1988: Ayudante LRU (T. completo). UPC

1- Subconductance states in a semimicroscopic model for a tetrameric pore
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J.
Physical review. E 109, 044402 (2024)

2- Controlled generation of vapor/liquid slug flows by local boiling in microgravity
Bitlloch, P.; Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
AIAA journal 58, 4017-4027 (2020)

3- Unstable state decay in non-Markovian heat baths and weak signals detection
Jiménez, J.; Sánchez, N.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Romero, M.
Physica A: statistical mechanics and its applications 529, 121493-1-121493-29 (2019)

4- Fixed-density boundary conditions in overdamped Langevin simulations of diffusion in channels
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review E 98, 013302-1-013302-7 (2018)

5- Periodic spiking by a pair of ionic channels
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Physica A: statistical mechanics and its applications 505, 345-354 (2018)

6- Physical properties of voltage gated pores
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
European physical journal B 91, 10-1-10-9 (2018)

7- Generation and control of monodisperse bubble suspensions in microgravity
Bitlloch, P.; Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
Aerospace science and technology 77, 344-352 (2018)

8- Bubble dynamics in turbulent duct flows: Lattice-Boltzmann simulations and drop tower experiments
Bitlloch, P.; Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
Microgravity science and technology 30, 525-534 (2018)

9- Turbulent bubble jets in microgravity : spatial despersion and velocity fluctuation
Bitlloch, P.; Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
Microgravity science and technology 27, 207-220 (2015)

10- Transitions between symmetric and nonsymmetric regimes in binary-mixture convection
Meca, E.; Mercader, M.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physica. D, Nonlinear phenomena 303, 39-49 (2015)

11- "Single-molecule diffusion in a periodic potential at a solid-liquid interface"
Skaug, M.; Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M; Lindenberg, K.; Schwartz, D.
Soft matter 10, 753-759 (2014)

12- Molecular Na-channel excitability from statistical physics
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Europhysics letters 108, 50008-p1-50008-p6 (2014)

13- Speeding chemical reactions by focusing
Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M; Lindenberg, K.
Journal of chemical physics 138, 14 (2013)

14- Impact of stochastic accelerations on dopant segregation in microgravity semiconductor crystal growth
Ruiz, X.; Bitlloch, P.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
Journal of crystal growth 355, 88-100 (2012)

15- Spatial structure and velocity fluctuations in turbulent bubble jets in microgravity
Bitlloch, P.; Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
International Journal of Transport Phenomena 12, 189-197 (2011)

16- Characterization of the performance of a minibubble generator in conditions relevant to microgravity
Arias, S.; Gonzalez, R.; Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
Colloids and surfaces A: physicochemical and engineering aspects 365, 52-55 (2010)

17- Transient convective instabilities in directional solidification
Meca, E.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physics of fluids 22, 11 (2010)

18- Experimental study of a microchannel bubble injector for microgravity applications
Arias, S.; Ruiz, X.; Casademunt, J.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Gonzalez, R.
Microgravity science and technology 21, 107-111 (2009)

19- Growth kinetics of nanometric dendrites in metal-carbon thin films
Corbella, C.; Echebarria, B.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Pascual, E.; Bertran, E.; Gonzalez Andujar, Jose Luis
Acta materialia 57, 4948-4956 (2009)

20- Generation of a monodisperse microbubble jet in microgravity
Carrera, J.; Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
AIAA journal 46, 2010-2019 (2008)

21- Spontaneous formation of nanometric multilayers of metal-carbon films by up-hill diffusion during growth
Corbella, C.; Echebarria, B.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Pascual, E.; Gonzalez Andujar, Jose Luis; Bertran, E.
Applied physics letters 87, 213117-1-213117-3 (2005)

22- Hot-border effects, ordering, and avalanches in planar arrays of superheated superconducting granules
Peñaranda, A.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research. Section A, accelerators SP 540, 188-199 (2005)

23- Sharp-interface projection of a fluctuating phase-field model
Benitez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 71, 061603 (2005)

24- Bifurcations and chaos in single-roll natural convection with low Prandtl number
Mercader, M.; Batiste, O.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Ruiz, X.; Rüdiger, S.; Casademunt, J.
Physics of fluids 17, 10 (2005)

25- Complex dynamics in double-diffusive convection
Meca, E.; Mercader, M.; Batiste, O.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics 18, 231-238 (2004)

26- Simulations of transitions in superheated supeconducting granules
Peñaranda, A.; Auguet, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research. Section A, accelerators SP 520, 201-204 (2004)

27- Quantitative phase-field simulations of the wavelength selection during alloy redistribution transients
Benitez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Proceedings - SPIE 5471, 58-67 (2004)

28- Stochastic Phase-Field simulations of symmetric alloy solidification
Benitez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Fluctuation and noise letters 4, 505-510 (2004)

29- Numerical study of the shape and integral parameters of a dendrite, Phys. Rev. E 70, 051612 (2004)
Gonzalez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 70, 051612 (2004)

30- Blue sky catastrophe in double-diffusive convection
Meca, E.; Mercader, M.; Batiste, O.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review letters 92, 23 (2004)

31- Initial transients in the symmetric model for directional solidification
Benitez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Lecture notes in computational science and engineering 32, 160-164 (2003)

32- Dynamical ordering induced by preferential transitions in planar arrays of superheated superconducting granules
Peñaranda, A.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Solid state communications 127, 395-400 (2003)

33- Kinematic reduction of reaction-diffusion fronts with multiplicative noise: Derivation of stochastic sharp-interface equations
Rocco, A.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 65, 056116 (2002)

34- "Transicions en sistemes de microgrànuls superconductors"
Peñaranda, A.; Auguet, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
TERAFLOP: Revista del Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya 60, 15-15 (2002)

35- Diamagnetic interactions in disordered suspensions of metastable superconducting granules
Peñaranda, A.; Auguet, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
European physical journal B 25, 155-165 (2002)

36- Diamagnetic interactions in superheated-superconducting granules under an external magnetic field
Peñaranda, A.; Auguet, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Girard, T.
Contributions to science 2, 193-207 (2002)

37- Numerical studies of fluid flow in microgravity conditions for confined crystal growth
Ruiz, X.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.
Astrophysics and space science 276, 135-140 (2001)

38- Sidebranching induced by external noise in solutal dendritic growth
Gonzalez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 63, 051602 (2001)

39- Interface roughening in Hele-Shaw flows with quenched disorder: experimental and theoretical results
Hernández Machado, Aurora; Soriano, J.; Lacasta, A.M; Rodriguez, M.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Ortin, J.
Europhysics letters 55, 194-200 (2001)

40- Pattern forming instabilities of the nematic smectic-B interface
Toth-Katona, T.; Börzsönyi, T.; Buka, A.; Gonzalez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Kramer, L.
Physics reports. Review section of physics letters 337, 37-65 (2000)

41- Brownian motion of spiral waves driven by spatio-temporal structured noise
Sendiña-Nadal, I.; Alonso, S.; Perez-Munuzuri, V.; Gómez-Gesteira, M.; Pérez-Villar, V.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Sancho, J M; Sagués, F.
Physical review letters 84, 2734-2737 (2000)

42- Transicions en sistemes de microgrànuls superconductors
Peñaranda, A.; Auguet, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
TERAFLOP: Revista del Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya 45, 21-21 (1999)

43- Phase-field model for Hele-Shaw flows with arbitrary viscosity contrast II: numerical study
Folch, R.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 60, 1734-1740 (1999)

44- Modeling of spatiotemporal patterns in bacterial colonies
Lacasta, A.M; Rodriguez Cantalapiedra, I.; Auguet, C.; Peñaranda, A.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 59, 7036-7041 (1999)

45- Phase-field model for Hele-Shaw flows with arbitrary viscosity contrast I: theoretical approach
Folch, R.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 60, 1724-1733 (1999)

46- Surface field in an ensemble of superconducting spheres under external magnetic field
Peñaranda, A.; Auguet, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research. Section A, accelerators SP 424, 512-522 (1999)

47- Effects of a quenched disorder on wave propagation in excitable media
Sendiña-Nadal, I.; Perez-Munuzuri, V.; Gómez-Gesteira, M.; Pérez, A.; Pérez-Villar, V.; Vives, D.; Sagués, F.; Casademunt, J.; Sancho, J M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
International journal of bifurcation and chaos 9, 2353-2361 (1999)

48- Wave propagation in a medium with disordered excitability
Sendina-Nadal, I.; Pérez, A.; Vives, D.; Perez-Munuzuri, V.; Casademunt, J.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M; Sagués, F.
Physical review letters 80, 5437-5440 (1998)

49- Growth of unstable interfaces in disordered media
Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Rodríguez, M.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 57, 5754-5760 (1998)

50- Growth of unstable interfaces in disordered media
Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Rodriguez, M.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 57, 5754-5760 (1998)

51- Propagating fronts in reaction-diffusion systems
Vives, D.; Armero, J.; Marti, A. C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Sancho, J M; Sagués, F.
Journal of mathematical chemistry 23, 239-260 (1998)

52- Transitions in disordered suspensions of superconducting granules under external magnetic field
Peñaranda, A.; Auguet, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Solid state communications 109, 277-282 (1998)

53- Ballistic and diffusive corrections to front propagation in the presence of multiplicative noise
Armero, J.; Casademunt, J.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 58, 5494-5500 (1998)

54- Heat diffusion anisotropy in dendritic growth: phase field simulations and experiments in liquid crystals
Gonzalez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Toth-Katona, T.; Börzsönyi, T.; Buka, A.
Journal of crystal growth 193, 712-719 (1998)

55- Percolation thresholds in chemical excitable media
Sendiña-Nadal, I.; Roncaglia, D.; Vives, D.; Perez-Munuzuri, V.; Gómez-Gesteira, M.; Pérez-Villar, V.; Echave, J.; Casademunt, J.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sagués, F.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 58, R1183-R1186 (1998)

56- Wave competition in excitable modulated media
Sendina-Nadal, I.; Gomez-Gesteira, M.; Perez-Munuzuri, V.; Perez-Villar, V.; Armero, J.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Sancho, J M; Sagués, F.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 56, 6298-6301 (1997)

57- Front propagation in spatially modulated media
Armero, J.; Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Sancho, J M; Sagués, F.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 56, 5405-5412 (1997)

58- Front propagation in spatially modulated media
Armero, J.; Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Sancho, J M; Sagués, F.
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 56, 5405-5412 (1997)

59- "Phase field simulations and experiments of faceted growth in liquid crystals"
Gonzalez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Kramer, L.; Katona, T.; Börzsönyi, T.; Buka, A.
Physica. D, Nonlinear phenomena 99, 359-368 (1996)

60- Pattern formation during mesophase growth in a homologous series
Katona, T.; Börzsönyi, T.; Váradi, Z.; Szabon, J.; Buka, A.; Gonzalez, R.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Hernández Machado, Aurora
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 54, 1574-1583 (1996)

61- External Fluctuations in Front Propagation
Armero, J.; Sancho, J M; Casademunt, J.; Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sagués, F.
Physical review letters 76, 3045-3048 (1996)

62- An interfacial instability induced by external fluctuations
Mozos, J.; Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Hernández Machado, Aurora
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 53, 1459-1464 (1996)

63- Interfacial instability induced by external fluctuations
Mozos, J.; Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Hernández Machado, Aurora
Physical review E, statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 53, 1459-1464 (1996)

64- Pattern and velocity selection of fronts in modulated media
Armero, J.; Lacasta, A.M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Casademunt, J.; Sancho, J M; Sagués, F.
Europhysics letters 33, 429-434 (1996)

65- "Fluctuations in domain growth: Ginzburg-Landau equations with multiplic. noise"
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Sancho, J M
Physical review B: condensed matter and materials physics 48, 119-124 (1993)

66- Langevin equations with multiplicative noise: application to domain growth
Sancho, J M; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Lacasta, A.M
Acta physica polonica B 24, 733-750 (1993)

67- Effective diffusion in a stochastic velocity field
Careta, A.; Sagués, F.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Journal of statistical physics 71, 235-242 (1993)

68- "Initial front transients in directional solidification of thin samples of dilute alloys"
Caroli, B.; Caroli, C.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Journal of crystal growth 132, 377-388 (1993)

69- Numerical Algorithm for Ginzburg-Landau equations with multiplicative noise
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M; Hernández Machado, Aurora
Physical review B: condensed matter and materials physics 48, 125-131 (1993)

70- Generation of spatiotemporal colored noise
Garcia, J.; Sancho, J M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physical review A 46, 4670-4675 (1992)

71- "A non-equilibrium phase transition with colored noise"
Garcia, J.; Sancho, J M; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physics letters A 168, 35-39 (1992)

72- Macroscopic stochasticity in the chlorite-iodide reaction
Sagués, F.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Reaction kinetics and catalysis letters 42, 427-433 (1991)

73- First passage times for a marginal state
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Physical review A 43, 663-668 (1991)

74- First-passage times for a marginal state driven by colored noise
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Physical review A 43, 663-668 (1991)

75- "Some exact results for the lattice covering time problem"
Yokoi, C.S.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.
Physics letters A 145, 82-86 (1990)

76- Stochastic dynamics of the chlorite-iodide reaction
Sagués, F.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Journal of chemical physics 92, 4786-4792 (1990)

77- Insight toward the first-passage time in a bistable potent.with high.color.noi
Lindenberg, K.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M; de la Rubia, F.J.
Physical review A 40, R4157-R4160 (1989)

78- First-passage time in a bistable potential with colored noise
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M; de la Rubia, F.J.; Lindenberg, K.; Tsironis, G.P.
Physical review A 40, 2120-2127 (1989)

79- Escape over a potential barrier driven by colored noise: large but finite correlation time
de la Rubia, F.J.; Peacock-López, E.; Tsironis, G.P.; Lindenberg, K.; Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Physical review A 38, 3827-3829 (1988)

80- Higher order colored noise effects in multivariable systems.
Ramirez de La Piscina, L.; Sancho, J M
Physical review A 31, 4469-4473 (1988)