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Doctoral theses

The following are the doctoral theses supervised by members of the CREIS research team in the last 10 years: 

Title: Determinants of the decision-taking process of the entry into insolvency, evolution of the procedure and earnings management: An economic perspective of Spanish distressed companies

Doctoral student: Yuriy Andreev Andreev

Supervision: Stefan Felix van Hemmen

Defense date: 2010


Title: Institutions and entrepreneurial activity: a quantitative approach 

Doctoral student: Claudia Alvarez

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2011


Title: Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks: Compression, Energy Efficiency and Secrecy

Doctoral student: Joan Enric Barceló Lladó

Supervision: Antoni Morell 

Defense date: 2012


Title: Female Entrepreneurship in Catalonia: An institutional perspective

Doctoral student: Maria Noguera

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2012


Title: A Pragmatic Approach of Localization and Tracking Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks

Doctoral student: Albert Bel Pereira

Supervision: Jose López Vicario 

Defense date: 2012


Title: Análisis del atraso económico de las economías indígenas a partir del concepto de modo de producción

Doctoral student: Julieta Martinez Cuero

Supervision: Hugo Valenzuela García

Defense date: 2013


Title: El discurso étnico en la globalización: Identidad, territorio y poder en Chile

Doctoral student: Paulo Castro Neira

Supervision: Hugo Valenzuela García

Defense date: 2013


Title: Performance, Robustness and Fragility: A Unified approach to PI/PID controller analysis and design

Doctoral student: Victor Manuel  Alfaro

Supervision: Ramon Vilanova

Defense date: 2013


Title: Experimental Evaluation of the PHY Layer of WSN focused on Smart City Applications

Doctoral student: Albert Anglès Vázquez

Supervision: Jose López Vicario 

Defense date: 2013


Title: Social entrepreneurship and institutional context: A quantitative analysis

Doctoral student: Elisabet Ferri

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2014


Title: Social networks and university students's entrepreneurial activity in Antioquia (Colombia): An institutional analysis

Doctoral student: Mauricio Ramírez

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2014


Title: Application of control strategies in wastewtaer treatment plants for efluent quality improvement, cost reduction and efluent límits violations removal

Doctoral student: Ignacio Santín

Supervision: Carles Pedret, Ramon Vilanova i Montse Meneses

Defense date: 2015


Title: The creation of family business in Catalonia: an institutional approach

Doctoral student: Marc Bernadich

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2015


Title: Wireless sensor networks in the future internet of things: density, mobility, heterogeneity and integration

Doctoral student: Marc Barceló Lladó

Supervision: José López Vicario i Antoni Morell

Defense date: 2015


Title: Polítiques de drogues en transformació, entre el fet essencial i el fet relacional. Una anàlisi psicosocial a partir de les percepcions de la població adolescent i jove     

Doctoral student: Ricard Faura Cantarell

Supervision: Miquel Domènech

Defense date: 2015


Title: Infrapolíticas de ciudadanía. Prácticas de cualificación en entornos materiales

Doctoral student: Gonzalo Correa Moreira

Supervision: Miquel Domènech

Defense date: 2015


Title: Procesos Participativos en Estudios de Ciencia y Tecnología. El Caso de una Conferencia Ciudadana

Doctoral student: Paula Caryan González Galván

Supervision: Miquel Domènech

Defense date: 2015


Title: Imágenes de la política en las sociedades del conocimiento

Doctoral student: Kostas Gardounis

Supervision: Miquel Domènech

Defense date: 2016


Title: Multi-objective Optimization and Multicriteria design of PI/PID controllers

Doctoral student: Helem Sabinna Sánchez Corrales

Supervision: Ramon Vilanova

Defense date: 2016


Title: Conditioning factors to corporate entrepreneurship: An International study

Doctoral student: Andreu Turró

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2016


Title: Antecedents and consequences of Entrepreneurial Universities: An eclectic model in the Mexican emerging economy

Doctoral student: Eduardo Gajón

Supervision: David Urbano 

Defense date: 2016


Title: Low-Power Positioning Systems for Pedestrian Users

Doctoral student: Alejandro Correa Vila

Supervision: Antoni Morell i José López Vicario

Defense date: 2017


Title: Linking institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic development: An international study

Doctoral student: Sebastián Aparicio

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2017


Title: Innovation and entrepreneurship, regional socioeconomic development and sustainability: a sistemism approach in the context of Brazilian Community Universities

Doctoral student: Ademar Schmitz

Supervision: David Urbano 

Defense date: 2017


Title: Leadership and entrepreneurship from a socio-cultural persepctive: An international study

Doctoral student: Claudia Felix

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2017


Title: La ignorancia digital y la emancipación intelectual: las voces de los más mayores

Doctoral student: Vanesa Gamero

Supervision: Miquel Domènech

Defense date: 2017


Title: Behavioural finance in Islamic finance, a new approach

Doctoral student: Abdulkader Kaakeh

Supervision: Stefan Felix van Hemmen 

Defense date: 2018


Title: Understanding the evolutionary phenomenon of female entrepreneurial activity in Latin america

Doctoral student: Dyalá Cordero

Supervision: David Urbano

Defense date: 2018


Title: Procesos de llegada y experiencias educativas de mujeres de origen pakistaní en Barcelona

Doctoral student: Marina Arrasate Hierro-Olavarría

Supervision: Hugo Valenzuela García

Defense date: 2018


Title: The subjective revolution: society and culture in post-2008 Spain

Doctoral student: Marta Lobato Rodríguez

Supervision: Hugo Valenzuela García

Defense date: 2018


Title: Sincronitzant autonomies: estudi d’un servei de vida independent per a persones amb la síndrome de Down

Doctoral student: Joan Moyà Köhler

Supervision: Miquel Domènech 

Defense date: 2018


Title: La participación ciudadana en proyectos de desarrollo tecnológico: un estudio psicosocial del diseño de robots sociales

Doctoral student: Rodrigo de Oliveira Machado

Supervision: Miquel Domènech

Defense date: 2018


Title: La topología de los encuentros: trayectorias precarias en experiencias hibridantes de participación ciudadana

Doctoral student: Guillem Palà Nosàs

Supervision: Miquel Domènech 

Defense date: 2018


Title: Self-Deployable Positioning Systems for Emergency Situations employing UWB Radio Technology

Doctoral student: Abbas Al-baidhani

Supervision: Antoni Morell i José López Vicario

Defense date: 2019