The UAB ranks 147 in this year's edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It is up 16 positions from last year's 163. The university improves its position in aspects such as citations, international outlook, and teaching.
Five members of the Spanish water polo team, who have just won silver in the World Championships, are students at the UAB and form part of the Tutoresport Programme: Anna and Clara Espar, Beatriz and Matilde Ortiz and Laura Ester.
Researchers at the UAB have come up with a method that allows measuring the strength of the coherence of superposition in any given quantum state, similar to the famous Schrödinger's cat, which was simultaneously dead and alive. The method is based on the measurement of experimental parameters related to the visibility of interference fringes pattern produced when the two states are superimposed.
During the month of August, UAB campus services will have special opening hours and some will close for a short period.
Oriol Llopis earned this year's highest admission mark among new UAB students (13.804) and in September will begin the double degree in Physics and Mathematics.
The new Serra Húnter call by the Government of Catalonia to hire new lecturers under international quality standards will be open until 1 October. There are twenty-three positions available at the UAB.
Researchers from the UAB and CSIC have shown that the use of piezoelectric nanogenerators to stimulate living cells electrically is possible. The nanogenerator developed is extremely small and does not need any external power source, two characteristics no one had achieved before.
Researchers from the group led by UAB Chair Professor Dr Jordi Surrallés at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the CIBER of Rare Diseases (CIBERER) have participated in the study which has led to the identification of a new gene involved in Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disease.
The UAB occupies ninth place worldwide in the field of veterinary medicine according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the ranking conducted by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.