physics

current research:

-Post-Doc on Fire propagation and heating kinetics at the Fire Lab at UPC

-Theoretical models of molecular motors


publications and preprints:

-A. Ciudad, A.M. Lacasta, L. Haurie, J. Formosa and J.M. Chimenos. "Formulation and analysis of an optimized fire protection material based on several endothermic reactions spread along the temperature coordinate". Preprint. (2009)

-G.P. Tsironis, A. Ciudad, J.M. Sancho, "Electrostatic Analysis of Charge Interactions in Proteins". International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 110 1 (2009)

-A. Ciudad and J.M. Sancho. "Analysis of the nucleotide-dependent conformations of kinesin-1 in the hydrolysis cycle." J Chem Phys. 131(1) (2009). Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research Volume 18, Issue 2.

-A. Ciudad. "Physico-chemical aspects on molecular motors" (2008). PhD thesis.

-A. Ciudad and J.M. Sancho. "A unified phenomenological analysis of the experimental velocity curves in molecular motors", J. Chem. Phys. 128, 225107 (2008);

-A. Ciudad, J.M. Sancho, and G.P. Tsironis. "Kinesin as an electrostatic machine" (2006), Journal of Biological Physics. Volume 32, Number 5 / November, 2006 ArXiV

-A. Ciudad, J.M. Sancho and A.M. Lacasta. "Dynamics of an inchworm nano-walker"(2006),Physica A arXiV

-A. Ciudad, A.M. Lacasta and J.M. Sancho. "Physical analysis of a processive molecular motor: The conventional kinesin"(2005),PRE Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, October 1, 2005 issue.

-A. Ciudad and J.M. Sancho. "External mechanical force as an inhibition process in kinesin's motion"(2005),Biochemical Journal

-A. Ciudad. "El ruido ¿ordena o desordena?"(2005),winner of the divulgation contest of lawebdefisica


recent papers I've been reading