[book chapter] Aleix Alva and Montserrat Bosch,
[journal article] M. Palumbo, A. Alva, L. Haurie, A. Avellaneda, and A.M. Lacasta, Full-scale experimental prototype using agricultural bio-based materials: design, in-situ monitoring, dynamic thermal analysis and evaluation of acoustic performance. Under review [preprint]
[journal article] M. Palumbo, A. Alva, A.M. Lacasta, M. Lagouint, L. Haurie, A. Avellaneda, B. Alam, A. Laborel-Préneron, and C. Magniont Upcycling Sunflower Pith as a Sustainable Bio-Aggregate for Circular Insulation Systems: A Thermal, Acoustic, and Fire Performance Assessment Under review [preprint]
[journal article] A. Alva, Explicit Geometry: Integrating Music and Mathematics in Architectural Design, Symmetry: Culture and Science, volume 36, number 4, pages 375-395, 2025. [DOI]
[expo] REARQ-UPC group: P.J. Ravetllat, C. Cornadó, M. Domènech, S. Vima-Grau, J. Quintana, J. Blasco, I. Colin, F. Garcia, G. Piasek, A. Renau; GICITED-UPC group: M. Bosch, O. París, A. Alva;, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Biennale Architettura 2025. [La Biennale di Venezia][futur.upc.edu]
[award winner] REARQ-UPC group: P.J. Ravetllat, C. Cornadó, M. Domènech, S. Vima-Grau, J. Quintana, J. Blasco, I. Colin, F. Garcia, G. Piasek, A. Renau; GICITED-UPC group: M. Bosch, O. París, A. Alva; Premi per al projecte Regenerar Barcelona, per al disseny i la construcció d'un prototip a escala real i el disseny de la seva implementació a gran escala.. XVII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. [certificat][futur.upc.edu]
[expo] REARQ-UPC group: P.J. Ravetllat, C. Cornadó, M. Domènech, S. Vima-Grau, J. Quintana, J. Blasco, I. Colin, F. Garcia, G. Piasek, A. Renau; GICITED-UPC group: M. Bosch, O. París, A. Alva; XVII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. Flujos comunes: respuesta a un territorio hiperconectado. [dossier prensa p40]
[journal article] Rosnery Castillo, Aleix Alva, Oriol París-Viviana, Montserrat Bosch, A Systematic Bibliometric Review Analysis of Research on the Use of Waste Rubber Tyres in Building and Construction Materials and Their Applications, Polymers, volume 17, issue 18, page 2480. [nih.gov]
[project] Salvati, A.; Garcia-Nevado, E.; Garcia-Nevado, E.; Bosch, M.; Garrido Soriano, N.; Martin, P.; Galisteo, M.; Capdevila, R.; Aleix Alva, INdoor-OUTdoor climate and energy interactions: reducing heat risks in Mediterranean cities. [futur.upc.edu]
[award winner] Aleix Alva; Lacasta, A.M; Bosch, M.; Gómez-Soberón, J.M.; Haurie, L.; Navarro Ezquerra, A.; Palumbo, M.; Paris-Viviana, O.; Ramirez-Casas, J.; Rosell, J.; Rodriguez Cantalapiedra, I.; Corominas, A.; Rivera Vidal, A.; Arias, B.; González-Sánchez, B.; Rosnery Castillo-DR; Avellaneda, A.; Tous, M.; Beriguete, F. Premi UPC de Ciència Oberta 2025. . [futur.upc.edu]
[project] Ravetllat, P.; Domenech-Rodriguez, Marta; Quintana, J.; Aleix Alva; Vima-Grau, S.; Cornado, C.; Salazar, A.; Casals Pañella, Joan; Colin, I.; Bosch, M., Regenerar l’aigua des de la comunitat (reg-com). [futur.upc.edu]
[award winner] Ravetllat, P.; Cornado, C.; Domenech-Rodriguez, Marta; Vima-Grau, S.; Quintana, J.; Bosch, M.; Paris-Viviana, O.; Aleix Alva; Piasek, G Proyectos ganadores del reto urbano de BIT Habitat para rehabilitar viviendas en Barcelona con sistemas modulares flexibles. . [futur.upc.edu]
[award finalist] REARQ-UPC group: P.J. Ravetllat, C. Cornadó, M. Domènech, S. Vima-Grau, J. Quintana, J. Blasco, I. Colin, F. Garcia, G. Piasek, A. Renau; GICITED-UPC group: M. Bosch, O. París, A. Alva; Constraula Enginyeria i Obres (Grup Sorigué): X. Llopis, A. Etcheverry and M. Yago, Regenerar Barcelona: Solució per al repte urbà, regeneració d’edificis d’habitatges amb sistemes innovadors sostenibles. Finalist at the INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING AWARD category of the World Smart City Awards 2024. [smartcityexpo]
[award finalist] REARQ-UPC group: P.J. Ravetllat, C. Cornadó, M. Domènech, S. Vima-Grau, J. Quintana, J. Blasco, I. Colin, F. Garcia, G. Piasek, A. Renau; GICITED-UPC group: M. Bosch, O. París, A. Alva; Constraula Enginyeria i Obres (Grup Sorigué): X. Llopis, A. Etcheverry and M. Yago, Regenerar Barcelona: Solució per al repte urbà, regeneració d’edificis d’habitatges amb sistemes innovadors sostenibles. Finalist at the XIII edition of the Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo: CLIMAS: Acciones para el buen vivir, 2024. [bienaliberoamericana.org]
[conference paper] A.M. Lacasta and A. Alva, Cubiertas verdes en Barcelona: un paisaje sonoro particular dentro de la ciudad, Acústica 2024, Faro, Portugal, ID39. [PDF]
[journal article] A. Alva, J. Coma, G. Pérez and A.M. Lacasta, Comparative hygrothermal study of four operational green roofs in Barcelona, submitted, 2024 [DOI not available yet]
[dataset] A. Alva, A.M. Lacasta, J. Coma and G. Pérez, Replication data for: Comparative hygrothermal study of four operational green roofs in Barcelona, 2024. [DOI]
[journal article] G. Pérez, M. Reyes, J. Coma, A. Alva, F.E. Berigüete, and A.M. Lacasta Methodological framework for impact evaluation of Building‐Integrated Greenery (BIG‐impact), MethodsX, Volume 13, December 2024, 102961, 2024 [link][DOI]
[dataset] A. Alva Real-time data acquisition for the `Verd de Proximitat BCN' project , 2024. [DOI][git]
[dataset] A. Alva Real-time infra-red monitoring of green roofs with an AMG8833 IR Thermal Camera, 2024. [DOI][git]
[dataset] A. Alva Calibrating and coding a weather station with MakeCode for a BBC micro:bit, 2024. [DOI][git]
[project] A. Alva et al., Waste-based Intelligent Solar-control-devices for Envelope Refurbishment (WiSeR), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) with reference TED2021-130155B-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[dataset] A. Alva Replication Data for 'Explicit Geometry: Integrating Music and Mathematics in Architectural Design', 2024. [DOI]
[award] REARQ-UPC group: P.J. Ravetllat, C. Cornadó, M. Domènech, S. Vima-Grau, J. Quintana, J. Blasco, I. Colin, F. Garcia, G. Piasek, A. Renau; GICITED-UPC group: M. Bosch, O. París, A. Alva; Constraula Enginyeria i Obres (Grup Sorigué): X. Llopis, A. Etcheverry and M. Yago, Regenerar Barcelona: Solució per al repte urbà, regeneració d’edificis d’habitatges amb sistemes innovadors sostenibles. Premi a la Innovació en la Construcció 2024, XXI Premis Catalunya Construcció 2024. [CATEB]
[round table] A. Alva, D. Gómez, J. de la Rocha, T. Rodón, C. Ollé (moderator) Les dades de recerca des de la pràctica investigadora., Fira FAIR Data 2024. [LINK]
[dataset] A. Alva, G. Pérez and A.M. Lacasta Interdisciplinary set of indicators for the assessment of green roofs, 2024. [DOI]
[dataset] A. Alva, F. Berigüete and A.M. Lacasta Social questionnaires for green roofs assessment (database application), 2024. [DOI]
[dataset] A. Alva, Assesment of technical green-roof indicators (database application), 2023. [DOI]
[dataset] A. Alva, Register of green-roof activities (database application), 2023. [DOI]
[dataset] A. Alva, Harvesting in green roofs (database application), 2023. [DOI]
[conference paper] A. Alva, A.M. Lacasta, M. Bosch, F. Berigüete and I.R. Cantalapiedra , Real-time monitoring of green roofs in Barcelona, Edificate 2023, 498-507, ISBN(e): 978-84-338-73064. [PDF]
[conference paper] A. Alva and M. Bosch, Sustainability-based analysis of deontological codes in technical architecture, Edificate 2023, 49-58, ISBN(e): 978-84-338-73064. [PDF]
[conference] II National and International Congress of Advanced Schools Building Engineering and Technical Architecture, Granada, November, 9-10, 2023. [web][Proceedings book]
[book chapter] M. Bosch, A.M. Lacasta, F.E. Berigüete, A. Alva and I.R. Cantalapiedra Green Roofs and Other Nature-Based Solutions in Barcelona: Environmental Benefits, and Physical and Mental Well-Being, from the book D. Bienvenido-Huertas and J. Durán-Álvarez (eds) Building Engineering Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century, 345 511–532, Springer, Singapore, 2023. [DOI][PDF not available yet]
[project] A. Alva et al., Regenerar Barcelona, Projecte R+D+I competititu. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[conference paper] F. Berigüete, A. Alva, A.M. Lacasta, M. Bosch, I. Rodriguez Cantalapiedra, and G. Pérez, Soluciones basadas en la naturaleza para la inclusión ciudadana y la renaturalización de las ciudades : Proyecto Verd de Proximitat BCN , Conama 2022 (congreso nacional de medio ambiente), ISBN 978-84-09-46920-8, 2022. [UPCommons][PDF from publisher]
[project] A. Alva et al., Verd de proximitat BCN: Pla de monitoratge i avaluació del funcionament i l'impacte de les cobertes i façanes verdes a la ciutat de Barcelona. , Projecte R+D+I competititu. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[journal article] A. Alva, A critical perspective on the European Commission’s publications ‘Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions’, Nature-Based Solutions, 2 100027, 2022. [DOI][PDF from the journal]
[new position] September 2022: I begin as lecturer in Mathematics at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Also joining the Interdisciplinary Group on Building Science and Technology (GICITED).
[change of author name] From this moment my author name changes from A. Ciudad to A. Alva, as a shorthand for my full name, Aleix Álvarez Ciudad.
[new position] 2016: Teacher of Mathematics at several Secondary Schools.
[new position] 2016: I begin as part-time lecturer in Physics at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
[journal article] A. Ciudad, L. Haurie and A.M. Lacasta, Kinetic analysis of endothermic degradation of magnesium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide and calcium carbonate in the context of passive fire protection, Fire and Materials, 39 1, 2015. [DOI][PDF from UPCommons]
[journal article] L. Haurie, A.M. Lacasta, A. Ciudad, V. Realinho and J.I. Velasco, Addition of flame retardants in epoxy mortars: Thermal and mechanical characterization, Construction and Building Materials, 42, 266-270, 2013. [DOI][PDF]
[journal article] A. Ciudad, A.M. Lacasta, L. Haurie, J. Formosa and J.M. Chimenos, Improvement of passive fire protection in a gypsum panel by adding inorganic fillers: Experiment and theory, Applied Thermal Engineering, 31, 17-18, 3971-3978, 2011. [DOI][PDF]
[conference] Kinetic analysis of endothermic reactions in Mg(OH)2, Ca(OH)2 and CaCO3: applications to passive fire protection, Medicta, Porto, 2011.
[conference] Estudio computacional sobre la influencia de la geometría de fachada en la propagación del fuego en edificios, Combustion and fire dynamics: international congress, 2010. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[conference] RAILCEN: evolution of fire in a railway vehicle, 1st Workshop on Integrated Fire Engineering and Response, 2010. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[conference] Modeling the heating rate dependence of endothermic reactions in building materials: kinetic theory applied to spatially extended systems, 5th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, 1-1, 2009. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[project] Evolución de incendio en vehículo ferroviario provocado por materiales de interiorismo de acuerdo a CEN/TS 45545-2, Ministerio de Fomento, 2009. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[project] Integrated Fire Engineering and Response (IFER), Cost action, COST-0904-TU 904, European Cooperation in Science and Technology. [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[project] Dinámica No Lineal y Estocástica en Sistemas Físicos y Biofísicos, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[project] Joined the new Interdisciplinary Group on Building Science and Technology (GICITED). [Details from futur.upc.edu]
[new position] January 2009: I begin as postdoc at the Fire Lab of the UPC, directed by A.M. Lacasta.
[journal article] G.P. Tsironis, A. Ciudad and J.M. Sancho, Electrostatic Analysis of Charge Interactions in Proteins, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 110 1, 2009. [DOI][PDF]
[journal article] A.Ciudad and J.M. Sancho, Analysis of the nucleotide-dependent conformations of kinesin-1 in the hydrolysis cycleJournal of Chemical Physics, 131 1, 2009. [DOI][PDF]
[journal article] A. Ciudad and J.M. Sancho, A unified phenomenological analysis of the experimental velocity curves in molecular motors, Journal of Chemical Physics, 128(22):225107, 2008. [DOI][PDF]
[phd title] excellent cum laude, May 2008, Universitat de Barcelona.
[phd thesis] A. Ciudad and J.M. Sancho (advisor), Physico-chemical aspects on molecular motors, Universitat de Barcelona, 2008. [UB dipòsit digital]
[conference] Study of force-velocity dependence in molecular motors, Statphys23, Genoa, 2007.
[stay] Summer with K. Lindenberg and A. Romero at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 2006.
[conference] Kinesin as an electrostatic machine, Noise in Life, Barcelona, 2006.
[conference] Kinesin as an electrostatic machine, Physics of Molecular Machines, École de Physique, Les Houches, 2006.
[journal article] A. Ciudad, J.M. Sancho and G.P. Tsironis, Kinesin as an Electrostatic Machine, Journal of Biological Physics, 32 455–463, 2006. [DOI][PDF from NIH]
[conference] External mechanical force as an inhibition process in kinesin’s motion, Physics of Life: from Molecules to Networks, NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Humlebæk, 2005.
[stay] Academic year with G.P. Tsironis at the Department of Physics, University of Crete , 2005.
[journal article] A. Ciudad, J.M. Sancho and A.M. Lacasta, Dynamics of an inchworm nano-walker, Physica A, 371 25–28, 2006. [DOI][PDF from Arxiv]
[journal article] A. Ciudad, A.M. Lacasta and J.M. Sancho, Physical analysis of a processive molecular motor: The conventional kinesin, Physical Review E, 72, 031918, 2005. [DOI][PDF from UPCommons]
[journal article] A. Ciudad and J.M. Sancho, External mechanical force as an inhibition process in kinesin's motion, Biochemical Journal, 390(1): 345–349, 2005. [DOI][PDF from NHI]
[project] Dinámica No Lineal y Estocástica En Sistemas Físicos y Biofísicos, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), BFM-2003-07850-C03-01, 2004.
[new position] Spring 2004: I begin a PhD at the Department of Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, under the supervision of J.M. Sancho and with a grant from the Ministry of Science.