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Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Calit 2 Building
Irvine, CA 92697-3975
[email protected]
Hi! My name is Olga. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universidad de La Laguna. I did my Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. Soon after I started my PhD under the supervision of Tryphon Georgiou at the University of California in Irvine, where I was also a Postdoctoral Researcher. In 2023 I received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue my research at the Universidad de La Laguna in Spain.My research so far has focused on the intersection between control theory and stochastic thermodynamics. In particular, I have studied how Optimal Mass Transport techniques can be applied to thermodynamic systems subject to anisotropic temperature fields. You can read about it in my new book! I am now venturing into the obscure and exciting world of quantum physics to study quantum measurement, time-symmetry, quantum optimal transport, and quantum thermodynamics.
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Short CV
Employment
................................2024-2026
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Physics Department
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
................................2023-2024
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept.
University of California, Irvine
Education
................................2018-2023
PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine under the supervision of Tryphon Georgiou
...............................2018-2020
Master's degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California
in Irvine
...............................2014-2018
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (EEBE)
Awards
2024-2026...................................
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fellowship 2023
Spring 2024...................................
Springer thesis award recognizing outstanding Ph.D. research
2021-2023...................................
"La Caixa" Fellowship to finish my PhD at UC Irvine
March 2023...................................
GNSP Best Speaker Award finalist, APS March Meeting
2018-2020...................................
Balsells Fellowship to study my Master's and PhD at UC Irvine
November 2018.........................
Best academic record award
(Mechanical engineering class of 2018)
Spring 2018.................................
Aprenentatge scholarship to assist in teaching algebra to Freshmen
June 2014...................................
Best academic record award
(High school)
Publications (arXiv)
Journal publications:
15. Maximum entropy inference of reaction-diffusion models, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Eldesoukey, A Movilla Miangolarra, TT Georgiou, arXiv preprint (2024)14. Particle approximations of Wigner distributions for n arbitrary observables, R Sabbagh, O Movilla Miangolarra, TT Georgiou, arXiv preprint (2024)13. Minimal entropy production in the presence of anisotropic fluctuations, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, TT Georgiou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2025)12. Wasserstein speed limits for Langevin systems, R Sabbagh, O Movilla Miangolarra, TT Georgiou, Physical Review Research (2024)11. Inferring potential landscapes: A Schrödinger bridge approach to maximum caliber, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Eldesoukey, TT Georgiou, Physical Review Research (2024)10. An Excursion Onto Schrödinger’s Bridges: Stochastic Flows With Spatio-Temporal Marginals, A Eldesoukey, O Movilla Miangolarra, TT Georgiou, IEEE Control Systems Letters (2024)9. Refined bounds on energy harvesting from anisotropic fluctuations, J Ventura Siches, O Movilla Miangolarra, TT Georgiou, Physical Review E (2024)8. Stochastic thermodynamic engines under time-varying temperature profile, R Fu, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, Automatica (2024)7. A matching principle for power transfer in Stochastic Thermodynamics, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, TT Georgiou, IEEE Control Systems Letters (2023)6. Inertialess Gyrating Engines, J Ventura Siches, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, PNAS Nexus 1, 2752-6542 (2022)5. Thermodynamic engine powered by anisotropic fluctuations, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, Physical Review Research 4, 023218 (2022)4. Geometry of finite-time thermodynamic cycles with anisotropic thermal fluctuations, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, IEEE Control Systems Letters 6, 3409-3414 (2022)3. Energy harvesting from anisotropic fluctuations, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, R Fu, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, *Physical Review E *104 (4), 044101 (2021)2. Underdamped stochastic thermodynamic engines in contact with a heat bath with arbitrary temperature profile, O Movilla Miangolarra, R Fu, A Taghvaei, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, Physical Review E 103 (6), 062103 (2021)1. On the relation between information and power in stochastic thermodynamic engines, A Taghvaei, O Movilla Miangolarra, R Fu, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, IEEE Control Systems Letters 6, 434-439 (2021)
Books:
1. Stochastic Thermodynamic Treatment of Thermal Anisotropy O Movilla Miangolarra, Springer thesis (2024)
Conference proceedings:
6. An Excursion Onto Schrödinger’s Bridges: Stochastic Flows With Spatio-Temporal Marginals, A Eldesouky, O Movilla Miangolarra, TT Georgiou, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), (2024)5. A matching principle for power transfer in Stochastic Thermodynamics, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, TT Georgiou, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), (2023)4. Minimal entropy production in anisotropic temperature fields, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, TT Georgiou, IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), (2023)3. Geometry of finite-time thermodynamic cycles with anisotropic thermal fluctuations, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), (2022)2. On the relation between information and power in stochastic thermodynamic engines, A Taghvaei, O Movilla Miangolarra, R Fu, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), (2021)1. Harvesting energy from a periodic heat bath, R Fu, O Movilla Miangolarra, A Taghvaei, Y Chen, TT Georgiou, 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 3034-3039 (2020)
Other
In my free time I do research, but otherwise I am surfing, skating, rock climbing or traveling.
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Art: @chloyeah_ for Ametsak by Gorka Gil
