The study "Optimization of the construction process for a permanent magnets undulator"of Valentí Massana is a research work focused in the inhomogeneities of permanent magnets that are used to construct insertion devices in synchrotron light sources, especially undulators. The thesis had two main obtectives: to model the effect of these inhomogeneities in the magnetic fields generated by magnets and to find new ways of minimizing the effects of inhomogeneities in the insertion devices.
Valentí Massana will receive the "Eduard Fontseré" award next 22nd April at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC).
In the picture, one of the undulators installed in ALBA.