Spain. 09.02.2017. Umberto Biccari´s On the controllability of Partial Differential Equations involving non-local terms and singular potentials PhD Thesis defense. December 12th, 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Enrique Zuazua (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and DeustoTech) at Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.