ERC (European Research Council) projects

ANFIBIO project will develop a set of technologies and advanced sensors to detect and quantify cancer and viral bio-markers in bodily fluids, making simpler, faster and more economical the diagnosis of many diseases.

Laura Fabris

An innovative project to tackle the question of housing precarity with a different approach, looking at how housing intersect other pressing urban issues of our time. The project will produce knowledge with and for  activist movements related to housing rights around the globe

Michele Lancione

SuN₂rise project will develop a device to produce ammonia and fertilizers through a highly sustainable process both from the environmental and economic viewpoints, using solar energy to split the extremely stable nitrogen molecule.

Federico Bella

The CO2CAP project aims to recover energy from CO2 emissions through the use of an innovative electrochemical device that uses green ionic liquids capable of capturing CO2 with a less polluting and more efficient approach than traditional methods.

Andrea Lamberti

The DYNAPOL project will develop multiscale molecular models and use advanced computational simulation and machine learning techniques to discover the fundamental chemical-physical principles and design new classes of artificial materials with bio-inspired dynamic properties, similar to those of living materials.

Giovanni Maria Pavan

PRE-ECO project will develop new mathematical models to allow the industrial use of 3D printed composite VAT (Variable Angle Tow Materials) with the objective of obtaining lighter and more robust components for various applications such as aeronautics.

Alfonso Pagani

The BIORECAR project proposes an innovative and multidisciplinary approach for in situ “direct reprogramming” of infarcted heart tissue into functional cardiac tissue, using bioengineering tools, including biomimetic biomaterials and nanomedicine.

Valeria Chiono

The project targets the transformation of the computational complexity of mathematical models in Computational Electromagnetics by drastically reducing the computational cost of numerical simulations. This will pave the way to new applications in brain activity assessments, in mind-machine interactions, in cancer imaging, and in electromagnetic dosimetry.

Francesco Paolo Andriulli

Osteoporosis is characterized by very fragile bone tissue as a consequence of an unbalancement between two different cellular types: osteoblasts taking care of bone deposition and osteoclasts in charge of bone resorption. BOOST wants to manufacture a scaffold to mimic healthy bone features and thus rebalance osteoblast and osteoclast coupling, inducing them to behave like in a healthy tissue.

Chiara Vitale-Brovarone

The project aims to develop novel non-immunogenic nanoparticles, safe for the host organism and biodegradable. They will show a double functionality being theranostic nanoparticles, thus able to perform diagnosis and therapy at the same time. Moreover, no chemotherapeutic drug will be required, thus eliminating any side effects associated to their assumption.

Valentina Cauda

XtraUS project will test and validate an innovative technology to fight circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and consequently reduce the relapse of a tumor disease.

Valentina Cauda

The seriousness of extreme events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or terrorists acts, depends on the natural (or not) hazard but also on the human error in dealing with the emergency. The project proposes a new method to assess the performance of critical infrastructures during emergencies that takes into account also human behavior.

Gian Paolo Cimellaro

The project aims at developing wearable wrist band and a customized structural health monitoring system for managing emergencies. The system will be able to work in different emergency situations without depending on available power and common communication networks. 

Gian Paolo Cimellaro

CWASI project tackles water globalization problems using quantitative methods to study the effects of water  relocation and trade through consumption and food production on food security and  water crises occurrence.

Francesco Laio

The INTHERM project addresses the big challenge of how to tailor heat transfer across interfaces in polymer nanocomposites, by developing and applying the concept of thermal bridging at the interface between graphene particles in a network.

Alberto Fina

CRISP project targets the emerging frontier research field of compressive sensing (CS), and particularly its application in the framework of complex information processing systems, including vision systems and big data. CS is a breakthrough technology that will have a profound impact on how these systems are conceived. 

Enrico Magli

ToothPic exploits the fact that each optical sensor of digital cameras or smartphones leaves a unique fingerprint in all pictures. The project will develop a search engine taking as input a camera fingerprint or a photo and returning a list of photos acquired by the same camera.

Enrico Magli

An interdisciplinary project proposing cross-fertilization between statistical physics computational biology.  OPTINF  is focused on two objectives: the study of optimization and inference algorithms based on advanced statistical physics methods for disordered systems, and their application to large-scale inverse problems in computational systems biology. 

Riccardo Zecchina