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Mechanobiology explores how physical forces affect cellular processes, providing insights into areas like embryogenesis and tumor growth. Cells exert forces onto their environment; the tissue in which they live.

Accretion disks are found throughout the Universe and power a large fraction of high-energy astrophysical sources, from neutron stars in our Galaxy to supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies. These disks not only generate intens…

Sunlight is abundant, but figuring out how to efficiently grab that energy and convert it into something useful, like electricity for our homes, is a big puzzle. This research project dives into the world of a special type of molecules call…

The soaring demand for energy and use of fossil fuels has resulted in the release of vast amount of greenhouse gases and climate change. Developing photoelectrochemical devices for solar fuel production is one of the strategies to address t…

We are studying how tiny molecules join together directly on a surface to form sheets just a single layer thick, called two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) or 2D covalent organic frameworks (2D-COFs). Instead of making these materials separatel…

The simulation of quantum systems is one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum technologies. In particular, lattice gauge theories (LGTs), which underpin the Standard Model of particle physics, describe a vast range of str…

Quantum technologies promise faster computing, ultra-precise sensing and secure communications. Their real-world value, however, also depends on how efficiently they use and manage energy at small scales.

Phonons, the quantum excitations of atomic vibrations, are central to heat transport, superconductivity, and many quantum technologies [Phys. Rev.

Collective cell motility states, such as multicellular flocking and jamming, play important roles in development and disease. However, much of the physical force dynamics of these collective states remains to be discovered.

Conjugated organic polymers can be made conductive through charge introduction (doping), enabling flexible organic electronics. A special class of conducting polymers is organic mixed ion–electron conductors (OMIECs), which combine electron…

Sensory cells in marine invertebrates play a fundamental role in detecting environmental cues and translating them into biological responses that enable survival, feeding, reproduction, and interaction with the environment. These cells dete…

ENRICH is a Horizon Europe – MSCA Staff Exchanges project built around a practical need in protein analysis: post-translational modifications (PTMs) on histone proteins are biologically important, but they are often difficult to detect and…

Recent breakthroughs in the field of quantum technologies combining academic and R&D efforts have demonstrated the potential of quantum networks for major applications such as long-distance secure communication or quantum cloud computing. O…

The formation and evolution of massive galaxies is reasonably well understood in the context of the successful standard ΛCDM formalism. Such simulations of cosmic evolution, however, lead to serious challenges in the regime of very faint ga…

SEASOUNDS aims to better characterize and predict marine soundscapes in various European eco-regions (e.g., parts of the Mediterranean and the Baltic Seas, the Venice Lagoon, the Norwegian fjords) where the scarcity of scientific data, upon…

TIMES (Time-resolved sImulations of ultrafast phenoMena in quantum matErialS) addresses a key challenge in modern materials science: understanding, predicting, and controlling quantum materials under nonequilibrium conditions. Many emerging…