Awarded Projects

As the Earth’s climate rapidly changes due to the effect of human activities, predictive climate information has become increasingly crucial to help society prepare for these changes.

The atmosphere affects humans in a multitude of ways, from loss of lives due to adverse weather effects to long-term social and economic impacts.

With the downscaling of silicon transistors into sub 5 nm size, quantum effects in conductivity start to play a major role, making the transistors increasingly unreliable. Emerging technologies in this field rely on crystalline oxides such as LiNbO3 or BaTiO3.

The electrochemical transformation of CO2 with renewable electricity to high energy density compounds (fuels) holds the key to reach sustainability goals SDG 7 closing the carbon cycle and mitigating the intermittent nature of the renewables.

Knowledge of transformation mechanisms and related free-energy barriers in pressure-induced solid-solid first-order phase transitions is of fundamental interest but also of major importance for technological applications.

Aviation plays a crucial role in connecting people and goods but it is also an important contributor to negative effects such as the global CO2 release as well as air pollution.

Large Language Models have revolutionised work with breakthrough capabilities. They can perform tasks without explicit training, making them incredibly powerful.

Understanding the origin of globular clusters (GCs) is at the frontier of astronomy.

Plastics are important polymeric materials with versatile applications, such as boat hulls/decks, tanks, pipes or gratings, and bottles, but unfortunately, they contribute massively for severe plastic contamination worldwide.