Awarded Projects

The objective of this project is to design bimetallic alloys capable to act as catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions (HER and ORR, respectively) by means of the application of elastic strain engineering.

Fluorescence takes place throughout the natural world. Conventional chemical wisdom proposes that in organic entities, fluorescence occurs in conjugated systems, such as the aromatics.

We plan to study point-defects in low-dimensional systems for the design and control of solid-state spin-defects for quantum technologies.

Antibodies can rapidly evolve in specific response to antigens. During the affinity maturation process the immune system produces antibodies with higher specificity and affinity in response to an antigen.

The primary aim of this project is to develop large-scale brain-like machine learning algorithms.

The free-surface flow induced by progressive non-breaking wind waves propagating in shallow waters over a  horizontal bottom will be investigated by means of Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS).

This research project investigates the structure and dynamics of wall-bounded turbulence in adverse and favorable pressure gradient (APG and FPG) turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) using direct numerical simulation (DNS).

Among the solutions used to control shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction (SBLI) in practical applications, several studies in recent years have demonstrated the effectiveness of micro vortex generators (MVGs) to successfully delay shock-induced separation with reduced device drag.

The design of novel photocatalytic and photovoltaic devices requires an in-depth understanding of the microscopic physical mechanisms governing the light-matter interaction.