Awarded Projects

Astrophysical plasma turbulence has been studied extensively over the past decades. Due to the weak collisionality of this plasma, turbulence plays a fundamental role in the process of heating and accelerating the solar wind: driving energy fluctuations towards smaller and smaller scales.

Information storage based on phase-change materials (PCM) is widely considered a promising alternative to flash memories for the non-volatile memory technologies of the next decade.

Skeleton-based forensic human identification strongly relies on manual, error-prone methods that can benefit from data-driven automated software alternatives. For this project, experts in generative AI for forensics will contribute to development of a Craniofacial Reconstruction tool.

Protein design has shifted in the last 2 years by the development of novel generative models for protein design.

Utilizing a robust retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system enriched with over 150,000 documents, Geo-Llama bridges the limitations of general LLMs in understanding geospatial relationships and OSM's OQL programming language.

Fossil fuels energy production is steeply increasing with correspondingly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

The project proposes to perform the first global simulations of plasma fluid turbulence in the W7-AS stellarator. The simulations will be performed with GBS, a three-dimensional turbulence code that solves the drift- reduced Braginskii equations in a toroidal domain and with first-principles sheath

Tremendous progress has been made in magnetic confinement fusion research over the past decades, culminating in the recent world record energy output recorded at JET. However, the challenge of achieving a self-sustaining plasma remains.

We propose to conduct global MHD simulations of the whole Solar convection zone. This first-of-a-kind simulation will connect internal dynamo simulations to the surface of the Sun on a global scale.