Awarded Projects

This project focuses on enhancing the function-calling capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by connecting them to curated APIs using OpenAPI specifications.

Proton fast ignition, a variant of laser-driven inertial confinement fusion potentially providing much higher energy gain with lower driver energies, will be studied with the aim of optimising the conversion efficiency of the short-pulse laser into proton beam energy.

The success of this approach relies on the ability to generate a proton beam with the right characteristics to heat and ignite the isochoric DT fuel assembly. At the same time, a quasi-spherical robust and effective DT fuel compression around a re-entrant cone needs to be achieved.

In this proposed project, we plan to use different cutting-edge simulation techniques to unravel the role of antibody binding site rearrangements in antigen binding and investigate the influence of different heavy and light chain pairings.

Particle acceleration in a short distance remains a high-priority research focus on fundamental physics and developing new technologies. Since introducing chirped pulse amplification, the research community has developed new methods of accelerating charged particles in a short distance.

Accelerating electrons and positrons to high energies over short distances is one of the most important open questions in physics.

The interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with the matter, in the form of solid foils, foams, or gas streaming from a nozzle or gas cell, leads to the generation of positively charged ions and electrons, and secondary X- or gamma-rays, positrons, fast neutrons or even more exotic particles.

Extreme-scale models have sparked a paradigm shift in natural language processing. Trained on broad plentiful data, they exhibit powerful emergent capabilities as they scale (e.g., zero-shot generalization), and their nearly universal effectiveness has led to a cornucopia of applications.

Peptaibols are short peptides of 8 to 20 residues that include non-proteinogenic amino acids. They are membrane-active compounds produced by fungi of the species Trichoderma with biotechnological, agricultural and clinical applications.