“Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus.”
—Horace, Satires, Book I, IX, 59–60.
“Contrary to what Asimov says, the most exciting phrase in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ or ‘That’s funny…’, it’s ‘Your research grant has been approved’.”
—attributed to John Alejandro King
Active Grants
- Nonlocal Models in Fluid Dynamics, Traffic and Elasticity (INDAM–GNAMPA Project 2026, CUP: E53C25002010001). PI: Nicola De Nitti, 15/01/2026–31/12/2026.
Previous Sources of Funding
- TENSE: Irregular solutions of the Transport, Euler and Navier–Stokes Equations (ERC 2023–2028, funded by SERI under contract no. MB22.00034). PI: Maria Colombo. Role: Member, 01/02/2025–31/03/2025.
- Control Problems for Applied Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations (International Emerging Action 2024/25, funded by the CNRS). PIs: Carlotta Donadello and Mauro Garavello. Role: Member, 01/01/2024–31/12/2025.
- Control of Multi-particle Systems, Mean-field Limits, and Applications to Deep Learning (Project No. 530756074, funded by the DFG and the NRF of Korea within the Sudkorea-NRF-DFG-2023 Programme). PIs: Dongnam Ko and Enrique Zuazua. Role: Member, 01/12/2023–30/11/2024.
- Uncertain Data in Control of PDE Systems (Project No. 5765407, Programm des Projektbezogenen Personenaustauschs Kroatien 2023–2025, funded by the DAAD and the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education). PIs: Martin Gugat, Enrique Zuazua, and Martin Lazar. Role: Member, 01/01/2023–31/12/2024.
- Control, Inversion and Numerics for Partial Differential Equations (Project No. M-0548, funded by the NSF of China and the DFG within the Sino–German Mobility Programme of the Chinesisch–Deutsches Zentrum fur Wissenschaftsforderung). PIs: Enrique Zuazua and Zhen Lei. Role: Member, 01/11/2022–30/10/2025.
- Multiscale Approach to the Analysis of Interaction Models (INdAM–GNAMPA Project 2022, CUP: E55F22000270001). PI: Gianluca Orlando. Role: Member, 16/05/2022–31/05/2023.
- Kinetic Equations and Learning Control (Project PID2020-112617GB-C22, AEI: PID2020-112617GB-C22/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, funded by MINECO). PIs: Miguel Escobedo and Enrique Zuazua. Role: Member, 01/09/2021–31/05/2025.
- Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization Using the Example of Gas Networks (TRR-154, funded by the DFG). Role: Associate Member, 06/11/2020–31/08/2023.
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