Projects and Grants

“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, Jan 15–Dec. 31.
INdAM–GNAMPA Visiting Professor Program 2027. Received funds (CUP: E53C24001950001) to host Emil Wiedemann. Oct. 2027.

Previous Sources of Project 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, Feb. 1 — Mar. 31, 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, Jan. 1, 2024 — Dec. 31, 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, Dec. 1, 2023 — Nov. 30, 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, Jan. 1, 2023 — Dec. 31, 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, Nov. 1, 2022 — Oct. 30, 2025.
Multiscale Approach to the Analysis of Interaction Models (INdAM–GNAMPA Project 2022, CUP: E55F22000270001). PI: Gianluca Orlando. Role: Member, May 16, 2022 — May 31, 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, Sep. 1, 2021 — May 31, 2025.
Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimization Using the Example of Gas Networks (TRR-154, funded by the DFG). Role: Associate Member, Nov. 6, 2020 — Aug. 31, 2023.

Previous Competitive Mobility Grants (as Visitor)

OIST Visiting Scholar Program 2026. Mar. 10 — Mar. 25, 2026. Hosted by Ugur Abdulla.
Visiting Doctoral Researcher Program 2022/23, funded by the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster: Dynamics–Geometry–Structure. Sep. 1 — Nov. 1, 2023. Hosted by Christian Seis.

Previous Competitive Mobility Grants (as Host/Sponsor)

INdAM–GNAMPA Visiting Professor Program 2026. Received funds (CUP: E53C24001950001) to host Kuang Huang. Jun. 24–30, 2026.
INdAM–GNAMPA Visiting Professor Program 2024. Received funds (CUP: E53C23001670001) to host Eliot Pacherie, Nov. 18 — Nov. 29, 2024.

Funded Research Networks

CA24122: multiscale Stochastics, Patterns, and Analysis of Combinatorial Environments (mSPACE). Chair: Delio Mugnolo. Role: Member, Oct. 14, 2025 — Oct. 9, 2029.
CA24136: Interactions between Control Theory and Machine Learning (InterCoML). Chair: Martin Lazar. Role: Member, Dec. 1, 2025 — Oct. 9, 2029.
CA18232: Mathematical Models for Interacting Dynamics on Networks (MAT-DYN-NET). Chair: Marjeta Kramar Fijavz. Role: Member, Mar. 6, 2023 — Apr. 3, 2024.
CA22103: A Comprehensive Network Against Brain Cancer (Net4Brain). Chair: Xinzhong Li. Role: Member, Mar. 24, 2025 — Oct. 29, 2027.