Today, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded a Synergy Grant of €7.8 million for a period of 6 years to the international research project NEMESIS (NEw GEneration MEthods for Numerical SImulationS), which involves the University of Milano-Bicocca and the Politecnico di Milano and aims to develop new generation numerical methods for the technological challenges of the 21st century, mainly in the field of sustainability.
The NEMESIS project is in the field of applied and computational mathematics and aims to develop a new generation of numerical methods, starting from the theoretical foundations through to their computational implementation. It also faces the challenge of validating their use in sustainability-relevant applications such as geophysics (e.g., in the mitigation of the effects of anthropic activities in the subsoil and energy transition issues) and advanced manufacturing processes.
ERC Synergy Grants fund research on ambitious and complex topics that require a whole team of two to four researchers working in strong synergy. The NEMESIS research team consists of Lourenco Beirao da Veiga, Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Paola F. Antonietti, Professor of Numerical Analysis and Head of the MOX Modelling and Scientific Computation Laboratory at the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano, Daniele A. Di Pietro, Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Montpellier, and Jérôme Droniou, Research Director at the CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.