Unipi Team Leader: Ing. Giuseppe Barillaro, Dip. di Ingegneria dell’informazione

Photonics will play a major, enabling role in the future of information and communications technology and healthcare. However, to fulfil its potential and deliver on its promises, photonics will heavily rely on novel and more performing materials, that can be manufactured cheaply for the specific requirements of photonic applications. To lead this “photonics revolution” and rip the societal benefits of being at the leading-edge of novel technological and scientific developments, the EU needs a highly-skilled scientific and technical workforce that can effectively implement the transition to a truly “knowledge-based society”.

SYNCHRONICS mission is to synergistically address both needs by training a pool of future science-leaders in the synthesis, characterisation and application to photonics of supramolecularly-engineered functional materials within state-of the-art photonic nanostructures fabricated thanks to the top-quality facilities and unique expertise available within the network. This kind of research requires an inter-multidisciplinary, intersectorial approach by specialized and skilled scientists from different disciplines, each one bringing a particular expertise: organic and supramolecular synthesis (UNI-OX,UNI-W, SURFLAY), theory (UNI-GE, IBM, UNI-GE), surface studies (UdS, UCL), photophysics (IIT, IBM, UCL, UNI-GE,UNI-CY, UNI-MO), device fabrication and characterisation (IBM, AMO, SURFLAY, UCL, IIT, UNI-PI, UNI-GE).

The SYNCHRONICS Network, through the trans-national and trans-disciplinary coordination and integration of these 12, highly specialised and internationally-leading teams, consolidates the European training efforts in the emerging area of both supramolecular nanoscience and nanophotonics. SYNCHRONICS will deliver 540 person-months of unparalleled multidisciplinary and intersectorial training that is carefully and intensively structured through local, network wide, and extra-network training in both scientific/technical topics, as well as complementary and managerial skills.

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (United Kingdom)

Other participants

• UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (United Kingdom)
• UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG (France)
• ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Italy)
• UNIVERSITY OF GENOVA (Italy)
• GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANGEWANDTE MIKRO- UND OPTOELEKTRONIK MIT BESCHRÄNKTER HAFTUNG - AMO GMBH (Germany)
• SURFLAY NANOTEC GMBH (Germany)
• JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET WÜRZBURG (Germany)
• UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS (Cyprus)
• IBM (Switzerland)
• UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL (Canada)

Start date 01/01/2015

End date 30/12/2019

Duration 48 months

Project cost 3.650.589 €

Project funding 3.650.589 €

Unipi quota 258.061 €

Call title MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN

Unipi role Partner

Project website: https://synchronics-etn.eu/