Each year SISSA researchers are awarded prestigious national and international grants. This funding is a vital resource enabling teachers, PhD students and post-doctoral fellows to carry out their research work.
In 2010-2011 alone, Italian funding amounted to some € 5.5 million, while international grants provided over € 10 million.
Just to mention a few examples, € 5 million were granted to Giuseppe Legname (Firb grants) to identify the changes in the human genome leading to a number of incurable neurodegenerative diseases; € 2.5 million (ERC grants) were awarded to Mathew Diamond to support a research project in the field of cognitive perception; € 1.3 million (ERC grants) were awarded to Thomas Sotiriou to gain new insight into the intricacies of the gravitational interaction; around € 1 million was granted to Gianni Dal Maso (ERC grants) to study and elaborate new mathematical models applied to the deformations in materials.
European grants: SISSA at the top of the ranking