Three grants for a total of nearly €5.5 million. This is the remarkable result achieved by SISSA through the Italian Science Fund (FIS) of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), which awarded funding to the projects led by Giovanni Bussi, Nicola Gigli, and Gianluigi Rozza in the fields of biophysics, geometric analysis, and scientific computing, respectively.
Due to the strictness of its selection process and the size of the grants awarded, the FIS is modelled on the European Research Council (ERC), the most important European funding program for scientific research, aimed at supporting scientists engaged in fundamental research.
The result obtained by SISSA is one of outstanding prestige, rewarding the excellence of its research and standing out even more in light of the School’s extremely small faculty, which numbers fewer than one hundred members. In addition to the three projects starting in 2026, SISSA also secured a project launched in 2025 and awarded to neuroscientist Alessia Soldano under FIS 2.
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