MATERIALS STRUCTURE, INFORMATICS AND FUNCTION

The RG Leader brings in essential knowledge about US materials science efforts across the board. The expertise is particularly heavy in materials deformation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, including material characterization and analytics. NOMATEN plans concern the analysis of Large Data sets, in the form of multi-dimensional images, models, by using material informatics methods. This is in order to describe in a physics-based way, experimental systems, and detailed characterization tests for irradiated and non-irradiated structural materials using both destructive and non-destructive sampling methods.

Leader: Stefanos Papanikolaou PhD (0000-0001-5239-1275)

Stefanos Papanikolaou

Stefanos obtained his BSc in Physics at the National University of Athens. His MS and PhD degrees are in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He performer his postdoctoral work in the Department of Physics at Cornell University, and then he held positions at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and West Virginia University.

His research interest is in the theories and applications of statistical methods for the multiscale modeling of mechanical behaviour of materials, with the most critical results possibly being the elucidation of size, rate and stochastic effects in the micromechanics of metallic micropillars, the connections between crystal and amorphous plasticity, as well as the use of machine learning methods, with a recent highlight being the studies of elastic instabilities using deep neural networks, applied to plasticity, damage and fracture.

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Stefanos Papanikolaou


This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 857470 and from European Regional Development Fund
via Foundation for Polish Science International Research Agenda PLUS programme grant
No MAB PLUS/2018/8.
Poland
The project is co-financed from the state budget within the framework of the undertaking of the Minister of Science and Higher Education "Support for the activities of Centers of Excellence established under Horizon 2020".

Grant: 5 143 237,70 EUR
Total value: 29 971 365,00 EUR
Date of signing the funding agreement: December 2023

The purpose of the undertaking is to support entities of the higher education and science system that have received funding from the European Union budget in the competition H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020/WIDESPREAD-01-2018-2019: Teaming Phase 2. in the preparation, implementation and updating of activities, maintenance of material resources necessary for carrying out activities, acquisition and modernization of scientific and research apparatus, maintenance and development of personnel potential necessary for the implementation of activities, and dissemination of the results of scientific activities.