{"id":316529,"date":"2025-12-04T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/news\/tredici-progetti-finanziati-dal-fondo-italiano-per-la-scienza-con-oltre-168-milioni-di-euro\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:00:07","slug":"thirteen-projects-were-funded-by-the-italian-science-fund","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/news\/thirteen-projects-were-funded-by-the-italian-science-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen projects were funded by the Italian Science Fund with more than EUR 16.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen research projects from the University of Pisa have been funded in the third edition of the Italian Science Fund (FIS3), for a total of more than EUR 16.8 million. The projects involve <strong>ten departments<\/strong> and include <strong>seven Starting Grants, two Consolidator Grants and four Advanced Grants<\/strong>, supporting innovative ideas developed both by young researchers and by established scholars.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of Universities and Research has allocated a total of EUR 475 million this year to support basic research across major scientific fields, including life sciences, engineering, medical sciences, and the humanities and social sciences.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis2025.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis2025.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis2025-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis2025-768x515.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the University of Pisa, <strong>three projects <\/strong>have been awarded to the <strong>Department of Mathematics<\/strong>: <strong>Andrea Tamburelli<\/strong>, <em>Topology and Geometry of Higher-Order Teichm\u00fcller Spaces<\/em>; <strong>Dario Trevisan<\/strong>, <em>Optimal Transport and Large Deviations for Deep Learning Theory<\/em>; <strong>Giulio Bresciani<\/strong>, <em>Rational Points via Fundamental Groups<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two projects<\/strong> were awarded to the <strong>Department of Physics<\/strong>: <em>Manipulating Quantum Spin Liquids: A Unique Route to New Phases of Matter<\/em> by <strong>Alessandro Principi<\/strong>; <em>Bootstrap Applied to Quantum Field Theories<\/em> by <strong>Alessandro Vichi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two projects<\/strong> also went to the <strong>Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge<\/strong>: <em>Medicine as a Social Practice: An Archaeology of Health and Illness in Ancient Egypt<\/em> by <strong>Gianluca Miniaci<\/strong>; <em>Lives on the Move: Belonging and Otherness. Women, Minors and Statelessness in the Context of Radicalisation<\/em> by <strong>Renata Pepicelli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis-unipi.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis-unipi.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis-unipi-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/fis-unipi-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The remaining six grants were awarded to: <strong>Lucia Tamponi<\/strong>, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, <em>Uncovering Latin through Non-Literary Texts: Continuity and Discontinuity in Language Change<\/em>; <strong>Angioletta Sperti<\/strong>, Department of Law, <em>Communicating Justice: Courts, Public Opinion and the Transformation of the Public Sphere<\/em>; <strong>Marco Carlotti<\/strong>, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, <em>New Materials and Methods for the Fabrication of Organic Electronic Components on Complex Substrates<\/em>; <strong>Alessandro Prete<\/strong>, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, <em>Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules<\/em>; <strong>Francesca Parisi<\/strong>, Department of Veterinary Sciences, <em>Study of Feline Betaretrovirus Infection, Pathogenesis and the Missing-Part Hypothesis<\/em>; <strong>Ermes Botte<\/strong>, Department of Information Engineering and the Enrico Piaggio Research Centre, <em>Dynamic In-Vitro Scaling: A New Stochastic Paradigm for Characterising Cellular Processes across Different Dimensionalities<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten departments were involved, with seven Starting Grants, two Consolidator Grants and four Advanced Grants supporting innovative ideas developed by early-career researchers and established scientists 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