Research Projects - First Call
While the projects listed below have been approved for funding, contractual arrangements are still being finalised and some information may change.
Research Line 1
Knowledge and data management
NEO4MAT
Contact Person: Dr. Matteo Gherardi
Develops interoperable nuclear materials ontologies and knowledge systems to support digital data management and reuse across nuclear materials applications.
Research Line 2
Advanced materials development and manufacturing
ACCELL-NM
Contact person: Dr. Jann-Erik Brandenburg
Develops a materials acceleration platform combining high-throughput
manufacturing, irradiation screening, and data-driven design to accelerate
qualification of innovative nuclear materials.
ANIMATE
Contact persons: Dr. Isaac Toda Caraballo & Dr. David San Martín
Develops additively manufactured alumina forming High Entropy Alloys with enhanced resistance to high temperature, corrosion and irradiation for advanced nuclear systems.
RAQOON
Contact person: Dr. Lionel Desgranges
Establishes a Raman spectroscopy testbed supported by AI to assess fuel homogeneity and accelerate qualification of advanced nuclear fuels.
Research Line 3
Materials and component qualification: testing, standardisation and design rules
ASSIST
Contact person: Dr. Łukasz Kurpaska
Investigates stress corrosion cracking mechanisms in stainless steels under complex mechanical and chemical conditions to support safe long-term operation of PWRs.
CLEARDefects
Contact person: Dr. Jason Ludovic
Develops an integrated modelling and experimental methodology to identify critical defect sizes and shapes affecting the structural performance of materials.
CROCODOX
Contact person: Dr. Ali Charbal
Accelerated qualification and integrity assessment of coated materials: investigation of the effects of damaged chromium coatings on ATF cladding tubes under severe conditions.
ENHARMONY
Contact person: Dr. Amandine Calmet
Develops harmonised and standardised corrosion testing protocols for molten salt environments to accelerate qualification of materials for Molten Salt Reactors.
ExAM-FAST
Contact person: Dr. Benoit Tanguy
Advances the use of miniaturised fracture mCT specimens to enable reliable toughness characterisation and propose updates to existing fracture testing standards.
LEXPOPLAN
Contact person: Dr. Tommaso Coppola
Validation of small punch creep (SPC) test as a reliable tool for long-term structural integrity assessment of 316L(N) austenitic stainless steel used in GEN-IV and SMR systems.
ROBIN-HUB
Contact person: Dr. Serena Bassini
Establishes guidelines, conducts round-robin validation tests, and develops data management and quality assurance practices for a European materials testing hub supporting the accelerated qualification of Lead-cooled Fast Reactors (LFRs).
Research Line 4
Non-destructive examination and materials health monitoring
EMUS-TWIN
Contact person: Dr. Petra Gee
Combines electromagnetic ultrasonic sensing with a physics-informed digital twin to enable real-time fatigue and integrity monitoring of nuclear piping systems.
SHIELD
Contact person: Dr. Arnaud Recoquillay
Develops embedded acoustic emission and machine-learning-based monitoring systems for long-term structural health assessment of nuclear facilities.
Research Line 5
Advanced materials modelling and characterisation
EXTEND-LTO
Contact person: Dr. Murthy Kolluri
Aims to enhance predictive models of irradiation embrittlement and recovery in LWR reactor pressure vessel steels to support safe extended long-term operation.
FIGARO
Contact person: Dr. Clotilde Gaillard
Studies irradiation-induced microstructural evolution and fission gas behaviour in Cr-doped oxide fuels using coupled experiments and machine-learning-based image analysis.
NEUTION
Contact person: Dr. Iwona Jóźwik
Investigates transferability between ion- and neutron-irradiation effects to improve understanding and design of radiation-resistant nuclear materials.
PRECISE
Contact person: Dr. Ivan Otic
Develops physics-informed and data-driven models to improve prediction of corrosion in sustainable nuclear environments.