Description du projet
Des «ambassadeurs» scientifiques pour aider l’industrie à exploiter de nouveaux matériaux
Il est essentiel de disposer de puissantes sources de rayons X et de neutrons et des technologies correspondantes pour caractériser de manière non destructive la structure des matériaux à l’échelle nanométrique ainsi que leurs interactions dynamiques. Exploiter ces outils permet aux scientifiques de comprendre et de contrôler la structure des matériaux pour en faire bénéficier la société dans des domaines allant de la biomédecine et de l’énergie à l’exploration spatiale, en passant par l’électronique grand public. Les équipements nécessaires à cette caractérisation se trouvent dans moins d’une centaine de grandes infrastructures de recherche dans le monde. Pour rationaliser l’exploitation de ces installations à des fins de développement industriel, le projet InnovaXN, financé par l’UE, créera un réseau de formation doctorale établissant des relations entre les installations de recherche européennes de classe mondiale et l’industrie, par l’intermédiaire de jeunes scientifiques hautement qualifiés.
Objectif
Researchers trained in advanced materials characterisation and capable of exploiting the facilties available at research infrastructures (RIs) are needed to bridge the knowledge gap between Europe’s world-leading RIs and industry. These select individuals should be highly-skilled entrepreneurs and communicators in addition to being innovative researchers. The InnovaXN programme aims to create such uniquely-skilled ambassadors to industry by recruiting and training 40 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) who will carry out research on projects defined and realised in close collaboration with industry. The programme will link the ESRF and ILL RIs with industry through 40 research projects. The subject of these projects will comprise multiple research fields from the vast range of subjects of interest to industry that could be enhanced by studies at the RIs such as drug discovery and health, energy materials, environmental science, food science and micro-electronics.
InnovaXN will be a five-year programme. Research projects will be harvested through an open ideation and codesign procedure with industry. Two recruitment calls will be spaced twelve months apart. The duration of each ESR training period will typically be 36 months, with registration of the ESRs at Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), a partner to the project, or other collaborating European universities.
InnovaXN aims to recruit the best candidates from a worldwide student base. InnovaXN is open to students from a wide range of disciplines including chemistry, life sciences (biochemistry, medicine), materials science, engineering, environmental science and physics. The ESRs will receive employment contracts at the ESRF or the ILL (each will recruit half of the students). The ESRs will be hosted in Grenoble at the EPN-Campus site for most of the duration of their research but for a period of secondment to the site of the industry partner of at least three months to gain experience of working in industry.
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MSCA-COFUND-DP - Doctoral programmesCoordinateur
38000 Grenoble
France