About
The ESS lighthouse on hard materials in 3D, SOLID, is a center of Excellence with a duration of 10 years.
The partners are the universities DTU, AU, KU, SDU, AAU and RUC, the European Spallation Source ESS, and the Technological Institute. Based on an initial funding of 78 Mkr from the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education and the partners, it was inaugurated April 1, 2020. Attached to the lighthouse is an environment comprising 4 infrastructures, 4 museums, 2 hospitals, 35 companies and 6 materials network.
The center activities are open to the community at large. At this point the following projects have become part of SOLID:
- ERC Advanced Grant: The Physics of Metal Plasticity 2020-2025
- ERC Starting Grant
Application
The ESS lighthouse on hard materials in 3D, SOLID, was official granted in December 2019 by the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education.
Organization
Directors and reference group
- Director: Prof. Henning Friis Poulsen, DTU Physics
- Vice-director: Prof. Henrik Birkedal, Dept. of Chemistry, AU
- Grethe Winther (DTU)
- Luise Theil Kuhn (DTU)
- Joachim Mathiesen (KU)
- Kirstine Niss (RUC)
- Morten Smedskjær (AAU)
- Shuang Ma Andersen (SDU)
- Søren Schmidt (ESS)
- Till Leissner(SDU)
- Nikolaj Zangenberg (DTI)
- Dorthe Lybye (Rockwool)