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The Early Stage Research Training Network addresses the pressing need for multidisciplinary training programmes which enable graduate students and young scientists to pursue interdisciplinary research projects. This project is about the new research field of Biomimetic Systems which is at the borderline of physics, chemistry, biology, and materials research, and which has a very high potential for future applications in bioengineering, pharmacology, and biomedicine.
Biomimetic Systems are model systems in the nano- and microregime which mimic or imitate certain aspects of the complex self-organization in biological systems. Research on Biomimetic Systems combines experimental and theoretical strategies such as: synthesis of biomimetic nanostructures; construction of experimental model systems; experimental characterization; manipulation of nanostructures; external perturbations and structural transformations; construction and analysis of theoretical models; computer simulations and molecular modeling; identification of basic mechanisms and general principles.
In order to prepare graduate students and young scientists for such interdisciplinary research, we need a new culture of multidisciplinary training programmes which complement the traditional university education. The EST provides such a programme which integrates the knowledge bases of physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. This EST is also effective in order to attract excellent students from all around the world and to counter the brain-drain towards the US.
This EST extends the "International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)" on Biomimetic Systems to the European level and integrates training activities at the IMPRS (Potsdam, Germany), Niels-Bohr-Institut (Copenhagen, Denmark), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Toulouse (France), University of Edingburgh (Great Britain), and University of Leoben (Austria).
Partner: Niels-Bohr-Institut, Universität Kopenhagen, Institute of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Laboratoire des Interactions Moléculaires et Réactivité Chimique et Photochimique - UMR CNRS n° 5623, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Department of Material Physics, Universität Leoben, Institut für Physik kondensierter Materie, Universität Düsseldorf
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