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Welcome to the webpage

of the Research Group

“Multiscale Calculus

of Variations”


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A great amount of natural phenomena exhibit interesting behaviors, being the result of the interplay of complex microstructures, the outcome of involved in-time evolutions, the effect of the action of internal variables, or the macroscopic counterpart of atomistic interactions.

Our research focuses on problems characterized by the presence of multiple different material scales. The techniques that we employ are often the outcome of the combination of ideas from various mathematical fields, ranging from geometric measure theory, to PDEs, and to the Calculus of Variations.

News

[18.07.2023]
Chiara Gavioli has been awarded the PhD prize "Tullio Levi-Civita" from the University of Padova. Congratulations, Chiara!
[15.03.2023]
Chiara Gavioli's FWF Esprit project has been approved for funding. In addition, also her MSCA Project with Prague has been successful. Congratulations, Chiara!
[09.03.2023]
Marco Bresciani has been awarded one of the Dr. Klaus-Koerper Prizes of the GAMM for 2022 for his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Marco!
[21.12.2022]
Today Valerio Pagliari's WTZ Project with Czech Republic has been approved for funding from the OeAD. Congratulations, Valerio!
[01.12.2022]
Today Jakob Deutsch starts working as PhD student in our group on a 4 years faculty position. Welcome!
[24.11.2022]
Today Jakob Deutsch has successfully defended his Master thesis at TU Wien. Jakob has worked under the joint supervision of Valerio and myself. Congratulations, Jakob!
[16.10.2022]
Today Emanuele Tasso starts working on Stefano Almi's FWF project at TU Wien. Good luck, Emanuele!
[19.10.2022]
Today Marco Bresciani has been awarded one of the Best Paper Awards of the Faculty of Mathematics at TU Wien. Congratulations, Marco!
[01.10.2022]
Today Rossella Giorgio and Leon Happ start working as FWF PhD student in our group. They are enrolled at TU Wien and funded by G. Di Fratta's FWF grant. Rossella and Leon will both work under the joint supervision of Giovanni and myself. Welcome to Vienna!
[01.09.2022]
Today Samuele Riccò starts working as FWF PhD student in our group. Welcome to Vienna, Samuele! Additionally, today Anna Kubin from the Politecnico of Turin starts her visit to our group. She will stay with us until December 2022.
[01.07.2022]
We are hiring! There is an open 4 years PhD position in our group. Here is the text of the call.
[06.04.2022]
Today Lorenza D'Elia starts working as FWF Postdoc in our group. Welcome to Vienna, Lorenza!
[01.03.2022]
Today Luca Lombardini starts working as FWF Postdoc in our group. Welcome to Vienna, Luca! Also, from today, Elisa Davoli is Full Professor at TU Wien.
[03.11.2021]
Today Emanuele Tasso starts working on the SFB 65 project part "Nonlocal challenges in continuum mechanics". Welcome to Vienna, Emanuele!
[18.10.2021]
We have an open PhD position in our group! Here the text of the call. Deadline: November 15th, 2021.
[08.10.2021]
We have an open Postdoc position in our group! Here the text of the call. Deadline: October 29th, 2021.
[01.09.2021]
Today Idriss Mazari moves to Paris Dauphine and starts working there as maître de conférence: Good luck Idriss!
[01.07.2021]
Idriss Mazari has won one of the Gaspard Monge Program Prix PhD Awards "Gaspard Monge Program Prix PhD Awards". Congratulations, Idriss! Also, from today Elisa Davoli is Associate Professor at the Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing (ASC) of TU Wien.
[03.05.2021]
Today Idriss Mazari starts working on the SFB 65 project part "Nonlocal challenges in continuum mechanics". Additionally, Anastasia Molchanova moves to the University of Vienna to begin working on her REWIRE project: Good luck Anastasia!
[17.03.2021]
Today the FWF announced the approval of Idriss Mazari's Lise Meitner project named "Optimal control & design problems for piezoelectric materials". Congratulations, Idriss!
[01.03.2021]
Today the 2nd round of the SFB Project "Taming Complexity in Partial Differential Systems" begins. Elisa Davoli is PI of the Project Part "Nonlocal challenges in continuum mechanics".
[26.02.2021]
Today Chiara Gavioli has successfully defended her PhD. Congratulations, Chiara!
[23.02.2021]
Today Anastasia Molchanova has co-organized the First Austrian Day of Women in Mathematics.
[01.02.2021]
Today Chiara Gavioli starts working as FWF Postdoc in our group. Welcome to Vienna!
[23.01.2021]
Today the FWF START project "Tunable Materials: Geometry, Nonlocality, Chirality" begins.
[01.01.2021]
From today, Elisa Davoli is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at TU Wien.
[06.10.2020]
Today Anna Dolezalova starts her research period in Vienna to collaborate with Anastasia Molchanova. Welcome!
[02.09.2020]
Today Idriss Mazari starts working as FWF-GAČR postdoc in our group. Welcome to Vienna!
[28.08.2020]
We have two open positions (one Postdoc and one PhD position) in our group! Here the text of the call. Deadline: October 4th, 2020.
[17.06.2020]
Today Elisa Davoli has been awarded one of the seven FWF START grants for 2020. Here the news and an interview (in German).
[03.06.2020]
Today Anastasia Molchanova has won one of the eight REWIRE fellowship of the University of Vienna
. Congratulations, Anastasia!
[25.03.2020]
Today Elisa Davoli has been awarded one of the two Richard-von-Mises Prizes 2020 of the GAMM.
[04.12.2019]
Today on the Junge Akademie blog in the website of Der Standard there was an article on our research. The article (in German) is available at this link
[21.11.2019]
Today Valerio Pagliari has successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Pisa. Congratulations, Valerio!
[04.11.2019]
Today Elisa Davoli has successfully defended her Habilitation at the University of Vienna.
[01.09.2019]
Today Valerio Pagliari starts working as FWF-GAČR postdoc in our group. Welcome to Vienna!
[10.06.2019]
Marco Bresciani has won one of the 2019 fellowships from the "Fondazione Ing. Quarena". Congratulations Marco!
[01.06.2019]
Today Anastasia Molchanova starts her Lise Meitner project on "Mappings of Finite Distortion for Nonlinear Solid Mechanics".
[21.05.2019]
Today Marco Bresciani starts working as FWF-GAČR PhD student in our group. He will be working under the supervision of Elisa Davoli. Welcome to Vienna!
[06.05.2019]
Today Leonie Schmeller starts her visit to our research group. In the next months she'll be writing her Master Thesis under the joint supervision of Manuel Friedrich (WWU Münster) and Elisa Davoli. Welcome to Vienna!
[01.04.2019]
Today the FWF-GAČR Project on "Large Strain Challenges in Materials Science" starts.
[18.03.2019]
Today the FWF announced the approval of Anastasia Molchanova's Lise Meitner project named "Mappings of Finite Distortion for Nonlinear Solid Mechanics". Congratulations!
[01.01.2019]
Today our OeAD - WTZ Project on "Mathematical Frontiers in Large Strain Continuum Mechanics" in collaboration with Prague officially starts.
[14.11.2018]
Today the OeAD approved the funding of the project "Mathematical Frontiers in Large Strain Continuum Mechanics" in the framework of the WTZ scientific and technological cooperation funding scheme. The aim of this programme is to support the mobility of researchers between Austria and a partner country (the Czech Republic in this case) to carry out joint research projects. The two Project Leaders are Elisa Davoli and Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences).
[25.10.2018]
Our collaboration with Prague will be supported by the newly founded FWF-GAČR Joint International Project "Large Strain Challenges in Materials Science". The two Project Leaders are Elisa Davoli and Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences).
[02.07.2018]
Elisa Davoli's project "High contrast materials in plasticity and magnetoelasticity" (in the framework of the Elise Richter Programm) has been approved by the FWF.