{"id":3053,"date":"2024-12-03T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:40:46","slug":"erc-consolidator-grant-for-corentin-coulais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/erc-consolidator-grant-for-corentin-coulais\/","title":{"rendered":"ERC Consolidator grant for Corentin Coulais"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Research Council has awarded a three million euro Consolidator grant for the project \u201cAnimating Metamaterials using Non-Reciprocity\u201d (ANIMETA) of UvA physicist Corentin Coulais. With the project, Coulais aims to take inspiration from nature and design synthetic animate materials in the lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/iop.uva.nl\/binaries\/_ht_1733180793175\/700x0-jpg\/content\/gallery\/onderzoek\/iop\/nieuws\/2024\/corentin-coulais.jpg\" alt=\"Corentin Coulais\"\/><figcaption>Corentin Coulais<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Materials that can roll, crawl and jump<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Living materials such as cells, tissues and simple organisms are animate: they navigate their environment, adapt to it, and are resilient to damage. The goal of ANIMETA is to take inspiration from Nature and create&nbsp;<em>synthetic<\/em>&nbsp;animate materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This dream has become tangible thanks to major progress in Coulais\u2019 field of expertise: that of mechanical metamaterials. These lab-made materials exhibit functionalities that are extremely promising to achieve animacy. In particular, their properties can power locomotion\u2014a crucial aspect of animacy. Yet, the locomotion of such metamaterials remains poorly understood and we lack principles for their design and control. Therefore, metamaterials cannot yet locomote in complex and unpredictable terrains. Coulais proposes to overcome these limitations by introducing a new class of shape-changing metamaterials and adding robotics to the metamaterials toolbox. In this way, he will create three-dimensional metamaterials that can autonomously roll, crawl and jump, and that display optimal locomotion performances in complex and unpredictable terrains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Consolidating independence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The ERC Consolidator grant allows researchers in Europe with 7-12 years of research experience to consolidate their independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a successful career. The ANIMETA project will run for five years, employing two PhD students and two postdocs in Coulais\u2019 team. The grant, for a total amount of three million euros, also includes a one-million-euro component for material investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Research Council has awarded a three million euro Consolidator grant for the project \u201cAnimating Metamaterials using Non-Reciprocity\u201d (ANIMETA) of UvA physicist Corentin Coulais. With the project, Coulais aims to take inspiration from nature and design synthetic animate materials in the lab. Materials that can roll, crawl and jump Living materials such as cells, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/scm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}