The recovery process for large burns can be complex and challenging due to several major issues like infections, fluid loss and electrolyte imbalance, long wound healing time, pain and its management, scarring and disfigurement. All these are leading to several long-term… Read more complications and the recovery process for large burns requires comprehensive and multidisciplinary care to address the various physical, emotional, and psychological challenges faced by patients. Medicated patches are used for long term treatment of large burns. Though this step is crittical in the healing progression, the evaluation of the effect ot the medical treatment is still done purely visually by the clinicians at the change of the patch every 12 or 24 hours. AIM aims to industrialize a smart patch enabling clinicians to objectively assess cellular-level healing progression induced by medical patches. It features a microstructured platform with an embedded optical window offering insights into healing tissue. Near Infrared reflection confocal microscopy captures images through the window. AI analysis segments tissue and cell components, providing clinicians with quantified therapy response. This approach enhances therapy optimization and personalized treatment for individual patient responses.

The population of black holes observed with gravitational-wave detectors is shaped by the astrophysical processes that drive their formation and evolution. As we accumulate observations, we become able to "reverse-engineer" the problem and better understand these processes. Scheduled for 2034,… Read more the space-based detector LISA will be sensitive to lower frequencies than current detectors, and is expected to detect a broad variety of systems, probing astrophysics in a wide range of scales. Unlike current detectors, there will constantly be gravitational-wave signals in the LISA datastream, which will overlap in time and frequency. Thus, standard population analysis methods will not apply. Glopop will propose a novel technique to perform population analysis that circumvents this issue, and fully take into account that the LISA datastream will be the gravitational-wave product of a single Universe. To do so, we will establish the link between different classes of LISA sources, designing an astrophysical model that outputs joined predictions, and use the most up-to-date deep learning methods to build a neural network and perform likelihood-free-inference. We will then demonstrate the capacity of our network on a mock LISA datastream generated with our astrophysical model, performing the first realistic population inference with LISA. This new approach will allow to fully exploit the scientific potential of LISA and our results will provide important knowledge for the preparation of the mission, increasing the fellow's visibility in the field. To achieve this ambitious goal, it is crucial that the fellow be placed in an institution that can supplement his experience on LISA data-analysis with knowledge on black hole astrophysics and machine-learning. UniMiB is therefore the ideal place, with recognised experts in both fields. This scientific program will be supplemented by training activities aiming to provide the fellow the skills to pursue a successful academic career.

A soil moisture deficiency is causing warning conditions in 47% of Europe (2022). Due to the exponential growth of the world's population and ecological degradation, which has resulted in climate change, soil infertility, and water scarcity, future food shortages, food… Read more security is a worldwide concern. Additionally, an excessive reliance on dry inorganic fertilizers (DIF) in continuous agricultural cycles has resulted in a decline in the primal nutrient content of the soil, which has decreased agricultural output (depleted crop quality and food yield) and environmental nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) losses from volatilization, denitrification, leaching, and runoff. There are several alternative polymer coated fertilizers (PCF) in the market, however they have drawbacks such unpredictable nutrient release, ageing effects, excessive coating material consumption, potential for hazardous waste production after coating, etc. To ensure a controlled release of NPK, we wish to develop a novel coating method for DIFs using non thermal plasma in this proposed study (PFSA). PFSA will thus build a Rotating Pulsed Plasma Reactor (RPPR) with internal baffles. The coating will be achieved by using Methacrylic acid (MAA) and methyl methacrylate (MMA) as the two main acrylic monomer vapors that will be delivered into the plasma regime to produce a complex chemistry of acrylic molecule fragmentations that would attach to the DIF surface during the OFF time of the pulse. The plasma I-V, diagnostics evaluation will be performed and pulsed plasma coated DIF release kinetics as well as their physico-chemical characterizations are planned to understand their pre-applications. The suggested coatings would emulate hydrogel-type coatings that swell in the humid environment and retain moisture in addition to acting as pH sensitive barriers. Finally, the environmental losses will be evaluated for the pulsed plasma coated DIFs by collecting samples from the farm and analyzed in lab.

My project will enable unprecedented measurements for cosmology and fundamental physics, thanks to a prototype calibrator for a novel method to measure the angle of the polarization plane of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Polarization orientation systematics currently limit our ability… Read more to constrain cosmological parameters. PROTOCALC will provide a prototype calibration source to overcome this limit, dramatically improving instrumental accuracy. This experimental method will also enable us to discover (or place extremely tight limits on) paradigm shifting phenomena through Cosmic Birefringence, a departure from Standard Model. During the 2-year program I will develop, build and deploy a prototype for a novel precision calibrator making use of microwave sources between 40 and 150 GHz coupled to precise polarizing filters. The orientation of the source polarization plane will be measured by star cameras and gyroscopes with arcsecond accuracy. PROTOCALC will take advantage of my and the supervisor's ongoing participation in the Simons Observatory which already includes the AdvACTPol and Simons Array projects, and will operate from the same site in the Atacama desert in Chile. Our project will operate from from a drone flying in sight of the telescope, allowing high elevation, far field measurements. This project will show the feasibility for polarization angle and beam calibrators for future CMB polarimeters.