We are happy to announce that Prof. Seda KESKİN AVCI from Koç University Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has been selected for funding with a budget of 2 Million EUR in the ERC-2023-CoG call under the Horizon Europe Programme.
We congratulate our eminent researcher and her host institution.
The ERC - European Research Council funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run frontier projects across Europe.
 | Prof. Seda KESKİN AVCI ERC 2023 CoG Principle Investigator Host Institution: Koç University Project title: STARLET: Atomistic Modeling of Advanced Porous Materials for Energy, Environment, and Biomedical Applications Projecy budget: 2 Million € Panel: PE8 - Products and Processes Engineering |
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are advanced porous materials with multifunctional tunable properties offering great potential for energy, environment, and biomedical technologies. The number of MOFs is increasing at an exponential rate and studying millions of MOFs for different applications by random material selection using iterative experimental testing is impossible. In this project Prof. Seda KESKİN AVCI and her team, will created a materials intelligence ecosystem for precisely assessing guest storage and transport properties of all MOFs by combining state-of-the-art atomistic calculations, molecular simulations, machine learning, and data science, integrated with past and future experiments. The STARLET Project will focus on ten critical guest molecules to address the key societal challenges of our world: hydrogen and methane to use MOFs for clean energy storage; ammonia, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide to use MOFs for capturing toxic gas and combatting global warming; fluorouracil, methotrexate, nitrogen, oxygen to use MOFs as nanocarriers for anti-cancer drug therapy and biomedicine. The ground-breaking gains of this project will include the creation of the world’s first database for guest storage and transport properties of millions of MOFs; accurate assessments of new technologies by precise MOF-application matching; and generating design guidelines for high-performing MOFs to accelerate discovery of new materials.
Prof. KESKİN AVCI is a double grantee in ERC. Previously, she was supported in the 2017 ERC Starting Grant Call and she conducted the project titled "COSMOS -Computational Simulations of MOFs for Gas Separations" She received a Marie Curie International Reintegration Fellowship under the 7th Framework Program in 2010. She was honored with the L'Oreal - UNESCO Women in Science award in 2011, TÜBA GEDİP award in 2013, and BAGEP award in 2014. Prof. Dr. Seda KESKİN AVCI's project proposal has been supported within the scope of the TÜBİTAK ERC Principal Investigator Development Program.
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