Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) have announced two Tyndall projects were successful in receiving award funding through the SFI Research Infrastructure Programme.
The programme supports the research community in building and sustaining cutting-edge infrastructure in order to accomplish high-quality, impactful and innovative research.
Worth more than €9.5 million in funding, these awards are another example of the Research Excellence and Impact occurring across the board here at Tyndall.
| Team Lead | Project |
| Graeme Maxwell |
Advanced Heterogeneous Device Integration (AHDI): Enabling TSVs, Wafer Bonding, and Grinding for 2D and 3D Integration and Next Generation Interposer Development |
| Emanuele Pelucchi |
IQ: the Irish Quantum technology facility for advanced qubit manipulation |
Speaking about the awards, Minister Harris said:
“I am delighted to announce €21 million in funding from my department to support transformative research with both national and international impact. Ireland is committed to investing in high quality, pioneering research. The funding announced today does just that.
"This support builds and sustains the required infrastructural capacity we need that enables our research community to thrive across the fields of materials science, earth and environmental sciences, energy, engineering, physics, and neuroscience and behaviour."
In welcoming the announcement, Prof Philip Nolan, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland, said:
“The Research Infrastructure Programme funds state-of-the-art research infrastructure to drive excellent and highly collaborative research and innovation. The programme promotes transformative collaborations, in which increased inter-institutional and national sharing of research infrastructure across academia and enterprise makes for better research and accelerated innovation. The eight successful projects selected will help us, through research, to prepare for a challenging yet exciting future. The importance of this programme to our research system highlights the need for sustained and increased investment in research infrastructure over the coming decade.”
The SFI Research Infrastructure Programme encourages partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland, across academia and enterprise.
Further details on award recipients and their projects can be found here.
For more information about the research infrastructure programme, please visit: https://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/sfi-research-infrastructure-programme/.