15 top level Individual Research Projects, at the frontiers of the research on artificial molecular machines carried out at Europe’s leading host institutions, form the backbone of MonaLisa’s Doctoral Network. These multidisciplinary projects aim at scientific excellence, and will give each Doctoral Candidates the opportunity to cooperate with the academic and industrial sectors all over Europe to successfully completing their research project and enable them to perform original scientific work as well as to develop transversal skills.
MonaLisa’s individual research project are hosted in institutions located in 5 different countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands) , thus fostering researchers’ mobility, international cooperation and giving each DC the opportunity to evolve in an intercultural environment.
DC1
Generation of Helical Movement and Torque by Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins
DC2
Oscillatory Behaviour of Molecular Motors in Biological and Engineered Systems
DC3
Autonomous Brownian Rotors Based on DNA Origami
DC4
Controlling Reactions with Electrically Driven DNA Machines
DC5
Polymeric Materials for Non-Equilibrium Photo- and Electro-Mechanical Actuation
DC6
Geared Movements in Mechanically Interlocked Systems
DC7
Development of an Integrated Platform for Signel-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Experiments Under External Stimulus
DC8
Measuring Twisting Work at the Single-Molecule Level
DC9
Study of Dynamic Covalent Molecular Motors at Surfaces and in Confined Spaces
DC10
Molecular Muscles and Actuating Materials
DC11
Cooperative Effects of Molecular Motors
DC12
Motorized Hydrogels
DC13
Effect of Twisting Work in Dynamic Combinatorial Systems
DC14
(Syensqo, Jean-Francis Spindler)
Application of Switchable and Motorized Hydrogels for the Design of Light-Modulable Membranes
DC15
Using Mechanical Bonds to Make Long-Life PVC Materials