The review process | Funding for research visits to build international networks in HPC

You will be asked to fill in the on-line application form and attach your Curriculum Vitae. All the fields are mandatory unless otherwise stated. After you have submitted your application, you will be sent by email a confirmation that your application has been registered, and allocated an application number. Please use this number if you need to contact us in future. If any of the details submitted at the time of the application are incorrect, you can either inform us of the changes required, or make the changes by yourself using the username and password allocated to you on submission of your application. Note that changes will NOT usually be accepted after the closing date for applications.

Selection meetings will be held 4 times per year (typically March, June, September and December), exact dates are published on the website.

Straight after the closing date for applications, all applications will go through our established review and selection procedure. This is a two-stage evaluation process, with each stage taking 2-3 weeks. You should therefore receive the decision on your application around 6 weeks after the closing date. During the first stage of review, the technical reviewer from the relevant HPC-Europa3 centre may contact you to ask for clarifications. Please reply promptly to avoid delaying the review process. The final decision is made by our international panel of experts, the HPC-Europa3 Scientific Users Selection Panel (SUSP). The panel members base their judgement on a variety of factors, such as:

the scientific value of the work proposed;
the level of support from the local host researcher(s);
the match of research interests between the applicant and the proposed host(s); and
the case for HPC-Europa funding.

The selection panel approves applications on the basis of scientific merit. For this reason, applicants are strongly encouraged, where possible, to identify a suitable researcher with whom to collaborate BEFORE applying, as this greatly increases the chances of the application being approved.

Sometimes, the SUSP may recommend changing your proposed visit dates, extending the duration of your visit, or making some adjustments to the proposed work. You will be notified of the SUSP’s decision shortly after the selection meeting. As the verdict of the SUSP is final, no appeal procedure exists. However, should your application be unsuccessful, we will provide you with a summary of the main reasons presented by the panel’s members to justify their decision. Whenever these reasons can be satisfactorily rectified, we will encourage you to apply again in future with revised application details.

Scientific Users' Selection Panel Members

Name	Institute	Country
Astrophysics
Prof. Gustavo Yepes	Department of Theoretical Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain
Chemistry
Dr. Mark Abraham	Formerly of Department of Theoretical Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab	Sweden
Prof. Andrea Cavalli	Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna	Italy
Dr. Valentina Erastova	School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Prof. Francisco Javier Luque	Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona	Spain
Prof. Carole Morrison	School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Dr. Zilvinas Rinkevicius	Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
Prof. Dage Sundholm	Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki	Finland
Computer Sciences
Prof. Eduard Ayguadé	Department of Computer Architecture, UPC – BarcelonaTech	Spain
Dr. Mary Cryan	School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nagel	Center of Information Services and High Performance Computing, TU-Dresden	Germany
Earth Sciences
Prof. Eleni Katragkou	Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece
Engineering
Dr. Guillaume Houzeaux	CASE – Physical and Numerical Modelling group, BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Centre)	Spain
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckart Laurien	Institute of Nuclear Technology and Energy Systems, University of Stuttgart	Germany
Prof. Phillip Schlatter	Department of Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
Dr. Prashant Valluri	School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Geophysics
Prof. Tomaso Esposti Ongaro	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology	Italy
Dr. Stefano Salon	National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS	Italy
Life Sciences
Dr. Zoe Cournia	Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens	Greece
Dr. Berk Hess	SciLifeLab & KTH	Sweden
Material Sciences
Prof. Mauro Ferrario	Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia	Italy
Mathematics
Dr. Colin Cotter	Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London	United Kingdom
Prof. Fiorella Sgallari	Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna	Italy
Meteorology
Prof. dr. Jordi Vila	Department of Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen University	The Netherlands
Physics
Dr. Anatoly Belonoshko	Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
Prof. Marco Bernasconi	Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca	Italy
Prof. Stefano Borgani	Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, University of Trieste	Italy
Prof. dr. Ria Broer	Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Groningen University	The Netherlands
Dr. Andreas Hermann	School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Dr. Timo Kiviniemi	Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University	Finland
Prof. Kari Rummukainen	Department of Physics, University of Helsinki	Finland
Prof. Silvano Simula	Department of Mathematics and Physics, Roma Tre University	Italy
Prof. Federico Toschi	Departments of Applied Physics and of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology	The Netherlands
Physics / Biogenetics
Prof. Giovanni Bussi	International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)	Italy