Interdisciplinary Approaches to Functional Electronic and

Dear Colleagues

We are delighted to announce the formation of a new European Science
Foundation-sponsored multidisciplinary research networking program called
INTELBIOMAT (Interdisciplinary Approaches to Functional Electronic and
Biological Materials) .

INTELBIOMAT offers funding for workshops, schools, and exchange visits for organisations from contributing countries. The intellectual agenda is the
understanding, modelling and design of functional materials. Materials
functionality is often based on phenomena that are poorly understood at a predictive level either because of inherently strong interactions (e.g.
magnetism, ferroelectricity, superconductivity) or complex structure (e.g. composites, oxides, biomaterials), and increasingly both. There are three distinct paths that now offer the possibility to move forward in fundamental understanding and eventual design: novel theoretical
methodologies, improved materials control, and advanced experimental
techniques. The programme thus brings together different communities:
materials scientists, experimentalists, and theorists.

The networking programme is chaired by Prof. Peter Littlewood in
Cambridge, and Prof. Antoine Georges from Paris serves as the vice-chair.
Details of the programme, its activities and kinds of support it can offer can be found on its website: http://intelbiomat.org. Short and Medium Term grants are available for researchers for collaborative projects.