Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (UNIBO)
Via Giusti, 9
50121 Firenze
Italy
University of Bologna as a whole has a few thousand employees (over 300 staff chemists in the various Chemistry Departments). Administration tasks are mastered by UNIBO, the Italian National Consortium for Science and Technology of Materials with over 1,500 members from 40 Universities, http://UNIBO.hpc.cineca.it/UNIBO/index.php
The INSTM was established in 1992 as a Consortium of Italian Universities with the goal to promote research activities in the field of Chemistry of Materials. Later it was joined by other similar Institutions and expanded its interests to the Science and Technology of Materials. The acronym INSTM stands for Consortium of Italian Universities for the Science and Technology of Materials. Nowadays it groups the 43 Italian Universities, in practice all the Universities where research on Materials is performed. INSTM is an original bottom-up aggregation of researchers, which has a minimum of bureaucratic structure, and efficiently coordinates the activities, promotes the joint participation of INSTM groups to Italian and European projects, is active in technology transfer, also establishing spin-off enterprises, takes care of the training aspects in Materials Science and Technology.
The research will be performed at Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica e Inorganica (Physical Chemistry Dept.) of University of Bologna (UNIBO) that has around 50 employees.
The Zannoni group specialises in Computer Simulations and in the investigation of molecular organizations and dynamics in bulk and nano-confined liquid crystals. Much of the activity of the group in ONE-P involves large scale computer simulations and heavy computational work and our present group resources include: 3 racks with a total of 210 processors (cores). The group also makes extensive use of the facilities of the Regional Italian Supercomputer Centre, CINECA.
