DSFTM has 11 Institutes and 41 branches in 15 regions, for a total of 1.200 staff members and far more students involved. DSFTM mission is to perform research in its own Institutes, to promote innovation and competitiveness of the national/international industrial system.
The research activities are coordinated through 7 research areas: advanced materials; sensors and devices; laser systems and photonic devices; quantum science and technologies; complex systems, soft matter and biophysics; Plasmas; Advanced Instrumentation and new methods and technology for the investigation of matter. Multi- and inter-disciplinarity are attained to develop the so-called “converging technologies”, NBIC (nano-bio-info-cogno), which represent the technological future and whose materials and devices macroarea is a pillar. Indeed, NBIC includes nanoscience and nanotechnologies, biotechnology and biomedicine, information technology, advanced computer science, communications and cognitive sciences as well as neurosciences; with applications ranging from communications to transport, from data elaboration and storage, to biology, medicine and cognitive science, from food and agriculture to the aero-spatial sector. Indeed, the Department manages a large number of patents (more than 114 between family patents and patent applications) and it is involved in 12 industrial spin-off activities.
Indeed, the Department manages a large number of patents (more than 114 between family patents and patent applications) and it is involved in 12 industrial spin-off activities.
Joint venture established in 1987 by the European Commission (DG GROW) and the Japanese Government (METI) for promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan.
