Current grants of the research group
Total amount currently managed: 10.5M €.
- Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) Graduate School
Analysis and Applications
22.06.2026 - 26.06.2026; 12K € granted
Organizers: Elisa Davoli (TU Wien), Ulisse Stefanelli (University of Vienna)
Lecturers: Carolin Kreisbeck (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), Antoine Lemenant (Lorraine University, Nancy), Giuseppe Savaré (Bocconi, Milan), and Daniela Tonon (University of Padua) - FWF Principal Investigator Project
Free boundary problems in accretive growth
01.04.2026 - 31.03.2030; 432K € granted
Project Leader: Ulisse Stefanelli - WTZ scientific and technological cooperation project of the OeAD
01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025; 7.7K € granted (Austrian budget)
Leaders: Fabian Rupp (Austrian side) and Martin Horák (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) - Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) Thematic Programme
Free Boundary Problems
29.09.2025 - 19.12.2025; 84K € granted
Organizers: Serena Dipierro (UWA, Perth), Julian Fischer (ISTA, Klosterneuburg), Matteo Novaga (University of Pisa), Elisabetta Rocca (University of Pavia), Xavier Ros-Oton (University of Barcelona), Ulisse Stefanelli (University of Vienna), Enrico Valdinoci (UWA, Perth) - FWF ESPRIT Grant
Measure-valued solutions in elasticity and plasticity
01.09.2025 - 31.08.2028; 346K € granted
Project Leader: Andreas Vikelis (mentor: Ulisse Stefanelli) - Humboldt Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Granted approx. 64K €
Grantee: Andrea Poiatti - FWF Emerging Fields project
A new Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Beyond
Consortile Project; 01.10.2024 - 30.09.2029
Project team: Clemens Sämann (University of Vienna), Raquel Perales (University of Vienna), Roland Steinbauer (coordinator, University of Vienna), Chiara Rigoni (University of Vienna), Michael Kunzinger (University of Vienna) - FWF ESPRIT Grant
Geometry and phases on elastic-fluidic biomembranes
07.03.2024 - 06.03.2027; 316K € granted
Project Leader: Andrea Poiatti (mentor: Ulisse Stefanelli) - FWF ESPRIT Grant
Elastic solids with geometric boundary
01.04.2024 - 31.03.2027; 316K € granted
Project Leader: Fabian Rupp (mentor: Ulisse Stefanelli) - FWF ESPRIT Grant
Rigidity results in $CD(K,N)$ spaces with negative $N$
16.11.2022 - 18.07.2025 and 19.07.2026 - 15.11.2026; 294K € granted
Project Leader: Chiara Rigoni (mentor: Ulisse Stefanelli) - FWF SFB - Special Research Area (this type of FWF project is now replaced by the Specialized Research Groups program)
Taming Complexity in Partial Differential Systems
Consortile Project; 01.03.2017 - 28.02.2026; 4.1M € granted for the first funding period (until 28.02.2021) - additional 4.5M € granted for the second funding period
Speaker: Ulisse Stefanelli
Past grants since 2013
Total amount managed: 4.1M €.
Grants of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- 2.1M € granted (click to expand this section)
- FWF ESPRIT Grant
Inhomogeneous-growth problems including a linear-growth term
01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025; 294K € granted
Project Leader: Wojciech Górny (mentor: Ulisse Stefanelli) - FWF Stand-Alone Project (this type of FWF project is now called Principal Investigator Project)
Challenges for the WIDE variational principle
01.04.2020 - 30.09.2024; 488K € granted
Project Leader: Ulisse Stefanelli - FWF Elise-Richter Grant
Global and Local Behavior of Deformations
01.07.2024 - 30.06.2028; 403K € granted (this project was based at the University of Vienna until 31.08.2024, then it moved to TU Wien)
Project Leader: Anastasia Molchanova - FWF ESPRIT Grant
Challenges in nonlocal operators: existence and regularity
3 years granted; active in the periods 01.02.2022 - 31.08.2022 and 01.09.2023 - 31.03.2024; 287K € granted
Project Leader: Stefano Buccheri (mentors: Christian Schmeiser and Ulisse Stefanelli) - FWF Doctoral School (DK)
Dissipation and dispersion in nonlinear partial differential equations
Consortile Project; the second part of this project was funded for the period 01.03.2017 - 31.08.2022
Speaker: Ansgar Jüngel (TU Wien) - FWF Lise-Meitner Grant
Stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation: analysis and applications
2 years granted (the project was active only from 01.07.2020 to 28.02.2021); 159K € granted
Project Leader: Luca Scarpa (co-applicant: Ulisse Stefanelli) - FWF Stand-Alone Project (this type of FWF project is now called Principal Investigator Project)
GloVE: Global variational methods for nonlinear evolution
01.01.2015 - 31.12.2018; 330K € granted
Project Leader: Ulisse Stefanelli - FWF Lise-Meitner Grant
Crystal Ordering and Dynamics of Interacting Particles
01.03.2015 - 28.02.2017; 157K € granted
Project Leader: Edoardo Mainini (co-applicant: Ulisse Stefanelli)
International grants
- 633K € granted (click to expand this section)
- GAČR-FWF Joint International Project (this type of FWF project is now called Principal Investigator Project International)
Scales and Shapes in Continuum Thermomechanics
The Austrian part of the project runs from 01.10.2021 until 30.09.2025 (the Czech part of the project runs from 01.04.2021 until 31.03.2024); Austrian budget: 147K € granted
Project Leaders: Ulisse Stefanelli and Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences) - DFG-FWF Joint International Project (this type of FWF project is now called Principal Investigator Project International)
Variational Modeling of Molecular Geometries
01.04.2020 - 31.03.2024; 358K € granted (Austrian budget)
Project Leaders: Ulisse Stefanelli and Manuel Friedrich (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster until 30.09.2021, then Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) - WTZ scientific and technological cooperation project of the OeAD
Model reduction and optimal control in thermomechanics
01.01.2021 - 31.12.2022; 7K € granted (Austrian budget)
Leaders: Stefano Almi (Austrian side) and Jan Valdman (University of South Bohemia and Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic) - FWF-GAČR Joint International Project (this type of FWF project is now called Principal Investigator Project International)
Variational structures in thermomechanics of solids
02.05.2016 - 01.05.2019; 114K € granted (Austrian budget)
Project Leaders: Ulisse Stefanelli and Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences) - WTZ scientific and technological cooperation project of the OeAD
Thermomechanics of solids: modeling, analysis, and simulations
01.01.2016 - 31.12.2017; 7K € granted
Project Leaders: Ulisse Stefanelli and Martin Kružík (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences) - Central European Network for Teaching and Research in Academic Liaison (CENTRAL)
Project Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations (2015 - 2018)
Internal grants of the University of Vienna
- 298K € granted (click to expand this section)
- Research Platform of the University of Vienna
ViRAPID - Vienna Platform for Accelerating Photoreaction Discovery
01.01.2020 - 07.11.2025
Members: Leticia González, Christoph Dellago, Ulisse Stefanelli - Mobility Fellowship of the International Office of the University of Vienna
28.10.2024 - 12.12.2024; 5K € granted
Grantee: Fabian Rupp - Mobility Fellowship of the International Office of the University of Vienna
01.10.2024 - 25.11.2024; 6K € granted
Grantee: Andrea Chiesa - REWIRE Fellowship of the University of Vienna
Injectivity, Regularity, and Extensibility of Deformations
01.05.2021 - 30.06.2024; approx. 246K € granted
REWIRE Fellow: Anastasia Molchanova (mentor: Ulisse Stefanelli) - Mobility Fellowship of the International Office of the University of Vienna
01.04.2023 - 31.05.2024; 5K € granted
Grantee: Andrea Chiesa - Mobility Fellowship of the International Office of the University of Vienna
01.04.2023 - 15.06.2024; 6K € granted
Grantee: Riccardo Voso - Marie Jahoda Grant of the University of Vienna
13.07.2021 - 12.01.2022 (planned end date; the project actually ended on 30.09.2021); 30K € granted
Grantee: Lara Trussardi
Grants for Workshops and Thematic Programmes of the
Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI)
- 113K € granted (click to expand this section)
- Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) Workshop
Synthetic Curvature Bounds for Non-Smooth Spaces: Beyond Finite Dimension
21.05.2024 - 24.05.2024; 12K € granted
Organizers: Lorenzo Dello Schiavo (IST Austria), Christian Ketterer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Chiara Rigoni - Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) Workshop
Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
12.02.2024 - 16.02.2024; 16K € granted
Organizers: Sandra Cerrai (University of Maryland), Martin Hairer (Imperial College London), Carlo Marinelli (University College London), Eulalia Nualart (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona), Luca Scarpa (Politecnico di Milano), Ulisse Stefanelli - Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) Workshop
Between Regularity and Defects: Variational and Geometrical Methods in Materials Science
20.02.2023 - 24.02.2023; 16K € granted
Organizers: Stefano Almi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and TU Wien) and Anastasia Molchanova - Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) Workshop
New trends in the variational modeling of failure phenomena
20.08.2018 - 24.08.2018; 19K € granted
Organizers: Elisa Davoli, Manuel Friedrich (WWU Münster), and Riccardo Scala (Sapienza University of Rome) - Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) Thematic Programme
Nonlinear Flows
30.05.2016 - 17.07.2016; 50K € granted
Organizers: Eduard Feireisl (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Ansgar Jüngel (TU Wien), Alexander Mielke (WIAS, Berlin), Giuseppe Savaré (University of Pavia), Ulisse Stefanelli
Other grants (OeAD, ÖAW, WWTF)
- 755K € granted (click to expand this section)
- ÖAW APART-MINT
Obstacle Problems for the Brakke Flow with Boundary Conditions
01.08.2024 - 31.07.2025; 99K € granted
Project Leader: Katerina Nik - ÖAW APART-MINT
The mathematics of optimal outlet design
01.08.2022 - 31.01.2024; 71K € granted for the first 12 months; and additional 45K Euro granted for an extension of 6 months
Project Leader: Michal Bathory - WWTF Mathematics and ... grant
Variational modeling of carbon nanostructures
01.01.2015 - 30.06.2020; 540K € granted
Project Leaders: Ulisse Stefanelli and Jani Kotakoski
Other grants (won by members of the group but not used)
- 194K € granted (click to expand this section)
- FWF Lise-Meitner Grant
New Challenges for the Mathematics of Crystallization
2020; grant not used; 175K € granted
Project Leader: Laurent Bétermin (co-applicant: Ulisse Stefanelli)