TORSI, Luisa

Con modeste differenze su tempistiche e attività senza modifiche a finalità e obiettivi scientifici

All research activities of the participating research units have undergone a significant slowdown or have been postponed due to the COVID19 emergency. Only recently has the scheduled selection of protocols/standards vital for the project execution been resumed. Consequently the scheduled dynamics of expected results and deliverables has been delayed, yet the delays are expected to recover also thanks to the 6-month extension granted to PRIN 2017 projects. Different research units report progress in realization of advanced sensoring, as well as on identifying and testing samples of interest. No significant investements in the research equippment has taken place. No conference participation or expert hosting has been reported, yet the scientific output judged by the list of publications is very good. The delay in the project timeline also reflects the recruitment of research personnel in several units, that is expected to resume in fall 2020.

Resuming the recruitment of adequate research personnel as planned is recommended. Considering the uncertain COVID-19 situation also in the near future we reccommend to steer and monitor the project activities focussing the research interests and the investments along the principal project lines, that will guarante achieving the minimal expected goals, even in the case of major hiatus of the experimental facilities. For the part of dissemination and reachout of the project results we reccommend to focuss on scientific publications as expert mobility and conference attendance is expected to be very limited in the near future.