IRES Track III: Penn State - American Ceramics Society - University of Kiel (PACK) International Research Experience

该IRES计划致力于在理解和成像脑功能以及开发提供类脑处理器的工程材料和机制方面的研究的国家优先事项。PACK研究员有机会在磁场传感、生物医学系统和神经形态计算方面进行尖端研究，基尔大学(U Kiel)的30多名教职员工和100多名学生和博士后研究员参与了这项研究。为了支持这一研究计划，基尔大学正在提供专门的基础设施和几个专门的设备。这种支持为美国学生和教职员工提供了巨大的机会，让他们与英国基尔大学的一群优秀的科学家和工程师建立伙伴关系，并通过他们在欧洲各地的合作。在该项目期间，将有相当数量的德国学生访问美国大学，资金来自德国的大学。这些美国学生来自全国各地的不同机构。美国陶瓷学会(ACERS)负责管理该项目，管理学生选择过程、国际网络的形成和合作，以及PACK联谊会的可持续性。为了增加互动并为新的合作提供机会，项目中内置了几项由学生组织的活动，如静修、研讨会和实验室参观。由教师和顾问组成的团队正在为Pack研究员提供创业、社交媒体网络和职业咨询方面的培训。通过ACES会员计划，参加由ACES和合作机构联合举办的年度研讨会，社交媒体和专门的PACK网页，以及PACK同学会-S校友会，确保了对等关系的可持续性。PACK研究员有机会在生物磁场传感及其对通过改进诊断和分析解决复杂人类疾病方面的影响这一新兴领域形成一个国际网络。基于磁电传感器的不同传感器方法正在设计和制造，能够达到适合生物磁学的检测极限，从而开发出用于诊断和即时治疗的闭环系统、非制冷生物磁接口。基尔大学正在进行的项目为系统研究纳米复合材料和薄膜复合材料提供了机会，这些材料可以对大脑和心脏发出的微小磁信号做出反应，释放治疗脑部疾病的药物，并为神经系统提供记忆装置。Pack研究员正在进行材料设计、纳米技术和表面科学的广泛研究。磁性测量承诺改善诊断，例如在空间分辨率和/或长期检查方面，作为已建立的电气测量的补充或替代？例如脑电图仪(EEG)或心电图仪(ECG)。这是一个丰富的跨学科学生培训活动领域，涵盖材料、信号处理、计算和生物。基于对神经功能的理解，记忆控制器被设计成提供超低功耗计算。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This IRES program addresses the national priority for research in understanding and imaging brain functionality and in developing engineered materials and mechanisms that provide brain-like processors. PACK fellows have the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research on magnetic field sensing, biomedical systems and neuromorphic computing with involvement of more than thirty faculty members and over hundred students and postdoctoral fellows at University of Kiel (U Kiel). In order to support this research program, U Kiel is providing dedicated infrastructure with several specialized equipment. This support provides tremendous opportunity for US students and faculty to build a partnership with an excellent cluster of scientists and engineers at UKiel and through them collaborations throughout Europe. Over the course of the program, a substantial number of German students will be visiting US universities, funded through universities in Germany. The US students are drawn from various institutions around the country. The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is administering the program, managing the student selection process, international network formation and collaboration, and sustainability of the PACK Fellowship. Several student-organized activities are built-into the program, such as retreats, workshops, and lab tours, in order to increase the interactions and provide opportunity for new collaborations. Team of faculty and consultant are providing the support for training PACK fellows on entrepreneurship, social media networking, and career counselling. Sustainability of the peer-to-peer relationships is being ensured through ACerS membership program, participation in annual symposia organized jointly by ACerS and partnering institutions, social media and dedicated PACK webpage, and PACK fellow?s alumni association. PACK fellows have the opportunity to form an international network in the emerging field of biomagnetic field sensing and its implications towards solving complex human diseases through improved diagnosis and analysis. Different sensor approaches based upon magnetoelectric sensors are being designed and manufactured with the ability to reach a limit of detection suitable for biomagnetism resulting in the development of closed-loop, uncooled, biomagnetic interfaces for diagnostics and immediate treatment. Ongoing programs at U Kiel are providing opportunity to systematically investigate nanocomposite and thin film composite materials that can respond to small magnetic signals emitted from brain and heart, release drugs for treating brain diseases and provide memristive devices for neuronal systems. Extensive research on materials design, nanotechnology and surface sciences is being conducted by PACK fellows. Magnetic measurements promise improved diagnosis, for example in relation to spatial resolution and/or for examinations over a long period of time as a supplement or alternative to the established electrical measurements ? such as the electroencephalography (EEG) or the electrocardiography (ECG). This is rich area for interdisciplinary student training activities covering materials, signal processing, computation and biology. Based upon the understanding of neural functioning, memristive controllers are being designed to provide ultra-low power computation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.