Starting in 2025, the researcher from Prof. Elisa Davoli's work group will receive funding for her research on the project "Effective theories for quasi-crystalline microstructures" for three years. The following lines give an overview of the topic of her research:

Quasi-crystals are fascinating materials with a peculiar fine structure: it is ordered but exhibit neither periodicity nor randomness. This peculiarity together with their unique properties make quasi-crystalline materials attractive in many applications ranging from engineering to Materials Science. 

A rigorous understanding of how the aperiodic microstructures affect the macroscopic behavior of quasi-crystalline composites is required to take advantage of the extraordinary features of this new class of materials. The proposal will carry out an effective analysis of quasi-crystalline media adopting a variational approach.