Thesis Presentations by MDMC Students

On May 27-28, students from the Master in Data Management and Curation (MDMC) presented their thesis projects, developed over the past seven months at the operational units of the NFFA-DI infrastructure.

Throughout their research, the students implemented "FAIR-by-design pipelines" — tailored workflows and software solutions — for 15 different types of instruments from the NFFA-DI catalogue. This marks one of the largest deployments of prototypes of FAIR-by-design pipelines within laboratories belonging to the same research infrastructure in Italy.

Moving forward, the next step will be collaborating to extend these implementations to other NFFA-DI laboratories that use the same techniques explored in the students' thesis. This will help achieve interoperability within the infrastructure and ensure scientific reproducibility, both crucial for high-quality research. From there, the goal will be to further extend common practices to the broader community involved.

"I congratulate all the MDMC students, their supervisors and the organizers at AREA Science Park. The work done for the MDMC thesis is extremey relevant and ensures NFFA-DI a predominant role as FAIR research infrastructure in Italy."
— Cristina Africh (NFFA-DI coordinator)

NFFA-DI Thesis Titles

Data Curation for Optimizing Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth of III-V Semiconductor Samples
L. Musini (CNR-IOM@TS)

Design refinement and commissioning of a FAIR-by-design integrated data management system for an STM laboratory
S. Vigneri (CNR-IOM@TS)

Implementation of FAIR by design principles for data acquisition and storage at CNR-IFN Milano
G. Gallerani (CNR-IFN@MI)

FAIR data management for fabrication processes. A NOMAD plugin as implemented at CNR-IFN@TN
M.F. Bontorno (CNR-IFN@TN)

Implementing a FAIR-by-Design Approach for Process Management in Nanoscience Foundries Application in the CNR-ISMN cleanroom
M. Marella (CNR-ISMN@BO)

FAIR data management of quantum-mechanical calculations for the spin states dynamics in SiC materials
G. Castorina (CNR-IMM@CT)

FAIR Data Management of results coming from SEM analysis of Halloysite samples
L. Lidonni (CNR-IMM@CT)

FAIR Data Management of the Results from the MulSKIPS Atomistic Simulation Environment for PVD, CVD, and Laser Annealing
F. Ruberto (CNR-IMM@CT)

Implementation of FAIR data in Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy
L. Costantini (CNR-ISM@RM)

FAIR Data Management in Scanning Electron Microscopy
G. Balestra (CNR-NANOTEC@LE)

AMORE: a GUI to promote migration from paper to eLN
E. D'Amico (CNR-SPIN@NA)

Implementation of a FAIR-by-Design System for PLD and RHEED Data Management in the MODA Laboratory Development of a NOMAD plugin and a Python parser for automatic data mapping from eLabFTW to NOMAD
R. Forlenza (CNR-SPIN@NA)

Implementation of FAIR Principles for XPS Data at MODA Laboratory through NeXus File Format
M. Zandavifard (CNR-SPIN@NA)

A FAIR Data Ecosystem in Transmission Electron Microscopy
N. Perin (AREA-RIT)

Implementation of a pipeline for collecting, ingesting and transforming data into standard formats for the LAME FIB-SEM
E. Saadat (AREA-RIT)

Implementation of FAIR-data policies in wafer-scale infrastructures
P. Florio (POLIFAB)

FAIR by Design upgrade for the UNIMI NFFA-DI experimental offer
S. Contu (UNIMI)

Extending NOMAD schemas for the UMIL NFFA-DI Theory & Simulation Installation, with a focus on the Yambo code
E. Molteni (UNIMI)

Resources

All the thesis will be published in a repository and indexed on the NFFA-DI website.

The developed codes are available on GitHub: Master Data Management and Curation Thesis Repository.

About the Master

The Master in Data Management and Curation was organized by AREA Science Park, SISSA and CNR-IOM, within the NFFA-DI and PRP@CERIC projects.

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