Focus Areas & Projects

eSSENCE research focuses on four main areas: Materials Science, Human Function and Environment, Life Science and Generic e-Science Methods and Tools. Within each focus area research projects are funded on the basis of scientific quality, and particular support is given to collaboration projects with potential of opening up for novel applications.
Follow the links below for a detailed description of the actual research projects.

1. Materials Science

4D-QMPM – 4D data processing to quantify the mechanics of porous media
Chemistry of complex materials
 Materials Physics
 Nanomaterials

2. Human Function and Environment

AAOT: Algorithms and Applications for Organ Transplantation
Data Management & Workflow Improvements In Biomedical Imaging
 Improving intrapartum surveillance using a pattern recognition and machine learning approach
Information service for historical demographic and geographic information
Linguistics and visual information
Processing and assessment tools for event detection in eye movement data

3. Life Science

Computational Biology
Development of eScience methods in drug discovery

4. Generic e-Science Methods and tools

Computational Algorithms
Database Technology
 Grid Middleware Development & High Energy Physics Data Analysis
Grid Middleware: Development and Support
 High-Performance Parallel Computing

5. Other areas

Classification tool for bird singing
Vortex identification using image analysis techniques