Radu-Cristian Curticapean secures funding from Villum Fonden for research in resource requirements
This year, 22 research talents from the technical and natural sciences will receive a combined total of DKK 126 million through Villum Fonden Young Investigator Programme. One of this year’s recipients is Associate Professor of Computer Science from the IT University of Copenhagen, Radu-Cristian Curticapean who has been awarded 3 million DKK for research in the field of theoretical computer science.
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Among this year’s 22 research talents from the technical and natural sciences, who will receive a combined total of DKK 126 million through Villum Fonden Young Investigator Programme, is Associate Professor of Computer Science at ITU, Radu-Cristian Curticapean. The researcher who works in the field of theoretical computer science has received 3 million DKK to conduct research in resource requirements.
The project, entitled Beyond exact counting: Approximation and symmetry, studies the resources required to solve computational problems. The focus lies on problems that ask to approximately count certain mathematical structures (think of determining the number of solutions to Sudoku puzzles) and on problems with inherent symmetries (think of the polynomial x² + y², where x and y can be interchanged without changing the polynomial). This grant will allow for the recruitment of two postdocs to study such problems.
The Villum Young Investigator programme is aimed at early career researchers so that they can create the best possible framework for pursuing the ideas they are passionate about. The grants are used to develop research groups and hire more young researchers (postdocs and PhD candidates) to help carry out the research projects, among other things.
Villum Fonden received 98 applications for the programme. The 22 researchers who made it through the eye of the needle have been through a process of academic evaluation and interviews with the foundation’s scientific committee, as well as final approval from the board of the foundation.
The gender distribution between applicants was 75% men and 25% women, while the distribution among grantees is 54% men and 46% women.
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