The Institute fosters training and research in fusion sciences, nuclear instrumentation, structure and material mechanical characterization for fission and fusion, with an interdisciplinary approach, including societal aspects.

Project SUBNANO : Computational Photochemistry in the Long Timescale : Subnanosecond Photoprocesses in DNA.
Project C0PEP0D : Life and death of a virtual copepod in turbulence

Project TOP : Toward engineering simulations Of burning Plasmas in ITER: synergetic effects of heat confinement and deposition.

Project BIOMAGNET : Understanding the chemical mechanism in action behind the biological compass of plants and animals.

Project WSPLIT : Photoinduced Water Splitting Dynamics by Organic Chromophores.

Project CAPSHYDR : Fabrication, characterization and modeling of CAPSules under HYDRodynamic stresses.

Project FEMTO-ASR : Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin: A biological model system to decipher the quantum mechanics of photochemical reactions through conical intersections.

The mesocentre in Aix-Marseille Université has been developed thanks to the financial support of the Investissements d’Avenir program through the Equip@meso collaborative project (ANR-10-EQPX-29-01), involving now more than 10 French computational centers.