
As of September 2023, we embark on an exciting new chapter here in Leoben we are now currently seeking support for our next scientific projects!
At [X-MAT], we are driven by a deep commitment to scientific discovery and its potential to address real-world challenges. Our mission is to conduct research that serves society, the people, at large.
As we enthusiastically expand our research scope and embrace new challenges, we wish to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to the funding agencies whose past support has been essential to our scientific progress.
Thank you for being part of this journey!
– Matheus
Most-recent projects completed at the Los Alamos (2021-2023)
Previous granted funding

Previous funding provided by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program established at the Los Alamos National Laboratory through the Director’s Fellowship grant agreement number 20200689PRD2 (“Highly Ordered Refractory Intermetallics: The ZIA Phases Project”) and also the project numbers 20220597ECR and 20210626ECR.

Previous funding provided through ASTRO fellowship, a U.S. Department of Energy workforce development program implemented at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education under contract DE-AC05-06OR23100 (“Investigating the radiation response of MAX phases as fusion materials”).

Previous funding provided by the São Paulo Research Foundation for the scholarship “Development of a methodology for remote caracterisation of nuclear fission products by LIDAR and LIBS techiques” under contract 09/15249-9.


Previous funding provided by the Technological Center of the Navy in São Paulo for the fellowship “Modelling a Compact Nuclear Reactor for Materials Optimization Studies in Biological Shielding in Nuclear Submarines”.

Previous funding provided by the Santander Universities for a short-term international fellowship at the University of New Mexico (USA) in the Department of Nuclear Engineering.

Previous funding for post-doctoral position at Montanuniversität Leoben provided by the European Research Council Starting Grant project TRANSDESIGN (PI Stefan Pogastcher) through the Horizon 2020 program under contract 757961.
Previous user proposals

Previous funding (user proposals) provided by the Nuclear Science User Facilities for 2-week irradiation campaigns in the IVEM facility in the Argonne National Laboratory.

Previous funding (user proposals) provided by the United Kingdom’s National Ion Beam Centre for 2-weeks irradiation campaigns in the MIAMI-2 facility at the United Kingdom Energy Authority.
Previous infrastructure funding

Construction of the MIAMI-2 system was previously funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom under grant number EP/M028283/1.
PIs Stephen Donnelly/Jonathan Hinks/Andrew Ball
Our role: Users/Researchers.

Previous funding provided by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in the project 3DnanoAnalytics (FFG-No 858040) for a ThermoFisher ScientificTM Talos F200X G2 within the project “3DnanoAnalytics”.
PI Stefan Pogastcher
Our role: Users/Researchers.

Previous funding provided by the Laboratory Directed Research & Development program at LANL for the acquisition of both (i) a thermal drift control system for the FEI Titan 80/300 TEM for the Electron Microscopy Laboratory and (ii) a hydrogen delivery system FLEXI HYCO for the HydrideLab.
Our role: PI Matheus A. Tunes.