LFV Advanced Materials Safety II

Advanced materials are a key driver of technological and societal innovation, spanning functional materials, energy and resource applications, mobility, environmental technologies, and biomedicine. At the same time, increasing structural complexity, broad application, and uncontrolled dissemination give rise to new safety and sustainability issues. Materials may pose risks throughout their entire life cycle, for example through the release of nanoscale or fibrous components, transformation and degradation processes, or persistence and accumulation in environmental and technical systems. Ensuring sustainable innovation therefore requires that such risks be identified early, assessed in a data-driven manner, and systematically integrated into material design, regulation, and science communication.

In its second funding phase, LFS AMS 2.0 significantly extends the successful approach of the first phase towards a comprehensive Advanced Material Safety perspective. The focus lies on complex, advanced, and often hybrid material systems and their interactions with humans, the environment, and technological use contexts. Key research areas include release and exposure pathways, transformation products, accumulation processes, and potential effects on organisms and ecosystems. New priorities include the integration of experimental and computer-based methods, animal-free testing strategies, AI- and data-driven approaches to hazard prediction, as well as the standardization, quality assurance, reusability, and integration of research data. Within this context, FIZ Karlsruhe contributes its expertise in research data management as a central enabling component – including the development of data-driven workflows, the structuring and curation of heterogeneous materials data, the operation and extension of sustainable repository solutions, and the integration into overarching infrastructures such as NFDI4Chem. These activities are complemented by targeted efforts in networking, knowledge transfer, and evidence-based science communication. LFS AMS 2.0 thus brings together the complementary expertise of multiple Leibniz institutions in an interdisciplinary research collaboration to support safe, responsible, and sustainable material innovation on a robust scientific basis.

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Dr. Felix Bach

Vice President e-Research
Phone:
+49 7247 808 624
+49 7247 808 624
felix.bach [at] fiz-karlsruhe.de