From Astrophysics to Electron Microscopy Laboratory, here's how research on thousands of data from space missions can bridge the gap towards FAIR-by-Design transition in a new field of physics and with a new working group.

Since 2015, the European Commission has been promoting Open Science, striving to find the right balance between openness and the protection of intellectual property. This balance is encapsulated in the principle of making research results “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”. Moreover, it is now difficult to find an application field that does not rely on modern artificial intelligence systems based on neural networks, which learn by leveraging increasingly rich and well-organized datasets.

The concept of Open and FAIR data is becoming essential, and it is also on these foundations that the NFFA-DI project was born. This project originated as a national proposal to upgrade the existing European infrastructure, NFFA, creates a unique environment for basic nanoscience and nanotechnologies, bridging the gap between fundamental research on quantum matter and microsystems for digital transformation. NFFA-DI, integrating nano-foundry laboratories with experimental facilities for the fine analysis of matter, has the potential to become a leading research infrastructure in Europe for the study of fundamental interactions in multi-atomic matter.

The know-how acquired during management of data with lots of fields allows me to move this skill to data coming from instruments in the electron microscopy laboratory and convert them to the NFFA-DI required format. Furthermore, the time spent in the laboratory made me independent in using "FIB", one of the instruments available in the catalog.