MEMBRAIN, Self-organizing memristive networks for brain-inspired computing.
Project Overview
The MEMBRAIN project aim to develop a radically new concept of physically grounded computing nanoarchitecture based on self-organising memristive nanonetworks of dendrites, able to efficiently process information and to store knowledge on the same physical substrate at the matter level through physical laws.
Overcoming the concept of nanotechnology as a simple advancement of microtechnology, the ambition is to compute like nature – thermodynamically – to push computation near fundamental limits of efficiency.
IMM Early Career Award 2026 awarded to Gianluca Milano
Feb. 19, 2026
Gianluca Milano, INRiM Researcher, has been awarded the Outstanding IMM Early Career Award 2026, a prestigious recognition granted by the Selection Committee of the IMM (Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems – CNR) to outstanding early-career researchers.
The award was presented on February 19, 2026, in Catania (Italy), during the IMM Award Ceremony, held as part of the CNR-IMM Institute Conference.
Research Team
The MEMBRAIN team, led by Gianluca Milano, operates at the crossroad of physics, nanoscience, computer science and machine learning, and operates in the framework of the Advanced Materials and Devices group at INRiM, gatherings resources and competences concerning the micro-and nanofabrication of materials, characterization of functional properties including chemical and electrical properties, and neuromorphic computing.
