{"id":28103,"date":"2026-06-23T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saarland-informatics-campus.de\/?post_type=sic_news&#038;p=28103"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:11:23","slug":"computer-scientist-martina-maggio-awarded-prestigious-erc-advanced-grant","status":"publish","type":"sic_news","link":"https:\/\/saarland-informatics-campus.de\/en\/piece-of-news\/computer-scientist-martina-maggio-awarded-prestigious-erc-advanced-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer scientist Martina Maggio awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Professor Martina Maggio has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), one of Europe&#8217;s most prestigious research funding programmes. With funding of up to \u20ac2.5 million, Professor Maggio aims to improve the certification of the safety of computer-controlled systems that are subject to timing fluctuations during operation. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The project addresses a fundamental challenge in modern cyber-physical systems and has far-reaching implications across a wide range of applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and space exploration, where safety and reliability are paramount.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ERC-funded research will go beyond verifying that the theoretical design of control systems meets its intended specifications, such as driving at a certain speed or maintaining a certain distance from other vehicles. It will also ensure that these guarantees remain valid for the implementation of the systems, despite the timing variations that inevitably occur during execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-driving cars, increasingly sophisticated robots, and autonomous spacecraft such as autonomous spacecraft and planetary exploration vehicles are all examples of highly complex systems governed by advanced computer control. Their growing capabilities depend on ever more finely coordinated computations and increasingly precise timing. Yet timing remains a critical source of vulnerability. Even minor deviations in the synchronization of computational processes can propagate through a system and, in safety-critical applications, lead to serious or even catastrophic failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven the most advanced computer-controlled systems can be vulnerable to timing-related faults,\u201d says Martina Maggio. \u201cThe Mars helicopter Ingenuity, for example, experienced dangerous oscillations caused by timestamp misalignments and later encountered another synchronization issue. These incidents demonstrate that timing errors are not rare edge cases but remain a fundamental challenge in the design and operation of complex autonomous systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite these setbacks, Ingenuity ultimately became a remarkable success. During one incident, the helicopter was forced to perform an emergency landing after an image-processing task fell out of sync with other onboard computations. Maggio\u2019s research focuses on preventing precisely such failures in software-controlled technical systems, from autonomous vehicles and industrial robots to spacecraft. This is particularly important in applications where correct timing is as important as correct functionality: if the timing of critical events cannot be guaranteed, the consequences can range from degraded performance to catastrophic system failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To advance this research at the highest international level, Martina Maggio has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Since joining Saarland University as a Professor of Computer Science in 2020, Maggio has established herself as a leading expert at the intersection of control engineering and real-time systems. The ERC-funded project, entitled SCARF (Scalable CPS Analysis of Robustness to Failures), will begin in 2027 and run for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Further information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof. Dr Martina Maggio&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: <a href=\"#\" data-mailto-token=\"thpsav1thnnpvGjz5bup4zhhyshuk5kl\" data-mailto-vector=\"7\">maggio(at)cs.uni-saarland.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Martina Maggio has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), one of Europe&rsquo;s most prestigious research funding programmes. With funding of up to &euro;2.5 million, Professor Maggio aims to improve the certification of the safety of computer-controlled systems that are subject to timing fluctuations during operation. 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