Description
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming research across science and technology, and its impact on fundamental physics is accelerating. Next-generation European facilities such as the High-Luminosity LHC, FAIR, SKA, CTAO, LISA, the Einstein Telescope and Euclid will rely on AI to manage unprecedented data volumes and complexity. Yet current efforts remain fragmented across domains, infrastructures and career stages. AIFORIA will establish an open, inclusive European platform to coordinate AI activities across particle, astro-, nuclear, gravitational and cosmological physics, linking theoretical, experimental and observational research.
The Action will identify shared scientific challenges—trustworthy, interpretable and uncertainty-aware AI; scalable and energy-efficient architectures; physics-aware models embedding symmetries and causal structure; and FAIR benchmarks and datasets—and define community roadmaps to address them. It will promote interoperability between infrastructures and alignment with European AI and open-science strategies, including RAISE and EOSC. AIFORIA will strengthen research capacity and inclusiveness through training schools, hackathons and Short-Term Scientific Missions, with dedicated measures for Young Researchers and Inclusiveness Target Countries. Three Working Groups will cover scientific methods, shared infrastructure and benchmarking, and training and roadmapping.
Building on the European Coalition for AI in Fundamental Physics (EuCAIF) and connecting related European initiatives in AI for science, AIFORIA will consolidate expertise, establish common standards and benchmarks, and lay the foundation for a sustainable, trustworthy AI ecosystem supporting Europe’s leadership in scientific discovery. It will accelerate integration of AI into the full research cycle—from experiment design to data interpretation—establishing a model for AI-driven discovery across scientific disciplines.
Action keywords
Particle and Nuclear Physics - Astroparticle Physics - Gravitational Waves - Cosmology - Artificial Intelligence
Management Committee
| Country | MC Member |
|---|---|
| Switzerland |
Main Contacts
Action Contacts
COST Staff
Working Groups
| Number | Title | Leader |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI Methods for Discoveries in Fundamental Physics | TBA |
| 2 | Shared Infrastructure, Tools and Benchmarks for AI in Fundamental Physics | TBA |
| 3 | Training, Community building & Open Roadmapping | TBA |
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