Remove the words "scientific research" from the question, and you get a huge area of ​​technical applications. For example, a focusing system in a lens. Or a scanning system in a power microscope. Well, and technical applications, naturally, are used in scientific research ;)

Thank you very much for your response. I would like to conduct more extensive research on piezoelectric actuators, which is related to vibration control but not specifically focused on it.@

Almost all MEMS devices rely on piezoelectric transducers. Including accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure sensors and many others.

Thank you very much!