Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet EXCICO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Computational complexity theory is the systematic study of computational problems in order to classify them in terms of their inherent logical hardness. Several decades of research have not only given rise to important understanding of limits of computation, but have also developed algorithms which constitute a crucial part of modern life. A formidable challenge in complexity theory is to show non-linear lower bounds for an explicit Boolean function. Our project is motivated by this fundamental problem and in fact we will approach several such questions motivated by understanding the complexity of explicit Boolean functions. Our main objective look at circuit complexity through the lens of extremal combinatorics, a rich and vibrant of branch of combinatorics which studies objects satisfying various constraints. Therefore we aim to develop a systematic methodology which adopts tools of extremal combinatorics to tackle complexity problems. More concretely we attack the problem of lower bounds for depth-3 circuits and specifically attempt to prove sharp lower bounds for the Majority function thus breaking a barrier in this area. We will further extend the techniques used in recent breakthrough on the Sunflower Conjecture and apply it to CNF formula and the structure of their satisfying assignments. We will our new insights on the structure of satisfying assignments to develop new improved algorithms for the satisfiability problem (SAT).

Mots clés : circuit complexity, lower bounds, extremal combinatorics, satisfiability

Participants :
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institute of Mathematics (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 180421.44 €
Projet IONMIGRATIONPSC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) attract enormous attention in the field of emerging photovoltaics due to their unique optoelectronic properties and unprecedented advances in performance. In just over a decade, the power conversion efficiency of PSCs has increased from 3.9% to 25.5%, suggesting this technology might be ready for large-scale exploitation in industrial applications. However, stability and scalability are some of the major concerns that impede the commercialisation of PSCs. Among these, exploring strategies to enhance the long-term stability of PSCs is a main research topic in the perovskite community. While it is generally considered that ionic defect states in the perovskite layer such as vacancies, interstitial sites, anti-site substitutions as well as surface and grain boundary defects inevitably lead to the degradation of PSCs, much remains unknown about the fundamental nature of ionic defects and in particular their migration in perovskite materials. This project will focus on the study of ion migration by a unique combination of electrical and spectroscopic methods which will allow tracking changes in both the compositional and optoelectronic properties of perovskites with the same spatial resolution and thus directly linking the migration of ionic species to their effect on material properties. By applying this novel methodology, I will explore the effects of perovskite composition, film microstructure and mitigation strategies on the ion migration and investigate how ion migration impacts the stability of perovskite materials. This project will significantly expand our current understanding of ion migration in PSCs and provide valuable insights for enhancing device stability.

Mots clés : perovskite, stability, ion migration, photoemission spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy and photocurrent microscopy

Participants :
- Université technologique de Dresde (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 185441.36 €
Projet NextSAC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Deterioration leads to a substantial increase in the necessity for additional materials and heightened investments in order to effectively maintain and upgrade asphalt roads. The NextSAC project aims to train Dr. Yuanyuan Li as a leading researcher, who will be supervised by a finely integrated supervisory team. NextSAC initiative's primary outcomes include: 1) electrical model for prognosticating the electrical parameters of SACs; 2) Mechanical model for the damage behavior prediction of SACs; 3) Electro-mechanical model for road damage self-sensing; and 4) Industrial application of transformative self-sensing materials and technologies. The theoretical training of Dr. Li will cover interdisciplinary fields of the numerical modeling, infrastructure material, data analysis, electrical modelling, asphalt material and pavement engineering. The compulsory skills training in project management, intellectual property, commercialization, organization, teaching, supervision, networking, communication and financial management, will strongly support the career development of the fellow. An imperative requirement of timely self-sensing of the damage condition is urgently needed for promptly recommending appropriate maintenance strategies and immediate solutions to prolong the asphalt pavements service life. Such proactive measures will undoubtedly reduce waste asphalt materials, consumption of non-renewable resources, and maintenance investments. Subsequent to the fellowship, the individual will attain a substantial proficiency in scientific mechanisms and their practical application in the field of self-sensing materials and technologies. The deliverables outcomes will construct a strong foundation for roads maintenance digitalization, generating a series of positive contributions to the EU across scientific, social, environmental and economic areas.

Mots clés : asphalt roads self sensing asphalt concretes electro mechanical modeling damage prediction road digitalization damage self sensing

Participants :
- Université de Nottingham (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Liverpool John-Moores (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276187.92 €
- Dura vermeer infrastructuur bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet T2DMOF (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

T2DMOF is targeted at offering an extremely skilled and promising emerging researcher with a PhD in Organic Chemistry and an outstanding track record a highest quality training through research in the cross-disciplinary, supra-sectoral, and burgeoning field of 2D electronic materials by developing a green solution to address the global challenge of energy generation. Thermoelectric generators can convert temperature differences directly into electrical voltages via the Seebeck effect. However, the currently used thermoelectric materials (inorganic/conducting polymers) have critical drawbacks, as they contain highly toxic elements, require high micro/nanofabrication costs, display limited stability, etc. T2DMOF aims to develop a novel class of two-dimensional conjugated metal–organic frameworks (2D c-MOFs) to overcome the above-mentioned challenges in conventional thermoelectric materials, while proposing reliable structure–property relationships to guide the design of next-generation MOF-based thermoelectric materials. The diversity of 2D c-MOF synthesis methods (film/powder) enables planar flexible or columnar array thermoelectric generators to be realized in view of different practical application scenarios. T2DMOF’s overall objective is to train the fellow to become a mature and independent top scientist and to prepare him for a leading position in academia or industry in Europe.

Mots clés : organic thermoelectrics, conductive metal organic frameworks, charge transport, coordination polymers

Participants :
- Université de Strasbourg (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 211754.88 €
- Université technologique de Dresde (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet IronKiller (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Neuroblastoma (NB), a rare paediatric solid tumour, accounts for 15% of childhood cancer deaths. Immunotherapy has improved the survival for haematological malignancies, but solid tumours remain a challenge. The high heterogeneity, low mutational load, and strong immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment (i-TME) have hindered the success of immunotherapy in NB. Recently, natural killer (NK) cells have stood as a promising immunotherapeutic tool, as they don’t depend on specific mutations. Still, clinical trials for NB show only modest results, proving further action is needed to overcome the iTME. Late findings show that refractory tumours often respond to Ferroptosis, a novel cell death mechanism that is highly immunogenic. Cancer cells undergoing ferroptosis release HMGB1 and other well-known recruiters of NK cells. Moreover, ferroptotic drugs can act through several mechanisms and can be adapted to patients with different tumour characteristics. The goal of IronKiller is to combine ferroptotic drugs with NK cell therapy to treat refractory NB, and to perform in silico modelling of the results to predict which patients would benefit from this novel therapy. I am an experienced biologist and engineer joining a clinical research group strong in immunotherapies. We will follow an in vitro-in vivo-in silico strategy that will cover a variety of disciplines, from basic biology and pre-clinical research, all the way to bioinformatics and machine learning. I will reinforce my experience in cell death mechanisms and translational research, and I will also acquire new knowledge and skills in the areas of cell immunotherapy and oncological mathematical modelling. The latter through a secondment at an academic institution. Along with the research work, the diverse training, management and communication activities planned, will play a key role in advancing my professional development towards becoming an independent academic group leader in translational cancer research.

Mots clés : neuroblastoma, ferroptosis, natural killer cells, immunotherapy, mathematical modelling

Participants :
- Hospital Universitario La Paz (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 165312.96 €
- Université de Castille-La Manche (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Non-Eq-Dyno (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The stellar dynamics of the Milky Way and Local Group allows us to infer their composition and history. Furthermore, such gravitational probes constitute a window into one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: the fundamental nature of dark matter. The research field of Galactic dynamics is undergoing a revolution thanks to novel observations, mainly coming from the ESA Gaia survey, which has revealed a variety of non-equilibrium dynamical structures. I propose to develop and apply novel techniques for modelling non-equilibrium dynamics in the Milky Way and Local Group. Although non-equilibrium stellar dynamics is often regarded as an obstacle and liability, it does in fact probe otherwise unobtainable information, such as dynamical signatures that are unique to specific dark matter particle candidates. I propose three ambitious Working Packages (WPs). In the first WP, I will use the recently discovered phase-space spiral in the Milky Way disk in order to measure the global gravitational potential of our Galaxy. The second and third WPs focus on the evolution of tidally perturbed Local Group dwarf galaxy satellites and how they can be used to probe the particle nature of dark matter. The outgoing and return phase institutes, Columbia University and Stockholm University, are home to infrastructure resources and expertise that are highly relevant to this action, such as large-scale galaxy simulations and state-of-the-art simulation-based inference techniques. The combination of host institutes will enable me to build a trans-Atlantic network of collaborators and contacts, which will greatly increase my competitiveness and employability in the academic sector.

Mots clés : stellar dynamics, galactic dynamics, astrometry, astrostatistics

Participants :
- Université de Stockholm (Suède) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 282168.0 €
- Université Columbia (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PANICOCENE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

News media framing is a critical yet frequently under-estimated contributor to the social and cultural perception of climate change-induced migration (CCIM). The research project proposes to explore how US and Italian printed and online news media have represented CCIM over the past 20 years, which is identified as a crucial timeframe during which discourses and narratives on CCIM have significantly intensified and changed, and to understand if and how news media and activists rely on research in CCIM. It specifically delves into the nature and structures of such narratives, especially in terms of stereotyping. This project wants to move away from a conceptualisation of the relation between climate change and mobilities in exceptional terms that still is dominant in media, NGO advocacy and in some policy and academic circles. The overall goals of this project are firstly to identify and analyze the ways by which news media may lead to stereotyping CCIM, in the context of major environmental disasters and with reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, thus impacting perceptions of readerships, general audiences and ultimately policy-making, and secondly to investigate and, possibly foster through the creation of a Platform, a collaboration between activists, journalists, and academics in CCIM issues. Beliving the power of representation is central to a climate mobility regime and using ‘mobility justice’ as an analytical lens, PANICOCENE would like to move beyond alarming and uncertain narratives on CCIM, which might increase ‘uncertainty’ in public understanding of the issue, and to find new and alternative ways to frame it and to disseminate research outside the academia in media debates.

Mots clés : climate change, mobilities and migration, framing and narratives, media coverage

Participants :
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 308286.72 €
- Associazione carta di roma (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Durham (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Columbia (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet LIFE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LIFE examines if and how literary reading can be used to help raise awareness of disempowering manipulative influences exerted by one’s environment and the media and foster empowerment to mitigate their effects. It will develop a new cross-disciplinary tool to measure literature’s potential effects on manipulation perception and on the sense of empowerment. It will provide an ‘empowerment canon’ of expert-selected and empirically validated literary texts that can be particularly helpful in this task. The tool will draw from the disciplines of literary studies, psychology, sociology, and communication and will be empirically tested and validated in two diverse countries: Italy and the United States. The media and the environment can exert disempowering influences on one’s life. Indeed, the news, advertising, gaming and social media industries often propel insecurity, social division, consumerism and addictive behaviours, while one’s immediate environment may imbed limiting beliefs and conformism. While the empirical study of literature has been able to show some of literature’s prosocial effects, its potential impact on kindling the sense of empowerment is yet to be determined. LIFE tackles this challenge by researching how literature can help raise awareness of such disempowering manipulative influences and foster empowerment. LIFE will advance the emergent interdisciplinary research area of the empirical study of literature.

Mots clés : empirical study of literature, effects of reading, empowerment, manipulation, reading

Participants :
- Université de Vérone (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
- Université Columbia (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet POYESIS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Pogrom of Odessa was a turning point in Yiddish history, alimenting a complex emigration phenomenon marked by various, controversial phases. What has remained of that culture? How did it evolve and meld with New York culture and artistic milieu? Why was the contribution of Jewish artists and thinkers so important? How can we better understand this process, its paradigms and stages? This project addresses these problems by studying the work of artist Norman Raeben as a case study. Though many scholars highlighted the importance of his figure, especially for his influence on Stella Adler and Bob Dylan’s careers, his work, ideas, and legacy have yet to be studied. Such a bibliographic lack is directly related to the absence of editions of his writings and paintings, which are still in the hands of students and collectors, often risking damage. Thus, the project aims to: create the collection of Raeben’s materials and a digital archive of his papers and works; study his influence on first, second, and third-generation Jewish American artists, actors, and songwriters (focusing on Stella Adler, Bob Dylan, and Jacques Levy); open new perspectives on Eastern Yiddish culture and its rebirth and evolution in New York, addressing and questioning the problems of identity, assimilation, gender, and cultural and artistic paradigms till the present day. Due to my markedly multidisciplinary research experience, my profile is particularly suitable to carry out this project, which can allow me to increase my research expertise in a trans-disciplinary way. While learning how to realize digital archives and curate exhibitions can make me a more all-round academic, collaborating at Columbia University and Ca’ Foscari University with leading scholars in different fields – including Yiddish studies, theatre, music, visual arts, and digital humanities – will significantly improve my knowledge and increase my networks and chances to obtain other research positions and an ERC grant.

Mots clés : norman raeben, bob dylan, stella adler, contemporary american art contemporary american literature ut pictura poesis songwriting literature to music, yiddish culture and emigration memory project

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265099.2 €
- Université Columbia (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RESHAPE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Thermoelectric (TE) technology, which can convert thermal energy into electrical power, represents a crucial clean energy innovation. When integrated into the field of architecture, it holds the potential to transform buildings from passive energy consumers into active energy generators. Furthermore, it can serve as an effective strategy to mitigate the rising urban heat island effect and soaring summer temperatures, which are increasingly prevalent in the European Union (EU). In recent years, TE cement composites have garnered significant attention due to their robustness and cost-effectiveness compared to commercial TE modules. However, the thermoelectric performance of TE cement composites typically falls significantly below the requirements for practical applications. This project aims to lead the development of high-efficiency geopolymer TE modules for energy harvesting, thereby advancing the EU's progress towards achieving nearly zero-energy buildings. The proposed high-efficiency geopolymer TE module represents an innovative building material that can fulfill both structural (mechanical) and TE (energy harvesting) roles. The mechanical and thermoelectric properties of these geopolymer modules will be enhanced through the addition of various additives. Subsequently, the project will analyze the reversibility/cyclability aging and mechanical durability of geopolymer TE modules to further enhance their functionality and applicability. Additionally, a comprehensive thermo-electro-chemo numerical model will be employed and validated using data obtained from microstructural assessments of aging geopolymer TE modules.

Mots clés : geopolymer thermoelectricenergy harvesting resilience

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Darmstadt (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €