Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SATBIM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With increasing urbanization and mobility, the need for underground facilities and consequently efficient and safe design and construction techniques grows. The goal of the SATBIM project is to develop a multi-level simulation model for tunnel-structure interaction integrated in the framework of Building Information Modelling to support engineering decisions during the project life cycle and to allow for the evaluation and minimization of risks on the existing infrastructure. SATBIM is an integrated platform for structural analysis, visualisation and optimization of the mechanized tunnelling process from early stages of the design over to the construction and the operation phase. The complete concept will be validated using industrial data with reference to the Rastatter tunnel project in Germany. The output will have wide implication on technology with expected high academic and industrial impact.

Mots clés : mechanised tunnelling, building information modelling, numerical analysis, metamodelling, visualisation

Participants :
- University of Nottingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet Epithets (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

With my research project I intend to close a long-standing research gap on heroic and divine epithets in Old Germanic (OGmc.) poetic texts. Due to its interdisciplinary orientation, the project aims at a better integration of Germanic (Gmc.) studies, Indo-European (IE) comparative poetics, classical philology and comparative literature. The project combines two fields of research: a) the comparative study of epithets in OGmc. poetic literature and b) the investigation of the semantics and functions of epithets in a cross-lingual and cross-cultural perspective. It comprises four research objectives: 1) Through the systematic collection of heroic and divine epithets in OGmc. poetic texts and 2) through the creation of a typology of epithets valid for the ancient Gmc. culture, I hope to gain new insights into the naming and epithetization practices and into the metonymical use of epithets. In a further step 3), the comparison of the Gmc. data with the well-studied Vedic, Greek, and Latin epic texts and their epithets will pave the way for the overall aim of the project, which is 4) to determine whether the epithets in the Gmc. heroic poetry continue traits inherited from the Proto-IE age or even reveal more universal naming conventions. My project will take into account historical gender, culture and religion-specific observations and address research questions such as: What are the socio-pragmatic factors and cognitive foundations in the conceptualization, memorization and transmission of heroes and gods through their epithets? Are gods and heroes addressed similarly or rather differently in their epithets? How are their crucial characteristics and background stories conveyed by epithets and how do these relate to the cultural collective memory? I expect this study to provide us with an insight into the nature and characteristics of the heroic or divine figures of OGmc. literature and to give us an idea of the worldview, beliefs and cultural concepts of that era.

Mots clés : heroic poetry, epithets, kennings, ornamental figures, metonymy, cross cultural, epic songs, literature

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 328968.0 €
Projet InMIND (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

With population ageing and the lack of effective treatments, neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are expected to pose an increasingly severe challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. A hallmark of NDs is the presence of insoluble aggregates of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and proteins with disordered regions in neuronal cells. Growing evidence suggests that these disease-associated proteins condense into liquid-like droplets through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). Dysregulation of this process results in the maturation of the liquid-like droplet into a dynamically arrested state, promoting the formation of putatively neurotoxic oligomers and amyloid fibrils. In this project, I will first develop a molecular model that accurately predicts LLPS of IDPs from amino acid sequence and solution conditions. Second, through large-scale simulations of IDPs, I will elucidate the influence of mutations and post-translational modifications on the material properties of protein condensates. Third, I will employ the model to identify small molecules that preferentially partition into the protein-dense phase and enhance the dynamics of the protein network of the condensate. My findings will shed light on the molecular determinants of LLPS and contribute to explore an innovative therapeutic strategy for NDs, wherein small-molecule compounds prevent aberrant liquid-to-hydrogel-like transitions of biomolecular condensates. The project will enable me to apply my expertise in physical chemistry to therapeutically-relevant biological systems, acquire new competencies in chemoinformatics and project management, and establish myself as a high-quality researcher in the field of biomolecular condensates. The group of Prof. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen in the SBiN-Lab section at the University of Copenhagen will provide an excellent environment with world-leading experts in integrative structural biology and biophysics.

Mots clés : liquid liquid phase separation, intrinsically disordered proteins, biomolecular condensates

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 219312.0 €
Projet 3DRM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the advent of advanced manufacturing technology and the advent of intelligent manufacturing, it is becoming more and more important to fast and accurately measure 3D shape of components surface, especially specular objects, in the process of intelligent manufacturing, which is a guarantee to improve the product quality. This project will solve the challenging problems in deflectometry. If successful the project will open the door to a host of new instrumentation devices. The project will address the fundamental problems how to avoid the integration procedure in deflectometry - a problem that has seriously obstructed the development of measuring the complicated specular surfaces. I propose a novel direct phase-to-depth deflectometry for accurately measuring full-field 3D shape of specular objects with isolated and/or discontinuous surfaces. In addition, I will develop a new instrumentation system using the phase-to-depth deflectometry technique. Two new techniques and research methods will be studied to realize phase-to-depth deflectometry: 1) display the same fringe patterns on two screens, 2) display two set of fringe patterns on one screen. A novel 3D calibration method will be developed to determine the relationship between phase map and 3D shape data by using a white plate and a plane mirror, both having ring marks on the surface. Such application will greatly promote 3D measurement technologies and should lead to significant economic and societal benefits to Europe. Through this Fellowship, I will gain new knowledge and training about advanced optical metrology to keep the international standing as a leading researcher. Therefore, this Fellowship has not only important practical application value in quality assurance of products in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, but important theoretical significance for research and developments in optical metrology.

Mots clés : deflectometry, 3d shape measurement, complex specular surfaces, 3d calibration

Participants :
- University of Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet TransMed (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the creation of the first colonies by Greek and Phoenician cities a complex process of two-ways acculturation-imitation-syncretisation started that would eventually lead to the development of a Mediterranean ‘koiné’ with common cultural traits and contacts. Although this process has previously been studied from a material perspective (e.g. architecture, urbanism, ceramics), it also involved important cultural-determined landscape modifications. When groups move they carry with them their plants, animals and perceptions. Colonists transformed the environments in which they settled adapting them to their particular economic and production needs but also to their own concepts of landscape and the interaction with local communities. Transported landscapes emerged from all these linkages and evolved as an expression of trans-Mediterranean cultural cross-fertilisation. They form the basis of many Mediterranean landscapes and their morphology has influenced agricultural production, land ownership, settlement and population distribution until today. TransMed will further the analysis of transported colonial landscapes as means for the understanding of trans-Mediterranean cultural links and landscape evolution. To do so it will combine multi-disciplinary approaches, which include drone-aided survey, multi-temporal satellite remote sensing, GIS, archaeomorphology and multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental analyses, to investigate the landscape impact of Greek Ionian colonies, a coherent cultural group which includes some of the largest and most successful metropoleis. Two case-studies will serve to test these mew methods and extract general insights: the colonies of Emporion (Catalonia, Spain) and Abdera (Thrace, Greece). They were both founded by the Ionian metropoleis of Phocaea, Clazomenae and Teos. Data from the Ionian area will provide a complementary view of landscape evolution in the metropolitan landscape where these colonial groups originated.

Mots clés : greek colonisation, landscape archaeology, transported landscapes, classical archaeology, survey, remote sensing, palaeoenvironment

Participants :
- Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 241398.72 €
Projet EngPTC2 (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the development of physics and new technologies, it has proposed some new challenges for the traditional 4K pulse tube cryocooler (PTC). The next generation 4K PTC with smaller size, lower power consumption, higher efficiency and lower temperature is anticipated. This project aims to develop a new type 2K PTC with 3He-4He mixtures as working fluid. This work will not only explore its internal new cooling mechanism, but also break up the limit temperature of Stirling type PTC, which would extend the application areas for the next generation PTC, especially for the areas of space exploration and quantum computing. The proposed new type PTC will use the unique properties of 3He–4He mixtures to improve its performance. To implement this project, it need first to clarify the underlying working mechanism of mixture gas in PTC, which will provide theoretical foundations for designing this kind of PTC. And then to develop experimental system to valid theoretical model and explore its limit temperature. Specifically, the Fellow will (a) develop a full temperature range thermal-properties database of 3He-4He mixtures, to be used to CFD simulation; (b) develop a theoretical and simulation model to clarify the mechanism of cooling effect in this PTC; (c) experimental verification the numerical results and optimization of its performance. The new results of this project will help us to shape the emerging research area of next generation PTC. The Fellow is currently at forefront of international advances in 4K PTC. With support from the hosting institutions LNE/Cnam, a timely award of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship will provide the applicant the necessary resources and access to expertise to make rapid progress in this emerging research area and become an independent researcher, ready to compete globally.

Mots clés : pulse tube cryocooler, mixtures fluid, low temperature, cfd simulation, thermal compressor

Participants :
- Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 196707.84 €
Projet PRINTOUT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the extensive range of document generation devices nowadays, the establishment of computational techniques to find manipulation, detect illegal copies and link documents to their source are useful because (i) finding manipulation can help to detect fake news and manipulated documents; (ii) exposing illegal copies can avoid frauds and copyright violation; and (iii) indicating the owner of an illegal document can provide strong arguments to the prosecution of a suspect. Different machine learning techniques have been proposed in the scientific literature to act in these problems, but many of them are limited as: (i) there is a lack of methodology, which may require different experts to solve different problems; (ii) the limited range of known elements being considered for multi-class classification problems such as source attribution, which do not consider unknown classes in a real-world testing; and (iii) they don’t consider adversarial attacks from an experienced forger. In this research project, we propose to address these problems on two fronts: resilient characterization and classification. In the characterization front, we intend to use multi-analysis approaches. Proposed by the candidate in his Ph.D. research, it is a methodology to fuse/ensemble machine learning approaches by considering several investigative scenarios, creating robust classifiers that minimize the risk of attacks. Additionally, we aim at proposing the use of open-set classifiers, which are trained to avoid misclassification of classes not included in the classifier training. We envision solutions to several printed document forensics applications with this setup: source attribution, forgery of documents and illegal copies detection. All the approaches we aim at creating in this project will be done in partnership with a document authentication company, which will provide real-world datasets and new applications.

Mots clés : digital image forensics, 2d barcodes, anti counterfeiting, adversarial machine learning

Participants :
- University of Siena (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183473.28 €
Projet IFR-CNS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the increased demand for portable and clean energy, supercapacitors are emerging energy storage devices that have attracted intense attention by virtue of its high power density, short charging time and outstanding cycle stability. However, their widespread use is restricted by low energy storage density and relatively high effective series resistance. For the purpose of achieving high-performance supercapacitors, it is extremely imperative to design novel electrode materials with rational structure and composition for meeting the requirements of ideal electrodes. Currently although great progress has been achieved for carbon-based supercapacitors, which are still limited by complicated or environmentally-unfriendly synthesis procedure, unsatisfied structure and low energy density, it is still remaining a grand challenge to prepare heteroatoms-doped three-dimensional (3D) carbon network as supercapacitive electrodes with superior electrochemistry performances via a low-cost, easily scalable and eco-friendly methods. To achieve this goal, inspired by the features of intumescent flame retardants (IFRs), including rich in heteroatoms (N, P), thermos-crosslinking, tailored composition and easy carbonization to form porous char, a self-assembling and self-activation strategy is proposed to produce N/P Dual-doped 3D Carbon Network by nano-CaCO3 template-assistant carbonization of IFRs. In this project, by taking the advantages of IFRs, further combining the characters of nano-CaCO3, as hard template to construct 3D framework, also as activating agent for creating pores, the prepared 3D carbon will be expected as a promising electrode materials for supercapacitors. The project is in line with the current European research trends and societal needs, and will bring great academic value and economic benefits. In addition, the researcher and the host organization will benefit from the two-way transfer of knowledge, and open up extensive international collaborations.

Mots clés : flame retardant, carbon materials, template method, supercapacitor

Participants :
- West Pomeranian University of Technology (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 68812.8 €
Projet RNASTIP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

With the increasing world population, reduced farmland and demand for heightened global food security, comes the need for new sustainable, effective and environmentally friendly agricultural solutions. The extensive use of toxic agrochemicals has been rendered obsolete, whereas the employment of transgenic plants and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has raised considerable public and scientific concerns. The current proposal aims to develop GMO-free tools to modify and protect crops based solely on RNA sprays. The candidate has recently developed a simple, cheap and efficient method for RNA delivery into plant cells by high pressure spraying. Using this method, we now aim to develop RNA sprays to selectively downregulate (RNA interference, RNAi) and upregulate (RNA activation, RNAa) genes involved in crop protection and improvement. In the current proposal, we will focus on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), one of the most important dicot vegetable crops worldwide. On the one hand, through RNAi sprays, we will aim to combat some of tomato's most important and diverse pests by inactivating crucial for their development genes. On the other hand, through RNAa sprays, we will try to activate selected tomato genes by decoying and sequestering their micro RNA (miRNA) regulators. Methods for optimizing the stability of sprayed RNAs into plant cells for field condition applications by conjugating them to carrier compounds will be tested. The multidisciplinary nature of the project is strong, involving a combination of molecular biology, microbiology, plant biology, virology, mycology, entomology and biochemistry. This proposal includes the transfer of knowledge to the host institute and the training of the candidate. Expected results will point towards a new direction of GMO-free plant breeding tools, in line with the EU strategy for sustainable agriculture.

Mots clés : rnai, sirnas, mirnas, dsrnas, target mimicry, tomato, pstvd, phytophthora infestans, tuta absoluta, sorghum halepense, spraying

Participants :
- University of Thessaly (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 164653.2 €
Projet SEEDS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

With the rapid development of future connected vehicles, Cyber Security has been gaining increasing importance to the connected systems that are fundamental to our society, health and welfare. It will be given priority to the upcoming areas, including autonomous systems and cyber-physical systems, etc. The SEEDS project sets an ambitious research agenda to fully exploit the potentials of V2X communications, data caching and blockchain services for revolutionizing the security and privacy of vehicular networks. Particularly the overall aim of SEEDS is to accelerate the transfer and deployment of research knowledge between European countries and third-country (TC) partners in order to realize a cross-layer design of reliable and robust security for V2X networks, and meet the challenging security requirements, that is confidentiality, integrity, privacy-preserving, trust and scalability. The technical approach is seeking is two-fold. One is to pursue a new design of spectrum efficient and decentralized approaches to address security challenges in physical layer communications and upper layer content disseminations by fully exploring the practical and theoretical analysis, dynamic nature of channels/traffic patterns and self-learning techniques, which provides the theoretic aspect of the project. Then, the second step is from the practical aspect, where the proposed security methods and their performance will be validated using large scale simulations and testbed provided by the TC partners. The proposed vehicular mechanisms are expected to facilitate an increasing number of vehicular applications with flexible availability, high confidentiality and robust integrity.

Mots clés : vehicular communications and networks, cyber security, data centric networks, blockchain

Participants :
- Nanyang Technological University (Singapour) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Sussex (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 147200.0 €
- University of Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 96600.0 €
- Fciencias.id - associacao para a investigacao e desenvolvimento de ciencias (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 96600.0 €
- Beihang University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Tsinghua University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €