Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet QUANTHOGRAPHY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The extreme nonlinear upconversion process of high harmonic generation produces bright, fully coherent EUV and X-ray beams at 1-100 nm wavelengths. Numerous theoretical and experimental breakthroughs have led to exquisite attosecond control of various classical and quantum properties of the light - excelling what is possible for visible and infrared lasers. However, a full understanding of the limits of the quantum nonlinear interactions in high harmonic generation is still lacking. In academia and industry, tabletop EUV technology based on high harmonic generation is already addressing grand challenges in nanomaterials science and metrology. Specifically, EUV ptychography - a lensless imaging technique - has demonstrated high-fidelity phase characterization of the high harmonic light, as well as achieved near-diffraction-limited imaging of complex systems, reaching record near-wavelength 10-20 nm spatial resolution. However, ptychography’s scanning modality and use of long-wavelength EUV light limit the tabletop high-resolution real-time applications. In this project, we address fundamental physics questions and technological challenges by performing ptychography in novel quantum regimes of X-ray generation. First, ptychography can enable reconstruction of the quantum phase of harmonics which will allow to quantify strong correlations of electrons and attosecond dynamics in multiply-charged plasmas. Experimental access to the phase space paves a way to attosecond electron correlation spectroscopy and may result in brighter X-ray generation, possibly extending the emission into the multi-keV regime. Second, using state-of-the-art EUV – X-ray sources driven by UV lasers, we aim to overcome the 10 nm resolution barrier in 2D - 3D imaging and enhance the phase contrast using structured quantum light. Finally, non-scanning ptychography will be developed with drastic speed improvement for nanoimaging, biomedical microscopy, and advanced semiconductor metrology.

Mots clés : coherent diffractive imaging, high harmonic generation, ptychography, coherent extreme uv light, coherent xrays, attosecond dynamics, orbital angular momentum, ultrafast lasers, lensless imaging

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 432467.52 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RE-SHIFT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

RE-SHIFT focuses on preventing and treating common mental disorders in people living in low-resource settings. It aims at (a) dismantling psychosocial interventions delivered by non specialist providers into their components, (b) evaluating each component efficacy and redialing the most effective components into a novel task shifting psychosocial intervention, and (c) implementing findings through a worldwide coverage e-learning platform. RE-SHIFT will also develop a publicly available calculator to estimate the efficacy of each component based on individual participant characteristics. Starting from an analysis of individual participant data from all randomized controlled trials conducted in the field of global mental health available on the matter, RE-SHIFT will pioneer a sophisticated study design to unravel which components work best and for whom, identifying at the same time how participant, provider and delivery characteristics moderate the outcome and how beneficial effects of the psychosocial task shifting interventions are mediated. With this information it will be possible to tailor interventions according to the specific needs of diverse populations, allowing the "RE-SHIFTing" of available resources to the best of their use. A mainstay of RE-SHIFT is to activate ambitious implementation and dissemination measures to let a different range of stakeholders, lay people, organizations, general public, patient and family organization advocates to know about the project, its aims, deliverables, and potential impact of its findings on the society. Training activities will last for the entire duration of the project, and results will be presented in top-tier international conferences and submitted to high impact factor international peer-reviewed journals. RE-SHIFT is concrete and ambitious, its findings will be globally applicable and serve as a blueprint and impetus for other projects aiming at promoting mental health equity.

Mots clés : global mental health common mental disorders prevention treatment task shifting psychosocial interventions low resource settings

Participants :
- Université de Vérone (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 273943.2 €
- Université Harvard (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RESILFIRE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In response to the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires, RESILFIRE addresses the urgent need to enhance the resilience of interdependent power and communication infrastructures in wildfire-prone regions. With global warming projected to intensify, especially in areas like California and Mediterranean Europe, wildfire risks have escalated, causing significant socio-economic disruptions. This project aims to fill critical research gaps using a systemic approach to develop a Fire Sociotechnical Model that integrates P&C infrastructures with social inequalities, providing a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of wildfire on vulnerable communities. By combining wildfire spread models, real infrastructure data, and spatial analysis of social inequalities, the project will propose a new dynamic infrastructure design procedure. This aims at implementing interventions to improve robustness, redundancy, and flexibility of the networks to extend their functionality during heatwaves and wildfires emergencies. Ensuring continuity of service is crucial to reduce impact on mental and physical health and to timely mobilize evacuees. The project will validate these models and procedures simulating several wildfire scenarios on relevant case studies, fostering cross-regional applicability. RESILFIRE will deliver actionable outcomes, including a wildfire adaptive resilience assessment method that accounts for the variability of resources in the recovery phase. The results will be presented through user-friendly web tools documenting the case studies, and a virtual reality environment. By addressing the interactions between infrastructure performance and social inequality, RESILFIRE aims to set new benchmarks for wildfire risk mitigation and climate adaptation across vulnerable communities.

Mots clés : wildfire resilience socio economical diversity dynamic infrastructure design wildfire risk mitigation climate change adaptation wildfire adaptive resilience assessment

Participants :
- École polytechnique de Turin (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 396991.08 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RuMEA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

RuMEA aims to analyse Russia’s interventions in recent conflicts of the Middle East and Africa (MEA), exploring their interaction with local political contexts. Russia approaches these crises through a mix of hard power, coercive diplomacy, and economic activism, guided by the principle of non-interference with these regions’ authoritarian regressions. As such, it provides local leaders with a model of conflict management that differs radically from liberal-oriented approaches that dominated international customs in the post-Cold War era. But what explains local preferences for ‘the Russian model’? This project adopts a dual perspective to analyse (1) the Russian model’s distinctive features and (2) explain its appeal to countries on the ‘receiving end’ of Russia’s political intervention, advancing debates in Russian and Middle Eastern/African studies. It utilises a diverse set of methodologies to deepen specific aspects of Russia’s engagement in the MEA, including elite interviews (to assess local preferences), media content analysis (to understand public discourse), and archival investigation (to document Russia’s long-dated experiences of dealing with regional crises – Cold War and the 1990s – which may offer insights into contemporary practices). These are the gaps I intend to address with this research project, which lies at the intersection of Area Studies, International Relations (IR), and International History. RuMEA builds upon methodological skills I gained during my previous experiences as a historian working on Soviet-Arab relations while taking my research trajectory into new directions. The Fellowship will be based at Harvard University (Kennedy School, HKS) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (UNIVE), and includes secondments at the University of Oxford and Carnegie Beirut office.

Mots clés : russia, middle east, africa, russian interventions, conflict management, local perspectives, local leaderships, local elites, elite preferences

Participants :
- Université d'Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 384484.02 €
- Carnegie middle east center (Liban) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Harvard (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet INVISION (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Our brains are equipped with extraordinary degrees of structure, typically found in similar cortical locations and with similar topography across individuals, indicating a common architectural design of sensory information representation. Despite the striking similarity of this topographic organization across people, recent investigations have revealed compelling evidence of interindividual differences in the topography of early visual areas’ retinotopic maps as well as the size and spatial location of higher-order visual areas, challenging the notion of consistent mapping even at the earliest cortical processing stages. Revealing what factors determine interindividual differences in retinotopic maps and functionally selective clusters promises a pathway toward understanding why our visual system is organized the way it is. Through INVISION, I will determine the biological basis and experiential processes underlying interindividual variability in the functional organization of the human visual cortex and their functional significance for visual behavior. I will achieve these goals by expanding my skill set to cover varied magnetic resonance imaging modalities and behavioral data analyses under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hebart, a renowned researcher in vision sciences and particularly well-known for developing and utilizing large-scale functional datasets for understanding human visual perception, with additional support from Dr. Evgeniya Kirilina, with expertise in the analysis of diffusion-weighted imaging data. By expanding my theoretical knowledge in vision sciences through one-on-one training with Prof. Hebart, I aim to become an independent vision scientist with deep knowledge of human vision at the structural, functional, computational, and behavioral levels.

Mots clés : vision retinotopic mapping interindividual variability mri

Participants :
- Université Justus-Liebig de Gießen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet EDGE-SA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The primary aim of EDGE-SA is to investigate the potential suitability and applications of Systolic Arrays (SA) and Evolvable Hardware (EHW) as acceleration solutions for data processing challenges that demand extensive computation at the edge, especially crucial for resource-constrained devices. These technologies can serve as supporting mechanisms alongside existing technologies like Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Additionally, indoor tracking of assets is considered as a real-world application context to enhance and validate the research since, at present, there is no reliable commercial solution available in the market that can deliver high accuracy.

Mots clés : edge computing ai ml sa ehw ann microelectronics vlsi fpga indoor tracking

Participants :
- N-vision systems and technologies sl (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet NAMU (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Oceanians are descendants of two main migration waves: the early migration of modern humans out-of-Africa more than 50,000 years ago (ya), which ended in the Solomon Islands (Near Oceania); and the Austronesian expansion, that started around 5,000 ya in Taiwan and peopled the remaining unexplored territories of Oceania (Remote Oceania) up to Polynesia from 3,000 ya. Subsequent migrations within the region created a complex genetic landscape. Near Oceanian populations moved into Remote Oceania at least 2,500 ya. Afterwards, Polynesian-speaking groups expanded westward, outside the Polynesian triangle, to other Oceanian islands, giving rise to the so-called Polynesian Outlier communities. This complex population history created a highly differentiated sociocultural background among Oceanians, whose interactions remain poorly understood. We will leverage genetic data for 114 ancient individuals from the ancient Polynesian Outlier site of Namu, a burial in the Taumako island, occupied from the 13th to the 18th centuries AD, which represents, to our knowledge, the largest ancient DNA dataset ever studied from a single site. We will use cutting-edge paleogenomic methods to study: the settlement processes and the demographic history of Taumako, and the social organization and socioeconomic stratification of the Namu site, according to genetic ancestry, sex, kin relations and age. The ultimate objective is to understand the structure of Oceanian societies and its relation with their migratory history. To achieve the project’s goals, I will integrate in the Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics group at the University of Tübingen, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Cosimo Posth, who is a worldwide known expert in paleogenomics. This innovative and multidisciplinary project is a unique opportunity for me to learn the full range of paleogenomic techniques from a leading group in the field and to establish myself as an interdisciplinary leader in this expanding research area.

Mots clés : polynesia, oceania, pacific islands, population genetics, admixture, social structure, kinship, ancient dna, paleogenomics

Participants :
- Université Eberhard Karl de Tübingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet PredictiveBrainSpace (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The brain uses prior experiences to make a “best guess” of the noisy and ambiguous information in the world around us. These predictions are constantly updated as new sensory information becomes available, yet the computational resources of the brain are limited. What is a viable model for representing and updating predictions in the brain that is both computationally efficient and neurobiologically plausible? I hypothesise that the brain represents predictions by decomposing them into their constituting features and pre-activating those features considered instrumental in explaining the sensory input, thereby allowing to update only parts of the prediction without revising the whole prediction. The proposed project fuses concepts of multi-dimensional feature encoding, cortical processing hierarchies and activity-silent working memory to develop a computational model of prediction and error coding using artificial neural networks. The implications of this model will be empirically tested in human visual perception using functional magnetic resonance imaging with laminar precision. This project aims to gain a deeper understanding of the compositionality of predictions as a building block of fast and accurate perception and bears the potential to transform our understanding of the neural mechanisms giving rise to predictive processes. The project will be carried out at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in the lab of Floris de Lange, a leading expert in the field of predictive processing. As an MSCA postdoctoral fellow, I will conduct cutting-edge research at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, which will give me the opportunity to hone my methodological and management skills, as well as develop my own research program.

Mots clés : predictive processing, artificial neural networks, neural representational space, fmri

Participants :
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187624.32 €
Projet HEMIVAR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Many human-defining mental capacities recruit an extensive network of brain regions in both hemispheres, yet are dominantly controlled by one side. For example, language activates both halves of the brain, but language impairments are more severe, likely and longer-lasting when that function’s dominant hemisphere is damaged. In spite of being such an important feature of the human brain, hemisphere organization is commonly studied in a fragmented way. Theories about the benefits of hemisphere organization are incomplete, either focusing solely on the dominant side or non-dominant side. Another issue hindering progress on understanding hemisphere organization is that individual differences in hemisphere specialization are ignored, despite being massive. Combined, this led to opposing philosophies for promoting cognitive recovery after one-sided brain damage and one-size-fits-all therapies. HEMIVAR will help resolve these issues through an original integration of advanced neuroscience techniques (MRI and TMS) and sophisticated network-analysis frameworks, that will allow to study hemisphere organization in the intact and disrupted brain holistically. A major conceptual and methodological innovation is the attention to individual variability in hemisphere organization. My project will deliver a novel empirically-validated theory that jointly explains the biological roles of the dominant and non-dominant hemisphere (Objective 1) and will clarify how individual hemisphere dominance interacts with between-hemisphere connectivity (Objective 2). The project's results will constitute a significant advancement of our understanding of the human brain and will generate widely-applicable methodological recommendations for future studies. On top of that, they will serve as a stepping stone for clinical research on integrating hemisphere specialization into (patient-tailored) brain rehabilitation, in line with the EU research policy aim to promote personalized medicine.

Mots clés : hemisphere specialization, tms, fmri, corpus callosum, brain networks, functional connectivity

Participants :
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 189687.36 €
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CoMBo (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Interest in Virtual Humans is growing fast in public opinion and in several scientific and economic fields, from entertainment to medicine, from social sciences to ergonomics. The market of Virtual Avatars has a value estimated around USD 10 Billion and is expected to reach more than USD 520 Billion in 2030. To investigate, learn from, and represent fairly the wide variety of human experiences, tools to establish analogies or, namely, correspondence between them are required. Computer Vision and Graphics studied the problem intensely, but so far, no method has affirmed itself as a robust and flexible standard. This ambitious action aims to fill this gap, starting from three observations: 1) few methods rely on implicit representations, despite their flexibility and resilience; 2) especially, well-studied theoretical methods capable of strong regularizations have never been applied to these representations; 3) no method takes full advantage of large-scale datasets. This action will combine these aspects, following a roadmap with three major scientific objectives: a) Collecting dataset of 10 Million bodies with different properties, encoded as implicit representation, equipped with a ground-truth correspondence; b) Developing a novel data-driven framework based on Functional Maps theory for implicit representations; c) Deploying a large-scale neural network for 3D Human Correspondence beneficiary of the previous bullets, usable in real-world scenarios This MSCA will produce substantial scientific, economic, and social impacts in this strategic field thanks to the interdisciplinary union of mathematical tools for functional analysis, the latest advances in deep learning, and domain knowledge of human bodies. This action will carry an intense outreach to a broad audience, informing on bodies digitalization process and the importance of fair representation of the human experience in this fast-changing technology.

Mots clés : virtual humans, deep learning, shape matching, 3d shape analysis, functional maps

Participants :
- Université Eberhard Karl de Tübingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 86923.68 €