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

This project aims at the realization of an electrically driven nanosource of light with enhanced emission performance (efficiency, coherence, photon statistics) compared to the state of the art. Such a nanosource will consist of semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) accurately positioned inside the nanogap of an optical bowtie nanoantenna. New emerging plasmonic materials will be used to fabricate the nanoantenna, which allow higher compatibility with silicon-based technologies. The emission of light will be activated through the local, electrical excitation of the plasmonic modes of the nanoantenna by inelastic electron tunneling from the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Thus, an extensive optical and electro-optical characterization of the nanosource will be carried out, in order to understand and control all the elementary processes on which the performance of the device depends. In this way, we ambition to design a class of optical nanocomponents allowing for the integration of quantum dots with nanoelectronics. Our project will be realized thanks to the use of a clean room with state-of-the-art equipment and a dedicated STM coupled to an optical microscope. The project will be carried out mainly within the Institute of Molecular Sciences of Orsay, which has a world-renowned know-how in electrical excitation by STM tip. This project is also in line with the Marie Curie fellowship programs by allowing the training of a researcher in a rapidly growing field offering significant recruitment prospects. The scientific results will also be disseminated to various target audiences.

Mots clés : quantum dot, nano antenna, inelastic electron tunneling

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 184707.84 €
Projet PAINTING (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims at training a talented researcher, Dr Ruichi Wang by an interdisciplinary international research program which is focused on developing advanced power and information integration technologies (PAINT) for microgrids. PAINT is urgently demanded from industry and scientific research for the better use of green power. The Fellow will be trained on a series of theories and technical skills related to advanced power electronics, communication and microgrids control at the main host Loughborough University and a number of EU hosts including the University of Strathclyde, TU Delft and the University of Malaga. Capitalizing upon her original power and communication interdisciplinary background and expertise in integrated communication, the Fellow will make her a unique asset to the EU for developing novel PAINT for sustainable energy system. As demonstrated in her CV, Dr. Wang has proven track record in integrated communication with interdisciplinary background and her achievement has been outstanding though very young. The skills and technologies she will grasp during this Fellowship will allow her to diversify her capability significantly, including power electronics modelling, power/data integrated modulation/demodulation, distributed impedance analysis and microgrids control. Besides, the Fellowship will allow her to transfer the knowledge she gains through the research to the benefit of her hosts and regional industrial liaisons together with her existing knowledge on integrated communication. Starting from power electronics modelling with high frequency small signal injected through power conversion process, this project will develop a novel PAINT to achieve integrated communication at converter control layer and distributed power tracing for energy management in microgrids. Fostered by the Fellowship, a leading expert in power/information integration technologies is expected and will contribute greatly to EU industries and academic communities.

Mots clés : power electronics, integrated communication, power tracing, microgrids

Participants :
- Loughborough University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet URBANRAD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims at understanding the effects of radiative transfer on air pollution dispersion in urban areas at both the street scale and the neighbourhood scale. Numerical models will be developed, for that purpose, that will help design and manage our cities, buildings and traffic systems in order to produce sustainable, safer, healthier, and more comfortable urban environments. Radiation modelling will be coupled with 3D fluid dynamics, urban geometry, particle and pollutant transport, traffic and environmental conditions to produce the first model able to take into account radiation transport effects at both street and neighbourhood scales. Benchmark numerical simulations at the street scale will provide detailed information on radiative transfer effects subject to various environmental conditions: presence of clouds, humidity, turbulence level, etc. These results will help to derive simple physically relevant models for the simulations at the, much more computationally expensive, neighbourhood scale. The intensive use of fully adaptive methods for both radiation and fluid dynamics will also contribute to make feasible the simulations at this scale.

Mots clés : air pollution, radiative transfer, multi adaptive method, subgrid model

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet FertilityPolicies (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to analyse the development and nature of the fertility policy in Turkey in the last decade under the rule by the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi – Justice and Development Party). Some of the policy measures were first introduced as a part of legislative harmonization for the country’s EU accession process, while the decline in fertility rates has not been a pressing issue for Turkey as it is for EU countries. However, the policy programme, now famous with the slogan of “minimum three children,” was gradually developed by the AKP government against the background of its broader political agenda of cultural conservatism and economic liberalism. Accordingly, the fertility policy, the project claims, rests on two major goals: to counteract the changing position of women in society and to increase the country’s competitiveness as an emerging market economy. The project will examine the origins of the policy, the nature of policy measures and institutional change, and their gender implications. Drawing on the perspective of historical institutionalism, the project is designed as a qualitative case study, employing the methods of process tracing and comparative and interpretive analysis, and a variety of data collection strategies such as archival research, semi-structured interviews, and secondary sources. It will make significant contributions to the fields of comparative fertility policy studies, EU policy transfer, and historical institutionalism, with a unique case study of a context of late industrialization and political Islam. It will also contribute to public debates and women-friendly policy advocacy initiatives in Turkey.

Mots clés : fertility, public policy, political islam, emerging market economies, eu accession, turkey, women s movements

Participants :
- Koç University (Turquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 145845.6 €
Projet MEMS0P (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to design and fabricate a new fully passive microelectromechanical (MEM) wake-up receiver to be used in next-generation wireless sensing nodes. The metric for success will be to achieve the figures that are given by preliminary simulations (see later in the text). Specifically, this would be near-zero stand-by power (Psb<1 pW,DC) and ultra-low threshold power (Pth<-50 dBm,RF). Both of these values are orders of magnitude lower than what demonstrated through current state of the art WURs based on solid-state components.

Mots clés : wake up radios, micro electromechanical devices, mems, piezoelectric resonators, alscn, electrostatic resonators

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175419.6 €
Projet HybridFlex (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project aims to develop a sustainable, environmentally friendly, flexible, Hybrid Sodium Ion Capacitor to support the rapid development of flexible/wearable electronics and sodium ion energy storage technology. This will be achieved by integrating a flexible hard carbon battery-style anode (higher energy density) and a flexible porous carbon supercapacitor style cathode (higher power density), electrospun from renewable lignin, into one energy storage device. As a result, this device will deliver higher energy density than flexible supercapacitors, while maintaining high cyclability and power density.These electrodes will be produced under the guidence of Prof. Titirici, a world-renowned expert in sustainable carbon materials/energy storage. The choice of sodium in this project over lithium is for the following reasons: (i) Na is more abundant and more evenly globally distributed on land (salt, sodium carbonate, and sodium hydroxide) and in salt water, (ii) Al current collectors can be used, instead of Cu in Li, representing a considerable cost saving, and (iii) metal plating of the carbon electrodes occurs less in Na, suggesting that cyclability will be greater with Na than Li. Finally, the fundamentals (solid interface layer, cathodic interlayer) in using Na ions for hybrid capacitors will be examined extensively using laboratory based techniques (XPS and SEM) and synchrotron methods (NEXAFS/XANES). Understanding the formation of this layer is vital to producing flexible hybrid ion capacitors, as it's formation is one of the leading causes of reduced Coulombic efficiency in batteries resulting in premature failure and poor capacity retention.

Mots clés : hybrid ion capacitors, solid electrolyte interface, nexafs

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224933.76 €
Projet SPEctRUM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to develop innovative techniques integrating advanced materials for the simultaneous seismic and energy retrofitting of the European masonry building stock. Upgrading the existing masonry EU buildings is becoming progressively more important due to: (1) their poor seismic performance during recent earthquakes (i.e. Italy, Greece) that have resulted in significant economic losses, severe injuries and loss of human lives; and (2) their low energy performance which increases significantly their energy consumption (buildings are responsible for 40% of EU energy consumption). Since replacing the existing buildings with new is prohibitively expensive and has also huge environmental and social impact, their lifetime extension requires considering both seismic and energy retrofitting. It is noted that the annual cost of repair and maintenance of existing European building stock is estimated to be about 50% of the total construction budget, currently standing at more than €300 billion. To achieve cost effectiveness, SPEctRUM explores a novel approach, proposing for the first time a hybrid structural-plus-energy retrofitting solution which combines inorganic textile-based composites with thermal insulation systems for masonry building envelopes. The effectiveness of the proposed retrofitting system will be validated experimentally and analytically. Moreover, a common approach for the buildings performance classification will be proposed, allowing to assess whether energy efficiency and disaster-resilient practices should be integrated. Eventually, draft guidelines and recommendations for determining future research design on concurrent seismic and energy retrofitting of EU masonry buildings envelopes will be proposed.

Mots clés : seismic retrofitting, energy retrofitting, composite textiles, masonry buildings, advanced materials, construction

Participants :
- European Union (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 168277.2 €
Projet RES.CO.PART (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to devise and implement a new tool for the sustainable management of cultural heritage. The RES.CO.PART tool will promote the efficient involvement of communities as stakeholders in decision-making processes for the management of cultural heritage in landscape. It will combine interdisciplinary methods of spatial analysis (especially Geographic Information System (GIS) based Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC)) in a new way with research practices from cultural anthropology. The tool will help bridge the gap between theoretical appreciations of cultural heritage and the management practices that are actually applied on site. The tool will be developed through practical case-studies in two contrasting communities, Naxos in the Aegean Sea (Greece) and part of the East Devon ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (AONB) (UK). To implement this project, Dr Stelios Lekakis will move from Greece to Newcastle University in the UK, undertaking systematic training in GIS-related methodologies and especially the HLC tool, along with related skills in the visualisation of results for the public. The project results will be disseminated through a specifically designed open platform. To create this, he will also be trained in the process of building a digital, open-access tool for the collection and communication of relevant data by interested stakeholders.

Mots clés : cultural heritage, landscape, participation, historic landscape characterisation

Participants :
- Newcastle University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet TheDarkNeutrino (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to discover a new particle, the dark neutrino, in K+ decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN. This scientific breakthrough would be a major leap in our understanding of particle physics, answering several profound questions related to neutrino oscillations, the generation of neutrino masses, and the neutrino mass scale. The dark neutrino is predicted in so-called ‘dark sector’ models with neutrino and vector portals to the Standard Model. The NA62 experiment studies the decays of 75 GeV/c kaons using a decay-in-flight technique, and has unique sensitivity to the dark neutrino despite its feeble couplings to the Standard Model. There could be as many as 20000 dark neutrino events in the NA62 2017/18 dataset, which is ~20 times larger than those collected by previous kaon experiments, that have evaded detection due to ineffective searches. We propose a novel and innovative search to bridge this research gap, which can only be achieved using the powerful NA62 detector. Furthermore, the NA62 experiment expects to collect data for several years, with the new data-taking period to begin in Summer 2021. The experiment will take data at 50% higher rate, motivating improvements to the trigger system. We propose to develop new software trigger algorithms to be deployed on the NA62 experiments High Performance Computing resources, utilising data from two new detector systems that will be added to the experiment before 2021. This will be the final NA62 data taking period, but dark neutrino models have a rich structure that motivates additional searches. We propose to work with theorists at CP3 (the host institute) to explore and benchmark different varieties of dark neutrino models, with the aim to motivate more novel searches at NA62 and beyond. Two workshops will be arranged to bring together the experimental and theoretical communities that study the dark sector, to stimulate discussion and forge new collaboration.

Mots clés : new physics, dark sector, neutrinos, kaon decays, kaon experiment, na62, software triggers

Participants :
- Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166320.0 €
Projet GRETA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to empower the researcher to develop novel knowledge and research skills to deconstruct the trade-off between labour and environmental sustainability, by analysing the implications of labour law with a critical societal problem: the global environmental crisis. This fellowship will develop a systemic and integrated approach to the legal analysis of forefront drivers of change in society, i.e. climate change and the need to promote a Just Transition to a low-carbon economy. By combining a variety of legal approaches and methods, it will contribute to advance and integrate the existing frontier research on labour and environmental sustainability, as well as to breach silos approaches to sustainable development and the correlated transitionary policies and legislations. This project will be implemented with a mix of traditional and innovative training activities (mostly training-through-research) based on individual and cooperative learning between the researcher and the supervisor. Paolo Tomassetti (the researcher) will carry out his fellowship at the Centre de droit social of Aix-Marseille University (the host institution), under the supervision of professor Alexis Bugada (the supervisor), for sixteen months. To ensure the overall quality of the project, in addition to three scientific publications, international conferences and a MOOC summer school, an Advisory Board will be established as a privileged audience of the project results and a multiplier of its dissemination through the scientific community.

Mots clés : labour, jobs, environment, just transition, sustainable development, industrial relations, unions, collective bargaining, green economy

Participants :
- Aix-Marseille Université (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 131138.56 €
Projet uImaging (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to establish a neuroimaging framework which informs about microscopic brain composition and apply it to study neurodegeneration in a genetic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is the most common cause of dementia, characterized by progressive neurodegenerative changes leading to a gradual cognitive loss and memory impairment. Pathological changes in AD are characterized by the accumulation of proteins to form amyloid plaques and tau-tangles as well as by variations in microscopic brain composition such as cell body density, neurite density, axon and myelin morphology, which can precede macroscopic brain atrophy and clinical symptoms even by decades. Thus, developing imaging biomarkers which can inform about these changes throughout the brain is a crucial step for early diagnosis and a better understanding of the disease. To achieve this goal, this proposal takes an interdisciplinary approach combining state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities and novel computational methods, and has the following objectives: 1. Develop and validate a neuroimaging framework which encompasses advanced diffusion MRI and multi-exponential T2 MRI to map microscopic brain composition (markers of soma size and density, neurite density, axon diameter and myelin fraction). Pre-clinical imaging will be performed both in-vivo and ex-vivo in wild type mice and compared with histological staining 2. Apply this methodology to investigate the changes in microscopic brain composition with the progression of AD in the APP/PS1 transgenic mouse model which develops Aβ-plaques, mimicking the early disease stages. 3. Study the association between neurodegeneration and the development of Aβ-plaques, that will be quantified based on both MR micro-imaging with ultra-high resolution and histological staining. Accomplishing these objectives will be a stepping stone for Neuroimaging of degenerative disorders, especially AD.

Mots clés : magnetic resonance imaging, tissue microstructure, machine learning, alzheimer s disease

Participants :
- Champalimaud Foundation (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 159815.04 €
Projet FacesRevealed (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project aims to examine Egyptian yellow coffins' lids through a new methodological approach based on the analysis of facial features and other elements on the lid. In order to tackle this issue, the researcher will examine these objects by means of photogrammetry - a low cost, fast, transportable and non-invasive solution - that can reveal fine surface details, which are barely discernible in visible light, because they are mostly covered by the painted layer. The new methodology used in this project, in conjunction with more traditional approaches will allow a more holistic study of these coffins, thus providing more information regarding their manufacture and ancient reuse. Analyses made on a small group of artefacts, and the comparison between the 3Dmodel with digital twins and Computer Tomography show us that in most cases the faces were painted without following the carved outline of the faces below. This evidence has never been taken into consideration before and therefore poses a number of interesting questions. The coffins that will be considered in this project are yellow coffins from the 19th to 22nd dynasty that are stored in various museums around the world. The main focus of the researcher will be to understand whether the different physiognomical traits can be linked to different workshops and if so whether they then reflect the stylistic features of a certain age group. Alongside the focus on workshops, the painted masks will be compared with the carved masks, to see how faithfully the underlying features reproduce the carved ones and whether the different features and proportions can indicate any possible reuse of these coffin masks. This new approach makes the project particularly suitable for a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary study in which new technologies will go hand in hand with traditional analytical methods and where the combination of different skills will finally allow a full and in-depth analysis of the coffins.

Mots clés : photogrammetry, 3d model, database

Participants :
- Fondazione museo delle antichita egizie di torino (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 251002.56 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €