Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet HYDROGAS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The ultimate goal of this 15 months Fellowship, entitled “Catalytic Reforming of Glycerol to Hydrogen and Biopropane in Hydrothermal Media” (HYDROGAS) is to train a talented researcher through a research project focused on the development of novel process to make viable the use of the glycerol co-product derived during the use of vegetable oils for the production of liquid hydrocarbon biofuels.. This innovative HYDROGAS project aims to investigate for the first time the potential of a novel two-stage catalytic process to produce hydrogen and biopropane from catalytic reforming of glycerol in hydrothermal media. The two-stage approach would enable deriving all the hydrogen requirements for the HEFA by using glycerol as a hydrogen-source. This can contribute to a positive process economics for the HEFA bio-jet fuel production. The transfer of knowledge between the researcher, the host, the supervisor, the students and international research groups will be very important for the dissemination of the learning through training, publications in journals of high impact factor, development of patent and participation in international conferences. The Fellow will receive access to an innovative project experience at the host: Sustainable Chemicals Laboratory in the European Bioenergy Research Institute, Aston University, UK (Dr. Jude Onwudili), and at academic secondment partner: University of Zaragoza, Spain (Prof Lucia Garcia). HYDROGAS aims to investigate the development of a new methodology to produce biopropane for a large-scale deployment in substitution for petroleum-based LPG that can contribute to lowering carbon emissions. In addition, the thermodynamic study to consolidate the catalytic reforming from crude glycerol will be a positive challenge for this team to work together and evaluate the expected results. The HYDROGAS will permeate the whole fellowship and will be a valuable and challenging mixture of scientific research and training for the Fellow.

Mots clés : renewable energy, biopropane, hydrogen, catalytic hydrothermal reforming, glycerol

Participants :
- Aston University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 133083.6 €
Projet GRANDPA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The ultimate goal of this Fellowship is to understand the long time behaviour of plasmas governed by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system (RVM). The main difficulty is the hyperbolic nature of Maxwell's equations (the electromagnetic fields propagate at the speed of light): particles that travel close to the speed of light nearly interact with their own fields. It is not currently known whether particles can be accelerated to such speeds, and, if so, whether this necessarily leads to development of singularities. This is a major open problem. My expertise in the analysis of hyperbolic equations and in microlocal analysis, complemented by my host's expertise in kinetic theory will put us in a unique position to make progress on this problem. As an integral part of this Fellowship I will train in kinetic theory, and my host and I will share our mutual networks in Europe and around the world to help us study this major open problem. To this end, I have identified several workpackages with intermediate objectives to facilitate the progression: WP1: TOY MODEL. First I will analyse a toy model of RVM that preserves the hyperbolic nature, yet is simpler to handle. WP2: THE LINEARISED SYSTEM. I will then analyse the linearised RVM system using novel tools from microlocal analysis. WP3: PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES. Returning to the RVM system, I will use the previous results, together with further hyperbolic techniques (such as Strichartz estimates) to improve existing a priori estimates for particle trajectories. I also have robust career development and public outreach agendas, to complement the scientific aspects of this proposal. Combined, all these elements will establish me as a prominent research leader upon my return to the Beijing Institute of Technology, with extensive links throughout Europe.

Mots clés : kinetic theory, microlocal analysis, vlasov maxwell

Participants :
- Cardiff University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet INNOVATION (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The ultimate goal of this Fellowship, entitled “Multi-wavelength regeneration technologies for advanced modulation optical signals” (INNOVATION) is to train a talented researcher through a research project focused on the development of all-optical regeneration subsystems handling multi-wavelength and advanced modulation signal waveforms in a single device. Focusing on the hardcore issue of multi-wavelength regeneration “how to reduce nonlinear crosstalk for spectrally efficient advanced modulation signals”, the Fellow proposes pioneering concepts including novel nonlinear devices (nonlinear multi-core fibres and phase-sensitive parametric oscillator units), new crosstalk suppression methods (spatial-division-multiplexing and bidirectional oscillation methods). The resulting regeneration subsystems will dramatically reduce cost and power consumption by combining the nonlinear processing with high-speed multiplexing. Finally, the system testing will demonstrate a multi-wavelength (>8 channels), multi-phase-shift-keying (MPSK) signal regeneration in a commercial network, which offers a high-capacity and green technology alternative to core switching nodes. The INNOVATION outputs will significantly increase the competitiveness of European communications industry in broadband technologies. The Fellow – Dr. Feng Wen – will be trained in the fast-growing field of all-optical signal processing, receiving unique training experiences at the host: Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (Prof. Sergei K. Turitsyn), and industrial partners: Xtera Communications (Dr. Stuart Barnes), France Telecom (Dr. Erwan Pincemin) and OFS (Dr. Lars Grüner-Nielsen). The Fellow will gain a multidisciplinary skillset in telecommunications, as well as fibre-optic and other industrial fields. This project assembles excellent European and Chinese researchers to build a long-term network to enhance EU scientific excellence in optical fibre communication.

Mots clés : nonlinear optics, all optical signal regeneration, nonlinear crosstalk suppression, nonlinear multi core fiber, phase sensitive parametric oscillator

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

The ultimate goal of this project is to demonstrate that the enhanced electronic correlations in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) lead to different expressions of magnetism in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. Beyond the prototypical case of a 2D magnet vanadium diselenide, many different TMDs materials, in their 2D limit, have the potential to host magnetic order, which often will coexist with other collective electronic states such as superconductivity. Here, the starting hypothesis stems from strong electron-electron interaction that are intrinsically present in TMD materials and further, in two dimensions, reduced screening results in markedly enhanced electron–electron interactions which usually favor the emergence of magnetic order. This project will focus on select TMD materials of particular interest for different reasons, such as magnetism in coexistence with superconductivity, emergence of a half-metal state, and magnetism generated by atomic vacancies. By using ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, this project will offer significant insights in the field of 2D magnetism by investigating the emergence of magnetic order in these strongly correlated TMD materials and its interplay with other electronic phases.

Mots clés : magnetism, scanning tunneling microscopy, transition metal dichalcogenides, devices, molecular beam epitaxy, 2d materials

Participants :
- Donostia International Physics Center (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 160932.48 €
Projet SuperCoop (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The understanding of optimal conditions giving rise to high temperature superconductivity is still a crucial challenge of condensed matter theory and the last obstacle for an effective design and exploitation of superconductors. In particular, the relationship between electronic correlations and superconductivity is still a puzzle: naively expected to always be “foes”, they appear more as “friends” in high temperature superconductors, where superconductivity usually emerges either from a doped Mott insulator or from an incoherent metal characterized by strong electronic correlations. In the last decade, the appearance of iron-based superconductors triggered the development of new ideas and theoretical tools, which allow us today to originally approach and solve the puzzle of the relationship between electronic correlations and high temperature superconductivity. SuperCoop introduces and develops a scenario in which the key ingredient for superconductivity comes from a novel cooperative interplay between electronic correlations and magnetic interactions. Within SuperCoop we will develop efficient methods to describe the incoherent metallic phase of iron-based materials from which superconductivity emerges and to analyze the role of correlations effects on the pairing mediated by magnetic degrees of freedom. We will address questions that are at the forefront of the unconventional superconductivity field, including why the critical temperature of the chalcogenide systems are the highest among the iron-based materials. SuperCoop will provide the ER with the opportunity to access world-class research institutes in US and EU to follow the training program needed for the development of the project. SuperCoop will enhance the ER scientific network and strengthen the leadership skills necessary to actively promote future collaborations between the host institutions and to establish a successful career in EU as a leader in the field.

Mots clés : high temperature superconductors, iron based superconductors, modeling of superconductivity, quasiparticle, spin fluctuations, multiorbital systems, hund s metal, mott physics

Participants :
- State University System of Florida (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209686.08 €
Projet Ex Anatolia lux (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The understanding of the linguistic origins of Europe begins with Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed language from which all Indo-European (IE) languages descend, including modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi, and are spoken by more than half of the world’s population. In particular, a proper understanding of Proto-Indo-European begins with the extinct Anatolian languages, e.g. Hittite and Lycian, known from ancient clay tablets and inscriptions and spoken in the Asian part of Turkey and part of northern Syria during 16th-2nd century BCE. The Anatolian branch plays a key role since it was the first to split off from the IE language family and has several specific features, which are not shared by other IE languages. As the first of its kind, this project will shed light on the position and development of Anatolian in relation to the rest of the IE family by a systematic study of Anatolian word formation and vocabulary. The results will integrate a ‘free access database' established 2013 by the Research Centre ‘Roots of Europe’ (RoE), which will also be a new useful research instrument for other disciplines as philology, epigraphy and archaeology in a perspective of interdisciplinary collaboration and mutual benefit. The Roots of Europe, headed by my supervisor Prof. B. A. Rasmussen (Olsen) and based at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics of the UCPH, is the most appropriate institution for this project: the scientific expertise and interdisciplinary profile of the research team in the topics involved in the research, including a specific project of the IE homeland, the training and the knowledge transfer will be the winning combination not only for the achievements of the goals set up for my project, but also to make my profile as an independent researcher more competitive.

Mots clés : indo european, semantics, word formation, anatolian, europe, turkey, historical comparative linguistics, suffix, lexicon, phraseology, epigraphy, archaeology, bronze age, iron age, multidisciplinarity

Participants :
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 200194.8 €
Projet HiDDaProTImA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The unstoppable increase in the volume of data stored, transmitted and interpreted by fixed and mobile devices strongly calls for the study of efficient solutions in processing the information contained in high-dimensional signals. Such need has been reflected in the recent flourishing of research efforts from the statistics, machine learning, computer science and signal processing communities. Within this multidisciplinary research ground, the proposed project will address the central question that can be formulated as -- what is the maximum level of information contained in large datasets that we can process from a small number of features, and how is it possible to achieve such limit in practice? Recent advances in information processing have demonstrated that a promising mathematical tool to tackle this question is represented by the Bayesian approach, in which statistical models inferred from training samples accurately describe the data. In fact, the Bayesian framework offers fundamental advantages in modeling high-dimensional signals in terms of mathematical tractability of performance limits as well as enhanced capabilities in information processing. Beyond the study of performance limits, the proposed project will involve case studies and applications in image processing. The researcher will be able to establish active collaborations with various research groups, in different department of Cambridge University, that test their research results on actual imaging devices. This project will also form the proposer to his future independent research activity and it will provide him with new mathematical skills and practical implementation expertise with actual imaging systems. On the other hand, Cambridge University will benefit from the cross pollination of ideas brought by the researcher and his collaborators in top institutions in Europe and the US.

Mots clés : big data, feature extraction, bayesian framework, signal processing, compressive sensing, microscopy, spectroscopy

Participants :
- University of Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet GAMODRONE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The use of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that allow capturing and streaming video in real-time is steadily increasing. One of the reasons for such interest is that the use of drones, either single units or in swarms, is currently being considered for reconnaissance missions in emergency situations such as earthquakes, radiation leakage in nuclear power plants or in case of a terrorist attack. More challenging applications such as package delivery services are also being considered, in which data speed, reliability and video quality are of paramount importance. Another promising application for civil UAV’s is to help providing flexibility to beyond-5G networks. The main goal of the project (highest priority) is to study efficient adaptive video compression and streaming solutions for interactive and non-interactive omnidirectional video that allow making an efficient use of the available bandwidth while satisfying target delay and video quality requirements. In order to deal with the limited knowledge of the interference environment at the receiver side (which is a likely scenario for airborne terminals) I will study efficient interference management and multi-user detection techniques. In order to further optimize the bandwidth usage, the correlation between the information of different terminals (e.g., when two or more drones within a swarm are capturing partly overlapping panoramas) will be exploited, so that redundant information is kept at the minimum necessary. The secondary goal (lower priority) of the project is the study of how to efficiently exploit the unique UAV’s mobility characteristics to provide additional coverage in congested network areas. This will be carried out by capitalizing on the results of the main goal. In particular, the channel characterization and the interference management techniques studied in the context of video streaming will be adapted to the use of drones as 3D-mobile gap-fillers.

Mots clés : video streaming, omnidirectional video, civil unmanned aerial vehicles, mobile gap fillers, delay limited communication

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175419.6 €
Projet Hi-Life (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The use of high-strength steel (HSS) grades leads to significant weight reduction and increased service life, especially in complex-welded structures. However, their implementation is limited in practice due to the fatigue issues at welds, welds which have the same fatigue life as those in lower strength steels. High-frequency mechanical impact (HFMI) treatment allows for important fatigue life improvement based on the induced compressive residual stress (RS), improved weld shape and cold-worked surface region. In current drafted guidelines, these factors were derived according to the weld toe failures obtained under constant amplitude loading (CAL) and also verified by a limited dataset under variable amplitude loading (VAL), the latter being more realistic of service loadings. Current knowledge on HFMI-improved welds has also shown that fatigue failures may also initiate at other regions, rather than weld toe. In spite of the fact that relaxation of induced RS state has been claimed to be the main reason of different damage mechanisms resulting in the failure location change, scientific questions such as: why, how and under what conditions this effect occurs or what damage mechanisms play a dominant role, remain unanswered. Based on the above context, the objective of this proposed project aims to solve the damage mechanisms of HFMI-treated welds under service loading by considering fatigue tests, investigating the microstructures and developing analytical approaches. The proposed scientific approach includes investigations on the development of grain structure size/orientation through the depth of HFMI groove by neutron scattering, and on the relation of grain-orientation-dependent RS state under service loading. This training will also allow transferring of the obtained knowledge obtained to the industrial partner for the implementation of this novel treatment technique by utilizing HSS in the shipyard.

Mots clés : fatigue strength improvement, high frequency mechanical impact treatment, high strength steel, damage mechanism, lightweight design

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175419.6 €
Projet CoopHeal (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The use of specific non-covalent interactions between molecular assemblies constitutes a general strategy to design a large variety of sophisticated materials. Functional supramolecular polymer materials have attracted the attention of scientists because of their multiple potential applications and their attractive improved properties, such as easy processing and recyclability. In this context, the main objective in CoopHeal is to introduce cooperative all-or-nothing interactions in supramolecular polymers. We will combine dinucleoside motifs able to strongly bind through multiple noncovalent interactions, with telechelic polymer chains that are flexible enough to facilitate recombination after damage. Our target material would be a thermoplastic polymer with optimal mechanical properties for easy processing and applied purposes, and with outstanding stimuli-responsive self-healing ability. The platform opens interesting opportunities for both the fundamental exploration of structure-property relationships and the design of technologically useful and economically viable materials. CoopHeal introduces fundamental challenges and unprecedented approaches in chemical self-assembly and constitutes the best research scenario for the MSC candidate, Dr. Anselmo del Prado Abellán, to learn from different fields across physical and polymer sciences and others to further develop his scientific career. The host Nanostructured Molecular Systems and Materials group at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), directed by Prof. David González-Rodríguez (DGR), is an active, emergent group, with a strong background in the topics of the proposal, and funded, among others, by ERC-granted projects.

Mots clés : self assembled functional systems, noncovalent systems, polymer modification, stimuli responsive materials, self healing, supramolecular networks

Participants :
- Autonomous University of Madrid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 160932.48 €