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

The project proposes a novel way to numerically model delamination or debonding in layered structures using beam-type finite elements for the layers, which can be geometrically linear or nonlinear, and mixed-mode, rate-dependent cohesive-zone models (CZMs) for the interface, both based on recent cutting-edge research. In this way, the project shall provide new, more accurate, more intuitive and computationally much cheaper techniques than those currently available, that will be implemented in open-source user-friendly software and experimentally validated for mode-I, mode-II and mixed-mode tests on aluminium-epoxy adhesive joints. At the end of the project, engineers will be able to numerically simulate tests with different dimensions and material properties to characterise the fracture energy and its rate dependence for existing or new adhesives or other interfaces, with applications including but not limited to metal joints, composite delamination, reinforced elastomers or dissection of soft tissues in biomedical engineering. The research builds on complementary and internationally highly recognised expertise of the researcher and his PhD supervisor at the University of Rijeka (on geometrically nonlinear beam models) and the supervisor at Brunel University (on CZMs and nonlinear finite-element analysis). The researcher will have the opportunity to (a) develop world-leading knowledge and expertise in a research topic of significant importance for industrial and real-life applications, (b) transfer it to a country where such expertise is limited and (c) boost his scientific career and international profile through high-quality publications and via his leadership in the development of the software. This will also provide numerous networking opportunities with other research groups and industries worldwide for all parties involved in the action.


Participants :
- Brunel University London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 152879.0 €
Projet MPP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project uses a Geographic Information System (GIS) to map how everyday practices changed in European cities under the pressure of deindustrialization between the 1960s and 1990s. It will substantiate the hypothesis that the processes of social transformation, which have led to phenomena of social and cultural polarization, cannot simply be deducted from socio-economic factors alone, but hinge on the (re-)production of social status, gender and ethnicity in everyday routines. Spatial analysis using GIS offers a suitable tool to reconstruct the relevance of practices in processes of social transformation because everyday routines aggregated around places, nodes and networks, and these localizations in turn become important references in defining social relations. Accessing and analysing information about past practices brings with it methodological challenges which the project addresses by combining oral history interviews with digital mapping techniques. With this, the project will contribute to the ongoing efforts to devise methodologies, which allow to further expand research in the field of digital spatial humanities into the realm of qualitative data and “deep mapping”. It will build on the extensive expertise of the HI (University of Antwerp Centre for Urban History) and will be integrated in the HI’s initiatives to refine the DARIAH and CLARIN infrastructures in the ‘Spatial Humanities’. The project will therefore contribute to the field of contemporary urban history and to the methodological advancement of GIS as a tool of historical research.

Mots clés : urban history, deindustrialization, social practices, historical gis

Participants :
- University of Antwerp (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 178320.0 €
Projet CBA TRIESTE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project will analyse cinematic practices related to the Trieste Crisis (1945-54), a diplomatic struggle over the Italo-Yugoslav border at the outset of the Cold War, which remains the region’s most controversial issue due to the violence it invoked. Central to the conflict’s soft power dimension, both countries produced a collection of films about these events, which coincided with the establishment of film festivals as important geo-political events. Taking festivals as lieux de mémoire, the project will explore how the conflict’s cinematic representation (specifically the foibe massacres, the Italian exodus, the fascist crimes and the anti-fascist struggle) has been employed to construct desirable cultural memories related to its national and ideological concerns. It will compare Italian and Yugoslav (Slovenian, Croatian) perspectives, by investigating three levels of cinematic action: 1) film production, 2) film festival circulation, and 3) film reception through awards and press reviews. It will compare two periods, both marked by higher interest in this topic: the Trieste Crisis itself and the period following the establishment of Giorno del Ricordo in Italy in 2004. By including historical and contemporary viewpoints, the study will examine how the narrativization of these events has evolved from the early Cold War to the present day. The project will result in a digital archive presenting: 1) film database with contacts of institutions housing the films, 2) film analysis in the given political and social context 3) selection of films and archival documents. The project will offer the first analysis of this film corpus and make widely accessible a collection of related cinematic cultural heritage. In engaging with an interdisciplinary approach, it will provide a contribution to the study of cinema, film festivals and cultural memory, and a practical toolkit for researchers and cultural programmers, which can act as a model for other, comparable studies.

Mots clés : yugoslav cinema, italian cinema, film festivals, cultural memory, italo yugoslav political relations, cold war, trieste crisis, digitization of cultural heritage

Participants :
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 275209.92 €
Projet FINTOINF (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project will concentrate on two main directions (MD), which are connected through them both relying on Monadic Second Order (MSO) and its variants. (MD 1) Shelah's conjecture. In his celebrated 1975 paper Shelah proved that the monadic second order theory (MSO) of the real order is undecidable. He conjectured in his Conjecture 7B that Conjecture: MSO of the real order where the second order quantifier ranges only over Borel sets, is decidable. In spite of important efforts on this question in both mathematics and computer science community, the conjecture is still open. Many strategies, including the one suggested by Shelah in his paper (to use Borel determinacy) have been tried. We propose to study this question using the recent methods of the generalised descriptive set theory and the generalised automata that we intend to develop. This is novel and might lead to important advances and the solution. (MD2) Countable combinatorial limits. Since the work of Lovasz and others in his group around 2006, a new area of discrete mathematics emerged: the combinatorial limits. This fast growing area aroused much interest and found many applications Its first development was that of a graphon, which is an uncountable limit of a sequence of finite graphs, but there have been several others. It is always important to understand the transfer properties of statements between the sequence forming the limit and the limit itself. The question has been considered through ultrapowers and through topology and Stone's pairings. None suffices for the transfer of MSO sentence. We propose to study that transfer through the novel notion of a countable model where the notion of satisfaction has been changed so that the countable model reflects the structure of the sequence of finite models that were used to obtain the uncountable combinatorial limit. In this sense we obtain a countable combinatorial limit which we study using the methods of finite model theory.

Mots clés : uncountable tree orders and algorithms, monadic second order logic, combinatorial limits, transfer principles

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 196707.84 €
Projet CBF-EQRES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project will develop a seismic-resistant steel frame for high seismic resilience. The frame consists of a moment-resisting frame equipped with concentric braces. Replaceable energy-dissipative hourglass shape pins made of duplex stainless steel that results in high post-yield stiffness are in series connected to the braces. Moreover, replaceable fuses are introduced at the locations of the beams of the moment resisting frame where plastic hinges are expected to develop. The project uses an integrated experimental-numerical research methodology to evaluate the seismic performance of the proposed configuration. Emphasis is placed in developing a reliable seismic design methodology for the practical application of the proposed system.

Mots clés : concentrically braced frame, mitigation of residual drifts, seismic resilience, high postyield stiffness, large scale testing, numerical models

Participants :
- Heriot-Watt University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet HEATEXMOL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project will investigate the current-induced vibrational heating and cooling of molecular junctions with relatively sharp molecular resonances. These systems are interesting because, depending on the atomistic details of the metal/molecule interface and the chemical structure of the molecule, an extremely rich variety of heating/cooling dynamics under an external bias is possible. A detailed study of the connection between the electronic structure (both at equilibrium and in presence of a bias) and the inelastic processes associated to the emission and absorption of molecular vibrations represents a necessary step toward the comprehension and control of the junction heating and cooling dynamics and thus of its stability. We will study a broad range of systems where the sharp DOS features are originated by two different physical mechanisms: i) structural and chemical details of the metal/molecule interface, and ii) destructive interference in the molecule. In the first case, we will focus on the effect of electrode shape on the heating and cooling of the molecule and consider a wide range of molecule-electrode couplings. The molecules we will consider are examples of these classes of systems, namely carbenes (strong coupling to the electrodes), bypiridine (intermediate coupling), PTCDA (weak coupling). In the case of destructive interference, we will focus on conjugated linear molecules where quantum interference features originate from the coupling of side-groups to the molecular backbone. Finally the project will extend the state-of-the-art approach for the calculation of the heating and cooling dynamics by introducing self-consistency between vibrations populations and the electronic structure. For this we will make use of a series of approximations in the derivation of the equations for vibration emission and absorption rates. We expect this new approach will reveal complex dynamics in systems with sharp resonances and close to vibrational instabilities.


Participants :
- Czech Academy of Sciences (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 142720.8 €
Projet TANKwA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project ‘TANKWA, Technological Adaptations of Nubian cores in the Karoo: new geometric morphometric Approaches’ uses innovative digital archaeological methods to investigate human technological adaptations to arid regions during the Middle Stone Age (MSA), a critical period of early human anatomical and behavioural development. Specifically, this will focus on a new late MSA technological variant observed in the arid Karoo region of interior South Africa which uses Nubian technology, a distinctive Levallois method of stone point production more commonly seen in MSA contexts in North Africa, the Levant and Arabia. Using cutting-edge digital Geometric Morphometric techniques, this research will establish a novel method for studying Nubian technology and lithic points, testing the hypothesis that this technology was an adaptive response to the challenges facing hunter-gatherers in an arid environment. The recently discovered open-air site of Tweefontein has a large artefact assemblage offering the ideal opportunity to characterise this technology, complemented by museum study of other South African Karoo sites. The novel approach applied will generate replicable quantitative data that allows the contextualisation of Nubian technology both in the southern African archaeological record and globally, establishing the first inter-regional comparison between Nubian technology in the Levant and South Africa. The training from experts at two international research institutions in Portugal and Israel, together with the applicant’s existing expertise in this under-studied region, culminates in a unique project which advances methods in lithic analysis and contributes to our understanding of early modern human adaptations and dispersals within and outside of Africa from a new perspective.

Mots clés : middle stone age, african archaeology, lithic technology, geometric morphometrics

Participants :
- University of Algarve (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 147815.04 €
Projet INTIMIZ (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The project “Interracial intimacy in Africa: Afro-European couples, cross cultural transactions and social changes in Islamic Zanzibar” (INTIMIZ), offers an innovative approach to the study of globalization. Built on a bibliography in anthropology, sociology and history, and a case-study in Zanzibar (Tanzania), the project examines the social and cultural dynamics that foster intimate relationships between European expatriates and Africans in contemporary Africa. The project will pursue three objectives: 1) To document European migration to Africa. 2) To analyze the experience of Afro-European intimacy in Zanzibar. At the micro level, I will focus on the dynamics of intimate transactions, whether economic, material or cultural. While the economic issue is currently at the heart of the anthropological understanding of interracial sexuality, little consideration is given neither to the role of love and desire in cross-cultural encounters, nor to the role of cultural transactions between partners. By paying particular attention to affects and symbolic transfers of knowledge, beliefs, values, skills, which characterize the course of intimate life, the project provides a unique view on socialization and on the role of intimacy in possibilities social ascent. 3) To investigate the changes in the local understanding of intimacy. At the macro level, the project will trace the global dynamics that transform conjugality, sexuality, love, and gender roles in the Muslim society of Zanzibar. The project will thus investigate the ways in which Islam informs sexual practices and ideologies of intimacy and gender, and how they are negotiated and transformed with the settlement of non-Muslim Europeans, and mixed marriages. At a societal level, by analysing how people of different racial and religious backgrounds do engage in relationships, INTIMIZ also constitutes an original and effective means to combat racist prejudice.

Mots clés : ethnography, zanzibar, expatriation, sexuality, conjugality, intimacy, islam, cultural transactions, mixed couples, tourism

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 264668.4 €
- University of Chicago (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet HOPE-4-BEST (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project “The Annotation and Functional Description of Non-Model Bacterial Organisms for Bio-based Engineering and Industry (HOPE-4-BEST)” aims to bring new bioinformatics and systems biology tools for a comprehensive description of little studied microorganisms and inference of biological knowledge further utilizable in synthetic biology for engineering of industrially utilizable bacterial strains. Bacteria form the largest group of organisms in the world. Since the DNA and RNA sequencing became widely available, they begun to be often studied on molecular level for their exceptional biological properties, e.g. ability to produce fuels or plastics from waste. Unfortunately, previous lack of interest in their research is the source of many obstacles in bioinformatics and systems biology data processing as current tools, designed primarily for eukaryotic model organisms, cannot be easily used for processing data gathered from non-model bacterial organisms. Inference of biological knowledge presumes identification of regulated genes and annotation of their molecular function so involved biological processes could be captured. The project addresses two important questions, how to assemble a comprehensive functional annotation for non-model organisms and how it affects inferred biological knowledge. This will be achieved by designing novel pipeline utilizing transcriptome wide analysis based on comparison of samples under various conditions while considering data bias, e.g. multimapping reads or overlapping genes, and its combination with annotation build by extensive database searching. Eventually, the successful solution of the project will not only substantially contribute to our understanding how various parameters of bioinformatics data processing and annotation affect resulting biological knowledge, but will provide ready-to-use solution for wide scientific community.

Mots clés : mathematical aspect of biology, microbiology, biofuels and bioplastics

Participants :
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174806.4 €
Projet seQureNet (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The promise of future quantum computers to substantially speed up computations has been advertised widely since the early days of the field. But there is a novel and fundamental aspect of devices based on quantum-mechanical principles that has just started to be explored: Quantum computers can preserve the privacy of computations. This aspect is a distinct new advantage of quantum computers over their classical counterparts. An entire class of unprecedented computations becomes feasible, in which the user data and the whole computation remain perfectly private – a feature impossible to achieve with classical computers. The main focus of this project is to exploit this feature and to implement secure photonic quantum information processing in distributed quantum networks. These networks consist of clients and small-scale quantum computers connected by communication channels. Photons are chosen as they are the ideal carriers for sending information over long distances. The clients can securely delegate computations to the quantum computers, such that neither the data nor the computation is revealed to the computers or any potential eavesdropper. The project will, first, elucidate how quantum resources boost the security of classical computations; second, demonstrate secure quantum computations over long distances and study their verification; and third, examine practical security aspects of implementations. The research will leverage the experimental state-of-the-art by adapting new photonic quantum technologies such as integrated photon sources and waveguide quantum circuits. Moreover, highly-efficient superconducting detectors will be applied to achieve excellent quantum control of the photons. This research is highly innovative and will be pivotal in the researcher’s career development and for becoming an independent research group leader, as it enables acquiring both key scientific knowledge and developing complementary skills.

Mots clés : quantum computation, secure quantum information processing, delegated computations, photonics

Participants :
- University of Oxford (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €