Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet GenLife (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Mental disorders affect 1 in every 8 people in the world right now. Genetic predisposition plays a crucial role in the development of severe mental disorders. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revolutionized the field of psychiatric genomics by identifying the individual effects of millions of common genetic variants on behavioral, cognitive, and clinical traits. However, current GWAS provide a static snapshot of genetic influences and thus misses the rich tapestry of genetic effects that unfold across an individual's lifespan. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program, the GenLife project aims to uncover novel genetic variants with age-dependent effects that have remained hidden until now. Revealing age-specific determinants of severe mental illness across the lifespan will promote the development of more effective, biology-based prediction tools tailored to individuals' disease trajectories. By providing timely support and intervention, mental health professionals will be able to identify and address emerging mental health issues before they escalate into more severe conditions. The GenLife project is based on the synergy between the applicant's highly interdisciplinary profile, cutting-edge research at the host institution, and unique Nordic resources. It will be completed at world-leading research institutions, the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), under the supervision of Prof. Ole A. Andreassen. Expanding the applicant's line of research, academic maturity, and professional networks will enhance the development of his career as an independent researcher.

Mots clés : genetics, lifespan, gwas, age, mental disorder, temperament, trajectory

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet Ext-WEST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

The goal of ExtWest (Applying and Extending Techniques in Wall-Crossing and Enumerative Sheaf Theory) is twofold: First, we plan to find and realize new applications of the recent technical developments in the field of enumerative sheaf theory, thereby proving new groundbreaking results. Second, we plan to develop new techniques inspired by the extisting results, and to thereby extend the range of accessible questions in this research area.

Mots clés : donaldson invariants, donaldson thomas theory, vafa witten theory, moduli spaces of sheaves, enumerative geometry, instantons, wall crossing, quot schemes, stability conditions

Participants :
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 284179.68 €
Projet Monkey Troubles (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Monkey Troubles is a comparative ethnography of control in human-monkey interactions and in the worship of a monkey deity in Singapore. It investigates how everyday interspecies and ritual encounters prompt ordinary Singaporeans to reflect on what control is, who has it, and how these ideas shape Singaporean relationships with other species and the environment. The study deploys an interdisciplinary approach grounded in anthropology, religious studies, and the environmental humanities to comparatively analyse the diverse understandings and practices of control that take place in everyday interactions with monkeys and a monkey deity. The project approaches these encounters as parallel interactive contexts in which humans struggle to interpret the ultimately opaque intentions of non-human others through communicative cues, including gesture, facial expression, posture, and gaze direction. The many uncertainties raised by these encounters make them key sites in which people generate ideas about the limits of human control, with critical implications for Singaporean attitudes toward wildlife management, conservation, and environmental governance. The project demonstrates that control is a culturally diverse and multispecies phenomenon that is decisively shaped by how people interpret the limitations of human control when interacting with more-than-human others. It also serves as a ground-breaking model for applying interaction analysis to other situations dealing with nonhuman entities such as religious studies and multispecies studies.

Mots clés : environmental humanities, multispecies ethnography, monkeys, spirit mediums, face to face interaction, wildlife conflict, singapore

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet HRPOE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Histories of Reception of Photography in the Ottoman Empire (HRPOE) action is the first in-depth study to analyse how the Ottomans grasped the photographic medium that emanated from a different epistemological and cultural context, and what kinds of uses and meanings they attributed to it. It is a media historiographical investigation that differentiates between three imperial groups in their stance towards photography: military officers of imperial higher education institutions, Armenian entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts among the upper-class Muslims. To examine how each group conceptualised the medium, it turns to their publications on photography and engages with them through contextual and comparative analysis. The research aims to reveal how each group’s interpretation of photography depended upon their epistemic and cultural interactions with the Ottoman modernization and the West. In this way, it pursues to disclose the heterogeneity of experiences and knowledge structures involved in the reception of photography in the Ottoman Empire.

Mots clés : photography, ottoman empire, ottoman modernization, armenian cultural history

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210911.04 €
Projet Petro-Ambiguity (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary will uncover diverse new narratives of the Anthropocene beyond the Global North. In close collaboration with my supervisor, Prof. Sissel Furuseth, head of the Critical Petroaesthetics research group (CP) into which I will be integrated, I will investigate the stories of oil in Brunei, whose oil-based economy has allowed for the preservation of its rainforest and a generous citizen welfare system. Its story is distinct to those that currently dominate the energy humanities, characterized by economic instability, environmental injustice and political violence. Through vital training and interactions with my supervisor and CP researchers, I will develop a synthesized approach informed by material ecocriticism, scale reading and intersectionality to analyse contemporary cultural forms in the Bruneian petroculture. I will introduce petro-ambiguity as a ground-breaking concept that resists universalizing oil encounters by articulating the intra-actions between individual, socio-cultural, national and global perceptions of oil. By moving beyond the Global North, this project addresses inequities within local and global energy-climate discourses, an urgent and crucial undertaking for a just energy transition for all. This project will engage in high-impact dissemination activities to enhance understanding of sociocultural factors behind climate (in)action. Petro-Ambiguity will be bolstered by feedback from renowned energy-climate experts on my advisory board, Prof. Stephanie LeMenager (University of Oregon), Prof. Adeline Johns-Putra (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Prof. Indra Øverland (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs). The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities based at the University of Oslo will create the perfect environment as host for cutting-edge research groups on energy and environment to which Petro-Ambiguity will add an essential non-European angle.

Mots clés : petroculture ecocriticism energy humanities environmental humanities climate and literature

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet Hindi-BabyNet (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Recently it showed that the research in infant language acquisition is highly skewed towards English and other well-studied Indo-European languages. Therefore, most of the evidence regarding IDS helps in infant's language development stems from the families living in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) countries (like the U.K., US, Germany, France etc.). Yet, we know that parent’s communication with their infants varies across cultures regarding their gestures, vocal emotions, and speech. Because of these differences in parent-infant interaction, infant language learning in WEIRD countries/societies can be assumed to differ from contemporary infant learning in the developing world. Consequently, we cannot ascertain whether the contrast of IDS with ADS and its tailoring to infants' language development found in WEIRD countries/societies can be generalized to non-WEIRD countries/societies. Hence, to generalize the impact of IDS on infants' language development, empirical investigations are required in contemporary developing societies like India, which show what life has been like for most infants in the developing world. The 'Linguistic and acoustic properties of infant-directed speech in Hindi-learning infant’s (Hindi-BabyNet) project will provide a unique opportunity to gain better insights into infant language acquisition in India across various socio-economic backgrounds. This study aim to provide CDI norms for Hindi-speaking group. Also, this study includes collecting infant and adult-directed speech data for Hindi speakers across different social-economic statuses in India. In addition, this study aims to find the acoustic features of infant-directed speech and their significance in early language development from an Indian perspective and also utilize machine learning model to investigate the acoustic cues of IDS that are useful in learning mechanism.

Mots clés : communicative development inventories cdis , infant s language development, infant directed speech, adult directed speech, acoustics, vowels, phonemes, pitch, formants

Participants :
- Institut Indien de Technologie - Ropar (Inde) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet BRAVO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project "Barents Sea Arctic Cenozoic Evolution and Paleogeographical Reconstructions (BRAVO)" aims to reconstruct the Barents Sea Gateway since the Cenozoic (the last 66 Myr). To do so, BRAVO’s objectives are to 1) reveal the effect of sediment loading–unloading, lithospheric strength, and surface-mantle processes on shaping the Cenozoic paleobathymetry-topography of Barents Sea, to 2) constrain the timing of the formation of the BSG, to 3) identify the interplay between climate dynamics and tectonics in erosion and deposition of sediments in the paleo-Barents Sea, and (4) compare the development of the BSG and Fram Strait, as well as the regional to global consequences of the Arctic-Atlantic shallow water connection. BRAVO will achieve these objectives by numerical modelling (inc. finite element and volumetric methods) using open-source platforms of pyGPlates, pyBadlands and high-resolution 2D–3D seismic, well, gravity and magnetic data analyses. BRAVO’s results will be self-consistent 4D Earth models (space and time) of paleobathymetry-topography of Barents Sea Gateway and corresponding sedimentary pathways and accumulation. BRAVO’s ambition is to provide the most reliable paleobathymetric-topographic reconstruction of the Barents Sea Gateway for the Cenozoic. BRAVO will quantify the role of Barents Sea Gateway in exchanging Atlantic–Arctic water, highlight the significance of erosion–deposition of sediments in shaping the gateway, and form the basis for updated global oceanographic and climatic simulations. BRAVO’s pioneering model of the complete Cenozoic source-to-sink analysis for the regional Barents Sea will be a breakthrough for Arctic seabed characterization for offshore wind turbines and mapping slope failure geohazards.

Mots clés : arctic, seismic, stratigraphy, geosciences

Participants :
- Université de Sydney (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 306232.8 €
Projet WITE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Wind energy is essential to achieve carbon neutrality and the sustainable society. Optimization of its operations and maintenance (O&M) is imperative for its economic viability. Current annual O&M costs in Europe are around 5.8 billion euros, with erosion due to particle collisions being a significant contributor. This research aims to develop an innovative wind turbine monitoring system that integrates a novel stress sensor with a comprehensive understanding of turbine blade stress induced by particle-laden atmospheric turbulent flow. Three objectives guide this interdisciplinary study: (1) To adapt a novel stress sensor for aerodynamic applications, (2) To elucidate the fundamental mechanisms behind particle-induced stress on turbine blades, and (3) To create turbine blade damage maps that relate to actual operational and weather conditions. The project leverages state-of-the-art facilities for turbulence studies and the ultrahigh-sensitive strain sensor. First, the ultrahigh-sensitive sensor is redesigned for aerodynamic application. Particle-laden atmospheric flows are then created in the lab to measure the distribution of particles in the flow around turbine blades and the stresses they impose on them. The fluid dynamic mechanisms that determine particle concentration and particle-induced stresses on turbine blades are examined and an analytical model is established. To improve field applicability, the independent variables of the model are replaced by operational and weather condition parameters that can be easily measured in the field. Finally, the practicality of the study is confirmed by creating annual damage maps of wind turbine blades operating in Europe and comparing them with turbine blade lifetime and maintenance cycle data. The project not only brings to light the mechanism behind wind turbine blade erosion, but also significantly reduces wind turbine O&M costs, increases efficiency, and contributes to sustainable wind energy development.

Mots clés : wind turbine blade erosion, wind energy, particle laden atmospheric flow, wind turbine monitoring, turbulent multiphase flow

Participants :
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 217965.12 €
- Université Ajou (Corée du Sud) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RESIST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

RESIST will be the first research to redefine our current legal categories of citizenship and statehood in the extreme case of sea level rise submerging the whole territory of a state. The international community has no experience in managing the disappearance of whole territorial states as a result of environmental disruptions, nor has it designed international legal norms to account for such an eventuality. In this view, RESIST first examines a real-world case, namely the unique case study of Tuvalu, where recent constitutional amendments (2023) have innovated the notion of statehood in light of the impacts of climate change or other causes resulting in loss to its physical territory. More specifically, Tuvalu is the first State to introduce a novel definition of statehood in its Constitution that does not require physical territory as a necessary condition for being recognized as an independent state. Second, it shows the shortcomings of these current legal categories in tackling present and future challenges deriving from the climate crisis and climate-induced migration in particular.Third, it develops alternative and/or broader understandings of citizenship and statehood to better cope with these challenges.Finally,it formulates policy recommendations for how to address the challenge of climate-induced migration of whole states and states that lose a significant part of their territory in a fair manner. The main goal of RESIST is to equip democracies with new conceptual and legal instruments to prevent climate emergencies from being tackled in a way that violates basic human rights. Such a goal is achieved through the following methodology: literature review and legal mapping exercise conducted through the research desk over open-access documents, collection of further contributions through a Special Issue, and semi-structured interviews conducted during a secondment in Australia at the Australian National University College of Law and fieldwork in Tuvalu.

Mots clés : climate induced migration mass relocation environmental justice gender

Participants :
- Université nationale australienne (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251578.56 €
Projet TOMABOLD (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The proposed project considers the problem of finding matching bounds for dynamical large deviations of natural models in statistical physics and fluid mechanics. In a random system with a deterministic limit, dynamical large deviations describe the exponential decay of probability that the system is close to a trajectory different from the deterministic limit; classic works by Kipnis- Olla-Varadhan and Kipnis-Landim study such bounds. However, in many interesting cases, the available upper and lower bounds only agree when restricted to sufficiently regular trajectories.  Recent developments give the problem of investigating the matching bounds new momentum. On the positive side, Fehrman-Gess reached an important milestone in matching bounds for hydrodynamic limits by analysis of a PDE, and proved matching bounds for a family of SPDEs related to hydrodynamic limits. On the negative side, my previous work identified a case where the naïve bound is not sharp, related the existence of spurious solutions violating the energy identity. We will capitalise on these recent developments to identify cases where the expected rate function does, and does not, capture all interesting phenomena.  The project will be divided into two parts, taking these recent developments as a jumping off point. The first part will concern two examples where we expect to find matching bounds, while the second part investigates (anticipated) deviations from the classical theory. In WP1, we will investigate wide-reaching generalisations of Fehrman-Gess theory, in WP1a to the more challenging case of systems of equations, and in WP1b to rougher scaling regimes via the renormalisation group. In WP2, we will investigate one model which connects the existing counterexample to the derivation of turbulence from molecular dynamics, and another model in which we hypothesise that the violation of a key technical estimate leads to behaviour different from what is predicted in the literature.

Mots clés : large deviations, pde with irregular drift, fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic limit

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251578.56 €
Projet LIVCOM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The microbial communities living in and on plants (microbiomes) are key drivers of plant success and community composition. This interaction between macro- and micro-communities is rarely incorporated into ecological theories about species coexistence, but the advancement of sequencing technologies now opens up opportunities to build experimental models for these complex feedbacks. The small size and haploid dominance of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) make them prime candidates for tractable, compact models of plant community microbiome dynamics. LIVCOM focuses on understanding the diversity of rare and threatened oceanic liverwort-rich communities (OLCs) and developing resources to use them as just such a model. LIVCOM integrates ecological, phylogeographic, and genomic methods to characterize the community, intraspecific, and microbial diversity of OLCs. Beyond new scientific knowledge and resource development, LIVCOM will also be able to inform conservation efforts for the rare plants found in OLCs. LIVCOM will be implemented at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo (UiO), with a secondment to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. LIVCOM will prepare the fellow for a career as a bryophyte microbiome expert in the European academic sector by increasing her international networks, breadth and depth of biological expertise, and intersectoral experience.

Mots clés : microbiome, bryology

Participants :
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 267418.56 €