Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet BlackHoleChaos (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The understanding of the microscopic origin of chaos and thermal effects in the physics of black holes is very challenging. Such fundamental aspects seem to be intimately connected, but a microscopic analytical description of their interplay is still missing. The quantum gravity description of these aspects could help clarify their microscopic interconnection. The project I propose has the ambition to probe black hole states through highly excited string and coherent string states, providing a quantum microscopic description of chaos, thermal effects and information theory. The main observables are scattering and decay processes. The research programme contains the following parts. First, a general strategy will be developed to measure, and analytically control, chaos in physical processes involving black holes, such as black hole decays and black hole Compton scattering. In particular, a quantitative measure of chaos will be introduced using Random Matrix Theory techniques and the relative Lyapunov exponents will be computed. Second, in order to study thermal effects in black hole processes, the triggering of the thermalization phase driven by chaos will be investigated. Finally, the project will consider the following direct applications. The first one will be the study of chaotic signatures in wave forms and quasi-normal modes of gravitational and electro-magnetic waves; the second will concern the realization of black hole horizons in terms of highly excited string and coherent string form factors.

Mots clés : black holes, thermalization, chaos, string theory, string excited states, string scattering

Participants :
- Université de Crète (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 153486.72 €
Projet SymPhysAI (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers novel methodologies to unravel complex physical phenomena. However, most machine learning models lack transparency in their decision-making processes. In this proposal, we aim to develop a symbolic AI as a tool to reveal hidden topological orders in quantum physics. To this end, an AI-assisted symbolic regression method will be studied. We focus on three main objectives: (i) machine learning topological phases with experimental data; (ii) uncovering hidden non-local symmetry-protected topological orders; and (iii) searching for quantized topological invariants in an unsupervised fashion. The interplay between symbolic AI and quantum physics is envisioned to bring new insights into topological phases. Moreover, the project will scrutinize the explainability and the robustness of machine learning models. The investigations will provide concrete guidelines for accompanying theoretical and experimental studies at MagTop. The outcomes of the project will pave the way to discover novel features of topological materials in a reliable and explainable way, as well as provide great opportunities for me to reach a position of professional excellence and independence.

Mots clés : symbolic regression topological orders quantum machine learning

Participants :
- Institute of Physics (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 139953.6 €
Projet ECO-HERITAGES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This proposal investigates the role of cultural heritages in promoting local economic development and social and environmental resiliences, in the context of Small Island States (SIS), Small Island and Developing States (SIDS) and Sub- National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) located in Europe, the African continent and in the Indian Ocean. Small islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change due to their small size and exposure to sea level rise, affecting their social and economic development. Crossing anthropology, heritage, environment, development and island studies, this research aims at integrating institutional heritagization processes and indigenous knowledge systems in actions for sustainable futures. This project will be hosted by the Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI) of the University of Malta, one of the few European entities in island studies and insular development, and supervised by Dr Stefano Moncada, specialist in development economics, climate change and sustainable development, and by Professors Lino Briguglio and Godfrey Baldacchino, world leading scholars in small states and islands studies. Addressing the challenges, at European and global level, of informing effective responses to mitigate social, economic and ecological consequences of climate change, this project will focus on the SIS of Malta, the SIDS of Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles and the SNIJs of the French island territories of Reunion and Mayotte. Through an innovative interdisciplinary methodology, this research contributes with ethnography and cultural studies to sustainable development theories and brings socio-economic resilience analyses to heritage studies. This research will contribute, overall, to the role of Malta and of SIS in the UN actions for Sustainable Development, the EU Development and Cooperation actions and the Missions of the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 Framework.

Mots clés : small island states, small island and developing states, sub national island jurisdictions, africa, europe, heritage, ethnography, indian ocean, mediterranean, ecology, sustainability, resilience

Participants :
- Université de Malte (Malte) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 161411.52 €
Projet 3D-EE-Struct (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This research proposal pioneers energy-efficient residential structures through strategic integration of Phase-Change Materials (PCMs) into building walls. Focused on Portugal and the EU, the study targets substantial energy savings, initially estimated at under 18% based on pilot studies. Lightweight residential constructions emerge as pivotal, aligning seamlessly with Portugal's climate. Their swift integration allows for efficient temperature regulation, yielding substantial energy conservation. Economic viability, construction flexibility, and swift integration underscore the appeal of lightweight constructions for PCM adoption, addressing new projects and retrofits, aligning with regulatory and economic considerations. Empirical validation of meticulous simulation models forms the bedrock, ensuring practical applicability. Building energy modeling, integral to this research, plays a pivotal role in gauging real-world impact. This research proposal aligns global concerns: energy efficiency and sustainability. PCM integration, pivotal in sustainable building practices, offers an innovative solution. Exploration of PCM integration challenges further extends impact. In conclusion, this blueprint pioneers PCM integration, charting a course towards energy efficiency and sustainability. Attuned to Portugal's climate, it holds promise for wider global application. Validation experiments provide concrete evidence of potential energy savings and advancements in thermal performance, substantiating the proposal's potential impact.

Mots clés : pcm integration, energy efficiency, residential buildings, sustainable construction, portugal

Participants :
- Université de Coimbra (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172618.56 €
Projet WarmArctic (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Rapidly thawing Arctic permafrost is an important, but poorly constrained, contributor to global carbon budgets and an unknown in the climate change equation. Arctic shelves are critical regions in terms of fluid dynamics due to high organic matter and groundwater fluxes, thin permafrost, and shallow gas hydrate stability zones. Predictive modelling of the Arctic subsurface is challenging due to highly transient multi-physics processes and data-acquisition constraints (related to harsh climate and remote terrains), which lead to critical data sparsity and high uncertainties. Using advanced computational methods, we aim to develop a systematic 'process-level' understanding of how climate-change related warming along Arctic shelves impacts permafrost integrity, ice-layer distribution, sub-permafrost groundwater, and gas and gas hydrate dynamics. We also aim to understand how these processes influence seafloor morphologies (e.g. pingos, pockmarks), which can provide useful proxies for linking (easier to access) seafloor observations with underlying (data-sparse) sub-seafloor processes. Our models and methods will be developed in a highly generalized framework which, within this project, will be specifically applied to study climate change impacts on the fjords of Svalbard in the high Arctic. Beneficiary of this funding will be University of Malta, where the applicant (a mathematician) will receive training in seafloor data acquisition, processing and interpretation, and practical aspects of continental shelf geomorphology and hydrogeology, which will empower her to make meaningful and judicial use of data in her modelling studies. The project goals align with UN Sustainable Development Goal on Climate Action, and our findings will have high scientific and socio-economic impacts by bridging key knowledge gaps and offering comprehensive predictive framework to government agencies, NGOs, and commercial entities for assessment of warming-related risks in the Arctics.

Mots clés : arctic shelf hydrology permafrost degradation entrapped gas gas dynamics gas hydrate dynamics sediment fluid interaction seafloor morphology pingo and pockmark formation

Participants :
- Université de Malte (Malte) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 177251.52 €
- Université de Brême (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet ICMAN (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The widespread popular support for illiberal leaders seeking to subvert democracy is one of the more puzzling and concerning developments in the 21st century. From Putin through Orbán to Erdogan, illiberal leaders invest large resources into propaganda, organize grandiose displays of support, and promote hostile rumours about their enemies. But do such attempts at manipulation shape citizens' support and acceptance of the illiberal leader? Prior research yields conflicting expectations. On the one hand, research in psychology and political behaviour identified a plethora of cognitive biases, which undermine citizens' ability to punish leaders for their mistakes or wrongdoings. On the other hand, recent evidence shows that people are difficult to persuade, making it unlikely that propaganda could change the minds of citizens who are critical of an illiberal leader. To adjudicate between these accounts, this project will a) develop a novel framework for studying the effects of illiberal manipulation strategies and will examine the effects of multiple manipulation attempts, such as b) hostile rhetoric, c) political misinformation campaigns, and d) populist appeals to fairness intuitions. The project builds on an interdisciplinary framework bridging insights from comparative politics and psychological science, and will employ a diverse set of methodological tools from multiple survey experiments (vignette, conjoint, and cultural transmission designs) as well as quantitative text analysis. Original comparative survey data from Hungary, the US, and Denmark will be used to compare citizens' susceptibility to manipulation under different political environments. The project contributes to the European Commission's priority of "a new push for European democracy" by informing pro-democracy stakeholders and citizens on the perils of illiberal citizen manipulation.

Mots clés : manipulation, propaganda, illiberal regimes, democratic backsliding, hostility, misinformation, direct democracy

Participants :
- Budapesti kozep-europai egyetem alapitvany (Hongrie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 157622.4 €
Projet DiaLoGues (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way and neighbouring Local Group galaxies is an important indicator of the nature of dark matter. Accurately determining the smooth distribution of dark matter in these galaxies and the degree of clumpiness (abundance of luminous and dark satellites) encodes information about the properties of dark matter and the interplay between the baryonic and dark sectors in the formation and evolution of galaxies. As well as being auxiliary quantities in interpreting the results of multichannel dark matter searches. Thanks to significant investments in observational resources by international and, in particular, European countries, we now have access to an enormous amount of detailed, high-quality astronomical data that allow us to view Local Group galaxies as complex systems in interaction with their environment. The DiaLoGues project will help harvest these exquisite data's full potential in interdisciplinary dark matter searches with a hybrid approach. On the one hand, we will address biases in the smooth, galactic-scale distribution of dark matter in current chemo-dynamical models of the Milky Way and neighbouring dwarf galaxies. On the other hand, we will search for peculiar features in the spatial distribution and kinematics of individual stars in Local Group dwarf galaxies, which will then be confronted with signatures of luminous and dark mergers in state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations. In this way, the theoretical link between observations and the accretion history of the host dwarf galaxy will be provided. DiaLoGues will be a transfer-of-knowledge agent between the astroparticle and astrophysics communities, contributing to the interdisciplinary endeavour to constrain the underlying particle physics model that governs dark matter at the microscopic scales.

Mots clés : milky way, dwarf galaxies, dark matter searches, galaxy dynamics, gaia, stellar spectroscopy, cosmological simulations

Participants :
- Institut d'astrophysique des Canaries (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165312.96 €
Projet TILOS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In recent time, light weight, flexibility, low-cost and tunability of organic semiconductors (OS) have drawn the attention of a broad scientific community and semiconductor industry, making them usable in many applications such as active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in smartphones, organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), solar cells, memories, photoswitches and sensors. Therefore, tremendous effort has been made to improve OS functionality. The development has reached the point where the contact resistance with the metal electrode, especially in OFETs, is becoming the main parameter limiting the performance of OS-based devices. Recent research in the Host Group has revealed that molecular monolayers (MoMs) composed of aromatic carboxylic molecules can be deprotonated on a silver substrate in a controlled manner. This finding opens a way towards developing entirely new highly efficient Charge Injection Layers for organic semiconductors. In this project I will employ state-of-the-art computational methods to characterize interfaces between Ag substrate and MoMs composed of aromatic carboxylic acid molecules, and design tunable CILs based on the controlled deprotonation. The project will go in hand with the experimental research carried out by the Host Group. If successful, our collaboration can help the OFETs finally reach their full market potential. My research will be carried out at CEITEC that offers the ideal set of equipment. The project will be supervised by Dr. Jan Čechal, an expert in experimental characterization of molecular interfaces, and co-supervised by Dr. Pavel Jelínek, an expert in molecular interfaces modeling.

Mots clés : interface engineering, density functional theory, organic semiconductors

Participants :
- Université des technologies de Brno (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166278.72 €
Projet ENTWINE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

ENTWINE aims to understand whether and how invasive plants colonize new places, altering the structure of communities of fungus and insects linked with deadwood. The project integrates metabarcoding, phylogenetics, and community ecology to sample empirical and experimental communities that exploit native and invasive deadwood species in native and invaded forests throughout Lithuania. Exploiting long-read sequencing technologies and a bioinformatic pipeline to phase barcoding markers into Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), I will obtain normalised OTU richness and relative abundances and compare the β- species, phylogenetic, and functional diversity estimates between communities. Insects and fungi exploiting and living in deadwood form entwined communities that play a critical role in nutrient cycling, wood decomposition, and pathogen control. In addition to abiotic factors like local climate, biotic factors like deadwood species and decay stage influence the structure and strength of the associations with each other and their shared habitat. The abundance and quality of deadwood correlate with the local tree composition, which shifts as the invading Acer negundo spreads and outcompetes local Alnus glutinosa trees. Insect and fungi species turnover or variation in relative abundances might then result from e.g. the local extinction of rare specialists associated with A. glutinosa, the introduction of new species associated with A. negundo deadwood, and/or the increase in abundance of generalist species. Those changes in community structure resulting from A. negundo invasions may contribute to the loss of species and their ecological functions. This indicates the need to control the spread of invasive plants to prevent the extinction of vulnerable or rare species and the importance of learning the ecological roles of undiscovered species before they vanish unnoticed. ENTWINE is developed in collaboration with the Life Sciences Centre at Vilnius University, Lithuania

Mots clés : metabarcoding

Participants :
- Université de Vilnius (Lituanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 158597.76 €
Projet PoSoLit (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Moshkin's project examines the works of post-Soviet literature by writers who, after the fall of the USSR, left their countries of birth and established new homes in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. To date, these authors have been studied either as literary representatives of their adopted nations or as part of a global Russian culture, in which the moniker “Russian” stands as a synecdoche for the whole post-Soviet world. None of these scholarly works, however, widened the scope of the study of post-Soviet literature beyond the traditional focus on a single nation, language, or canon, nor they have adequately grappled with the transnational affiliations and identities of ex-Soviet authors. By putting diaspora at the center of its analytical framework, this project offers a revisionist approach to the study of post-Soviet literature by 1) cutting across entrenched cultural, national, and linguistic divides that structure the study of post-Soviet literature and 2) amplifying underrepresented literary voices and identities that are frequently overlooked through a monolithic focus on Russia. In so doing, the project produces a new understanding of post-Soviet literature as inherently multilingual, decentered, and global. To curate my research for the wider public, I will build a website that will use pioneering DH tools and methods (such as digital storytelling, data visualization, and cultural mapping) to transform my findings into public-facing scholarship with a wider appeal. This will result in a better transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines and help foster a culture of open science.

Mots clés : post soviet literature digital humanities russian literature israeli literature german literature american literature turkish literature diaspora and transnationalism multilingualism

Participants :
- Université Koç (Turquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 148478.4 €
Projet 2DSFSO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The world is foreseeing future electronics in demand of miniaturization, quantum efficiency, and low power consumption with the emergence of novel two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor materials. 2D materials' ultra-thin size, band gap engineering, and structural designing demonstrates high-performance optoelectronic devices but lacks novel materials or manipulation mechanisms to achieve low dark current, high absorption/emission efficiency, and low cost of production. Ferroelectric materials can modulate the mobility, carrier concentration, and band alignment in these 2D materials resulting in non-volatile control of photonic and optoelectronic properties. α-In2Se3, a ferroelectric semiconducting material by virtue of its peculiar crystal structure inheriting both in-plane (IP) and out-of-plane polarization (OOP) at room temperature is a game changer that manipulates the band bending and carrier transport can be non-destructive and controllable in the ferroelectric–optoelectronic hybrid systems. The 2D semiconductor ferroelectric switchable optoelectronics (2DSFSO) propose the integration of CVD-synthesized larg-area α-In2Se3 and MoS2/doped MoS2 heterostructure devices with multifunctional properties. The peculiar OOP of α-In2Se3 can switch the band alignment in the hydrid system from type II to type I exhibiting enhanced photodetection and luminescence within the same device features a switchable optoelectronic system. The cornerstones of the proposal are (a) integrating large area 2D ferroelectric and semiconductor thinfilms by epitaxial growth (b) adoption of various spectroscopic and microscopic techniques to analyze the interface physics to understand the band switching mechanism resulting in multipurpose optoelectronic devices. The large-area 2D ferroelectric platform can act as a universal platform to modulate the 2D semiconductor hybrids that can facilitate functional devices that are indispensable component for the next-generation Internet of Things system.

Mots clés : cvd, ferroelectrics, thin films, heterostructures, optical characterization

Participants :
- Institute of Physics (Croatie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 161889.6 €