Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SIINSTALL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The European Strategic Energy Technology Plan prioritizes research and innovation in offshore wind energy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. With shallow offshore sites nearly developed, attention is now shifting to deeper waters (>60 m depth), where floating offshore wind (FOW) turbines are more viable. Anchor piles, which are hollow steel pipes, are widely used to secure FOW turbines to the seabed. Currently, the installation of anchor piles relies on large hydraulic hammers that deliver strike blows to the pile head. However, this method is inefficient, expensive, and generates harmful underwater noise, which can negatively affect marine mammals. In this context, an innovative method is urgently needed to improve installation efficiency, and reduce environmental harm, thereby making FOW more viable. SIINSTALL aims to promote the wide adoption of vibratory driving method by developing an intelligent forecasting system to predict pile driveability and soil resistance to driving. To achieve this, the researcher will: (i) create a unique database of physical modelling tests using the cutting-edge centrifuge facilities at TU Delft, simulating the vibro-driving of anchor piles; (ii) perform numerical simulations and parametric studies to gain deeper insights into soil behaviour during vibro-driving; and (iii) develop a neural network-based surrogate model, integrating data from numerical and physical modelling. This machine learning model will form the core of the intelligent forecasting system. SIINSTALL takes a strong interdisciplinary approach, bridging offshore geotechnics, computer science, and physics while addressing industry needs. To ensure the project’s success, the researcher will conduct research within TU Delft’s Geo-Engineering group, including a three-month secondment at the University of Western Australia. This project will enhance the researcher’s academic career, fostering independent leadership skills and expertise in floating offshore wind.

Mots clés : floating offshore wind anchor piles vibratory driving centrifuge tests machine learning

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Delft (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 232916.16 €
- Université d'Australie-Occidentale (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet EquitES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Increasing pressures on land resources necessitate landscape management solutions that simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to diverse stakeholder groups with competing interests. Yet, there are enduring inequities in the benefits derived from nature by social groups. These inequities are expected to be amplified by climate change, which typically affects vulnerable people the most. However, a quantification of the effects of climate change on the overall contribution of nature to people’s quality of life (referred to as “multifunctionality”, defined here as overall supply of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) weighted by their relative prioritisation by people), and its distribution across social groups, is missing. This project aims to fill these gaps by 1) identifying the main socio-demographic factors underlying disparities in supply, demand and access to NCP; and their impacts on quality of life; 2) quantifying the impact of climate change on the distribution of multifunctionality across social groups; and 3) identifying land management solutions to increase multifunctionality for most groups, and minimise inequities, under future climate change. This project will thus provide new insights into factors driving people’s benefits from nature, and provide a synthetic assessment of climate change impacts on social inequities via their effects on nature and NCP. As fighting inequities and environmental change become increasingly pressing and intertwined issues in policy, this research will provide land managers and policy makers with a basis for informed decision-making for guiding equitable and sustainable development. The project will additionally provide me with a unique opportunity to expand my collaboration network as well as my conceptual, technical and project management skills, paving the way towards my professional independence and leadership in the field of social-ecology.

Mots clés : social equity ecosystem services multifunctionality

Participants :
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet MangC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The world’s vegetation acts as a large carbon sink, absorbing ~30% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Ecosystems at the interface of terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems – including mangroves – have been little studied. Yet, mangroves contribute disproportionally to this sink capacity relative to their aerial extent, as they have up to ten times higher burial rates than terrestrial forests. Under global warming, it is nevertheless unclear whether mangroves will continue to store carbon and absorb CO2 emissions at the same rate or become a net source of CO2. This is because higher temperature may accelerate soil biogeochemical processes. Here, I will track the carbon decay in mangrove soils under warmings using a novel combination of mesocosm experiments coupled with isotopic analysis. The results will provide the first quantification of soil organic matter (SOM) decay under global warming scenarios in mangroves (research objective 1-RO1), reveal its underlying mechanisms (RO2) and potential feedback loop with vegetation (RO3). This will be a step-change in understanding how mangrove carbon stocks and sink capacity will respond to global warming.

Mots clés : mangrove, coastal wetland, carbon cycle, blue carbon

Participants :
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 233696.72 €
- Université de Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université du Queensland (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SiCNeutronFlash (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Cancer is a major public health problem worldwide. According to the latest research, 20% of people will develop cancer at some point during their lifetime. Radiotherapy (RT) is the medical use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer. About 52% of cancer patients receive RT at least once during their treatment. During the last years, new RT treatment modalities are rapidly being researched, one of the most promising is the Ultra High Dose-Rate Radiotherapy (UHDR) or FLASH therapy, where the delivered dose rate is several orders of magnitude higher than the conventional one. This approach has been found to elicit significant sparing of healthy tissues with equal probability of tumor control. One of the challenges to validate and enable the clinical implementation of FLASH is the development of active dosimetry systems that allow accurate dose measurements and beam monitoring. The experience gained in RT traditional treatments shows that secondary neutrons can produce a not insignificant undesirable parasitic dose to healthy tissue and critical organs that can induce late effects. Therefore, the measurement of neutron flux and its spectrum is key to determining potential risks in FLASH therapy. The goal of this project is the development of a novel matrix of active neutron dosimeters based on Silicon Carbide (SiC) diodes covered with different types of neutron conversion layers and moderators for characterizing the neutron contribution out-of-field in FLASH conditions. SiC has many advantages, e.g., low noise, insensitivity to visible light and temperature variations, higher radiation hardness than silicon. The host group has been the first worldwide in obtaining a SiC detector with a linear relationship between the charge collected and the dose up to 11 Gy/pulse (1.5 um pulse). To the best of our knowledge, there are no active neutron dosimeters to measure out-of-field neutron doses in FLASH conditions. We propose to create the first one in the field.

Mots clés : flash therapy, sic radiation detectors, neutron dosimetry

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 181152.96 €
- Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Séville (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SpinSC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Improving the efficiency of photovoltaics (PV) is essential to accelerate the pursuit of carbon neutrality. As commercially available solar cells approach the 26% practical efficiency ceiling, we urgently need to find new ways to improve PV performance. A solution is to broaden the part of the incident solar spectrum that solar cells can absorb efficiently. The process of spectral conversion achieves this strategy by upconverting and downconverting the light wavelengths that are otherwise lost to transmission and heat.  The spectral conversion processes that are key for photovoltaics are mediated by the spin of excited electronic states, whose short lifetime poses a challenge to their experimental investigation. However, the achievement of efficient spectral conversion depends on our ability to understand and control the complex quantum dynamics involved in these processes, which requires advanced theoretical and experimental methods.  I have specialised in quantum system dynamics throughout my research career, becoming an expert in using analytical and numerical methods for their simulation. For my postdoctoral studies, I have undertaken an interdisciplinary path to apply my expertise to problems that I believe in having the highest urgency. I have worked on energy transport in molecular material for photovoltaics and collaborated with innovators in spectral conversion. With the same intentions, my objective is to determine the conditions for spectral conversion to occur efficiently in molecular materials.  At the University of Padua, I will learn fundamental skills necessary for this research, receiving crucial training for optimising and controlling spin-mediated spectral conversion. There, I will work with Prof. Simone Montangero, who has pioneered methods for the simulation and control of complex quantum systems. The successful outcome of this research will guide the fabrication of spectral converters, essential for enhancing photovoltaic performance.

Mots clés : photovoltaics efficiency, singlet fission, triplet triplet annihilation, photoswitching, hyperfine interaction, electron spin resonance, quantum optimal control

Participants :
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188590.08 €
- Université de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CyaSafe (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Food security and nutrition challenges, driven by population growth and climate change, underscore the need for sustainable solutions, leading to increased consumption of cyanobacteria-based supplements like Spirulina sp. and Nostoc sp. While these cyanobacteria are nutritionally rich, they may also produce potentially harmful secondary metabolites, including cyanotoxins. The presence and bioavailability of these compounds depend on factors such as cell wall integrity and metabolic transformation in the digestive tract. Current safety evaluations are insufficient, lacking comprehensive data on bioavailability and toxicological impacts. The CyaSafe project aims to bridge critical knowledge gaps in the safety and efficacy of cyanobacteria. The specific aims are as follows: first, through in vitro studies simulating human digestion, CyaSafe will assess how cyanobacterial metabolites are absorbed and transformed. Second, comprehensive toxicological testing will be performed to evaluate cytotoxicity and genotoxicity, establishing new safety benchmarks. Third, the project will utilize research findings to propose updated technical recommendations, improving regulatory frameworks for these supplements. In addition to its research objectives, CyaSafe will emphasize knowledge transfer and public awareness to foster a better understanding of the risks and benefits of cyanobacteria-based products. The project will be conducted at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research of University of Porto, a leader in Marine and Environmental Research. A planned secondment with expertise in Toxicology and Food Safety, will facilitate the interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange. Through addressing research gaps, improving safety standards, and raising public awareness, CyaSafe aims to protect public health, build confidence and ensure the safety of cyanobacteria-based supplements.

Mots clés : cyanobacteria, food supplements, bioavailability, bioaccessibility, metabolomics, safety, bioactive compounds

Participants :
- Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation en Santé de l’Université de Porto (Portugal) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 191343.12 €
- Université de Séville (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet BIOCATMAG (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Within a worldwide upsurge of renewable energies and the need to replace chemicals from fossil sources, BIOCATMAG intends to offer a new catalytic approach for producing chemicals from biomass. Based on magnetically induced catalysis, where a catalyst with a magnetic response combines heating and catalytic functions under an alternate magnetic field, the technology presented would enable the coupling of intermittent renewable energies with biomass valorization. Remarkably, several challenges, but also opportunities, lie on the horizon owing to the use of magnetocatalysis. Some of them would be tuning the selectivity by changing the magnetic field amplitude, stabilizing magnetic metal nanoparticles in water or the need to accomplish cascade-type processes. Therefore, the project aims to broaden current knowledge of magnetically induced catalysis while providing a set of chemicals using unprecedented non-noble metal catalysts and greener reaction conditions, such as aqueous media and low pressures. Furthermore, the reactions have been carefully chosen to cover the main areas of interest in biomass valorization by heterogeneous catalysis. In that sense, the transformation of a next-generation platform molecule (levoglucosenone), the production of organonitrogen chemicals (pyrazines), and the valorization of cellulose will be the processes selected. This selection also considers the need to meet the challenges mentioned earlier. In that line, all reactions will be performed in aqueous media, the levoglucosenone hydrogenation or hydrogenolysis will be adjusted with the field amplitude, and, for the valorization of cellulose, a two-step one-pot process to 2,5-bis-hydroxymethylfurane is proposed. In this last case, a multicatalytic batch reactor working with two different temperature regions is proposed for the first time, taking advantage of the differential heating experimented by different metallic materials under the same alternate magnetic field exposure.

Mots clés : magnetically induced catalysis, magnetic nanoparticles, complex nanoparticles, biomass derivatives, hydrogenation reactions, cellulose depolymerization, pyrazine synthesis, multicatalytic reactor

Participants :
- Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195914.88 €
- Université de Séville (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PERLY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project proposes the first comparative analysis of ancient Greek and classical Japanese performed lyric poetry (Nō) ever to be undertaken. It will explicate the fragmentary Greek lyric poetry as textual traces of a now extinct performance tradition against the still living Japanese lyric performance tradition that is Nō, harnessing the insights of cognitive performance studies. In so doing it will produce a proof of concept for the comparison between Greek lyric and Nō, a demonstration of the application of novel approaches drawn from cognitive performance studies to both the Greek and the Japanese material, a novel set of comparative readings for the benefit of both Classicists and Japanologists, and an impetus for renewed dialogue between scholarship and performance practice. The successful completion of this project will establish me as a comparatist in addition to a classicist, extending my scholarly reach beyond my native discipline and even beyond the academic world by allowing me scope for engagement with the performing arts and the public at large. The research will be carried out in universities in Japan and Italy, straddling the respective departments of Classics/Humanities and Japanese and Comparative Literature/Asiatic Studies at the University of Tokyo and Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Mots clés : greek lyric poetry, lyric performance, japanese n

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 266318.4 €
- Université de Tokyo (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet JIROborn (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : TERMINATED

Very preterm birth represent about 1% of livebirths in Europe each year and is associated with 58% of neonatal deaths and substantial lifetime health problems. Pneumocystis jirovecii is an ubiquitous microfungus commonly known for causing a severe interstitial pneumonia in immunosuppressed subjects. However, this could be the tip of the iceberg and compelling new evidences suggest that this infection may be pathogenic to certain groups of infants. In utero transmission of P. jirovecii in humans has been recently proven. The fungus has been found in the lungs of 14-25% preterm newborns, associated with an increased risk of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The ability of P. jirovecii to change the pulmonary environment has been demonstrated in other contexts, inducing a modification of the host immune response, pulmonary dysbiosis and thickening of pulmonary alveoli. Genetic polymorphisms have also been independently implicated in both an increased risk of preterm bi or neonatal RDS and a susceptibility to P. jirovecii. Hence, JIROborn aims to address the impact of P. jirovecii in utero infection on the preterm infants’ lungs alteration and on the development of subsequent early or late diseases, constructing a predictive model for monitoring preterm infants’ related pulmonary complications. JIROborn is a nested case control study using a prospective cohort of 596 infected and uninfected preterm infants and their mothers. First, the clinical impact of P. jirovecii infection will be evaluated for early and later lung complications. Then, biological effects of the infection will be studied focusing on the immune parameters, the microbiota and on surfactant and mucus production. Genetic and epigenetic susceptibilities to P. jirovecii colonization and/or to the development of pulmonary diseases will be evaluated. Finally, all data will be analysed to build a predictive model for the monitoring of preterm infants’ pulmonary complications.

Mots clés : pneumocystis jirovecii, preterm birth, inflammation, lungs, respiratory distress syndrome, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, asthma, microbiota, in utero infection, predictive model, personalised medicine

Participants :
- Université de Séville (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 181152.96 €
Projet PRO-SLIDE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The offshore energy infrastructure (OEI)-soil interaction has been studied by numerical analyses in the literature. However, these studies are rarely focused on the performance of OEIs during the seismic submarine landslide (SSL). Moreover, the pseudo-static approach employed for stability assessment of OEI is generally conservative for deep water conditions. The dynamic approach needs a wide range of input parameters and spends a lot of time and money on analyses. Accordingly, predictive models are needed to fill the gap between these approaches for a simple prediction of OEI deformations during SSL. The overall objective of PRO-SLIDE is to develop a reliable and low computational cost solution for simplified resilience assessment of OEIs damage due to SSLs. Answering this concern is not trivial, but it can guide future analyses and contribute to gaining insights from a calibration effort using numerical models that will be undertaken using a benchmark centrifuge model that can successfully capture key mechanisms and features as well as trends. The findings will be based on a database produced via advanced numerical analyses of the OEI-SSL mechanism using the DEM-FEM, a catalog of near-fault ground motions, machine learning technic, and probabilistic/fragility analyses. A two-way transfer of knowledge is guaranteed since I have a solid background in the development of earthquake-induced sliding models and ground motions databank and also my supervisor at AAU has vast experience in the resilience assessment of OEIs and data-driven models. Moreover, my supervisors at secondments (RMIT&HKUST) have great experience in the fields of OEI numerical simulation and physical modeling. Accordingly, this will ensure the achievement of this timely and innovative project as well as the dissemination and exploitation of the expected results. The acquired skills will allow me to embrace an academic/non-academic career path in the EU.

Mots clés : offshore energy infrastructure, earthquake, landslide, deformation predictive model, fragility function, resilience assessment

Participants :
- Université d'Aalborg (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
- Université des sciences et technologies de Hong Kong (Hong Kong) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut royal de technologie de Melbourne (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €