Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet DANUBE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

DANUBE aims to study cultural connectivity among potters in riverine environment of the Middle Danube Region during the 16th-17th centuries, which is a phenomenon of central importance for an archaeological interpretation of cultural change in Central Europe initiated with the Ottoman expansion. This interdisciplinary study combines archaeological and scientific analyses of common pottery with an anthropological theory on technology and written sources of the Ottoman period to reconstruct the ceramic production technology and means of knowledge transmission along the Danube-Sava-Drava rivers. Common pottery included in DANUBE is part of six largely unstudied archaeological collections from Serbia and Croatia, and this project aims to highlight existing potentials of the Middle Danube Region for archaeological studies of the post-medieval period. Focusing on pottery consumed in riverine settlements after the Ottoman conquest, the project explores links between ceramic morphology, technology and cultural connectivity. DANUBE is the first study of riverine connectivity in Post-Medieval Archaeology of Central Europe. Although DANUBE deals with a specific region, it can be used as an exemplar for addressing broader cross-cultural and methodological questions regarding the role of rivers for networks of knowledge exchange and connectivity in the context of large-scale migrations, military pressure and cultural change. The project introduces the regional-scale approach to ceramic studies in the Middle Danube Region and goes beyond ceramic morphology to explore human interactions along large rivers of Central Europe. DANUBE benefits from the applicant’s sound research experience crosscutting archaeological and scientific studies of Ottoman ceramics in Southeastern Europe, combined with the access to materials from riverine sites and the prospect for synergies and expertise at the University of Tübingen.

Mots clés : post medieval archaeology, cultural connectivity, ceramic analysis, riverine environment, ottoman archaeology, central europe, ceramic petrography, chemical analysis

Participants :
- Université Eberhard Karl de Tübingen (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
- Institute of Archaeology (Serbie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PIPER (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The global decline of arthropod populations threatens biodiversity, ecosystem services, and food webs, with pesticides as a major driver. Arthropods are crucial for pollination, decomposition, and as prey for vertebrates. This decline, linked to intensive agriculture, affects over 74% of the world’s agricultural land with pesticide contamination. Despite EU regulations, pesticide pollution impacts aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Current risk assessments focus on survival, overlooking sub-lethal effects that can disrupt physiology and behavior affecting fitness and population viability. This project investigates the sub-lethal effects of pesticide exposure on the fitness of riparian Tetragnatha spiders, which are key predators in riparian ecosystems. These spiders feed on aquatic insects and thereby transfer pesticides to terrestrial environments. Despite their ecological importance, the impact of pesticides on their reproduction remains poorly understood. I will evaluate how sub-lethal pesticide exposure affects fitness-related traits, including sperm quality, oocyte development, and reproductive behavior, addressing gaps in ecotoxicological assessments. I hypothesize that pesticide exposure will reduce sperm quantity and quality, cause DNA fragmentation, impair oocyte development, and disrupt mating behavior, leading to reduced fitness and population viability. The project combines laboratory and field experiments along the Mura River in Slovenia, an area with documented pesticide contamination. Field data will inform laboratory experiments where spiders are exposed to various pesticide concentrations through contaminated prey. We will assess reproductive parameters and behavioral changes to understand the broader implications of pesticide exposure. This interdisciplinary research will advance evolutionary ecotoxicology, enhance understanding of pesticide impacts on reproduction, and inform conservation strategies, aligning with EU environmental objectives.

Mots clés : arachnology, ecotoxicology, sperm parameters, animal behaviour, environmental chemistry, reproductive biology

Participants :
- Université de Greifswald (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovénie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 198557.52 €
Projet PolyPro3 (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Marine polychaete worms (Annelida) are key organisms in marine benthic ecosystems. They have important roles from decomposers to consumers and due to their burrowing lifestyle, they actively participate in oxygenation of sediments maintaining benthic ecosystem health. Polychaetes are known to host protistan symbionts (gregarines), which themselves are infected my microsporidian parasites, forming a tripartite symbiosis. Symbiotic interactions have been of fundamental importance in ecological and evolutionary processes through the history of life, and have ultimately shaped the biodiversity we witness today. However, the polychaete-gregarine-microsporidian tripartite interaction has not been studied before and it is unclear how these interactions affect the polychaetes. Consequently, it is unclear how the the tripartite symbiosis might affect the functioning of benthic ecosystems. One reason behind this knowledge gap is the difficulty of applying experimental approaches with marine hosts and symbionts that are unculturable. With PolyPro3 specifically aiming to resolve the nature of the tripartite symbiosis and the diversity of the interaction by using state-of-the-art molecular methods combined with traditional ecological fieldwork, I will bring a significant step forward in addressing this key gap of knowledge. I will use differential transcriptomics and quantitative methods to disentangle the interaction, and a large spatial scale field sampling across the opening of the Baltic Sea combined with metabarcoding approach to describe the diversity and specificity of polychaete-gregarine-microsporidian tripartite symbiosis. PolyPro3 will also provide novel insights into the impacts of the tripartite symbiosis on the functioning and stability of important benthic habitats and provide effective means for investigation of other marine symbioses. Lastly, PolyPro3 significantly adds to the knowledge on neglected biodiversity of polychaete associated marine protists.

Mots clés : protistology, symbiosis

Participants :
- Université de la Colombie-Britannique (Canada) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet JUSTCARBON (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

As carbon taxes are set to extend in depth and scope it will be critical to follow them from policymaking to implementation. Just Carbon Transitions (JUSTCARBON) spotlights the role of legal expertise in translating carbon taxation ideals into action. Tax systems and national legal jurisdictions present significant challenges for policy makers intent on tackling both environmental concerns and redistributive goals through taxation. There is an urgent need to investigate the role of legal tax professional structure, authority, and expertise to draw out how competition and cooperation among experts shapes the effectiveness of taxes in bringing about just transitions. These experts are crucial to study because the justness of (carbon) tax policies extend beyond ‘the letter of the law’, to the enforcement and control systems that make them effective - systems designed and populated by tax professionals. The study draws on an interdisciplinary research agenda shared between scholars of public administration and the sociology of professions and expertise. Through a comparative study of tax professionals and policy processes in three European countries – Denmark, Norway, and France – the study will give new insights into the implementation and operation of these systems, and how they are part of changing national legal orders on tax. Overall, the project will tell us where tax professionals are positioned in national policy advisory systems, what ‘legal expertise’ means in practice to these experts and which norms guide their work. The project is designed to expand this interdisciplinary agenda by bridging sociological and political science communities. During the project I will train with leading scholars in international comparative research on expertise and public administration, from sociological and political science perspectives. My goals are to develop a more complete research profile and my potential to be a future research leader in these fields.

Mots clés : sociology of professions, sociology of expertise, public administration, carbon taxation, green transition, socio legal studies

Participants :
- Université de Leyde (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226751.04 €
Projet ScanDigiLit (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The ScanDigiLit project will digitally investigate how the Italian-French discourse on Scandinavian authors and culture has been structured and evolved through articles that appeared in Italian and French cultural magazines between 1870 and 1914. Through a newly developed analytical method rooted in the digital humanities, I will be able to visually examine and understand the perceived narrative trends and reception structure of Scandinavian literature in Italian and French cultural magazines. In order to find semantic correlations between significant words in their context and their occurence, I will analyse the evolution of the discussion on Scandinavian authors through an interpretation of articles, developing a lexical research methodology on linguistically different corpora referring to the same cultural area. By combining unexplored corpora with unprecedented analytical tools, the ScanDigiLit project will uncover new insights into a crucial period of Scandinavian literary history.

Mots clés : digital humanities, data visualisation, cultural transfer, scandinavian modern literature, reception studies

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210911.04 €
Projet FemBod (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project aims at re-evaluating women’s agency in the Greek sacred world through the application of an innovative and interdisciplinary approach encompassing cognitive archaeology. The role of women in Ancient Greece has been either overlooked or described as powerless, controlled and excluded by scholars (Hogbin, 1970; Spain, 1992). This research overturns this narrative by revealing evidence of powerful female agency in the Ancient Greek sacred space through a cognitive reading of the historical context and ancient mind which will also explain the reasons why women were highly involved and how their agency was fundamental for successful rituals.

Mots clés : cognitive archaeology

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210911.04 €
Projet Balcony (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Cratons, the oldest lithosphere on Earth, have survived for more than 3 billion years due to their neutral buoyancy, high viscosity, and thickness. The geologic record shows that, in the presence of external agents (e.g., mantle plume eruptions), most cratons have experienced partial destruction (e.g., Slave craton). Yet, cratons have retained their 200-300 km thickness more or less to the present-day. We hypothesize that a newly-identified self-compressive mechanism causes them to slowly but continuously regrow with time, promoting re-cratonization. Convective self-compression results from the diversion of mantle flow beneath thick and viscous cratonic roots, and is clearly observed and analysed in our recent numerical models. There may be temporary periods of imbalance if craton destruction is relatively new and self-compression has not had enough time to act (e.g., North China craton). Over time, self-compressive thickening may be balanced by increased shearing at the base of cratons due viscous anisotropy and grain size-dependent weakening. In this MSCA project BALCONY, I will use numerical models of cratons sitting above a convecting mantle to investigate how craton thickness may be maintained for billion years by the self-compression mechanism, despite destabilizing events and continuous erosion from below. My objectives are to develop time-dependent numerical models to investigate (1) the effect of self-compression on craton re-thickening, (2) the importance of viscous anisotropy and grain size evolution for craton thinning, and finally (3) the balance between thickening and thinning, which ultimately determines the long-term thickness of cratons. The project is a perfect overlap between the research interests of the supervisors (Clint Conrad, Agnes Kiraly at the Universtiy of Oslo) and myself. We are all interested in understanding lithosphere dynamics and have previous experience modelling craton stability, viscous anisotropy and grain size evolution.

Mots clés : craton, numerical modelling, geodynamics, viscous anisotroy, grain size evolution

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 210911.04 €
Projet MicroplIS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Higher demands for increased agricultural production will arise in the future to secure the food supply for an expanding world population. Sustainable agricultural approaches are urgently needed to meet this demand today as well as in future. It is well known that bacterial communities contribute to the ecosystem functions of soil; however, very little is known about the composition and diversity of those communities. One important factor for bacterial adaptation is the horizontal transfer of genetic material. MicroplIS aims to identify mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that are important for bacteria-plant interactions with special regard to insertion sequence elements (ISs). The rhizosphere of plants is a hotspot for horizontal gene transfer and some of the MGEs might carry plant beneficial traits. Therefore, I hypothesize that plant beneficial traits can be found associated with MGEs in the rhizosphere. Identifying these elements will help to harness their contribution to ecosystem services like biofertilization (siderophore release, inorganic phosphate solubilization) and biostimulation (auxin production, VOC release, ACC-deaminase activity, EPS production). Furthermore, the identified traits will be linked to climate change influences in a growth chamber experiment with changing drought and wet conditions. Through this approach it will be possible to link the prevalence of plasmids and ISs with extreme weather events. In conclusion, the findings from MicroplIS will contribute to optimizing ecosystem services to effectively address shifting environmental conditions.


Participants :
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 200400.0 €
- Institute of urban environment, chinese academy of sciences (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SYROCO (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Through the SYROCO project, my objective is to successfully synthesize RoHS-compliant 2D core/shell nanoplatelets (NPLs) of ZnSe/ZnS and ZnTe/ZnS. These nanoplatelets will exhibit predetermined emission colors (violet, blue, cyan, and green), narrow emission peaks (below 15 nm), and near-unity Photoluminescence Quantum Efficiency (PL QE), characteristics that have not yet been achieved. This endeavor aims to introduce a novel generation of Cd-free luminescent NPLs while offering valuable insights into the mechanisms underlying photoluminescence broadening and quenching in 2D nanomaterials. By transcending the current limitations in color range and emission line width imposed by conventional colloidal quantum dots, this research will pave the way for groundbreaking materials suitable for displays, lighting, and other optoelectronic devices. The outcomes of this project are expected to significantly advance my academic career by providing me with unique experiences in the convergence of multiple disciplines and positioning me as an emerging leader in the field. Achieving these objectives hinges on the supervisor's extensive expertise and my own diverse experience working with various colloidal NCs exhibiting strong emission characteristics, such as InP/ZnSe/ZnS, ZnCdTeS, ZnSe/ZnS, InAg(Cu,Zn)S/ZnS NCs, perovskite NPLs, and transition-metal dichalcogenide nanowires. Over the course of thirteen years, I have honed my skills through collaborations in different laboratories and with various supervisors and partners in the fields of physics (solid-state, optics), photonics, and chemistry (physical chemistry), focusing primarily on functional luminescent NCs. This diverse experience has equipped me with the necessary tools to tackle multidisciplinary challenges in the field.

Mots clés : nanoplatelets, colloidal quantum dots, colloidal synthesis, cryogenic measurements, photoluminescence, displays

Participants :
- Université de Gand (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 216240.0 €
- Qustomdot (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PERCOLATE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Supercritical geothermal energy is a new frontier in the pursuit of renewable, carbon-free energy. However, the extreme pressure and temperature conditions where supercritical reservoirs are found in Earth's crust coincide with the transition zone where rocks shift from brittle to ductile behaviour. Historically, this transition was believed to be a cut-off for fluid circulation, but recent findings have challenged this view, highlighting the urgent need to understand the mechanical and hydrological behaviours of rocks within this rheological domain. PERCOLATE proposes to investigate the mechanics of rock deformation and fluid flow at this brittle-ductile transition by integrating advanced rock deformation techniques, X-ray 4D imaging, machine learning-based image analysis and fluid flow modelling This project leverages my extensive experimental experience and enriches my expertise with valuable new skills in imaging and machine learning. Ultimately, PERCOLATE will contribute to the EU New Green Deal’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 by advancing our comprehension of geothermal energy and deformation in the crust.

Mots clés : experimental rock mechanics, rheology, x ray computed tomography, fluid flow

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

Hybridisation, mating between distinct species or divergent populations, can lead to a variety of different outcomes. Many hybrid offspring will have low fitness or be inviable, while others may increase fitness under extreme conditions by producing transgressive hybrids with phenotypes outside of their parental range. The role of hybridisation in adaptation and speciation is a key question in evolutionary biology, especially as hybridisation is predicted to rise due to climate change and other human activities. In FINESSE (Fungal INtrogrESsion and SpEciation) we aim to use the wood-decaying fungus Trichaptum abietinum as a study system for researching hybridisation. In Europe, there are three distinct populations of T. abietinum: a Mediterranean population, a Boreal, and an Atlantic population. Where populations overlap, there are different hybrid outcomes with hybrids found in central Europe but not Norway. These contrasting outcomes make our system ideal to study patterns of introgression and hybridisation in Europe. During FINESSE we plan to 1) gather and sequence field samples from underrepresented regions across Europe, both to explore the diversity of these populations in Eastern Europe and identify the origin of the Atlantic population in Norway. 2) Generate hybrids in the lab to help us understand the differing hybrid outcomes found in Europe, and identify mechanisms of hybrid incompatibility through genomic and phenotypic assays. 3) Use a reverse genetics approach to identify genes associated with hybrid incompatibilities, using CRISPR-Cas9 transformation of candidate genes. I will also use the project to improve both my scientific and transferable skills by taking courses, from other researchers in the department, during management of the project, and more generally from working on the project. Overall, this project will let me gain the skills necessary to become a more independent researcher and improve my future career prospects.

Mots clés : hybridisation, speciation, genomics, postglacial migration, genetics, crispr cas9, evolution, adaptation

Participants :
- Université d'Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251578.56 €