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

Thanks to advances in micro- and nano-fabrication techniques, microwave engineering and cryogenics, quantum technology is a fast-growing field of science and industry with great expectations for societal benefits. A quantum bit, qubit, is one of the central elements in the present-day quantum science but most importantly in future quantum information processing. Despite tremendous progress in improving the coherence of qubits, almost a million-fold improvement in 30 years in case of superconducting circuits, they still have to cope with different loss and decoherence mechanisms and they are vulnerable to influences from their environment, which can disrupt and destroy quantum information. With the progress in ultrasensitive nanoscale bolometry in the field of circuit quantum thermodynamics (cQTD), and the intense studies of superconducting circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) as one of the leading technologies for the realization of a universal quantum computer, a combination of the two technologies provides a unique platform for studying thermalization and decoherence of e.g., a superconducting qubit in the presence of different environments. On the fundamental side, the goals of the project are in understanding thermalization of open and closed quantum systems formed of superconducting qubits, Josephson junction arrays, and transmission lines, as opposed to true dissipative baths formed of on-chip resistors. On the practical level mesoscopic heat baths in form of calorimeters will be developed by implementing cross-correlation thermometry towards wide-band detection of single microwave photons. On the technological side I will advance my skills to advanced measurements of superconducting qubits and cross-correlation detection of temperature during the outgoing phase of the project in US (Chicago, Caltech, Seattle), and bring this expertise back to my host laboratory in Finland.

Mots clés : quantum thermodynamics, open quantum systems, superconducting quantum bit, nano fabrication, circuit qtd, thermometry, ultrasensitive detection

Participants :
- Institut de technologie de Californie (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Chicago (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Aalto (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 278571.36 €
- Université de Washington (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet INFOSOC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

INFOSOC critically historicises our contemporary information society, demonstrating its global roots through original research into the lives of East African information professionals during a period of Cold War internationalisms (1950s-80s). To understand the persistence of information inequality, we need to place contestations over information in their socio-political contexts and historicise the social science disciplines that codified the meaning and power of information. This interdisciplinary project places information professionals (journalists, librarians, broadcasters, and government information officers) at its centre. How did trainers, trainees, and new professionals imagine and use what they called information and, crucially, with what consequences for our global information society? To answer this question, I will take my expertise in East Africa's global history into new interdisciplinary territory at a leading international institution for research on histories of mass communication, Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB), under the supervision of an expert in the field, Dr Valeska Huber. Two substantial secondments in East African institutions, St Augustine University Tanzania (SAUT) and the British Institute in East Africa (BIEA), will enhance INFOSOC's innovative methodological basis and broaden its societal impact. Through a programme of training-through-research and a targeted communication and dissemination strategy, including a hybrid workshop organised in Berlin, the PF will allow me to pioneer a new sub-field of global information history and to demonstrate the pertinence of the East African case to academic audiences beyond African history, as well as to public audiences in Europe and East Africa. By the end of the PF, I will have established an independent research profile as a public-facing scholar with a research-driven teaching portfolio and a commitment to sustainable collaborations between European and East African institutions.

Mots clés : history of social sciences east africa history of institutionalised knowledge information history internationalism cold war mass communication information science professions professionals

Participants :
- Université libre de Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
- St. Augustine University of Tanzania (Tanzanie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- The british institute in eastern africa lbg (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
Projet WCOLW (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project sketches a broader framework for the characterization of women offenders, expression of women crime committing, and their involvement as both victims and offenders in criminal cases not only in fictional narrations of Ottoman literature but also in real cases that made news in the Ottoman press. I will critically address male-centric discoursing, repetitive imputations, stereotypical and cliché wordy choices, and reiterative vocabulary for the identification of female criminals by examining Ottoman newspapers, magazines, journals, and books from the late Tanzimat period (the 1860s) up to the demise of the Empire (1922). This work will mainly utilize feminist criminal approaches that follow iconoclastic ways to stand up against the systematic underestimation and negligence of androcentric crime theories and their effects on historical narratives. These all restrict women’s participation and involvement in criminal cases and identify female perpetrators without their criminal agency. As a part of this understanding, their voices as wrongdoers were mostly silenced in the Ottoman press and literary works. In this regard, this study will especially dwell on women offenders who committed offenses contrary to their vulnerable, fragile, and sensitive stereotypical features, all too frequently used as the reasons for the incapability of women to commit serious crimes. Succinctly, the major goals of this project are to analyze the perspective, vocabulary, wording, and conceptualization by the Ottoman press and intellectual productions in the narrations of women’s delinquency and the identification of criminal women’s agency through literary criticism and to raise the voices of Ottoman criminal women in real and fictional crime stories in the light of feminist criminal theory.

Mots clés : gendered criminality, historical criminology, ottoman women s criminality, ottoman press and literature, literary criticism

Participants :
- Université libre de Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265647.84 €
- Université Stanford (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet NEPTUNE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Marine microplastic pollution has emerged as a global environmental problem in recent years, presenting numerous challenges to ecosystems and human health. Microplastics originate from a variety of sources posing a threat to marine organisms and, ultimately, the food chain. In recent times, there has been a significant increase of research related to this topic from multiple angles. However, the fluid mechanics understanding of this problem in terms of distribution and aggregation of microplastics in ocean turbulence is still a topic in its infancy. The NEPTUNE project, thus, aims to provide new theoretical insights and computational tools with the final goal to better understand the problem and contribute to the European Mission “Restore our Oceans and Waters”. The project is designed to be very ambitious and highly interdisciplinary. Indeed, from a scientific perspective, the foundation upon which it is constructed consists of computational science, fundamentals of fluid mechanics and turbulence, physics-based modeling, and data science harnessed through advanced machine learning techniques. Each of these elements is designed to be pushed beyond the boundaries of the current state-of-the-art to yield novel scientific and technological insights that will drive socio-economic advancements. The project's primary goals encompass: (i) the extension of an advanced computational solver to simulate microparticles within ocean turbulence, in conjunction with various biophysical models, (ii) the better understanding of the distribution and aggregation of microparticles in turbulence, and (iii) pioneering the utilization of data-driven techniques to obtain reduced order models and unravel the intricate nonlinear behavior of microparticles in turbulent environments. In this regard, the candidate, through this fellowship, plans to boost his academic career by integrating top-tier research with training, dissemination and network-creation activities.

Mots clés : marine microplastics particle laden flows direct numerical simulations parallel computing machine learning

Participants :
- Université polytechnique de Catalogne (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
- Université Stanford (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet EXCEED (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Early detection is the most critical element, as the survival rate increases by up to 99%. Although there are conventional screening techniques such as mammography, breast cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer death in women. One of the holy grails in cancer research is to develop a blood test for early detection. Sensitive, non-invasive, and easy-to-use liquid biopsy techniques will revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring. The goal of this project is to develop a complete platform for the isolation and label-free optical characterization of biological nanoparticles called exosomes extracted from blood. Exosomes are secreted from the cells into the body fluids and play an important role in intercellular communication. These particles are emerged as potential biomarkers for liquid biopsy applications, as they carry information about their original cell. However, the translation of exosome-based analyses from research labs to clinical settings is limited due to the lack of efficient isolation and quantification tools available. We aim to develop a novel exosome characterization platform, named multimodal Interferometric-Raman imaging platform to detect and quantify exosomes at a single-particle level without using any labels. The combination of the label-free imaging capability of interferometric microscopy and the chemical content information provided by Raman spectroscopy will be an important step for exosome-based diagnostics applications. The proposed system will be integrated into a state-of-the-art isolation tool, creating complete isolation and multiparameter characterization platform. The proposed platform will be tested with the exosomes isolated from tumor cells to determine possible biomarkers that can be used for diagnosis. The diagnostic capability of the system will be validated with healthy donors and breast cancer patients(30 persons each)

Mots clés : biosensing, exosomes, liquid biopsy, microfluidics

Participants :
- Université Koç (Turquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 268803.36 €
- Université Stanford (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MaBoQuaCo (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Simulating the dynamics of quantum many-body systems is notoriously difficult as the computational requirements grow dramatically with increasing system size. While fully-fledged quantum computing may provide a means to handle this challenge, today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are prone to errors and decoherence. This interdisciplinary project promises significant progress in the understanding of nonequilibrium quantum systems and in leveraging the capabilities of NISQ devices for this purpose. The innovative research is going to capitalize on the concept of quantum typicality to explore near-term applications of random quantum states on NISQ devices and to study the emergence of hydrodynamics in isolated quantum systems. By combining state-of-the-art theoretical and numerical approaches with simulations on available quantum hardware, important insights will furthermore be gained into the universal properties of quantum dynamics in driven-dissipative systems, in monitored circuits consisting of unitary gates and projective measurements, and in many-body localized systems coupled to a thermal bath. Tackling these key areas will provide a deeper understanding of fundamental physics and will unravel the inevitable interaction of NISQ devices with their environment. Results may open up new avenues for robust and scalable simulations on NISQ devices, which is vital as quantum technology continues to mature. Additionally, this project will deliver novel NISQ-inspired classical simulation schemes, which are memory-efficient and will pave the way to answer open questions that are challenging for other methods. Highlighting the strong synergy and profound interplay between quantum many-body dynamics and NISQ devices, this project follows Horizon Europe's strategic plan of developing key digital and emerging technologies and is in line with Europe's Quantum Flagship initiative to foster European excellence in quantum technologies.

Mots clés : quantum many body physics, far from equilibrium quantum dynamics, computational quantum physics, many body localization, open quantum systems, entanglement transitions, quantum hydrodynamics

Participants :
- Université Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz de Hanovre (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 240766.8 €
- Université Stanford (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet FRONT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Deep-diving toothed whales are mega-predators that supposedly shape and maintain healthy marine ecosystems. Human activity is on the rise in these ecosystems due to deep-sea fishing and mining, which can alter the prey landscape of toothed whales and therefore negatively affect their fitness with potential trophic cascades on entire deep-water ecosystems. To address such concerns, models for Population Consequences of Disturbance (PCoD) have been developed linking disturbance to fitness of individual whales and entire populations. While the robustness of these models relies on data of energy budgets from undisturbed individuals, a shortage of related, quantitative measures precludes the effective use of these models and hence the efficient conservation of these predators. Through FRONT, I propose to fill this important knowledge gap by applying an innovative combination of state-of-the-art tagging technology and motion analysis to, for the first time in deep-diving toothed whales, (i) quantify fine-scale feeding behaviour and foraging effort, and (ii) estimate overall energy requirements and hunting costs. As a result, FRONT will generate novel data on baseline energy budgets that are crucial bioenergetic parameters for PCoD models. By informing these models, FRONT will be of direct relevance to the European Union’s (EU) Marine Strategy Framework Directive for maintaining healthy populations of these apex predators through the management of underwater anthropogenic disturbance.

Mots clés : marine mammals, cetaceans, biologging, foraging behaviour, disturbance, energy budgets, hunting success, statistical modelling, acoustics

Participants :
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 286191.36 €
- Université Stanford (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SoEco4Dev (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Eroding liberal economic model and democracy require novel approaches to development cooperation. The new research agenda emphasises the need for more research on the interactions between the nation-states' policies and organisational models. SoEco4Dev aims at responding to these policy and theoretical debates by providing an original and innovative approach and multilevel perspective to understanding the role of the local bottom-up institutions to uphold democratisation and development in post-communist countries. The objective of SoEco4Dev is to analyse how the emerging phenomenon of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) organisations drive social innovations and change in three distinct dimensions of SSE: entrepreneurial culture (economic dimension), solidarity bonds (social dimension) and democracy promotion (governance dimension). The research focuses on the nascent entrepreneurial forms of SSE – social enterprises (SE) in two post-Soviet republics, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan that continually strive to develop and democratise their societies. SoEco4Dev project is marked out by its ambitious and interdisciplinary nature that contrasts nation-state and organisational levels, and carefully integrates research and policy, local and global perspectives. The project is underpinned by an innovative and robust methodological approach that aims at constructing a well-grounded theory of SSEs internationalisation in under-explored country contexts. The project is particularly timely in the context of conflicts and increasing inequalities as it aims at gaining an in-depth understanding of the new forms of social organising and their capacity to complement the traditional local development actors, such as civil society organisations and the private sector. SoEco4Dev also aims at the career development of the researcher, broadening her research areas and improving her qualitative research and publication skills to obtain a permanent teaching and research position in the EU.

Mots clés : social and solidarity economy, social enterprises, democratisation, development, local development actors, organisational studies, social entrepreneurship, post soviet countries, georgia, kyrgyzstan

Participants :
- Hertie School (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet immuno-ALZ (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Background and rationale: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the main cause of dementia, with substantial socio-economic burdens. Due to the absence of a cure, understanding disease mechanisms and developing new therapies is crucial. Age-related systemic and brain inflammation contributes to cognitive decline. Inhibiting prostaglandin 2 (PGE2) - PGE2 receptor 2 (EP2) signalling has restored youthful hippocampal functions in ageing mice, but its specific impact on AD-related deficits remains unclear. Aim: We seek to explore the effect of EP2 inhibition on bioenergetic and cognitive decline in an amyloid precursor protein knock-in (APP-KI) mouse model of AD, using neurobiology, immunology and data science. Objective 1: We will compare the effects of brain-penetrant and non-brain-penetrant EP2 antagonists on memory, synaptic function, glucose metabolism, systemic/brain inflammation and amyloid-beta (Aβ) pathology. Objective 2: We will study these effects in APP-KI mice injected with AD brain-derived pathological tau. We will then assess the impact of peripheral immune modulation on AD-like pathology spread. Objective 3: We will analyse the changes and interplay among synaptic dynamics, microglial activity, Aβ/tau pathology progression after EP2 inhibition via real-time imaging. Methodology: The study will involve various assessments, including behavioural tests, biochemical and immunohistochemical analyses, multianalyte assays, as well as multi-omics approaches that combine transcriptomics and metabolomics. Additionally, it will utilise two- and three-photon microscopy for live imaging. Expected results: We anticipate gaining valuable insights into a) PGE2-EP2 inhibition effects on AD-driven deficits, and b) whether peripheral immune re-programming restores brain functions beyond the blood-brain barrier. Impact: The project could yield novel mechanistic and translational outcomes, guiding non-invasive therapeutic approaches to combat AD through peripheral modulations.

Mots clés : alzheimer s disease, neuroinflammation, bioenergetics, pge2 ep2, tau, amyloid beta, peripheral immune responses

Participants :
- Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 266684.16 €
- Université Stanford (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €