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

In UniBoGas my aim is to prove universal expansion formulas for the low energy levels of the dilute Bose gases, showing their dependence on just one parameter, namely the scattering length of the potentials between the particles. I am going to work out to which order of precision of the expansion the universal description still holds, and for which kind of systems. The classification of the systems that satisfy the universality is obtained through studying the expansions in three directions by paradigmatic examples: I am going to evaluate the energy for systems with potentials with repulsive and attractive parts, I am going to approximate the energy of systems composed by two kinds of bosons by the energy of effective non-linear models and I am going to evaluate the low energy levels of the hard-spheres (hard-core potential) system. The methodology used includes both the improvement of pre-existing techniques in the Bogolubov Theory and the introduction of new methods of localization, Semi-Classical Analysis and variational methods. Other than on Mathematical Physics, the results of UniBoGas will have an impact also on disciplines like Functional Analysis, Experimental Physics and Quantum Chemistry for the Bose gases and will contribute to further understand the phenomenon of Bose Einstein Condensation.

Mots clés : many body quantum systems, bose einstein condensation, quantum gases

Participants :
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet REALOPT4CONTROL (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Most modern technological applications of social relevance, such as renewable smart-grids and autonomous cars, consist of systems with complex dynamics operating under fast sampling. These processes exhibit behaviours that can only be accurately represented by means of nonlinear models (thus, complex) with sampling periods of micro to milliseconds, which means that decision-making should be done under such time. These systems only operate satisfactorily when adequate control methodologies are used, taking into account performance goals, operational constraints and physical metrics. Thus, this project focuses on the development of real-time optimisation for control, using the Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework. MPC is a very established approach, centred on generating decision actions by solving an optimisation problem. Over the last decades, considerable scientific effort has been devoted to the study of MPC, expounding its vast pertinence. Yet, applying MPC with nonlinear models issues increased digital complexity, typically incompatible with real-time environments. The standard practice consists in applying approximated solvers, which are not reproducible nor optimal. Recent works have shown an alternative to render real-time capable algorithms: designing nonlinear MPC using the Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) toolkit. Even though the theoretical side of LPV MPC is presumably established, and several results indicate competitiveness against state-of-the-art solvers, the translation to a practically-viable tool is not yet rendered universal. That is, a ready-for-application MPC solver, using LPV representations, is not yet available. Accordingly, the main goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive real-time optimisation solver, based on LPV MPC. Such a tool would ensure optimality, representation exactness, and generate control laws within the microsecond range, contributing as a technological advance oriented to modern application of social concern.

Mots clés : optimisation, model predictive control, embedded systems, nonlinear systems, real time environments, renewable energy systems, modern mobility systems

Participants :
- Université de Stuttgart (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université fédérale de Santa Catarina (Brésil) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 278983.68 €
Projet PLANTHOLOGENOME (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Explaining why related species have very different abilities to spread, adapt and survive is a central question in evolutionary biology. Microbes have long been recognized as key to the ability of plants or animals to explore resources in their environment, and there is now growing recognition that microbionts should be considered an integral part of their host. The holobiont theory state that a plant or animal cannot be considered as an individual organism, but as a holobiont consisting of the host and the sum of all its microbionts, and that adaptive genomic changes in the holobiont also includes changes in its microbiont community. The range of microbionts a species is able to associate with through time and space has been suggested to be correlated to host adaptability to different environments and could thus be an important component in distribution patterns in plants. In this project, I aim to establish the association between wild plant genomes, their microbiont communities and their habitat use, using orchids and their associated microbiomes as a model system. I will generate bacterial and fungal metagenomic profiles from tissue samples from orchids and couple it with host genomic variation to i) Explore the link between individual plant genotype and microbiont community profile using individual level sampling from two closely related orchid species, ii) Measure differences in range and variability of microbiont community among 20 congeneric wild orchid species, and iii) Correlate species-level diversity and variability of microbiont community with distribution range and habitat diversity in 20 congeneric orchid species. The results will impact our general understanding of the importance of plant microbiomes in determining their adaptive and evolutionary success, and provide important knowledge on factors effecting plant distribution of high relevance in nature management and conservation of threatened plant species.

Mots clés : plant microbiome, hologenomics

Participants :
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 230774.4 €
Projet AGNBlackHoles (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The growing list of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected in gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO/Virgo, have been used to put tight constraints on Einstein's Theory of Gravity. However, their astrophysical origin still remains a major open question. Recently, active galactic nuclei (AGN) disks have been suggested to be a promising location for forming BBH mergers. In such environments, black holes (BHs) either form in the disk or are captured through gas-drag from the surrounding nuclear star cluster. Exactly how the BHs pair up, and eventually merge, is likely a product of dynamical interactions taking place while the BHs migrate through the disk; however, no leading groups have so far been able to deliver a consistent description of this extremely important part. As a Marie Curie Fellow, I will for the first time present a full numerical and analytical framework for describing the dynamical formation of BBH mergers in AGN-disks. This will, in particular, include both post-Newtonian (PN) corrections, and gas-friction effects, for describing the following key dynamical processes: BH-BH binary formation through GW emission and gas-friction; BBH-BH interactions both in the strong (resonating) and weak (secular) regime; and the secular evolution of two and/or more BHs in hierarchical configurations. The goal of this study will be to provide the community with testable predictions that can be used to constrain this channel using GW data from LIGO/Virgo, especially including the distribution of BBH mass ratio, BBH orbital eccentricity, and BH spin-orbit misalignment angles. The project will be carried out at the Niels Bohr International Academy (NBIA) under the supervision of Prof. M. Pessah. The interdisciplinary environment, vibrant atmosphere, and exceptional scientists make the NBIA not only the ideal host for this project, but further ensure that I will mature into a prominent scientist in my field during the time of the Marie Curie Fellowship.

Mots clés : origin of gravitational wave sources, kinematics and dynamics, black hole mergers, n body simulations

Participants :
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 230774.4 €
Projet PlaBioC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

We need to turn our production systems upside down! Instead of using fossil fuels and release carbon dioxide, we need to shift to biobased production with carbon dioxide as the sole carbon source. In nature, this is already done at a scale feeding the world’s human population. The process used in nature is photosynthesis. This environmentally benign production system needs to be expanded to include the synthesis of high-value compounds that are not currently produced in photosynthetic systems or produced in low amounts. When produced in high amounts, these different types of high-value natural products need to be stored without being auto-toxic to the production host. This is where storage in dense biocondensates becomes a key success parameter. Biocondensate formation in plants is a “black box”, but proposed mechanisms point to phase partitioning induced by proteins with intrinsically disordered domains or by NAtural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES). NADES are compounds like sugars, amino acids, organic acids, and choline that when mixed in specific stoichiometric ratios have a lower melting point than the individual components. Certain plants manage to accumulate natural products in very high amounts without autotoxicity or cell homeostasis problems. This is the case in my two proposed experimental systems: Vanilla planifolia, which accumulates vanillin glucoside at 2.2kg/L levels in the plastids of the maturing pods; and Sorghum bicolor that produce the defence compound dhurrin, in amounts reaching 30% of the dry mass in etiolated seedlings. In order to identify the players involved in biocondensate formation, I will combine methods of cellular and organelle isolation with imaging and state-of-the-art analytic chemistry, metabolomics, and transcriptomics. Studying how plants orchestrate the formation of dense biocondensates to store high-value compounds in high amounts would be key to make green bio-production systems feasible.

Mots clés : plant metabolism, biocondensates, eutectic solvents, nades, intrinsically disordered region, phase separation, vanilla orchid, sorghum, vanillin, dhurrin, high value compounds, natural products

Participants :
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 230774.4 €
Projet RPP (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

If the 82 million displaced people across the world (UNCHR Global Trends 2020) formed a country, it would be the 20th biggest in the world. But they are not a country. Apart from experiences related to poverty, destitution, insecurity, and violence, refugees experience exclusion from the political community and rights of citizenship. The RPP project’s overall aim is to transform how scholarship and policy conceives of refugees by placing their politics in the centre of the enquiry, and studying how their voices are – and can be – recognised and empowered in a political context. It will be the first interdisciplinary and critical scholarly study of refugee participation bridging work in political science, critical legal studies, and socio-legal studies. This project will bring together Will Jones, a political scientist who has conducted pathbreaking work on algorithmic decision-making and digital identity in the refugee regime, with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Director of the interdisciplinary Nordic Asylum Law and Data Lab at the University of Copenhagen, to conduct the first systematic study of refugee participation. This ambitious project innovatively combines political science, law, and data science to understand how refugees can and could be included and empowered in the refugee regime as it is transformed by the digital revolution. We propose to conduct the first interdisciplinary and critical scholarly study of refugee participation. This will contribute to scholarship in three key respects. Empirically, it will provide multi-sited knowledge of this important-but-understudied issue. Conceptually, it will move beyond uncritical ‘activist’ or ‘institutional’ approaches by applying rigorously theorised work from political science and law. Methodologically, it will move beyond existing work by pioneering an analytical framework integrating multiple disciplines.

Mots clés : asylum, refugees, law, politics, digitisation, participation, empowerment

Participants :
- Université de Copenhague (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 214934.4 €
Projet StoConYuQED (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The mathematical foundation of Euclidean quantum field theory is a very active research area which has long been a central topic at the intersection of mathematical physics and probability theory. A general probabilistic framework to describe quantum fields called “stochastic quantisation” was proposed in the early 80's by the Nobel prize Giorgio Parisi, in collaboration with Yongshi Wu, and consists in the description of interacting quantum fields via the solution to some stochastic differential equation. The proposal aims at exploring novel directions in stochastic analysis that would allow for a fruitful continuation of the stochastic quantisation programme. Namely, the goal of the proposal is the extension of the known stochastic analytical methods in order to be able to construct quantum field theories for Fermi fields with large-scale singularities and quantum field theories for Fermi and scalar or gauge fields with small-scale singularities.

Mots clés : stochastic analysis stochastic quantisation quantum field theory

Participants :
- Université de Rome III (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172750.08 €
Projet StereoNOne (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

SN1 reactions represent a possibility for stereocontrolled substitutions on tertiary and quaternary carbons, however the realization of this transformations remains an open issue. To tackle the challenge of realizing general protocols including a stereochemical information in SN1 reactions, an intriguing viewpoint involve the exploitation of non-classical carbocation (NCCs). NCCs intrinsically have a stereochemically robust nature since one face is shielded by their carbon skeleton, allowing an easier control of stereochemistry. In the last years, Marek’s group have been interested in the chemistry of non-classical carbocations resulting from the dissociation of cyclopropyl carbinols. The group has faced and rationalized this challenge, and stereospecific SN1 at quaternary stereocenters of cyclopropanes has emerged as a powerful tool for the construction of stereodefined acyclic structures. A complete inversion of configuration was observed in the presence of different nucleophiles, filling a methodological gap in organic chemistry. To overcome the current state of the art, the establishment of a general approach that would control stereochemistry for SN1-type reactions extending the generality of the already impressive results obtained by the host group is meticulously planned. The aim of this proposal is to broaden the chemistry of stereocontrolled SN1 using 4-membered rings for the creation of acyclic stereo- and enantiodefined systems. Furthermore, in the following sections a detailed description about the impact that this action will have on the growth of the hosting group, the synthetic chemistry community and my career is highlighted.

Mots clés : molecular editing, skeletal rearrangements, stereoselective transformations, sn1 reactions

Participants :
- Technion - Institut de technologie d'Israël (Israël) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Technion - Institut de technologie d'Israël (Israël) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 184698.24 €
Projet ObCo (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In recent years, the creative practices of individuals subjected to various forms of captivity have become a vibrant field of study known as carceral aesthetics. However, despite the long and far-reaching history of penal transportation, the art and craft produced in penal colonies around the world have received little attention. My project, Objects of Contention: Art and Craft in the French Penal Colony of New Caledonia (ObCo), will contribute to these debates and offer new perspectives on the relationship between creation and oppression in colonial New Caledonia (1853–1946). Yet this research will not solely focus on the art and craft produced by some of the 30,000 common law prisoners, repeat offenders, and political prisoners transported to the Pacific archipelago in an effort to rid metropolitan France from its so-called dangerous class. It will also include the study of the creative practices of the Kanak, the Indigenous people of New Caledonia whose land France seized to establish the colony and whose history has typically been told in isolation. In addition to facing similar forms of detention, exile, and extractive labor, ObCo will show how the stringent control measures experienced by the Kanak and their progressive confinement to reservations expand the study of art and captivity well beyond the confines of the prison’ walls. In doing so, ObCo will not only fill a critical gap in the history of carceral aesthetics but also deepen our understanding of the historical conditions that fuel New Caledonia’s current waves of political and civil unrest. I will pursue this interdisciplinary research project under the guidance of Benoît Trépied, an anthropologist specializing in the history of citizenship in New Caledonia, in program co-led by Prof. Trépied called “Ethnography of domination: theoretical and methodological practices” at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Mots clés : penal colonies, prison studies, carceral aesthetics, pacific studies, anthropology, material culture

Participants :
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 226420.56 €
Projet SMARTBLADE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Floating vertical axis wind turbines (FVAWTs) are an attractive option for harnessing offshore wind power due to their advantages in capacity density, directionality, and operations and maintenance (O&M) simplicity. However, concerns around the power efficiency and structural integrity have hindered their prospects for utility-scale deployment. The overarching objective of this project is to develop an advanced aerodynamic design and load management method to improve the aerodynamic efficiency and mitigate the structural load fluctuations during FVAWTs operation. Specifically, a high-fidelity, fully coupled framework using combined computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element methods (FEM) will be developed to accurately calculate loads and replicate scaled wave basin results with over 90% accuracy. This framework will be used to analyse the evolution mechanisms of dynamic stall under turbulent wind conditions and the fluid-structure interaction between turbulence, waves, and the integral FVAWT system. Subsequently, a novel technology, smart pitch, will be developed to ensure blades reliability by dynamically adapting to flow conditions without the mechanical complexity of active pitch systems. Smart pitch technology will mitigate dynamic stall within each turbine rotation, with objectives of a power coefficient above 0.4 and around 30% reduction in load fluctuations, alleviating fatigue risks. Finally, structural fatigue optimization will be performed on FVAWTs with smart pitch blades to enhance durability, targeting a fatigue life exceeding 25 years. Thus, new survival standards will be established for FVAWTs operating in harsh deep-sea environments. The outcomes of this research will: (i) advance the current Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of FVAWTs; (ii) reinforce confidence in, and reduce the risks associated with, FVAWT for utility-scale deployment; and (iii) thus accelerate the adoption of this technology in offshore wind energy applications.

Mots clés : offshore wind energy, floating vertical axis wind turbines fvawts , smart blade, aerodynamic efficiency, computational fluid dynamics cfd , finite element method fem

Participants :
- University College Cork (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 268568.64 €