Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet CS-MIMOAR-EC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Automotive radar provides a 360-degree surround sensing capability under all weather conditions and makes driving safer, with or without a hand on the steering wheel, thus presenting itself as viable and affordable solution to EU's ambitious "Vision Zero" goal in road safety. Future automotive radar devices need to adhere to cost and size restrictions while still addressing the required performance requirements, such as high resolution 5-Dimensional point cloud sensing, increased susceptibility to mutual interferences and embedded V2X communication in automotive sensing in a low-power, low-cost and compact design. In response to that, this fellowship aims to investigate cognitive sparse MIMO automotive radar sensing with embedded communication, which can counteract the dilemmas between performance and overhead, in turn enabling a safer driving in a greener environment. So far, no existing automotive radar has attempted to add cognizance of MIMO array configuration and transmit waveforms for performance improvement. The proposed work goes against the common regime of conventional automotive radar, where both a fixed MIMO array and transmit waveforms are assumed regardless of a dynamic road scene, and embarks upon a novel sparse automotive sensing paradigm with cognition, where array reconfigurability and waveform optimization are incorporated into the "perception-action" cycle by antenna selection via radio frequency switches. Successful achievements of this fellowship will lead to a timely and useful contribution to automotive radar and relevant communities, including: (1) novel techniques of joint automotive sensing and full duplex communication, (2) systematical simulations and experimental data, (3) an initial prototype implemented on a digital, software defined radar platform. In the long term, the successful achievement of this project will reduce deaths and injuries on European roads once upon commercialization.

Mots clés : sparse signal processing, mimo arrays, radar signal processing

Participants :
- Université de technologie de Darmstadt (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet MULID (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The project aims to explore the history of Mulid celebrations, which are vibrant expressions of Sufi devotion and cultural heritage in Egypt. This project is novel in its approach, as it not only explores the historical and spiritual significance of Mulids but also examines the contemporary experiences and meanings that these celebrations hold for participants, through poetry, stories, calligraphy, readings, rituals, prayer and dance. The project will also create a comprehensive database that will document contemporary Mulid practices in Egypt and contribute to the Islamic Cultural Archive (ICA) database, thereby supporting future research and cultural preservation efforts. By applying qualitative research methods, including fieldwork, participant observation and interviews. Also, to capture the diverse interpretations associated with Mulids, thus filling a significant gap in existing scholarship. The creation of a comprehensive database documenting the geographical distribution, Sufi affiliations, and traditions of the Mulid celebrations further adds to the project's innovative contributions and provides a valuable resource for future research and cultural preservation efforts. The multidisciplinary nature of the project is a key strength, integrating frameworks from social anthropology, religious studies, festival studies, and material religion. These frameworks will help to analyse the cultural, spiritual, and socio-political dimensions of Mulid celebrations, ensuring an understanding of these events. In addition, by contributing to digital archiving efforts and supporting the preservation of intangible cultural heritage, the project aligns with broader initiatives aimed at improving cultural accessibility and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in the digital humanities. This approach ensures the project’s relevance not only to scholarly audiences but also to broader cultural preservation initiatives, enriching the ICA database with valuable insights and data.

Mots clés : sufism, islamic mysticism, social anthropology, material religion, sufi orders, religious festivals, ritual practices, mulid celebrations, intangible cultural heritage, ethnographic fieldwork

Participants :
- Université de Bayreuth (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 217965.12 €
Projet QuantMod (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Our goal is to construct generalisations of the Hitchin and Wess--Zumino--Witten (WZW) and Knizhnik--Zamolodchikov (KZ) connections, both in geometric and deformation quantisation, and of their associated monodromy representations.  The Hitchin connection achieved the quantisation of compact Chern--Simons theory and resulted in the construction of a topological quantum field theory. A different projectively flat connection provides a viable mathematical definition of correlation functions in the WZW model for conformal field theory. The resulting projectively flat vector bundles are isomorphic, and their monodromies have far-reaching applications in low-dimensional topology/geometry (quantum invariants of knots/3-manifolds) and representation theory (of mapping class/quantum/braid groups).  Our guiding viewpoint is that the connections of Hitchin/WZW can be derived from the quantisation of moduli spaces of connections on Riemann surfaces. We will extend this further, focusing on meromorphic connections with high-order poles (i.e., wild singularities), generalising the above bundles and their applications.  The motivation for this project is twofold. First, there is now a complete understanding of the Poisson/symplectic nature of isomonodromic deformations of wild singularitites, which are naturally amenable to quantisation. The quantum theory is much less developed than the classical one, and this naturally motivates us to close the gap using the latter as a guide. Second, recent work related the genus-zero WZW connection---that is, the KZ connection---to a new version of the Hitchin connection, and this was then used for the quantisation of moduli spaces of parabolic bundles. We want to pursue extensions of this identification; in particular, we will use the new flat connections constructed on the deformation quantisation side as candidates for `wild' Hitchin connections, in the geometric quantisation of wild character varieties: a complete novelty.

Mots clés : geometric quantisation, deformation quantisation, flat connections, mapping class groups, isomonodromic deformations

Participants :
- Université de Montpellier (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276681.6 €
- Université du Maryland (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet QGRANT (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity are expected to merge into a new theory of Quantum Gravity (QG) at energies approaching the Planck scale. However, none of the proposed QG approaches has been validated to date. In this context, several signatures of QG effects in accessible energy regimes, known as “Windows on Quantum Gravity”, have been postulated. In particular, quantum decoherence (QD) or QG-induced violation of Lorentz invariance (LIV), could cause modifications in neutrino oscillation patterns accessible to observation with neutrino telescopes. With QGRANT, I propose a global and novel search for QG effects with the IceCube, ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes. The expected results will allow to probe QD and LIV parameters regions not accessible to date. Moreover, the phenomenon of QD will provide new possibilities to investigate the neutrino nature as a Dirac or Majorana particle as well as to trace possible violations of CPT symmetry in neutrino oscillations. Such a phenomenon represents a totally new scenario where to test the real nature of neutrinos. Within QGRANT, I will analyse the huge amount of data collected by IceCube, ANTARES and KM3NeT, Europe's most ambitious project of a high energy neutrino telescope, whose effective mass, angular resolution and wide energy coverage, will make it an ideal instrument to further this research area. The proposed analysis will provide unprecedented sensitivity to QG effects and it will open uncharted territory for new discoveries. A planned cooperation with experts on QG will reinforce the theoretical impact of QGRANT in terms of QG models. The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, with its globally unique situation of hosting IceCube and ANTARES/KM3NeT groups, together with the Quantum Gravity institute, represents the perfect host institution for my proposed research and my development as an independent physicist.

Mots clés : quantum gravity, quantum decoherence, lorentz invariance violation, cpt violation, neutrinos, neutrino oscillations, neutrino telescopes, icecube, antares, km3net

Participants :
- Université Friedrich-Alexander d'Erlangen-Nuremberg (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet MICS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Digital staining based on machine learning models can provide cellular specificity to label-free optical imaging. This concept is particularly interesting for in vivo applications in fundamental research of auto-immune diseases as well as for future clinical translations. In this project “MICS – Multiphoton imaging with computational specificity”, I will develop and implement computational specificity for label-free multiphoton microscopy (MPM) using artificial intelligence (AI). The direct outcome of this project will be two AI modules to perform (i) automated classification of mucosal inflammation based on 3D images from colon tissue and (ii) digital staining of un-stained immune cells. This integration of computational specificity to label-free multiphoton microscopy will allow direct investigation of global tissue alteration as well as specific immune cell localization during inflammatory tissue remodelling. Digital staining is an emerging concept in the field of computational microscopy but has not yet been implemented for immune cells based on label-free MPM images. Building on my previous expertise in label-free in vivo imaging via endomicroscopy, future implementations of multiphoton endomicroscopy would profit from tools for computational specificity, developed during this project.

Mots clés : label free multiphoton microscopy, autofluorescence, machine learning, image classification, digital staining

Participants :
- Université Duke (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Friedrich-Alexander d'Erlangen-Nuremberg (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 192125.76 €
Projet PolArt (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

PolArt intends to rethink the relationship between art and politics: it will answer the questions of what the political dimension of art is and what art can give to society. The general aim of PolArt is to understand how art can play a central role in determining the fundamental ideals of a society, acting as a significant way to know, understand, criticize and transform reality (both epistemically and practically). PolArt will produce a new hermeneutic model to investigate the relationship between art and politics, rethinking a decisive historical moment in its construction, in order to address the current situation. It will explore the origins of the contemporary view on the topic in classical German philosophy, as the first real moment in which this relationship is conceived philosophically. On the one hand, the current debate on the art/politics dichotomy still has as its main frame of reference the 20th century discussions, which remains dominant and obscures the relevance of classical German philosophy on this topic; on the other hand, critical literature on classical German philosophy has not yet explored the topic with a sufficiently unified and comprehensive view. Thanks to a methodology that combines 'distance reading' and 'conceptual history' in an original way, PolArt aims to fill this gap by developing a new interpretive paradigm derived from an innovative interpretation of classical German philosophy, which can genealogically show its fundamental value for subsequent discussions and produce a reflection on the issues of today's debate. In addition to the innovative scientific results expected in the fields of classical German philosophy studies and Aesthetics, from a more general point of view, PolArt will philosophically show how art can be a decisive element for the construction of a political community and for the formation of an active and conscious citizenship for individuals.

Mots clés : art, politics, classical german philosophy, function of art, social space, contemporary philosophy of art

Participants :
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265099.2 €
- Université libre de Berlin (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- The new school (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Migraine cannabinoid (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Migraine is a common multifaceted neurovascular disease. Traditional medications have limitations and even newer CGRP monoclonal antibodies only effectively treat 50% of patients. Instead of using highly addictive painkillers, such as opioids, there is a great need for alternative, effective and safe medications. Despite psychoactive side-effects of cannabis, its derivative compounds (cannabinoids) have emerged as a new class of analgesic and anti-migraine agents. Indeed, the frequency of migraine headaches decreases with medical marijuana. To avoid cannabis psychotropic effects, an alternative is to recruit the anti-nociceptive actions of endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids). The two main endocannabinoids are 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) and anandamide (AEA). The anti-nociceptive efficiency of 2-AG and AEA is determined by their enzymatic synthesis, activity on receptors CB1 and CB2, and degradation by monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) and fatty acid hydrolase (FAAH), respectively. There is recent progress in the development of selective and potent MAGL and FAAH inhibitors, providing excellent starting points for enhancing endocannabinoid activity. A key point is that the enzymes are distinctly active in different migraine pain signaling areas. Therefore, we propose that at least a dual FAAH and MAGL inhibition would be ideal. We have shown that the serine hydrolases inhibitor AKU-005 potently reduces migraine-related nociceptive activation. Of further relevance, the combination of CB1/2 orthosteric delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and allosteric cannabidiol (CBD) agonists can reduce central and peripheral-induced light aversion in CGRP migraine models. Our hypothesis is that enhancement of endocannabinoids by the inhibitor AKU-005 in combination with CBD treatment could safely inhibit migraine-related pain pathways, representing an alternative, non-addictive therapeutic target to help bridge the therapeutic gap and reduce the significant burden in migraine.

Mots clés : anandamide, 2 arachidonoylglycerol, headache, cannabinoids

Participants :
- Université de Londres (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 454103.4 €
- Université de l'Iowa (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet PRISM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Ecological research necessitates the production of spatial maps representing an array of critical variables such as biodiversity, climate, land cover, and soil carbon storage. While current machine learning methods, such as the well-known random forest (RF), have been effective in generating maps for these variables, they often overlook the intricate spatial patterns inherent in ecological processes. The PRISM project seeks to introduce a novel approach that addresses this limitation by integrating and validating spatial patterns within machine learning models. The project will draw upon insights from various fields, including geography, landscape ecology, statistics, and computer science. To ensure the widespread dissemination and accessibility of its findings, PRISM will adopt a comprehensive open science approach, including manuscript publications, the development of open-source software, and the sharing of repositories containing data and code, enabling others to reproduce and build upon the project's results. Through this project, an exchange of knowledge is anticipated between the researcher and the host institution, fostering a collaborative partnership. Under the supervisor's mentorship, the researcher will acquire essential skills in group organization, grant preparation, and research leadership. The researcher will enrich the host institution by creating innovative methods for spatial data analysis, implementing impactful teaching methodologies, and sharing the principles of open science. Ultimately, the PRISM project is poised to fuel the researcher's interdisciplinary growth, positioning him as a valuable asset in both academia and industry. The project's outcomes have the potential to improve how ecological research is conducted, leading to more accurate predictions and a deeper understanding of complex spatial patterns in ecological systems.

Mots clés : spatial ecology, landscape ecology, spatial machine learning, spatial autocorrelation

Participants :
- Université de Münster (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet D-TEC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Photonic integrated circuit implementations hold great promise for quantum technology, but practical large-scale integration is limited by the capabilities and performance of key components for processing and measuring quantum information, particularly phase-shifters and single-photon detectors. Current modulators fall short due to either high losses, large size, slow speed, energy inefficiency and/or excessive heat dissipation, making them incompatible with superconducting cryoelectronics. In the other hand, while superconducting detector technology has seen significant progress, their integration into photonic circuits lacks the flexibility needed for dynamic (mid-circuit measurements, feed-forward) reconfigurability, as detectors need to be placed at the output of the network and classical data is only being retrieved at the final stage. Project D-TEC, addresses these challenges by exploiting a novel class of electro-optic modulator for quantum photonics at cryogenic temperatures, featuring the epsilon-near- zero (ENZ) effect. Specifically, indium tin oxide-(ITO)-based electro-optic modulators show a strong ENZ effect, which enhances the local optical field and produces a large refractive index change near the ENZ wavelength. When operated at liquid helium temperatures, two significant effects occur simultaneously. First, ohmic losses of ITO material are reduced, amplifying the local-field enhancement of the ENZ effect to unprecedented levels. Second, ITO exhibits superconductivity at critical temperatures below 5 K. It thus becomes possible to create phase modulators with performance far beyond the state-of-the-art and a completely novel type of single photon detector, with tunable photon absorption capabilities. These innovations enable fast, cryo-compatible circuit reconfigurability and the possibility of introducing feed-forward and mid-circuit measurements, enabling a new dynamic quantum photonic computing paradigm with vast potential for scalability.

Mots clés : epsilon near zero, transparent conducting oxides, moscap, superconductor detectors, snspd, qpic

Participants :
- Université de Münster (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 217965.12 €
Projet JASMINE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) technology is known for precise positioning and timing capability that is of use in diverse fields of science and technology. The rapid development in this field by various nations in terms of deploying new satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, COMPASS, IRNSS/NAVIC), new signals in different frequency bands (L1, L2, L5, G1, G2, E1, E5a, E5b, B1, B2, B3, etc.) is changing the trend of GNSS receiver design. Especially, the intrinsic flexibility of software-based receiver design approach is becoming a competitor to even highly developed ASICs. The goal of this project is to develop ‘Jamming and Spoofing Resilient Deep Learning based Software-Defined multi-antenna GNSS Receiver (JASMINE)’. JASMINE is a multi-antenna multi-system dual-band GNSS receiver with autonomous integrity ability. In this project we propose to build a novel design approach for software defined GNSS receiver, combining deep learning (DL) approach with the expert knowledge to replace existing GNSS receiver algorithms. Novel techniques are proposed for multi-GNSS signal acquisition, denoising, orbit determination (Satellite position estimation), threat detection and mitigation (due to jamming, spoofing and ionosphere) by applying prominent deep neural networks (2D CNN, BiLSTM, RNN/LSTM, 1D CNN) and deep reinforcement learning (actor-critic (RNN/LSTM, 2D CNN), Sarsa, Q-learning, Policy Gradients) methods that add intelligence and give unseen capabilities to JASMINE in comprehending an increasingly complex environment. The proposed JASMINE supports all GNSS RF-frequencies (compatible with new signals), inherits the superiority of signal and navigation processing algorithms through Deep learning technology, and thus presents excellence performance. To achieve reconfigurability and optimized performance, Graphics processing unit (GPU) based Software Defined Radio (SDR) approach is preferred for JASMINE.

Mots clés : multi gnss, software receiver, software defined radio, robust signal processing, anti jamming, anti spoofing, deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, gpgpu, soft gpu

Participants :
- Ubik geospatial solutions sl (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Tampere (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 215534.4 €
- Brandenburg University of Technology (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €