Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet PheNUmenal (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

There are few but strong indications that the Standard Model of Particle Physics cannot be the ultimate theory of nature. The increasing number of proposed extensions, together with the lack of new particles found by the LHC, is prompting us to consider the effective field theories (EFT) as the best framework to explore deviations from the Standard Model. Nevertheless, the most commonly explored EFT framework does not consider the existence of new light particles, such as those predicted by many theories trying to explain the origin of neutrino masses or dark matter, and therefore cannot account for two of the biggest unsolved problems in particle physics.  Considering the existence of new sterile neutrinos for definiteness, this project aims at building a new EFT framework where additional light particles are included to the commonly used EFT formalism. First, it will extend the few available works in the subject to construct a theoretically consistent framework. In the second part, it will make use of this formalism to identify and compute the most relevant predictions for the near-future experimental landscape.

Mots clés : neutrino masses, sterile neutrinos, effective field theory

Participants :
- Université autonome de Madrid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165312.96 €
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Laboratoire univers et particules de Montpellier (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MEMODIAS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Memory is a crucial resource for people in exile who have to deal with new and often hostile environments, since it keeps their transnational ties alive and shapes their collective identifications. Memory, however, is today increasingly subject to challenges, rearticulations and negotiations, especially when it refers to individual and collective practices, more and more confronted with global dynamics. MEMODIAS aims to explore these dynamics through an ethnographic inquire on the memory of conflict, exile and return among Afghan and Somali diasporas in Italy and the USA. Reflecting my previous mixed experience as researcher and practitioner in the field of migrant memories, my project enhances the implementation of participatory research methods and practices which can facilitate a circularity between the researcher and diaspora members as “co-researchers”. While exploring the interdiasporic forms of mnemonic solidarity in the transnational space between US and Italy, the project’s scientific and societal impacts will be strictly entangled and interdependent. MEMODIAS overall theoretical framework draws from Memory and Migration/Diaspora studies, Media, Art and Performance studies, Cultural studies, and Critical Global studies, subjects of my training activities which will include Gender studies. Research methods will be particularly focused on self-narrative practices. This approach will enhance the capability of participants to become active in policy making processes and to envisage new future possibilities of cohabitation. MEMODIAS dissemination and communication target scholars (through scientific publications), diasporas members, policy makers, journalists, educators and a broader public (through social media, civic events and an educational toolkit). Inspired by two brilliant supervisors while working in stimulating research environments in Italy and the US, I will have the chance to broaden my network and build future collaborations.

Mots clés : diaspora, memory, participatory methods, media, arts, afghanistan, somalia, usa, italy

Participants :
- Université de Milan (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
- The new school (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet CADASIL-iMATTR (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

CADASIL, a rare disease of the small blood vessels, is caused by mutations in NOTCH3 and can cause cognitive decline leading to dementia. Vascular disease is the second most common cause of dementia with the burden set to increase with population aging. Insights into CADASIL will prove instrumental in understanding and treating the vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). There are no therapies for CADASIL and a lack of translational human models for identification of dysfunctional pathways/targets and screening of existing and novel therapeutics. Recent proteomic insights generated at the Elahi Lab show that leukocyte extravasation, vascular fibrosis and inflammatory processes are upregulated in CADASIL. This project will investigate the anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects of novel pro-resolving synthetic lipoxin mimetics (sLXms). The objectives are to investigate: (1) which cell types and pathways in the vasculature are affected in CADASIL through the use of patient-derived iPSC unicellular and multicellular vascular models; (2) which immune cell types are dysfunctional in CADASIL through immunophenotyping of patient leukocytes and assessment of immunovascular interactions; (3) can sLXms resolve these dysfunctional phenotypes through the use of patient derived-iPSC models and a Zebrafish model of CADASIL. I will work with Asst Prof Elahi, Mount Sinai, a leader in the field of VCID, during the global outgoing phase including a secondment to the Zhang Lab (Harvard). The effects of sLXms in vivo will be explored in the return phase at the Godson Lab at UCD. This interdisciplinary proposal will merge my immunotherapeutic skillset with expertise of my mentorship team and cutting-edge technologies across several disciplines (iPSC modelling, bioengineering and therapeutics) and will result in impactful discoveries for CADASIL while generating significant European economic development and strengthening transatlantic research networks.

Mots clés : cadasil, notch3 mutation, ipscs, endothelial cells, pericytes, vascular smooth muscle cells, astrocytes, leukocytes, neutrophils, macrophages, lipoxins, vasculature models

Participants :
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 278571.36 €
- Université Harvard (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet LyrPo (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

LyrPo will be the first comprehensive study of the impact of Protestant ideas on lyric poetry produced in Catholic Venice in the Tridentine and Post-Tridentine era. It will explore a significant aspect of the complex relationships between Catholics and Protestants of the time, during a period of censorship and mutual religious condemnation, by analysing an extensive corpus of lyric poems written in both Italian and Latin by a diverse array of women and men authors. The project will focus on an examination of those Venetian lyric texts that dealt with religion, morality, and politics, while variously expressing heterodox thoughts, which tended not to be overtly heretical (to avoid censorship), yet were subtly influenced by Reformation-inspired ideas. Protestantism was, indeed, present in Venice in the considered period. From the rise of the Reformation, the Republic of Venice was one of the Catholic states more open to Protestantism. It was also one which remained partially out of step with Counter-Reformation regulations up to the mid-seventeenth century, hence it remained somewhat more receptive to Protestant ideas for longer. Within this context, Reformation-inspired ideas informed and were reflected in literary works too, including lyric poems, which expressed heterodox thoughts in a wide gamut of ways. Studying what Protestant ideas were received, in which lyric texts, in what language, and by which authors is at the core of my research, which will combine and be built on the methodologies central to Literary, Gender and Reception Studies, and History of Religion and Ideas. In so doing, LyrPo will help to further our understanding of Renaissance literature, as well as the histories of lyric poetry, early-modern European culture, and the Christian Churches. Furthermore, it will challenge the commonly held assumption that the Post-Tridentine era was a homogeneous period during which dialogue between Catholics and Protestants was inhibited.

Mots clés : lyric poetry, italian studies, venetian literature, renaissance literature, renaissance culture

Participants :
- Université de Padoue (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 396991.08 €
- Université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de New York (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet SMARTFACE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The significance of cutting-edge nanoelectronics is inherently tied to the utilization and integration of silicon. The material is embedded as a semiconductor in a multitude of devices, such as nano- and microchips for computing. Given its paramount importance for the high-tech industry, intense research focuses on manipulating and optimising silicon surfaces. Silicon coating efforts aim to increase its resistance against harsh conditions (temperature, high electron potential, UV light, etc.), steer its electric conductivity, or covalently attach (bio)molecules for specific applications (such as biosensing). Depending on the objective, strategies for surface engineering include techniques such as atomic layer deposition or silanization. A fundamentally novel approach to functionalize silicon surfaces has recently been developed by the team of Prof. Frank Glorius from the University of Münster, who described a strategy to immobilize derivatives of N-heterocyclic carbenes on a boron-doped silicon substrate. Transposing this concept to industrially applied silicon surfaces such as Si(100), SMARTFACE aims for the following research objectives: Develop a general strategy for NHC immobilization on silicon, study the connection of the molecular NHC structure and surface coverage, understand the impact of the coating on the material, and, finally, explore the effect of the surface modification on silicon’s relevant properties. The Glorius group has a unique knowledge base in the field of NHCs and surface engineering and simultaneously possesses state-of-the-art hardware to analyze fabricated materials. Given its potentially transformative impact on the field of silicon surface engineering, SMARTFACE perfectly falls within the scope of the HE Work Programme, specifically in the pursuit of ‘developing and mastering the digital and key enabling technologies of the future’.

Mots clés : carbene chemistry, silicon, molecular design, nhc, coating, semiconductor, surface, xps

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

“Philosophical Recommendations at Central European Arts Faculties in the Late-Middle Ages” (PRAISE) offers a new perspective for emerging of the profound connections between the extant teaching practices and the transmission of philosophical ideas in Late-medieval Faculties of Arts. The focus of this project is the “recommendations” – these are celebratory speeches that were delivered by university masters on official occasions and include praise of individuals, such as students graduating from the Faculty of Arts, or of academic subjects, like Philosophy or Theology. Although “recommendations” were a commonly practice in Late-Medieval universities, their significance has, thus far, been overlooked by scholars. This research project will fill this gap, mapping out the “recommendations” made at the Faculties of Arts in Prague, Heidelberg, Cologne, Erfurt, Krakow and Vienna (founded within a few years of each other in the late-14th century, these universities share significant similarities in their statutes), with the aim of permitting clearer definition of this “new” genre. Furthermore, certain selected “recommendations” also include references to philosophy, philosophers or philosophical doctrines to be studied, which reveal perspectives on the teaching of philosophy as part of the Arts at the time. The project requires a candidate who combines skills in Palaeography and Philology, with knowledge of the Intellectual history of the Universities and the History of philosophy. The project will be supervised by Dr. Ota Pavlíček at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and will feature training in intellectual history, as well as in digital humanities (Natural Language Processing). Two major papers will be completed, the first international conference on “recommendations” will be held in Prague, activity programs will be offered in a number of secondary educational high schools and an informative dedicated website will be created.

Mots clés : intellectual history, history of ideas, history of philosophy, university speeches, the history of university study

Participants :
- Institute of Philosophy (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 207758.16 €
Projet Forgotten Dreams (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

This project combines history, anthropology and politics to complicate official representations of Chinese history told by the current regime of power. Starting from my own family history, which sits at the core of this research, Forgotten Dreams of Mao’s Ousted Class is guided by the stories of my Chinese grandfather and Finnish grandmother as a mixed-racial couple of the intelligentsia class at a time of political transformation when an imagined socialist future seemed within grasp. In a novel enquiry to re-conceptualize how collective memory is transmitted, this first ever state-of-the-art ethnographic project documents and analyses silenced stories of grievous loss and trauma of the Chinese educated elite to reconsider what lurks beneath the nation’s autocratically monitored socialist dream that holds post-Mao Chinese society together. My three-year postdoctoral project is an intimate ethnography that bridges ethnography and biography to offer a new methodological approach to studying the transmission of loss by state violence in contemporary history. Professor Alisse Waterston, the supervisor for the outgoing phase at City University of New York (CUNY), and Professor Maarit Forde, the supervisor for the return phase at the University of Helsinki (UH), will support my work and mentor me to deliver an innovative and novel intimate ethnography monograph that combines methodology and theory; politics and ethnography; the personal and the historic.

Mots clés : intimate ethnography, ethnography, social history, mao zedong rule, intelligentsia, china, political violence, memory, recollection

Participants :
- Université d'Helsinki (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189209.28 €
- Université de la ville de New York (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Tera-MaRs (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Magnetoresistive effects are pivotal for data storage technologies in modern electronics. Understanding those phenomena at THz frequencies is a crucial prerequisite for the transition of operational speeds from nanosecond to picosecond timescales. Current THz magnetoresistive research has been restricted almost exclusively to ferromagnets. We will reach beyond those conventional materials, where the magnetization dynamics is limited to GHz frequencies, by exploring antiferromagnetic materials which exhibit THz magnetization dynamics. Finally, we will focus on newly discovered altermagnetic materials, which combine the advantageous properties of both, spin-polarized band structure of ferromagnets and THz dynamics of antiferromagnets.  We will investigate three key magnetoresistive effects: Anisotropic Magnetoresistance (AMR), Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), and Spin-Hall Magnetoresistance (SMR) using ultra-broadband THz time-domain spectroscopy. Initially, we will conduct experiments on ferromagnetic structures, which are easy to manipulate with external magnetic fields. Our preliminary results have revealed a never-before-observed time delay of 10 fs in the onset of GMR, corroborating the importance of phase-sensitive measurements. Subsequently, we will focus on antiferromagnetic materials to capture both electron and magnetization dynamics, and ultimately, we will apply the insights to altermagnetic materials. A deeper and more detailed understanding of magnetoresistive mechanisms in THz range will enable the construction of significantly faster and more efficient spintronic devices.

Mots clés : magnetoresistance, thz spintronics, thz spectroscopy

Participants :
- FZU  Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207758.16 €
Projet VLM-SLC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

As one of the most direct effects of climate change, sea level change will have drastic consequences for coastal populations, industries, and ecosystems in the coming century. Coastal relative sea level change is additionally driven by vertical land motion, which can be as large as climate-driven absolute sea level change (mm/year - cm/year) and is expected to have similar impacts as climate-driven sea level rise in the short term (~30 years). However, there is only ‘low to medium confidence’ in state-of-the-art vertical land motion projections and their uncertainties at the global scale. This is because the majority of previous sea level projection studies employed simplified assumptions of vertical land motion, i.e., they used limited data sources, neglected the full spectrum of vertical land motion processes (e.g., tectonic or human induced effects, etc.), and did not consider non-linear changes, which are crucial to understand the predictability of vertical land motion. To overcome these limitations, I propose here an interdisciplinary approach, to develop a probabilistic spatio-temporal model that will provide estimates of vertical land motion at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution (from 1900 to present). This will be the first global-scale effort to integrate paleo-sea-level records, modern measurements (e.g., GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), tide gauges, InSAR (Interferometric Syntethic Aperature Radar), satellite altimetry), physical models (e.g., GIA models), and ancillary information from climate models. I hypothesize that combining these different data sources is key to disentangle vertical land motion processes, such as GIA, tectonic, and other natural or human-induced effects. The outcome of this project will be process-based vertical land motion projections on a global scale that distinguish between long-term linear motions and non-linear effects, and that include rigorous uncertainty quantification.

Mots clés : sea level change, vertical land motion, relative sea level change, gnss, insar, satellite altimetry, tide gauges, sea level proxies, glacial isostatic adjustment, tectonics, projections

Participants :
- Université technique de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 424992.0 €
- Tulane University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet THIS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The overall objective of this project is to study the Hispanic theater professionalization process during the second half of the 16th century and the early decades of the 17th century from the perspective of labor and economic history. Furthermore, I approach this process in light of the first globalization, that is considering both Spain and its overseas colonies, as well as the interconnections between them. This is imperative because Golden Age professional theater has been and continues to be subject of many studies, especially philological, but we have not fully understood the basis of the functioning of this new profession that emerged in the mid-sixteenth century; the reason is clear: we are dealing with a commercial activity that has not been specifically and systematically studied as such, since, to do so, it is necessary to understand its economic and labor dynamics. In addition, professional theater has not been studied as a global phenomenon and this is also a serious problem because in the sixteenth century imperial Spain expanded into America and this fact cannot be ignored, much less if we are talking about a profession that developed almost at the same time on both sides of the ocean. The project has four phases. In the first one, a database will be created to collect and organize theatrical economic information; the database is intended to become an open-access tool. During the other three phases of the project, labor and economic history methodologies will be implemented to reconstruct cases of theatrical enterprises, to analyze the labor and economic conditions of different types of comedians and, finally, to calculate approximately the costs of staging a play at the end of the sixteenth century. Thus, this project would introduce new methodologies to theatrical studies and would inaugurate a brand new line of research founded on the economic history of an activity that is art, literature and also business.

Mots clés : spanish golden age theatre, colonial theater, commercial theater, theater enterprises, comedians wages, costs of staging, global history, labor history, digital humanities

Participants :
- Université Ca' Foscari de Venise (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265099.2 €
- Université de Valence (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Tulane University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €