Projet TRILOGY (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

TRILOGY establishes the interface between the emerging field of Ultrafast Chirality and its Life and Technology applications by using attosecond electronic response to light, the fastest agent in mediating electric signals, highlighted by the 2023 Physics Nobel Prize. Chirality, a dissymmetry between a molecule and its mirror image, is a synonym of life: it enables metabolic reactions and stability of proteins. Abnormal chirality is an indicator for cancer cells, brain or kidney diseases, but its accurate detection requires a combination of high precision and speed, where attosecond response to light gives clear advantage to optical methods. Standard chiro-optical methods are fundamentally limited in accuracy by a ratio of molecular size to the light wavelength. Resolving ultrafast electron dynamics we remove this limitation and break into a new regime with chiral signals outperforming standard methods by several orders of magnitude. We will take advantage of this paradigm shift in chiral measurements and develop new efficient ultrafast spectroscopies for discriminating medium sized chiral biomolecules and elucidating charge and spin transport in chiral media at the most fundamental level: the level of electrons. We overlap the training and innovation landscapes in a unique way inspired by a common drive to bring cutting-edge scientific developments to applications, enabled by strong involvement of industry. We will (i) integrate our methods with existing analytics for quick market adaptation, working with the market leader for mass spectrometry (ThermoFisher), (ii) further them to unprecedentedly high throughput enabled by laser technology (Amplitude) and state-of-the-art imaging (PIimaging). We will make a difference, motivate and inspire young minds, training a new generation of researchers at the interface of fundamental science, technology and high-tech industry to bring cutting edge research through industrial applications to the benefit of the society.

Mots clés : attosecond physics, molecular chirality, high harmonic generation, time resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 944007.48 €
- ASML (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Twente (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Genève (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut Weizmann (Israël) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 319577.4 €
- Pi imaging technology sa (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Springer Nature (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 348738.12 €
- Université de Nottingham (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Amplitude (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Massspecpecd bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Paris-Saclay (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Conseil national de la recherche (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 563510.16 €
- Forschungsverbund Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 290272.32 €
- Université technique de Berlin (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Heriot-Watt (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 348738.12 €
- École polytechnique de Milan (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Lund (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 324630.0 €
- Université d'Innsbruck (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Kassel (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Thermo Fisher Scientific (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 290272.32 €
- Synchrotron SOLEIL (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Bordeaux (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Hambourg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 580544.64 €
- Technion - Institut de technologie d'Israël (Israël) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Liège (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288540.0 €
- Institut d'optique Graduate School (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 314669.16 €