Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet a-Si PVT-ORC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The indicative start date is 01 January 2017. This fellowship will bring an excellent young researcher (Dr Jing Li), the winner of Springer Thesis Prize and Excellent PhD Graduate Award of the President of Chinese Academy of Sciences, to investigate a medium temperature photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) system incorporated with the coupled thermal storage/organic Rankine cycle (ORC) as a novel alternative to battery. Due to its unique positive power temperature coefficient, the efficiency of amorphous silicon (a-Si) cell can be higher than that of a crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell when the operating temperature is above 100°C, at which heat is able to drive the ORC. This has therefore stimulated the applicants to propose the a-Si PVT-ORC system which combines the respective advantages of PV and solar ORC technologies. The a-Si PVT-ORC system is estimated to have an overall electrical efficiency up to 12.8% at 120°C, which is comparable to the c-Si PVT system at 75°C, but the former can eliminate expensive battery and use the coupled thermal storage/ORC instead, offering more economic and environmental benefits. The proposed project will offer an excellent opportunity of training and development for the very promising young researcher. The project has been carefully designed to match Dr Li’s expertise in solar thermal power systems and the expertise of the University of Nottingham in CHP, BiPV, CFD and 3D printing technologies, and thus facilitates a two-way knowledge transfer. Successful completion of this fellowship will contribute to the European excellence in solar power technology, and promote the professional competence and career prospect of Dr Li. He will share his knowledge and expertise on ORC and a-Si cell techniques by hosting a series of seminars for EU researchers and engineers, lecturing at an industrial dissemination event, giving a special lecture to the architectural and environmental engineering students, and participating in outreach activities of the host institute.

Mots clés : solar cogeneration, amorphous silicon cell, thermal storage, organic rankine cycle, alternative to battery

Participants :
- University of Nottingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet WAEE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The influence of migration and intercultural contact on identity formation is a topic of significant contemporary concern, yet it also took place in the past. Women at the Edge of Empire (WAEE) examines how the identities of migrant women, and local women married to migrant men, responded to intercultural contact at the eastern border of the Late Roman Empire (4-6th centuries AD). The Danube frontier is conventionally seen as a highly militarised environment and to-date women have been largely invisible, yet women were integral to the cultural melting pot that formed between Romans and nomadic peoples at this critical crossroads in human history. This innovative project draws together human osteology, stable isotopes, mortuary behaviour, material culture and epigraphy to focus on the people themselves. It employs series of analytical scales in order to integrate population-wide patterns with information about specific individuals to determine how large-scale transformations had an impact on individual lives by i) creating large regional datasets to identify both regional patterns in gender ideals and diversity in social practice ii) distinguishing non-local (migrant) and local women (of nomadic affiliation and Roman) iii) drilling down into the data to tell the stories of specific individual women through the construction of detailed osteobiographies in order to create individual understandings of the effect of migration and intercultural contact on female identities on both sides of the border of the late Roman empire from the Danube Delta to the Iron Gates. Project findings are disseminated to a range of target audiences including through peer-reviewed journal articles, conference presentations and an online exhibition featuring the women’s stories to engage the public, including women from modern migrant communities

Mots clés : late antiquity, social identity, mortuary practice, osteobiography, intercultural contact

Participants :
- University of Southampton (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet Origami-SEQ (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The inner working of many fundamental biological nanomachines implies many stochastic changes in conformation and molecular interactions. These changes are reflected as variability in the activity of the same molecule over time, and in heterogeneous activities between different molecules. By the direct observation at the molecular scale of these nanomachines activity, single-molecule fluorescence techniques have gained access to this stochastic information, which is otherwise missed by bulk techniques but is essential for their understanding. However, the widespread use of these techniques in many biological systems has been hampered by the low working concentration (nM) determined by the diffraction limit of light, and current nanophotonic solutions to this problem are technically too demanding. Here, we propose self-assembled DNA origami nanoantennas as nanophotonic platforms aiming to break this concentration barrier by means of fluorescence signal enhancing and reduction of the observation volume. The versatility of DNA origami structures, biocompatibility and ability for site-directed immobilization of biomolecules, make them perfectly suited to perform complex biological assays. In the presented action we aim to achieve single-molecule fluorescence DNA sequencing using DNA origami nanoantennas to probe the potential of these platforms to perform complex bioassays, in the high concentration regime and demanding multiplexing. Moreover, since they avoid the fabrication and instrumental challenges related to other nanophotonic devices, self-assembly DNA origami nanoantennas are amenable, easy to handle and friendly technology to the biological experimenter, and thus we expect to boost their use in biology. Besides, the fulfilment of this action will provide the fellow with a complete formative training that would boost his future scientific career, and will generate also a new DNA-sequencing technology that will impact positively European scientific excellence.

Mots clés : single molecule fluorescence, dna origami, optical nanoantennas, nanophotonic devices

Participants :
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 86374.6 €
- Technische Universität Braunschweig (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 73086.2 €
Projet IMMIGRANTS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The interdisciplinary IMMIGRANTS project aims at a better understanding of how media influence majority’s attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants – a socially pressing issue connected to rapid expansion of immigration in Europe. In the project, I will focus on different aspects of media news – their valence, labels used for immigrants’ ethnicity and pictures of immigrants accompanying media articles about immigrants. The first goal of my research is to investigate how different labels used for immigrants’ ethnicity (nouns vs. adjectives) combined with different valence of media articles about immigrants (positive vs. negative vs. ambivalent) influence participants’ attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants. My second goal is to compare the effects of articles accompanied by different images of immigrants and articles without such images on participants’ attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants. Both goals feature a number of tasks related to the effects of media articles on attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants: I will test underlying mechanisms (e.g., biometrically tracked positive and negative emotions) and boundary conditions (e.g., social status and category salience of an immigrant group, participants’ intergroup contact with immigrants) of these effects. In three studies of the IMMIGRANTS project, I bring together different traditions on media and immigrant research and address several gaps in social scientific literature (e.g., too narrow focus on negative media news in political and media research, too narrow focus on positive intergroup contact and self-reported emotions in psychology). The outcome of IMMIGRANTS can be used to inform guidelines for professional training of journalists, policy makers, and social workers to become more sensitive to the impact of language describing immigrants.

Mots clés : immigrants, media, linguistic forms, attitudes, emotions, intergroup contact

Participants :
- University of Bern (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187419.6 €
Projet MEHYB (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The interdisciplinary field of hybrid quantum systems pursues the integration of different quantum systems from AMO and solid-state physics to harness their combined functionalities in an optimal way. Prominent examples are long-lived spin ensemble quantum memories for superconducting qubits or (opto-)mechanical quantum transducers, which are currently experimentally implemented for future quantum information processing applications. The general aim of this project is to identify and analyze a new and range of applications for hybrid quantum systems for the study of non-equilibrium quantum many-body effects and phase transitions in open quantum systems. For that purpose the hybrid system approach offers many, still unexplored advantages for combining dissipative and coherent elements in a controllable and scalable way. The focus of this project is two-fold: i) We will analyze the implementation of collective spin models in hybrid quantum system arrays consisting of spin ensembles coupled to microwave cavities and show that this system can serve as prototype model for identifying universal features of non-equilibrium phase transitions in open quantum systems. ii) We will study superconducting qubit arrays with integrated nanomechanical resonators for the implementation of spin models coupled to engineered local reservoirs. This will provide a first realistic approach for simulating open many-body quantum systems coupled to unconventional reservoirs, exhibiting, for example, strong site-dependent temperature variations, or mixed positive and negative temperatures. Analyzing these specific models will open a path for hybrid quantum system arrays as a new quantum simulation platform for non-equilibrium and open quantum many-body systems.

Mots clés : hybrid quantum systems, cavity qed, nanomechanics, superconducting qubits, nv centers

Participants :
- TU Wien (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 166156.8 €
Projet TRANSFA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The interdisciplinary project entitled “Translating the 'Father of Translation'. Linguistic and Cultural Transfers in Byzantium” (TRANSFA) deals with the translation of Latin hagiographical literature into Greek in Byzantium (330-1453). Hagiography, the literature inspired by the acts, the miracles and the sayings of holy men and women, is a substantial part of the medieval cultural legacy. The project sets out to explain how Greek hagiography translated from Latin functioned as a vector of cultural transfers in Byzantium, by making accessible major unpublished material and by focusing on the circulation of people and texts. Dr. Lampadaridi’s project aims to contribute to a better understanding of this process through the examination of the dossier of the Greek versions of the Vita Sancti Hilarionis (hereinafter VH), a Latin hagiographical text composed by Saint Jerome, regarded as the “Father of Translation”, at the end of the 4th century. The Greek dossier of the VH constitutes an extremely rare case of hagiographical translations from Latin into Greek, a phenomenon not as well documented as the opposite flow of translations from Greek into Latin, as it includes different Greek translations. The project will provide the first critical edition of a mostly unknown verbatim translation of the VH into Greek, an extremely rare and fundamental text for the study of translations from Latin into Greek in Byzantium. By shifting the focus from translations from Greek into Latin to translations from Latin into Greek and by looking into the "milieux" of their production and circulation, the project breaks with traditional patterns that imply that Byzantium “gives” and the West “receives” and sets out new approaches to understand contacts between West and East. As a result, the project represents an absolutely novel contribution to the history of cultural exchanges in Byzantium.

Mots clés : byzantium, middle ages, cultural transfer, translation, greek, latin, philology, history, hagiography

Participants :
- National Hellenic Research Foundation (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 165085.44 €
Projet NEXTLEDs (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The introduction of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) offering energy-efficient solutions has revolutionized the solid-state lighting and display technologies. With the widespread use of LEDs, the electricity consumption for lighting in Europe has significantly decreased from 19% in 2006 to below 15% in 2015, enabling saving 85 billion € annually together with the dramatically reduced carbon footprint. In addition to the energy efficiency, the paradigm shifts towards to the high colour quality lighting for the next-generation lighting technologies. To meet these future demands, NEXTLEDs project aims to develop low-cost and solution-processable LEDs exhibiting ultra-high performance with exceptionally high colour purity by using colloidal quantum wells as a novel light-emitting layer. These colloidal quantum wells, also known as colloidal nanoplatelets (NPLs), have recently arisen with their astonishing excitonic features. The narrowest emission linewidth, giant oscillator strength and suppressed Auger recombination are the key features of colloidal NPLs to achieve highly functional LEDs. In addition, the controlled assembly of these atomically-flat NPLs further enhance the light outcoupling efficiency from colloidal NPL LEDs to boost their efficiency, which is theoretically limited to ~20% for any kind of isotropic emitters. To achieve our overarching goal in this project, we aim to (i) systematically synthesize advanced heterostructures of colloidal NPLs by precisely engineering their surfaces and (ii) successfully integrate the assembled NPL films into carefully designed devices to achieve highly efficient LEDs showing exceptionally high colour purity. The findings of this project together with the proposed novel heterostructures of colloidal NPLs have hold great potential to be a game changer for the development of next-generation colloidal nanocrystals based optoelectronic devices, which may even challenge their widely used epitaxially-grown counterparts.


Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 187419.6 €
Projet RaMSoM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The invention of the optical frequency comb (OFC) has enabled counting of optical frequencies and has thereby given rise to optical atomic clocks that today are even sensitive to the gravitational redshift and are of crucial importance for future improvements to navigation, positioning, and timing. The early generation of OFC based on mode-locked lasers are already commercially available but suffer from a number of limitations in terms of system size and complexity, and notably, low attainable repetition rates (<10 GHz). However, higher repetition rates (>10 GHz) are essential in many applications. The discovery of microresonator-based Kerr frequency combs (microcombs) has revolutionized the field and paved a route to a compact OFC, with broad optical bandwidth and repetition rates in the microwave to terahertz domain (10 GHz - 1 THz). Despite such undeniable advantages of soliton microcombs over other types of OFCs as chip-scale footprint and unique combination of high repetition rates and broad bandwidth reaching an octave, there is however no commercial product that would expose the soliton microcomb technology to the market and offer an optical frequency comb with similar performance and scale. The focus of the RaMSoM project is to design and build the world's first 19"-rack-mounted stand-alone soliton microcomb source with the turn-key operation and demonstrate its performance and reliability in scientific and industrial applications. The project will pursue the following objectives: (1) development of a turn-key reliable soliton microcomb source in a 19"-rack chassis; (2) employment of the developed stand-alone system for novel scientific applications, including multi-wavelength broadband spectroscopy and neuromorphic optical computing; (3) development of an industrial-grade soliton microcomb system with enhanced tuning functionality and demonstration of field applications in cooperation with industrial partners.

Mots clés : soliton microcombs, kerr dissipative solitons, optical microresonator, spectroscopy, dual comb spectroscopy

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 203149.44 €
Projet NanoMagnO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The isolation of graphene sheets ushered the age of 2D materials as the poster children of condensed matter physics. Until a few years ago, 2D magnetism was thought to be impossible to observe experimentally, as any amount of thermal fluctuations is enough to disturb the magnetic order. Recently, the existence of 2D magnets have been proved and these materials have garnered a great amount of interest, both due to their novel physics and to the possibility of downscaling magnetic devices, enabling future beyond CMOS technology. However, the physics underlying 2D magnetism are not fully understood. In this project, we aim to study how the magnetism of 2D monolayers of CrI3 and CrBr3 is modified by applying a mechanical strain, which tunes their intralayer magnetic exchange and ultimately their magnetic order. CrI3 and CrBr3 bilayers will also be used to study the dependence of the magnetic coupling between different layers in van der Waals heterostructures, describing the origin of their interlayer magnetic orderings. Using the same materials, we will fabricate nanomechanical resonators which will be used to study the backaction of magnetic field on oscillating 2D magnets. Ultimately, this project will shed light on how magnetism and mechanics interplay in 2D materials.

Mots clés : nanomechanical resonators, 2d magnets, strain engineering, van der waals heterostructures

Participants :
- Institute of Photonic Sciences (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 160932.48 €
Projet MAGNET-CELLPATCH (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The key goals of the MAGNET-CELLPATCH project are: a) the training of a talented experienced researcher, Dr. Castellanos-Rubio, in the fast growing fields of nanotechnology, microfabrication, biomedicine and healthcare industry, in which the host and partner institutions have an extensive knowledge and expertise; and, b) the development, optimisation and evaluation of cost-efficient multimodal magnetic cellular-patches for high performance theranostics. The interdisciplinary training program includes the use of advanced characterisation techniques, as XAS and SAXS, and the evaluation of the material in therapy (hyperthermia-chemotherapy) and diagnosis (MRI) of colorectal cancer. The fellow is a skilled researcher that during her undergraduate and postgraduate career has gained strong experience in the fabrication and characterization of biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles and inorganic-polymeric microstructures with magnetothermal properties. To further boost her career, she needs to gain expertise in sophisticated data-capture instrumentation (such as synchrotron radiation sources), in in-vitro and in-vivo experimental studies and in MRI technique, in which the UPV/EHU has a world-recognised expertise. Moreover, through secondments at academic and industrial co-hosts, at the UCL and NIT respectively, she will gain additional training in preclinical experiments in the field of magnetic-drug-targeting and in production protocols of medical devices, scaling-up options, cost-reduction strategies, quality-controls and market-ready items designs. This multidisciplinary project explicitly addresses a world-wide societal challenge in health, namely, the development of new materials for cancer treatment. In addition, it will also increase the fellow´s supervision and teaching experience, project and intellectual property management expertise, research funding and proposal writing, which will assist her in acquiring necessary competences to reach professional maturity.

Mots clés : magnetic nanoparticles, two dimensional microstructures, photolitography, layer by layer, magnetic hyperthermia, magnetic targeting, drug delivery

Participants :
- University of the Basque Country (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 158121.6 €