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

This proposal will develop innovative methods to access for the first time at non perturbative level the conformal field theory data of the two holographic conformal field theories that provides the best-established paradigms of the AdS/CFT correspondence: N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) and ABJM. This goal can be obtained combining the techniques of the conformal bootstrap, both in its analytical and numerical approaches, with integrability. Such methods proved to be very efficient when applied by themselves, and their complementary usage is the main novelty of this project. Considering that integrability provides a set of conformal data (the scaling dimensions), the plan is to use this piece of information as an input for the conformal bootstrap to compute the remaining set of data (structure constants). A strongly interdisciplinary approach, combining analytical and numerical conformal bootstrap together with the most advanced integrability methods, will be adopted to overcome the existing difficulties and compute those quantities. This will be possible thanks to the critical convergence of the expertise of the two supervising mentors and the researcher on different aspects of bootstrap and integrability. A crucial role will be played by novel techniques developed in recent years by the researcher. The new methods resulting from this action are expected to have a wide applicability, allowing the study of general correlation functions and to lead to quantitative answers to outstanding questions on AdS/CFT. The training plan is designed to boost significantly the researcher's scientific skills, as well as his teaching abilities with the delivery of two PhD level courses. The action involves a strong dissemination and outreach plan including scientific divulgation, a public lecture and the creation of a website/repository hosting permanent open-access resources for the scientific community, which will greatly facilitate further studies of holographic theories.

Mots clés : conformal field theory, integrable models, conformal bootstrap, quantum spectral curve, ads cft

Participants :
- Université de Turin (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 284481.2 €
- Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet WAR_WITNESS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Former U.S. Army analyst Chelsea Manning became notorious after releasing classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning’s 35-year prison sentence, commuted in 2017, provoked acrimonious debate not just about American military operations overseas, but about the extent to which values of transparency and accountability apply in the defence sector. Manning is the famous face of a larger trend, as new social media have enabled soldiers to publicize their experiences of combat environments through blogs, video clips, and leaks to the press. Soldiers’ revelations have elicited public and academic debate, but their impact remains unclear. My research provides a historical perspective to this question by refocusing attention on a period of global war and imperial expansion when modern ideals of open government first took shape. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, against the backdrop of an expanding print industry and growing demands for government accountability, the East India Company (EIC) became the dominant imperial power in the Indian Ocean world. EIC soldiers acted as vital witnesses to these events, writing letters to newspapers, authoring books and pamphlets, and providing testimony in parliament. By comparing soldiers’ statements with official narratives, and by tracing how soldiers’ statements were received by parliament, the public, and the EIC, this research will determine what impact soldiers had on contemporary debates about imperial operations. Fulfilling this research objective will enhance our understanding of public attitudes to empire as well as illuminating the changing relationship between military, government, and the public. Through this research I will achieve technical competence in computational methods and narrative analysis techniques as well as training in grant-writing and team management, thereby positioning me to secure an ERC Starting Grant and become a leading voice in the field of British imperial history.

Mots clés : east india company british empire army and society parliament media

Participants :
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 173847.36 €
Projet ProPA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Digital platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, have long touted themselves as defenders of freedom of expression, yet their content moderation rules have faced global criticism, amongst others for failing to tackle authoritarian repression of dissident voices. Government trolls successfully run malicious reporting campaigns that result in the platforms’ removal of activists’ posts and accounts. Meanwhile, civil society under authoritarianism lacks means of legal recourse and can only engage in international advocacy to urge social media companies to implement safeguards. To which extent have advocacy efforts for protection of pro-democracy content led to changes in digital platforms’ content moderation rules? Have these changes resulted in a more open online civic space for pro-democracy activism? What limitations remain? To address these questions and foster platform accountability for vulnerable users, I will work under Prof. Trisha Meyer’s supervision at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (CD2I) at Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) and Sam Gregory’s secondment supervision at WITNESS Inc. to achieve two main R&I objectives. First, the project will build and test a theoretical model of pro-democracy platform advocacy, based on original evidence from Asian pro-democracy movements and their advocacy toward three social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram). Second, the findings will be turned into two open-access academic articles and three applied innovations, including a best practice guide for pro-democracy activists, a set of policy recommendations for social media companies, and a digital advocacy resource for social media users. I will disseminate and exploit these results via presentations at eight academic and three multi-stakeholder conferences, publications on Open Research Europe platform, and five facilitation workshops with activists and meetings with social media companies.

Mots clés : internet governance, platform governance, digital rights, transnational advocacy, asia, southeast asia

Participants :
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191760.0 €
- Witness, inc. (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet RhECAST (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

With the ongoing climate emergency and nations’ commitments to meet net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, there is a heightened need to contrast climate change through sustainable land-use (LU) strategies. Agroforestry (AF) has existed since ancient times in European countries, and it has been recognised as one of the most beneficial rural LU systems. The RhECAST (Rural landscape hEritage and CArbon sequeSTration) project aims to develop a new interdisciplinary approach to investigate the interactions between sustainability and rural landscape heritage with particular reference to CO2 sequestration over the long term. The project will take an interdisciplinary approach that combines landscape archaeology (HLC - Historical Landscape Characterisation), computer-based modelling (MSD - Multi-Sector Dynamics) and archaeological soil geochemistry (ASG), and it will focus on one of the main European hot spots of atmospheric pollution, the Po - Venetian Plain (PVP - Italy). The main project innovation will be to develop an MSD model using HLC data to determine which would be the effect on climate change mitigation by recasting the current PVP’s industrial agriculture with historical AF. ASG will be essential to constrain the MSD model results leading to significatively more precise outcomes of past and potential future CO2 sequestration. Thus, the RhECAST project aims at modelling CO2 sequestration rate of historical AF to inform sustainable landscape management plans that will maximise climate change mitigation whilst preserving the regional cultural identity. By applying a range of innovative and interdisciplinary techniques, the project will be able to develop a model that could be potentially extended in other European regions with similar historical and environmental characteristics (e.g. Dehesa - Spain; Montado - Portugal; Plužiny - Czech Republic; Streuobst - Germany).

Mots clés : agroforestry multi sector dynamics carbon sequestration rural landscape heritage archaeological soil geochemistry historic landscape characterisation

Participants :
- Université de Milan (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288859.2 €
- Institut de technologie du Massachusetts (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- International traditional knowledge institute foundation (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet LP-NORM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Automated vehicles and complex robot workers are expected to be used massively soon, with positive impacts on security, health at work and productivity. To handle real-world situations, they need to compute their command as fast as possible, but the advanced, safe control algorithms remain a computational bottleneck. To find the solution to a set of motion specifications and constraints for a robot, a widely used approach is to formulate and solve an optimization problem. The formulation is necessarily imprecise, due to modeling, sensing and estimation errors and the solution will not be executed perfectly by the robot. Yet the optimization solvers used in robotics are designed to converge to an exact solution with high precision, wasting time. In this project, I make a change of paradigm by leveraging approximations and investigate how the absence of need for high precision can be used to develop faster solvers. I study what approximations or errors are acceptable for the problem formulation and the solution, paying attention to the numeric properties of the problem. I use this knowledge to develop a solver tailored for approximate computations, with an emphasize on cheap but imprecise inner iterations and early termination. It will also handle gracefully infeasible situations due to errors, making it safer to operate in real conditions. To make the study, and test and benchmark the solver, I focus on two families of control problems: model predictive control and instantaneous linearized control, applied to a wide variety of systems, from buses, to rockets, to humanoid robots. This solver will have important impacts: make it possible to achieve real-time control for the most complex system; allow to keep real-time, when it was already possible, while enriching the problems; reduce the computing power and energy consumption required for a given robot. Understanding and handling imprecisions would also allow to build less precise and thus cheaper robots.

Mots clés : optimisation based control model predictive control whole body control autonomous vehicles quadruped robots humanoid robots

Participants :
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 211754.88 €
Projet ANCMED (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

ANCMED will investigate the role of ships as an adaptive and resilience strategy in the face of wide-scale crisis in the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods. Its primary outcome will be the first of its kind open-access virtual museum that integrates a database on ancient ship depictions, digital photogrammetry, and VR presentation. As such, the project will address some of the most pressing challenges of the Digital Age, namely the insidious loss of knowledge on the ancient world due to various causes that include climate change, political instability, and the lack of publication and preservation of primary archaeological and cultural heritage data. Important research gaps will be tackled by: charting longue durée Mediterranean-wide patterns; a contextually informed approach to ship representations viewing them as cultural artefacts; applying an innovative digital methodology that complements and enhances the archaeological analysis. Significant technical advances (performance, affordability, portability) coupled with a decade of experimentation (improved workflows, well-tested tools) have finally made my approach both timely and feasible. ANCMED is intended to become the principal online research tool on the topic of Mediterranean ships of the pre-classical period. Its broader impact will be to provide the framework and tools for scholars outside of the discipline to meaningfully use and integrate this dataset, to expand digital museum records and aid curators and conservators by providing a means to create cost-effective exact replicas. The project will develop and strengthen my profile as a multidisciplinary maritime archaeologist with expertise in the growing field of digital humanities. As an open-access virtual learning and public valorization platform, ANCMED aligns with several UN sustainable development goals: on quality education, on reduced inequalities, and on developing tools for the preservation of cultural heritage.

Mots clés : maritime archaeology, nautical technology, shipbuilding cultures, east west mediterranean networks, database, digital photogrammetry, virtual museum, late bronze age, early iron age

Participants :
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 189687.36 €
Projet Ind. Eco Film DRC (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Environmental films by indigenous filmmakers are circulating increasingly widely on small screens and at major film festivals. They have proved empowering thanks to their potential to rethink the environmental crisis from experience-based perspectives. Despite this, they remain largely unexamined among scholars. This goes especially for indigenous filmmaking in the DR Congo, where communities living in mineral-rich areas crucial for the transition to green economies are being instrumentalised for greenwashing purposes and subjected to environmental racism. Their filmmaking exposes these abuses and reflects upon the environmental crisis’s uneven effects. They contribute to the environmental imagination and their worldviews are crucial for the animist turn in contemporary film studies. This action explores these neglected mediations of the environmental crisis and aims to enrich film studies and the environmental humanities by studying ecological imaginaries. Through critical content analysis, fieldwork involving participative action research and practice-based analyses of audio-visual practices, I probe how these films articulate indigenous perspectives and build agency. The action will be embedded in the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Prof. Patricia Pisters, the project’s supervisor, is a leading voice in film studies and the ASCA’s research groups stand to enhance the research significantly. It will benefit from a secondment for additional training at Munich’s Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, ensuring that the project is informed and debated. A non-academic placement at Cobra Films will allow me to build on my participative action research method to deliver a documentary that bridges theory and practice. The project will enable the transfer of scientific knowledge and skills among these three institutions, leverage my future academic career, and facilitate further research, publication, and outreach.

Mots clés : film, media, anthropocene, visual culture, ecology, environment, colonialism, cinema studies, indigenous, decolonial, postcolonial, activism, climate, global south, environmental humanities, animism

Participants :
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 254330.4 €
- Cobra films (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet Tailored Immunity (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Fungal pathogens are a major constraint to crop production worldwide. As part of their virulence strategy, pathogens secrete effector proteins to manipulate host machinery and promote colonization. Effectors can be recognized by host immune receptors that launch a robust immune response that restricts pathogen spread. Pathogens quickly overcome immune receptor-mediated resistance by modifying or losing effectors to evade detection. In the Tailored Immunity project, our aim is to massively expand the effector recognition specificity of immune receptors to provide durable disease resistance against the fungus Magnaportha oryzae, the causal agent of blast disease, and one of the most destructive diseases of rice. In order to do this, we will use a host-target guided engineering approach to replace the heavy-metal associated (HMA) effector binding domain of nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat domain (NLR) immune receptors from rice with the HMA domain of host proteins that are targeted by multiple M. oryzae effectors. We hypothesize that introducing the HMA domain of the newly identified effector hubs to NLRs will allow the simultaneous recognition of numerous effectors. As the pathogen would need to undergo complex mutation pathways to escape this detection, and since changing multiple effectors is presumably associated with high fitness costs, we expect that this new strategy will generate resistance that the pathogen has difficulties to overcome and that is therefore highly durable. By these means, this ambitious project promises to provide a proof-of-concept for a new knowledge-guided and powerful approach for the creation of durable immune receptors that will be highly valuable for the improvement of a large range of crop species. In addition to boosting host immunity, the Tailored Immunity project will provide invaluable information about how immune receptors can be engineered for tailored disease resistance in crops.

Mots clés : plant immune receptors, plant resistance, effector target, hub, molecular engineering, plant disease, crop biotechnology

Participants :
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 242260.56 €
Projet CARNIMORPH (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The CARNIMORPH project aims to unravel the evolutionary and ecological dynamics shaping carnivoran craniodental diversity by investigating form-function relationships and modularity/integration. Teeth are crucial for acquiring and processing food, offering a valuable window into predator-prey interactions, dietary specializations, and ecological adaptability over time. Despite the significance of carnivoran teeth, no comprehensive ecomorphological study has yet been undertaken to quantify the modularity and functional efficiency of their diverse dental forms. To address this gap, CARNIMORPH will employ cutting-edge methodologies, including high-density 3D geometric morphometrics, advanced digitization techniques, and experimental mechanical testing, to study the biomechanical, dietary, and phylogenetic factors underlying the evolution of carnivoran dentition. By quantifying tooth shape with unprecedented accuracy, CARNIMORPH will disentangle the relative contributions of diet and phylogeny to tooth form, while also investigating ecomorphological convergence across extinct and extant species. Furthermore, a new protocol for conducting slicing and crushing simulations will be developed to assess the efficiency of carnivoran teeth and quantify the trade-offs between these two critical functions. The project will be hosted at UC Berkeley and Universidad de Málaga, leveraging state-of-the-art facilities and expertise in functional anatomy, evolution, and biomechanics. CARNIMORPH's findings will advance our understanding of the diversification and adaptive strategies of carnivorans across macroevolutionary timescales, contributing valuable insights into the evolutionary mechanisms that shaped current biodiversity. The outcomes will align with key priorities of the MSCA Work Programme by fostering innovative research, promoting international collaboration, and addressing important scientific questions on the intersection of evolution, ecology, and biomechanics.

Mots clés : carnivorans, ecomorphology, functional morphology, macroevolution, palaeobiology, biomechanics, fossil record

Participants :
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Malaga (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 420966.72 €