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Abelian varieties over finite fields (AbVarFq)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Mathematics
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Some of the most extensively studied objects at the intersection of number theory and algebraic geometry are abelian varieties, which are projective varieties whose points form a group. The main objective of the project is to concretely represent abelian varieties defined over a finite field and classify them up to isomorphism, together with their polarizations. The main goal has been achieved in previous years by work of the Researcher, Supervisor and collaborators in several cases, which enjoy two properties: the varieties admit canonical liftings and the p-divisible groups do not play a special role in the classification. The project deals with the cases where these crucial properties do not hold, making them theoretically more complicated to grasp, but also more interesting. Achieving the objective will have several consequences. Firstly, we will obtain an efficient way to represent abelian varieties over finite fields, overcoming the facts that equations are too cumbersome, already in dimension 2, and that Jacobian varieties give a complete description only in low dimension and with certain kind of polarizations. Secondly, we will fill some important gaps in our current understanding of many invariants attached to the abelian varieties, like the p-rank or the Newton polygon. Third, the project will pave the way to: compute the cohomology of moduli spaces of the abelian varieties by interpolating our point-counts over finite fields; shed light one the set of conjectures connecting automorphic forms and representation theory usually known as the Langlands program; study isogeny graphs of abelian varieties over finite fields, which have the potential of being useful in (post-quantum-)cryptography; understand properties of algebraic-geometric codes via Jacobians. Note that the last two applications could have significant impact on making digital communications more secure and reliable, and hence considerably affect our society and economy.

Keywords: abelian varieties,finite fields,polarizations,orders in finite products of number fields
Color in a New Light - Origins, Trade and Cultural Significance of Ancient Pigments (HUE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Study of the Human Past
Panel description: Archaeology and history
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-04-01
End date: 2029-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2374358.75
EU funding (EUR): 2374358.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ancient world was fascinated by color. People processed certain raw materials to use them as pigments. Their material qualities and provenance mattered. Yet little is known about where these materials came from: some might have been broadly available, others rare and traded far. Along the way from resource to artwork much is still unknown. A plethora of mineral pigments was used in the past; materials were processed ranging from powdered cinnabar to pyrotechnological multi-component materials. They came together to color walls and sculpture alike and now enable the understanding of interaction across production technologies, trade networks and cultural relations in a new way. So far, identifying the provenance of pigments relies on metal reference. But metals and pigments are not the same. It is thus essential to develop a pigment-specific reference database paired with a proper toolset to push this new avenue in archaeological science to its full potential. Among other pigments, Egyptian blue serves as a cornerstone indicator of cross-craft interaction between metal- and glass work – HUE probes material provenance and production technology by looking at the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Roman period until the 1st century BC-AD, a time of great political reorganization and significant change in the organization of pigment production. HUE analyzes raw and processed pigments from original artifacts, workshops and trade nodes to bridge the gap from resource, market and workshop to art. The results are not only relevant for polychromy research, but also for an archaeological evaluation of workshops, discussion of market- and trade network theories and people-environment interaction. The PI has already shown the significance of this approach in pilot studies. Supported by a network of international specialists, new light will shine on ancient pigments to reveal the cultural significance of color in economic and technological developments.

Keywords: ancient polychromy archaeometry material provenance production technology cross craft interaction production workshops organization of production and trade trade networks human environment interaction
Beyond Xylella, Integrated Management Strategies for Mitigating Xylella fastidiosa impact in Europe (BeXyl) (BeXyl)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,France,United States,Israel,Germany,Austria,Slovenia,Brazil,Costa Rica,Belgium,Argentina,Australia,United Kingdom
Call: Tackling outbreaks of plant pests (HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7089069.0
EU funding (EUR): 6674782.75
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

BeXyl will contribute to promote research and innovation and specifically provide interdisciplinary solutions according to the demand of the stakeholders embebed in the project, contributing to deliver specific impacts for each of the expected outcomes as foreseen by the HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01-04 call. In line with the conceptual approach of the new EU Plant Health Law, BeXyl has been conceived to strengthen the two pillars of plant protection: i) prevention and ii) control strategies for the priority quarantine pathogen Xylella fastidiosa (Xf). The workplan is designed to assess the risk of new Xf outbreaks in the EU under changing climate (WP1), improve the methods for border inspections and surveillance for early detection (WP2), ensure the phytosanitary standards for the trade of plant propagation materials using non-chemical treatments (WP3), restore outbreak areas based on the strategies to improve host plant resistance (WP4) and disease management tools (i.e., Decision Support Systems and IPM protocols) in conventional and organic production (WP7) based on investigations for the control of insect vector populations (WP5) and innovative biological tools for Xf (WP6). Outbreak management approaches will take fully into account the ecological and socioeconomic contexts for their adoption and implementation (WP8). In line with the EU Green Deal for a transition to environmentally sustainable, healthy and resilient agriculture and forestry, BeXyl will support research, innovation and transfer of knowledge (WP9) for crisis preparedness to help to prevent new Xf outbreaks and further spread of currently infested areas, as well as to support agricultural/forestry sectors for remaining productive in outbreak areas.
Artin groups, mapping class groups and Out(Fn): from geometry to operator algebras via measure equivalence (Artin-Out-ME-OA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1079579.0
EU funding (EUR): 1079579.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Negative curvature features of Artin groups, surface mapping class groups and outer automorphisms of free groups have been the subject of intense study in geometric group theory. I propose to confront this viewpoint with recent developments in measured group theory and operator algebras. The focus is on obtaining structural and rigidity theorems in measure equivalence, and for von Neumann algebras associated to these groups and their ergodic actions. A first goal is to pursue the classification of right-angled Artin groups up to measure equivalence, describe the class of groups that are measure equivalent to a given one, and tackle the question of their rigidity for integrable measure equivalence. Beyond the right-angled case, I aim for new superrigidity theorems, both for quasi-isometry and measure equivalence, for many Artin groups (of hyperbolic type, of FC type); this will require describing lattices in the automorphism group of their Cayley complex. A second goal is to prove the proper proximality of Out(Fn) in the sense of Boutonnet, Ioana and Peterson, which would yield strong rigidity results for von Neumann algebras associated to its compact actions. This will require developing an analogue for Out(Fn) to the Masur-Minsky theory for mapping class groups. These new tools, as a by-product, are likely to be helpful to tackle some of the most challenging questions on Out(Fn), like the Farrell-Jones conjecture. The biggest challenge will be to investigate the group von Neumann algebra L(G), when G is an Artin group, a mapping class group, or Out(Fn). I will start with the W*-classification of right-angled Artin groups with finite outer automorphism groups. Ultimately, I aim at proving structural properties of L(G), like primeness, when G is as above and, as a long-term goal, establish rigidity phenomena.

Keywords: geometric group theory measured group theory von neumann algebras artin groups mapping class groups automorphisms of free groups rigidity
Feminist movements responses to the gendered impact of crises (Gender, Resilience and Activism in Crisis Europe) (GRACE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-18
End date: 2024-10-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165312.96
EU funding (EUR): 165312.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The gendered effects of the current pandemic crisis – i.e. how the economic, social, and political problems prompted by the COVID-19 health crisis affect women, men, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex people differently – are amongst the most visible and significant ones, yet continue to be largely underestimated in the mainstream political, policy, and academic debates. Women have and will continue to endure the social, economic and political damage generated by the crisis, due to precarious work conditions as well as unpaid care and housework. In this context, feminist movements have been capable to (re)introduce contentious claims over the deep meaning of the crisis and its consequences, raising public concern over imperative issues such as gender-based violence, reproductive rights and the centrality of care and social reproduction work as the material basis to sustain life. Against the backdrop, GRACE investigates how feminist movements address the gendered consequences of the crisis by looking at the variation in mobilization opportunities, strategies and policy outcomes in two national cases: Italy and Spain. It does so by examining feminist movements in: a) online and offline strategic choices, tactical innovation and changes in mobilization style; b) forms of (re)organization in the physical and digital space; c) discourses and knowledge production adopted to influence institutional actors and public opinion. Based on a mix-methods and cross-national comparative research design, GRACE aims to enhance the understanding of gender inequalities across contexts, crises’ consequences, and the influence of feminist movements on public policy. In doing so, GRACE will produce crucial knowledge to academics and policy makers to understand how the current crisis management entrenches the power of particular economic and social orders, enables structures and mechanisms of gender privilege and multiple inequalities.

Keywords: feminist movements,crises,covid 19,policy outcomes
Solving the multi-scale problem in materials mechanics: a pathway to chemical design (Multimech)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 952785.0
EU funding (EUR): 952785.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Based on recent conceptual and theoretical advances in the lattice dynamics of real solids, I aim to develop a new generation of computational methods that will revolutionize the way we predict and describe the mechanical response of complex materials. State-of-the-art computational methods to simulate materials and their mechanical behaviour are based on molecular dynamics (MD) with atomistic force-fields. These methods provide an excellent description of the thermodynamically stable phases of materials with arbitrary chemical and microstructural complexity. However, simulating the mechanical deformation behaviour of materials at the atomistic level remains an open challenge. The main bottleneck is represented by the inevitably short time scale of time integration (1-2 femtoseconds) in atomistic MD methods. This limitation makes it impossible to simulate the dynamical deformation of materials on long time scales encountered in experiments, i.e. for deformation rates lower than ~10 Gigahertz (at best). This fundamental time-scale bridging problem is currently unsolved and prevents the computational prediction of materials mechanics in the regimes that are experimentally accessible in standard mechanical tests and rheology. In this project, I build on my expertise and recent scientific breakthroughs in the lattice dynamics and atomistic viscoelasticity of real complex materials. I propose to develop a fully predictive and atomistic computational framework for the viscoelastic response (i.e. viscoelastic moduli) of real materials (polymers, glasses, microstructured crystalline materials) that can work across the whole spectrum of deformation rates/frequencies and for large systems (millions of atoms or more). This cannot be done with the current state-of-art methodologies. Furthermore, I propose to develop a predictive lattice-dynamics-based framework for the plasticity and yielding of complex materials including amorphous materials.

Keywords: computational materials,soft materials,polymer glasses,metallic glasses
Dissecting Brain Pollutant Exposure and its Contribution to Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease: From Signatures to Prevention Strategies to Protect and Maintain a Healthy Brain (EXPOSIGNALZ)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Health
Theme: Health
Destination: Living and working in a health promoting environment
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Sweden,Netherlands,Luxembourg,United Kingdom
Call: The role of environmental pollution in non-communicable diseases: air, noise and light and hazardous waste pollution (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-ENVHLTH-02-two-stage, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9641093.39
EU funding (EUR): 9309879.82
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Human populations are impregnated by various types of chemical pollutants reported as “hazardous waste” present in the environment. Certain pollutants have adverse effects on brain, but the underlying mechanisms and time-window exposures are still unknown, as well as their contribution on dementia, the 7th leading cause of death. EXPOSIGNALZ project aims to delineate the impact of a selection of environmental pollutants on brain health throughout life and their role in dementia especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD) representing about 70% of dementia cases. Through interdisciplinary approaches, integrating experimental and epidemiological studies, our objectives are to: 1) Identify environmental pollutants likely to have neurotoxic effects and pro-amyloidogenic properties predictive of a neurodegenerative trajectory related to AD using in vitro screening models; 2) Characterize pollutant signatures associated with brain aging and AD in biological matrices of 4 European population-based cohorts of various age groups; 3) Understand the mechanisms of action of pollutants identified in the in vitro screenings and those found in biological signatures, using AD-iPSC and AD preclinical models; 4) Explore the impact of pollutants on early neurodevelopment as a factor of susceptibility for later neurodegenerative diseases using brain organoids and gestational contamination models and 5) Disseminate knowledge to policy makers, to the relevant stakeholders and general public in order to define guidelines for disease prevention and take actions for population’s health. The project, which aims to identify chemical pollutants as new risk factors for dementia as well as new pollutant-associated biomarkers, could contribute to: (i) reduce or delay the incidence of AD, and thus reduce the economic and social burden; and (ii) allow an earlier diagnosis of AD combined with new disease modifying treatments to delay the entrance of patients in the more severe stages of the pathology.

Keywords: dementia,alzheimer disease,pollutants,persistent organic pollutants,e waste,pharmaceutical residues
PHAETHON Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence for Intelligent, Efficient and Sustainable Energy Solutions (PHAETHON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Denmark,Netherlands
Call: Teaming for Excellence (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-01-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the Teaming project is to upgrade the highly successful FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy of the University of Cyprus (UCY) to an autonomous and self-sustaining Centre of Excellence (CoE). The PHAETHON CoE for Intelligent, Efficient and Sustainable Energy Solutions aims to have a direct impact on the energy research and innovation (R&I) cycle in Cyprus, the surrounding region and globally. The research focus of the proposed CoE is a key area of significant growth potential and a high priority of the European Union (EU) (EU Climate Action, European Green Deal and REPowerEU initiatives) and Cyprus (green and digital energy transition are completely aligned with the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Cyprus). The transformation will be pursued through the partnership of UCY-FOSS with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), University of Groningen (UG) and Cyprus Seeds (CS). PHAETHON CoE will target timely, multi-faceted research themes in the field of energy that encompass technological, socio-economic, multi-level governance and environmental sustainability aspects, thus significantly increasing its research capacity, reputation and ability to attract funding. Institutional autonomy and effective management reforms, as well as innovation aspects that will lead to the successful exploitation of the research outcomes, will spearhead this transformation towards a sustainable centre at the heart of the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa (EMMENA) region energy ecosystem. The track record of UCY-FOSS in attracting significant EU, national and industrial funding, as well as the complementary funding already committed by the Government of Cyprus, the private sector (EuroAsia Interconnector PLC) and the University of Cyprus, provide evidence for the sustainability of PHAETHON CoE in the longer term, ensuring long-lasting impacts on Europe’s economy and society at large.

Keywords: climate neutrality,decarbonisation,energy and society,energy efficiency,environmental monitoring,green hydrogen,grid integration,renewable energy,photovoltaic,smart grids,storage