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Lithosphere THINning During Subduction Initiation (THIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The initial foundering of lithosphere into the upper mantle, known as subduction initiation, is one of the key, most intriguing, and least understood processes of the solid Earth’s cycle. Despite being a relatively ephemeral phenomenon only lasting a few million years, subduction initiation is paramount to understand the driving forces of plate tectonics. The study of subduction initiation processes has mainly focused on supra-subduction zone ophiolites, which are emerged relics of oceanic lithosphere originally formed above a nascent subduction zone. Geological evidence from these ophiolites strongly suggest that subduction initiation causes extreme thinning of the rocks located above the incipient subduction zone; yet, the origin and main features of this process cannot be investigated directly in modern active systems. The main objective of this project is to investigate the tectonic processes triggered by a nascent subduction zone to fully untangle the complex and still poorly understood process of subduction initiation. The proposed research will analyse for the first time the deformation in the mantle section of one of the best preserved and most complete ophiolites of the world (the Semail ophiolite of Oman) to ultimately unveil the mechanism(s) aiding lithosphere thinning during subduction initiation. THIN will use a combination of paleomagnetic, magnetic fabric, structural geological, and geochronological techniques to reconstruct the tectonic rotations in the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite and ultimately produce a four-dimensional (three dimensions over time) model of deformation that will shed key lights on one of the most fundamental geological processes for our planet.

Keywords: structural geology,deformation,paleomagnetism,magnetic fabrics,ophiolite
Cooperative Quantum Dynamics of Dipolar Ensembles (COQUDDE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A new cooperative regime of matter-light interactions opened up recently in research of advanced optical technologies. Optical response of strongly interacting dipolar emitters is important in systems ranging from naturally occurring photosynthesis complexes and dye molecule aggregates, to metamaterials in new solar cell and atomic clock designs. Cooperative regime offers potential for strong, collectively enhanced single-photon coupling and nonlinearities, promising new platforms for optical control at a single photon level, precision measurements and quantum simulations. However there is yet no existing methodology for understanding optical response of this complex, many-body systems. Recent progress in control of cold atom ensembles on length scales shorter than the wavelength of the field mediating interaction promises new simple and controllable platform to explore cooperative regime. This action will use unique combination of two complementary cold atom experiments in this regime. The first one achieves small, dense atomic samples; the second provides direct control and measurement of positions and states of individual atoms, together with real-time control of their external and internal degrees of freedom. The applicant will extend this two experiments to explore new control schemes and access new observables. These will be used in benchmarking of knowledge about the cooperative regime, guiding development of new theoretical methods. Applicant’s combination of experimental and theoretical experience in analysis of complex atom-light interactions will be used for high performance computing numerical simulations. During secondment this will be distilled into effective models relaying on new theoretical methodology. Through combined theoretical and experimental work, the applicant will develop and enhance independence and skills required for design and analysis of complex quantum optics experiments with atomic systems that require advanced theoretical insight.

Keywords: cold atoms,atom light interactions,rydberg atoms
Materials Modelling Marketplace for Increased Industrial Innovation (MarketPlace)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Austria,Estonia,Spain,Switzerland,Switzerland,Norway,Poland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Next generation system integrating tangible and intangible materials model components to support innovation in industry (H2020-NMBP-2017-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9117875.08
EU funding (EUR): 8147525.51
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The MarketPlace consortium will utilise state of the art information technologies to build an open web-based integrated Materials Modelling and Collaboration platform that acts as one-stop-shop and open Marketplace for providing all determining components that need to be interwoven for successful and accelerated deployment of materials modelling in industry. This includs linking various activities and databases on models, information on simulation tools, communities, expertise exchange, course and training materials, lectures, seminars and tutorials. The proposed MarketPlace will be a central-hub for all materials modelling related activities in Europe and provide tangible tools to connect disparate modelling, translators, and manufacturing communities to provide a vibrant collaboration web-based tool for the advancement of materials modelling in European manufacturing industry. The developed platform will include mechanisms for the integration of interoperable set of advanced materials model workflows for coupling and linking of various discrete (electronic, atomistic, mesoscopic) and continuum models. This will be achieved by developing open and standard post and pre-processing methods that allow complex flow of information from one model to another for both strongly and loosely coupled systems. The Marketplace platform will include access to concerted set of federated databases of materials models, materials data and provide for access to experimental characterisation and stimulate the development of interface wrappers and open simulation platforms. The MarketPlace consortium aims to strengthen the competitiveness and lower the innovation barrier for European industry for product development and process design and optimization using materials modelling.

Keywords: marketplace,materials modelling,single digital market,powders,powder technology,fluid dynamics,multiscale modelling,integrated computational materials engineering,metadata schema,internet
Miniature colon spectral scanner that gives real-time automatic alerts for pathological findings. (LEAD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) is about 1 in 22 for men and 1 in 24 for women and this risk increases with age. CRC represents 22% of the total cancer-related costs. It usually begins as a non-cancerous growth called a polyp that develops on the inner lining of the colon or rectum and grows slowly over a period of 10 to 20 years. Research has confirmed that the single best prevention for colon cancer is the early detection and removal of all colon polyps. When colorectal cancer is found at an early stage, the 5-year relative survival rate is about 90% which makes it suitable for screening programs. LEAD (LEsion Auto-Detector) is a cost-effective (€50), disposable miniature colon spectral scanner that drastically improves polyp detection (99%). It features a 360° light emitting ring that scans the colon, automatically processes different wavelengths from the reflected spectral data and provides real-time alerts based on accurate pathological tissue analysis. The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME instrument fits into our overall plan to reach the market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast sound wider deployment of LEAD in Europe before a global expansion. Following this, we are aiming to secure vital funding for an important clinical study to prove the efficacy of our revolutionary colonoscope add-on.

Keywords: colonoscope,colorectal cancer,add on,wavelengths
EndoTrainer - A revolution in non-invasive surgery training (EndoTrainer)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS), or ‘key-hole surgery’, has huge benefits for patients and the healthcare system alike. However, its adoption is not as wide spread as it should be and today´s complex procedures can lead to a set of surgery mistakes generating unforseen patient harm and complicaton. One of the main reasons for the restrain on this full-release of MIS benefit has been due to the traditional, limited practical training. Students are taught the practicalities in real operating theatres with previously qualified surgeons. The environment is very costly and provides limited time for repeat practice. There are real bottlenecks in the supply of new, fully-capable MIS specialist surgeons. At Surgitrainer, we have developed the world’s first MIS simulator combining a realistic physical simulation with a virtual one. Trainees can practice at low cost, whilst having their progress precisely monitored and evaluated multiple times prior to their first ‘real’ procedure. We aim to speed up the generation of qualified MIS surgeons and help to ensure that many more people obtain the vast benefits of these procedures. With our first product entering final accreditation phase, we are applying for phase1 SME Instrument in order to help fund our final trial phase, develop our cloud ‘trainee interaction’ platform and to fully analyse the feasibility of our business model and route to market. With a general medical shift to simulation tool training and a 2.6 B USD market predicted by 2022, we predict to drive sales of nearly 10.4M Euros by 2022.

Keywords: simulation training devices,endoscopy,laparoscopy,training skills
Sand Mitigation around Railway Tracks (SMaRT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,France,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 794224.8
EU funding (EUR): 794224.8
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

In the last decade, a growing number of railways and other civil or industrial infrastructures have been designed and/or built in arid regions worldwide. The European Railway Industry is often selected for such projects, because of its strong overall know-how. In arid environmental conditions, windblown sand can have undesired effects on both the safety and the serviceability/ maintenance of railways. Despite efficient Sand Mitigation Measures (SMM) are mandatory, their design and assessment are at their infancy worldwide. Both tasks require innovation and development, by means of transfer of knowledge from base and/or specialist research fields to the Civil Engineering design practice and Railway Industry. The European Railway Industry competences should be enriched with advanced and specialized knowhow in the SMM field, by means of raise of the quality of knowledge and human capital. Innovative sand mitigation competences should find their place in the production chain of the Railway Industry. The present Research and Training Programme is inspired by the problem features mentioned above and aims at: • innovating the sand mitigation research field, by: o a Computational Based Engineering rationale approach to the design of SMM; o a new approach to the modeling and simulation of the coupled multiphase wind-sand flow around three-dimensional complex orography SMM and railway body; • training Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), by means of: o a multidisciplinary doctoral formation because of the nature of the problem; o an academy-industry intersectoral doctoral formation because of the innovation ability of the former and the stimuli to research coming from the needs of the latter; o a consortium's layout reflecting the production chain of the railway industry to train the ESRs in a proper “in vitro” replica of the their future real world working context; • enriching and complementing the competences of the European Railway Industry in a growing market sector.

Keywords: railways,arid environment,sand mitigation,modelling,computational simulation,design,analysis,performance assessment,civil engineering,railway engineering,aeolian geomorphology
Development of a 4D silicon detector for applications in nuclear, particle, and medical physics (PicoPix)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: United States,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 271732.8
EU funding (EUR): 271732.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The PicoPix project will develop and deliver pixelated and radiation hard Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGAD) with sub 30-ps timing resolution for 4D particle tracking in high energy physics and imaging applications. Starting from AC-coupled LGADs, developed in the context of the RD50 collaboration, PicoPix will use novel techniques to redefine the state-of-the-art in LGAD fabrication: a) pixelation, with typical dimension in the order of few tens of μm; b) timing resolution, through thinner detectors; and c) radiation-hardness, through novel designs of the active detection volume. PicoPix will push the boundaries in many fields from fundamental science to industrial applications. The fellow, Dr Reynolds, an expert in hadron collider physics with broad experience in simulations, analysis techniques, and data interpretation, has experience in characterisation of silicon detectors. The supervisors, Dr Tricoli and Prof Nikolopoulos, have significant experience and leadership in detector instrumentation and physics analysis. The former leads the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Fast-Timing Silicon Sensor Test- ing Laboratory, and the latter played a key-role in the commissioning of the Irradiation Facility at the University of Birmingham (UoB). The hosts, UoB and BNL, have excellent facilities enabling PicoPix, including the BNL Silicon Fabrication Facility and the Birmingham Instrumentation Laboratory for Particle Physics and Applications (BILPA). The secondments and visits, including at Fermilab, DESY, and CERN, and collaboration with other academic fields and industries ensure PicoPix’s success and a unique environment for Dr Reynolds’ development.

Keywords: timing detectors,tracking detectors,semiconductor detectors,low gain avalanche detectors lgads
A Comparative Diachronic Analysis of Post-Byzantine Networks in the Early-modern Europe (15th-18th c.) (MIGWEB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The research proposed here will focus on the connections of post-Byzantine émigrés to the early-modern European West. The Researcher will examine how these webs were organized, controlled and enacted to keep together émigrés of various backgrounds, generations and interests for longer periods of time and in changing historical circumstances; then, it will survey how the nods established by these bonds facilitated interactions between the émigrés and their host societies; lastly, it will analyse the diffusion and “behaviour” of these networks, seeking significant mechanisms and potential common patterns that channeled the key integration processes in a wider context of early-modern Europe. The core part of the research will be done in the Host Institution's premises; apart from its resources, the Researcher will use extensive library collections and archival materials located in institutions related to the Host Institution, or the ones that generally sustain scholarly research in the humanities. The research will be followed by intense training and networking that will allow efficient transfer of knowledge. From the Host Institution, this transfer will aim at enhancing the Researcher's capacities in working with latest theoretical and technological tools, which will, consequently enhance the visibility of her work in the international field academia, as well as a further transfer of this knowledge and specific research outcomes to the related projects and regions of EU with which the Researcher is or will be collaborating. The Researcher, from her end, will transfer her field expertise in working with CE and SEE field contexts, as well as her skills in publishing, program development and coordination, and field networking. Among outcomes of this collaboration will be scholarly publications and conference presentations that target international interdisciplinary audience, as well as a new digital tool that will allow further studies of the field.

Keywords: post byzantine migrations,early modern europe,socio cultural integration,social transformation history
Serotonin and BEYOND: Brain development research Excelling Young Ones in Neurotechnologies and Discoveries (SEROTONIN and BEYOND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,Germany,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4012551.0
EU funding (EUR): 4012551.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter playing a crucial in the onset and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. Most of the drugs currently used in psychiatry target serotonin (neuro)transmission. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the efficacy of these drugs is suboptimal. As a result, the prevalence and burden of these disorders remain high. A new wave of research revealed that serotonin plays important role in neurodevelopment. Changes in serotonin levels lead to changes in developmental processes with consequences for the serotonin system and beyond. This makes it plausible that the origins of these disorders do not per se lie in disturbed serotonin neurotransmission, but rather in serotonin-mediated neurodevelopmental changes. This would require a radical different view on disease burden reduction. We hypothesize that it are the serotonin-mediated non-serotonergic downstream changes in neurodevelopment that are at the basis of serotonin-related neuropsychiatric disorders. SEROTONIN and BEYOND will establish an interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international scientific network to test this hypothesis. It will enable paradigm shifts in the understanding of vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders, and provide groundwork for critical windows in development for future interventions. To achieve these goals, top-class academic and industrial scientists will train Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in the full spectrum of state-of-the-art neuroscientific technical approaches. We will also equip these ESRs with translational and entrepreneurial thinking by providing intersectoral and transferable skills training. In summary, we will train a new generation of ESRs in the integrated field of serotonin, neurodevelopment and psychiatry to deliver 15 excellent young researchers who are optimally prepared for their future academic and industrial careers.

Keywords: serotonin,prefrontal cortex,neuropsychiatry,translational neuroscience,neurotechnology,open science,good,research practice