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Application of advanced technologies and stochastic modeling in the study of submarine groundwater discharge (SUBGRODIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 281883.3
EU funding (EUR): 281883.3
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is the subsurface flow of continental water to the sea or coastal water systems. It has become increasingly important during recent years due to the effect on coastal ecosystems associated with the contaminants produced either naturally or anthropogenically inland. The increasing impact of this problem is illustrated by the inclusion of protection figures in the European Water Framework Directive and by the rising number of scientific articles on the subject. Nevertheless due to the difficulties inherent to the fieldwork and the lack of coherence between results in different regions, there is an urgent need to apply new monitoring tools to gain a greater understanding of the process. In this IOF, I propose a new methodology consisting in the use of field advanced technologies and the application of uncertainty analysis through stochastic modeling. This will contribute to answering the most challenging question in the study of SGD; what is the effect of the geological heterogeneity on flux patterns. I will acquire new knowledge and develop my expertise through research training at an outstanding holistic research group in the study of SGD (University of Delaware) because of the use of innovative methods to quantify SGD and variable density modeling. My research objective will be to develop a new work methodology that will be exportable and validated at a second field site with the assistance of the return host group in the University of Copenhagen (Peter Engesgaard). This IOF proposal presents ambitious objectives, which require the integration of multiple methods and in deep analysis, but at the same time, it is based on well-developed and solid techniques in the Hydrogeology studies to ensure the success of the project.

Keywords: submarine groundwater discharge,stochastic models,hydrogeology,seepage meters,flow and density models
The Nazis’ Foreign Experts:European Academics and Professionals and the SS’s “New Order”, 1939-1945 (NAZI FOREIGN EXPERTS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168794.4
EU funding (EUR): 168794.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I am applying to the Marie Curie IEF to research how young North-Western Europeans (from the Scandinavian countries, Holland and Switzerland) envisioned their countries’ economic and political relationship to Nazi Germany and the occupied Eastern territories and how these beliefs translated into concrete efforts to support the regime. Numerous studies exist that examine how the SS and young German scientists and academics began to radically transform Europe, often with genocidal consequences. However, my study will be the first to examine the contributions of non-German European “experts”—geographers, engineers, historians, business managers and other young professionals—who worked with the SS to promote the incorporation of Western Europe into the German sphere and the brutal exploitation of Eastern European land and labor for their own benefit. My project builds off the premise, supported by recent academic scholarship, that until 1942, the so-called Nazi New Order seemed a permanent, and to many a desired, reality in Europe. This transnational study would be based on research in over twenty archives in seven different countries. Many of these collections, which I located during my dissertation research, have not been used previously by historians. This study promises to make significant contributions to our understanding of the motives, plans and realities of Western European collaboration with the Nazi regime.

Keywords: nazi new order,european collaboration,transnational history,enviro-tech history,entangled history,fascism
Valorisation of waste streams from the agro food sector (VALOWASTE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230036.6
EU funding (EUR): 230036.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ever-increasing depletion of natural resources, the economical stress on water bodies and raw materials, the increase of greenhouse emissions and the raising awareness of citizens for sustainable development has culminated in the transformation of organic wastes, residues and biomass to valuable materials and fuels producing no (or limited) waste -a concept known as biorefinery or valorisation. The waste effluents from the agro-food sector have minimal toxicity and often contain substances having high-added value that can be recovered directly or can represent a zero- or low-cost substrate for biochemical processes aimed at bioproducts of potential commercial interest. Indeed, as the biorefinery concept takes a foothold in the food industry, strong research efforts are already being made towards the identification of novel efficient methods adapted to the particular wastes and to the optimisation of the processes for obtaining high added value bioproducts. The present VALOWASTE project will develop a novel and efficient set of biochemical methods for the biorefinery of agrofood wastewaters such that added value bioproducts and other commodities such as clean water and energy to be reused in the same industrial process can be obtained. This breakthrough in the state-of-the-art in terms of waste valorisation will take place by applying and transferring the specialised knowledge of Dr. Arunima Nayak, a Chemical Researcher and specialist in the field of wastewater treatments from India, through scientific leadership to the research team in IRIS in order to position them to take forward the results into industry. Providing European agrofood waste producers with affordable access to reliable and accurate valorisation methods will be revolutionary for wastewater management. This project will have a major impact in transferring in knowledge to maintain Europe in a leading sustainable development position on the world stage.

Keywords: agri-food processing wastewater valorisation
Aeroelasticity Control for Transportation And GREen ENergy (ACTAGREEN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 231283.2
EU funding (EUR): 231283.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project focuses on two closely related engineering topics of importance to the EU economy and its society. The unrelenting increase in the length of modern suspended-span bridges makes them increasingly vulnerable to wind-induced vibrations and instabilities known respectively as buffeting and flutter (several bridge-construction projects with central span in excess of 1000m are currently being built or planned). In much the same way large wind turbines with power outputs in excess of 10MW and blade length well in excess of 100m are currently being investigated. As the blades of these machines increase in length, while also being constructed from lighter and more flexible materials, they too become susceptible to flutter and buffeting. In the case of large offshore wind farms, which may be exposed to highly unsteady aerodynamic loading, buffet suppression is especially important if this power generation means is to become widespread and economically attractive. The central focus of the proposed work is to seek common techniques for the analysis and suppression of wind-induced oscillations in large flexible civil engineering structures. These apparently unrelated systems face similar challenges and a coordinated attack on both appears to be technically well motivated. The application of small aerodynamics devices will be investigated, in order to devise relatively high frequency and robust control systems, which will be both simulated and tested in wind tunnel. The research is highly interdisciplinary, as it combines mechanics, aerodynamics and control. The main beneficiaries of the work will be the bridge design and construction industry as well as the wind turbine industry. Secondary beneficiaries will include government and society at large, who will have access to cheaper mobility and cheaper wind energy. Additionally the work has important spin-off applications for the fluid-dynamic control of other flexible structures which operate in a turbulent flow field

Keywords: aeroelasticity,control,stability,aerodynamics,mechanics,bridge,wind turbine
Effect of nutrient intake on the expression of genetic variation in behavioural syndromes (DIET AND PERSONALITY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-20
End date: 2016-04-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161968.8
EU funding (EUR): 161968.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Behavioural traits are often correlated among individuals, called ‘behavioural syndromes’ in the recent behavioural ecology literature. Behavioural syndromes are shaped by the joined effects of genetic environment factors that simultaneously affecting multiple behaviours. The relative importance of each component has not yet been studied, despite major evolutionary repercussions of alternative proximate underpinnings. In the proposed study, the incoming fellow will use southern field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus, as a study organism to test whether the acquisition of resources is an important determinant in shaping the expression of genetic correlations across diet environments. Such gene-environment interactions affecting behavioural correlations have been predicted to exist in nature because the expression of behavioural syndromes is environment-dependent in many animal taxa. Given the effect of diet on individual behavioural variation and covariation, nutrients are expected to have a role of shaping behavioural syndromes. The fellow will thus manipulate diet (carbohydrate-high or protein-high) in a quantitative genetics design, and measure multiple behaviours repeatedly. By comparing the structure of genetic correlations across two diet treatments, the fellow can test the role of diet (environment factor) on shaping genetically underpinned behavioural syndromes in crickets. If the expression of genetic correlations is indeed diet-dependent, it implies that behavioural syndromes are evolutionarily ‘labile’. The proposed work thereby represents the first experimental test of the hypothesis that the genetic structure of behaviour imposes constraints on the evolution of behavioural traits. Consequently, this proposed research will highlight how evolutionary approach to the study of behaviour shed light on the study of behavioural adaptation.

Keywords: animal behaviour,animal personality,behavioural syndrome,quantitative genetics,nutrition,genetic variation,genotype-environment interaction
In Vitro Tissue Model with Integrated Micro-fluidics and Electronics (IN TIME)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-01-15
End date: 2017-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194046.6
EU funding (EUR): 194046.6
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

There is a pressing need to move away from animal testing and animal models for the toxicological profiling of chemical substances and new drug formulations. For this reason the generation and validation of alternative test methods of in vitro tissue models is required. The IN TIME project proposes to bring together recent advances in the fields of ‘organ-on-chips’ (micro-fluidics incorporating in vitro cell growth) with a highly performant electronic monitoring system to provide in-line monitoring of target parameters. The IN TIME platform will use state of the art micro-fluidic technology which will allow for realistic stresses and flows that mimic those to which tissue is subjected to in vivo. It will also harness recent advances in the field of organic bioelectronics which have seen the development of cutting edge devices capable of interfacing with biological systems for rapid and highly sensitive monitoring of tissue in vitro. A key advantage of the proposed platform is that it will use low cost approaches and materials, compatible with current cell culture laboratories for easy integration and use. Through the collaborations of specialists in biology and bioelectronics, the applications micro-fluidics and OECTs for in-line biomedical applications will be exploited. The success of the IN-TIME project will result in a novel ‘organ-on-chip’ platform that will assist significantly in realizing the 3Rs goal of replacement, refinement and reduction of animal testing, thus contributing to the competitiveness of European research teams, and the training of European researchers in this area of strategic importance.

Keywords: micro-fluidics,organ-on-chips,in vitro tissue models,bioelectronics,organic electrochemical transistors
A comprehensive approach to “attitudes towards contingency” in liberal-individualistic societies : the case of mental health problems hindering autonomy (ATCMENTALHEATH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202405.8
EU funding (EUR): 202405.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project deals with "attitudes towards contingency" - ATC - (i.e. ways of making life going on after a crisis, ways of coping with misfortune, injustice, evil, etc. on the symbolic and operative levels) that are specific to liberal- individualistic societies, within which unprecedented emphasis is put on autonomy and the capacity to rely on oneself (in particular : helping oneself, being oneself and being correctly emotionally affected, which are the three main criteria often mobilized to assess what an autonomous behaviour is). While striving to meet a general theoretical target (an analytical frame to study ATC), the project addresses the particular contingency mental health illnesses and distress are. Following A. Ehrenberg, we formulate the hypothesis that mental health constitutes nowadays the language through which we explain the problems of evil, injustice and misfortune. The research will investigate, in a comparative perspective (Belgium-France), how mentally diseased/distressed people who resort to new kinds of treatment aiming at enhancing personal autonomy (i.a. capacitation, empowerment, psychosocial rehabilitation, etc, all of them drawing on the self-help movement), show different ATC. In particular, the project will describe the language games people use to talk about their mental illness/distress, its origin, the way they feel incapacitated and, above all, about the way they try to cope with it in their everyday life. The stance of the project is not only descriptive and pragmatic, which allows understanding the way mentally diseased/distressed people get through and give sense to their problems by resorting to cultural resources; it is also critical and reflexive, so as to enlighten the normative and evaluative dimension of the collective representations around “autonomy”. This project will be developed at the first-class research center CERMES3, hosted at the Université Paris-Descartes, under Prof. A. Ehrenberg's direction.

Keywords: attitudes towards contingency,language games,mental health,new therapeutic devices,liberal-individualistic societies,autonomy as a status,pragmatic sociology of reception,sociology of morals
Innovation in Action: Studying Innovation in Times of Crisis (INNO-ACT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2016-12-20
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 223002.2
EU funding (EUR): 223002.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

INNO-ACT brings sociocultural anthropology and innovation studies together to tackle the following interrelated questions: (i) How did innovation arise to its current prominence, particularly in the European Union? (ii) What are the different meanings, discourses, and values used by different actors when referencing innovation? and (iii) Under which circumstances does innovation emerge and make a positive difference to society as a whole? My project engages systematic information search and retrieval, and employs ethnographic research methods to conduct fieldwork among innovators and innovation professionals in different settings. By interweaving the largely neglected anthropological literature and novel approaches for studying the contemporary, INNO-ACT expects to advance the current scholarship of innovation. Although my research takes a critical approach to innovation, its purpose is not to reprove its proponents and dismiss it as a fad, but to understand how and what it produces, and its impact in addressing the current complex societal challenges. Based on the epistemological and empirical material generated by the study, INNO-ACT aims to generate concrete recommendations in order to assist the design of future actions. The project will be hosted at ESADE Business School in Barcelona. Situating INNO-ACT in the stimulating, prestigious and international environment of ESADE's Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management will be instrumental in acquiring new technical knowledge, enhancing my professional competencies and building my research capacities. In supporting the execution of this project, the Marie Curie fellowship gives me an opportunity to re-establish my research career and strengthen my qualifications in order to pursue a position from which to engage in intellectually rigorous and socially relevant international scholarship that addresses questions that matter.

Keywords: innovation,sociocultural anthropology of the contemporary,social studies of science,ethnography,financial/socioeconomic crisis,multidisciplinarity
Plant immunity regulated by cell wall integrity (SIGNWALLING)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173370.6
EU funding (EUR): 173370.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In their natural environments, plants are under continuous biotic stress caused by different attackers and exposed to abiotic stresses that compromise their survival and offspring. Being well defended against environmental threats throughout the constitutive expression of defensive mechanisms may not always be the best strategy for plants due to the tradeoffs associated to such responses. One of these defensive mechanisms is constituted by the cell wall, a very dynamic and complex structure that is essential to protect plant cells against external threats and also regulates plant growth and development. The functional integrity of the wall during plant development and plant interaction with the environment might be monitored and maintained by a Cell Wall Integrity (CWI or WALLIN) system. In yeast, CWI initiates changes in the cell wall structure and in cellular metabolism to actively maintain functional wall integrity in response to cell wall damage (CWD). Several evidences shows that a dedicated plant CWI maintenance mechanism exists, that integrate many different sources of signalling into one overreaching signalling system (SignWALLINg). The data available suggest that modulation of CWI by cell wall remodelling might be an efficient strategy to improve plant resistance to environmental threats and to obtain crops varieties with improved broad-spectrum resistance to both biotic and abiotic stresses. This proposal aims to enhance our understanding of the fundamental functions of plant cell wall and CWI in the regulation of plant responses to environmental stresses and in particular in the modulation of plant innate immunity. Execution of this proposal will highlight Europe´s ability to address many unanswered questions about the contribution of the cell wall to plant-disease-resistance regulation, and will open novel avenues to study the potential to remodel the plant cell wall to uncouple plant resistance from tradeoffs.

Keywords: arabidopsis,pathogen,immunity,cell wall,signalling,integrity,damage,pamp,damp,glycomics,metabolomics,resistance