Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Breaking resolution limits in ultrafast X-ray diffractive imaging (HIGH-Q)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-04-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Our ability to observe processes and study function at the nanoscale is hindered by the compromise between temporal and spatial resolutions inherent to the majority of far-field imaging techniques. This limits our perspective on a wide range of non-equilibrium processes at the nanoscale such as chemical/catalytic reactions, ultrafast phase-transitions and biological processes at room temperature in native phase. Intense and spatially coherent femtosecond-short X-ray flashes from free-electron laser (XFEL) sources can combine high spatial and temporal resolutions through 'diffraction-before-destruction' coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) of individual nano-specimens within a single exposure. XFEL CDI studies have found surprising variety of morphologies in soot, unknown metastable shapes of metal nanoparticles and exotic states of water, which are otherwise inaccessible. PI and colleagues applied this technique to follow an ultrafast irreversible laser-superheating process with few nanometers spatial and 100 femtosecond temporal resolutions at the single nanoparticle level. Despite significant efforts, the spatial resolution of single XFEL CDI images of non-periodic specimen could not be improved beyond few nanometers. This proposal will overcome this limit by exploiting previously little explored phenomena which arise when specimen are exposed to newly available intense 500 attosecond to few femtosecond short FEL pulses. All matter exposed to intense X-rays is photo-ionised. When XFEL pulses are comparable or shorter than subsequent relaxation processes, non-linear effects such as transient resonances and resonant stimulated emission increase the brightness of images by several orders of magnitudes and significantly improve the spatial resolution. In combination with sparsity based reconstruction algorithms this proposal will push ultrafast CDI towards the single macromolecule limit and open novel avenues for photochemistry, catalysis, and material studies.

Keywords: ultrafast processes at the nanoscale,x ray coherent diffraction,x ray free electron lasers,diffractive imaging with higher harmonic generation
Molecules for Nociceptor Force Transduction (Pain Channels)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Pain results from activation of the nociceptive sensory system, which is built upon the primary afferent nociceptor a type of sensory neuron specialized to detect, code and relay information about potentially or actually damaging stimuli. Humans lacking properly functioning nociceptors never experience pain and have reduced life expectancy and suffer severe disability. Nociceptors detect sustained force into ranges that are potentially damaging and sustained nociceptor activation will always lead to pain. It has been assumed that mechanical force transduced by nociceptors requires mechanically activated ion channels in the nociceptor membrane. However, recent data suggests that sensory Schwann cells that wrap the nociceptor ending also participate in force transduction. The aim of this proposal is to identify molecules specifically involved in nociceptor force transduction at this neuroglial site. We have already identified an ion channel (Tmem87a/ELKIN1) and an extracellular tether protein (TENM4) as being involved in nociceptor force transduction. In addition, STOML3 modulates ELKIN1 function and can sensitize almost all nociceptors to mechanical force. The identification of a set of molecules involved in force transduction (ELKIN1/TENM4/STOML3) will allow us to design “guilt by association” approaches to identify new players. We will use ultra-low input spatial proteomics, BioID and high throughput electrophysiological screening to achieve this aim. We have designed novel genetic strategies to interrogate the function of candidate proteins in nociceptor force transduction with timescales ranging from weeks to minutes. This ambitious and challenging project promises to deliver novel molecular targets that can be used to specifically target nociceptor force transduction. Specific targeting of nociceptor force transduction could be a powerful new way to treat multiple pain types poorly served by existing therapies.

Keywords: ion channels,biophysics,perception,behavior
Empowering Neural Rendering Methods with Physically-Based Capabilities (NERPHYS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2029-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2488029.0
EU funding (EUR): 2488029.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

While long restricted to an elite of expert digital artists, 3D content creation has recently been greatly simplified by deep learning. Neural representations of 3D objects have revolutionized real-world capture from photos, while generative models are starting to enable 3D object synthesis from text prompts. These methods use differentiable neural rendering that allows efficient optimization of the powerful and expressive ``soft'' neural representations, but ignores physically-based principles, and thus has no guarantees on accuracy, severely limiting the utility of the resulting content. Differentiable physically-based rendering on the other hand can produce 3D assets with physics-based parameters, but depends on rigid traditional ``hard'' graphics representations required for light-transport computation, that make optimization much harder and is also costly, limiting applicability. In NERPHYS we will combine the strengths of both neural and physically-based rendering, lifting their respective limitations by introducing polymorphic 3D representations, i.e., capable of morphing between different states to accommodate both efficient gradient-based optimization and physically-based light transport. By augmenting these representations with corresponding polymorphic differentiable renderers, our methodology will unleash the potential of neural rendering to produce physically-based 3D assets with guarantees on accuracy. NERPHYS will have ground-breaking impact on 3D content creation, moving beyond today's simplistic plausible imagery, to full physically-based rendering with guarantees on error, enabling the use of powerful neural rendering methods in any application requiring accuracy. Our polymorphic approach will fundamentally change how we reason about scene representations for geometry and appearance, while our rendering algorithms will provide a new methodology for image synthesis, e.g., for training data generation or visual effects.

Keywords: physically based rendering,neural rendering,generative models,differentiable rendering
Intelligent Advanced Photonics Tools for Remote and/or on-site Monitoring of Cultural Heritage Monuments and Artefacts (iPhotoCult)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on the European Cultural Heritage and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Spain,Romania,Netherlands,Germany
Call: Advanced technologies for remote monitoring of heritage monuments and artefacts (HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3997268.75
EU funding (EUR): 3997268.75
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

iPhotoCult aims to design, develop, demonstrate, and validate innovative and intelligent solutions that will allow for non-invasive and safe ways to inspect, document, diagnose, and monitor Cultural Heritage (CH) so as to ensure efficient adaptation of sustainable management plans. These solutions comprise (a) a unique suite of advanced diagnostic and monitoring tools along with methodologies for their effective and optimum use, combined with (b) an intelligent data processing, visualization and prediction software services platform, for the remote and/or on-site monitoring of CH buildings, monuments and artefacts impacted by a wide variety of environmental and anthropogenic threats. iPhotoCult contributes significantly to the preservation of CH by adding verifiable dimensions to preservation strategies. The iPhotoCult Solutions will enable and empower CH community to better assess CH in a cost-effective, efficient, reliable, user-friendly and safe manner. These solutions will revolutionize the capabilities of end-users to diagnose and continually monitor the condition of materials constituting CH including those used in their restoration. iPhotoCult interdisciplinary approach involving many different stakeholders and CH pilots across Europe will serve as use-cases for demonstration, testing and validation of the iPhotoCult Solutions delivered and applied in the form of demonstrators. The outcomes to a variety of CH pilots will provide crucial insights and enable the optimization of the tools and methodologies to help in the decision-making and serve for replication to Europe’s CH in many in real settings. Ultimately, iPhotoCult main goal is to contribute to the sustainable management of Europe's CH by leveraging advanced photonics technologies and intelligent software to contribute to the decision-making process for its preservation. iPhotoCult aims to develop a comprehensive, cost-effective, and scalable solution that can be deployed across Europe and beyond.

Keywords: cultural heritage,photonics,ch diagnosis,ch monitoring,ch structural composition,ch chemical composition,ch surface inspection
G-ray Array for Neutron Induced Inelastic Cross-Section measurements (GANIICS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neutron inelastic scattering measurements can be employed for the advancement of both fundamental research and applications. They are essential for the development of new generation nuclear energy systems, in particular for (n, xn) and (n, n’g) reactions which are important as they modify the neutron spectrum and population and produce radioactive species. In addition to nuclear technology applications neutron inelastic scattering measurements can also advance fundamental research providing information on nuclear reaction mechanisms since they are based on a non-selective method for studying nuclear excited states. Such reactions can be studied through high-resolution gamma-spectroscopy as a function of the incoming neutron energy employing high purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors. The n_TOF facility hosted at CERN offers a very suitable beam line for such measurements offering a high instantaneous neutron flux in the neutron energy range of interest of 100 keV up to 100 MeV and an excellent neutron energy resolution due to a short driver beam width and a flight path of more than 180 metres. The n_TOF collaboration developed a prototype HPGe detector suited for this application and has performed test and proof-of-principle measurements already. The present project aims at developing a complete understanding of the existing detector and developing an optimised array of HPGe detectors for this application based on several potential physics cases. Such a setup will offer the opportunity for neutron inelastic measurements at n_TOF and has the potential to provide high precision data for the nuclear community. Furthermore such an array can also be employed in neutron capture cross-section measurements as well as prompt fission gamma ray spectroscopy.

Keywords: neutron inelastic scattering cross section,nuclear fission,nuclear fusion,gamma ray spectroscopy
Pseudospin-based Antiferromagnetic Magnonics (POSA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2030-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999688.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999688.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Spin-based information processing is a viable alternative to charge-based approaches, enabling low-power devices. In magnetically ordered systems, spin information can be transported via the quantized excitations of the magnetic lattice, called magnons. In an antiferromagnetic system, we generally find two degenerate magnon modes with opposite Néel precession chirality, i.e., opposite spin. These two modes can couple and give rise to complex dynamics and superposition states. I could show that these dynamics can be well described via the pseudospin and its dynamics. My group showed experimentally that electrical pure spin current injection and detection in hematite thin films gives access to the coherent pseudospin dynamics and leads to the manifestation of the magnon Hanle effect. I propose to investigate the coherent spin dynamics induced by pure spin currents in antiferromagnetic insulators, which open up new avenues for energy-efficient information processing beyond von Neumann architectures. The project aims to achieve three main objectives: 1) Establish an experimental platform for pseudospin-based antiferromagnetic magnonics with efficient generation, manipulation, and detection of pseudospin states utilizing antiferromagnetic insulators. This provides the potential for a paradigm shift in magnonics away from wave-based towards spin-based information processing and encoding. 2) Realize pure spin current-driven spin-torque oscillators in antiferromagnetic insulators. This enables the on-chip generation of frequency combs in the microwave and terahertz regime and coherent magnon generation. 3) Explore spiking artificial neurons based on antiferromagnetic spin-torque oscillators. This provides a pathway towards energy-efficient magnonic neural networks and reservoir computing. The successful project will have a transformative effect for energy-efficient information processing, on-chip generation of frequency combs, and hardware for artificial neural networks.

Keywords: antiferromagnetic spintronics,spin waves,antiferromagnetic insulators,topological magnonics,spin torque oscillators,artificial neural networks
Perspectives on Yiddish Cultural Evolution and Its Legacy: Visual Arts, Theatre, and Songwriting Between Assimilation and Identity. A Case Study (POYESIS)

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: Italy,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Pogrom of Odessa was a turning point in Yiddish history, alimenting a complex emigration phenomenon marked by various, controversial phases. What has remained of that culture? How did it evolve and meld with New York culture and artistic milieu? Why was the contribution of Jewish artists and thinkers so important? How can we better understand this process, its paradigms and stages? This project addresses these problems by studying the work of artist Norman Raeben as a case study. Though many scholars highlighted the importance of his figure, especially for his influence on Stella Adler and Bob Dylan’s careers, his work, ideas, and legacy have yet to be studied. Such a bibliographic lack is directly related to the absence of editions of his writings and paintings, which are still in the hands of students and collectors, often risking damage. Thus, the project aims to: create the collection of Raeben’s materials and a digital archive of his papers and works; study his influence on first, second, and third-generation Jewish American artists, actors, and songwriters (focusing on Stella Adler, Bob Dylan, and Jacques Levy); open new perspectives on Eastern Yiddish culture and its rebirth and evolution in New York, addressing and questioning the problems of identity, assimilation, gender, and cultural and artistic paradigms till the present day. Due to my markedly multidisciplinary research experience, my profile is particularly suitable to carry out this project, which can allow me to increase my research expertise in a trans-disciplinary way. While learning how to realize digital archives and curate exhibitions can make me a more all-round academic, collaborating at Columbia University and Ca’ Foscari University with leading scholars in different fields – including Yiddish studies, theatre, music, visual arts, and digital humanities – will significantly improve my knowledge and increase my networks and chances to obtain other research positions and an ERC grant.

Keywords: norman raeben,bob dylan,stella adler,contemporary american art contemporary american literature ut pictura poesis songwriting literature to music,yiddish culture and emigration memory project
Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 1150 to c. 1350 (BROKENSONG)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999998.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999998.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

BROKENSONG examines polyphonic singing in medieval Britain and Ireland during a transformative period of western music history, c. 1150-1350, when written books devoted to polyphony begin to proliferate. Using methodologies from musicology, music analysis, medieval and manuscript studies, practice-based research, and digital humanities, BROKENSONG aims to answer the principal research question: What does it mean for a culture to write its music down? BROKENSONG investigates what this act of ‘writing-down’ meant to and for musical communities. The insular sources extant from this period—just over a hundred mostly fragmentary sources—hint at stories of music practice and creation different from those suggested by the highly curated continental anthologies of polyphony that survive from continental Europe, and around which the history of western music was constructed. These are mostly broken books transmitting broken songs: yet BROKENSONG proposes that in-depth study of them will provide a breakthrough on fundamental questions regarding processes of and contexts for artistic creation in the later Middle Ages. Tackling the issue of style head-on, BROKENSONG uses it to address the problem of anonymity in medieval cultural products, and develops an innovative methodology for understanding the relationships between cultural products that lack extra-musical evidence for associating them to specific individuals, communities, or regions. Three intersecting work packages reconstruct the fragmentary material artifacts, develop historical understandings of music and community, and analyse communities of musical style through a combination of practice-based and computational approaches. BROKENSONG reveals the layered interactions between individual creativity, communal ritual activities, institutional agendas, and the written medium of music notation—with its particular techniques, limitations, and possibilities—and the realization of those artefacts into sound, then and now.

Keywords: music manuscript fragments,fragmentology,late medieval polyphony,medieval notation,liturgical polyphony,medieval book culture,manuscript studies,music encoding,late medieval plainchant