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Uncovering the secrets of the liquid microlayer: towards next-generation thermal management of extreme power electronics (MicroTherM)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Two-phase immersion cooling is an emerging technology to deal with ever-increasing heat load of electronics clusters, in which heat is dissipated through boiling on hot surfaces. Due to highly-dense layout of the electronics, scenarios of confined space and vertical surfaces are commonly encountered in the two-phase immersion cooling. A key physical process related to boiling is near-wall liquid microlayer dynamics, serving as a major heat transfer mechanism to bubble growth, which needs explored. This project will develop advanced optical diagnostics to achieve high-resolution measurement of liquid microlayer in confined boiling. Through the present project, it is expected to extend the liquid microlayer insights from pool boiling to confined boiling, and comprehensively understand the dependence of the microlayer on the confined space, surface orientation and surface wettability, filling the research gap of lacking insights into the liquid microlayer in confined conditions. and enriching relevant theory to develop two-phase cooling technologies. Such better understanding of the microlayer could show a direction to enhance bubble growth and consequently boiling performance by altering boiling surfaces to trigger early microlayer evaporation and augmentation.

Keywords: electronics cooling,boiling heat transfer,bubble dynamics
Rethinking Law's framing of the Parent/Child Link (ReKINdle)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Legal parenthood (i.e. the package of legal recognition, rights and obligation that typically attaches to the parent-child nexus) has undergone incremental change in response to scientific developments in assisted reproductive technology (ART) and human rights challenges but has fragmented due to its inadequacy to reflect the complexity of modern family life. The legal rules establishing the parent-child link now encompass different and conflicting regulatory functions at the same time – establishing legal identity, managing adult behaviour, marking family deservingness, and acting as genealogical information. As society has become more diverse, more children’s rights focussed, more tolerant of different family forms, and more internationally mobile, these different and competing regulatory functions can no longer be fulfilled by an anachronistic adult status. ReKINdle provides a new way to think about the legal nexus between parent and child, not as an adult status, but as a two-way legal interdependency between parent and child. Every country in Europe predicates parenthood on maternity by birth with a separate legal regime for children conceived through ART. ReKINdle goes beyond tinkering with legal rules assigning parentage to rethink the entire basis of family law. ReKINdle interrogates the historical, legal and social dimensions of legal parenthood in Ireland, England and Wales, Sweden and Poland to expose the gaps between the regulatory work that the concept of legal parenthood is currently doing and the social expectations that are placed on the concept. This radical approach assesses how legal parenthood works in a holistic fashion, investigating lived experiences of parents and children navigating different life stages. ReKINdle also examines the limits and perspectives surrounding state policing of parental status using prefigurative law to explores new ways of thinking from state perspectives.

Keywords: family law legal parenthood children s rights to identity
Intergenerational Mobility, Inequality, and Entrepreneurship along the Path of Development (Mobility)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Sweden
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): 1776805.0
EU funding (EUR): 1776805.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A society where individuals can pursue their dreams, striving to become whatever they desire, excels both in efficiency and equity. However, throughout history, following parents' occupations was the norm, changing social class an exception. The question remains: what caused the increase in social mobility? My research program aims to answer these questions with three interconnected projects. Project I tackles the main obstacle to studying mobility: the availability of long-run individual-level panel data of parents and children. Digitizing an overlooked series of historical books, I will build a unique dataset of incomes and occupations of the universe of Swedish taxpayers since 1905, matched with panel data of firms with their revenue, payroll, and top executives since 1857. The novelty lies in the universal coverage of data, spanning the birth of prosperous, innovative, and inclusive Sweden with an advanced welfare state. Project II leverages this comprehensive dataset to establish stylized facts about mobility in labor and capital incomes, as well as in occupation and entrepreneurship. They will shed light on the long-run patterns of mobility and its associations with inequality and growth, resolve long-standing controversies, and bring new insights into the debate. Project III develops a novel theoretical model of mobility that uncovers the drivers of mobility. The model shows that social mobility is driven by the tension between opportunities for social climbers to access physical and human capital and the privileges of the elite to hinder such access. We exploit quasi-experimental evidence to test this theory, using the expansion of private banks and public education, as well as the rise and fall of progressive taxation. Together, the projects build micro-founded connections between mobility, inequality, and growth. The drivers of mobility we uncover may bolster both mobility and growth, challenging the traditional efficiency and equity trade-off.

Keywords: public economics,inter generational mobility,inequality,social mobility
Co-creating safer Living Roads for all through a holistic, multi-level, participatory approach to cultural transformation (Roads4All)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Greece,Estonia,Germany,Italy,Croatia,Serbia,Belgium,Switzerland
Call: A new framework to improve traffic safety culture in the EU (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2028-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3835554.47
EU funding (EUR): 3498752.36
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Roads4All orchestrates a transformative shift in traffic safety culture across Europe through a holistic, multi-level approach targeting individual, organisational, and institutional levels. Conceptualising Living Roads, we co-design, implement and evaluate a comprehensive and tailored set of real-world, theory-informed, context-specific, and culture-sensitive road safety interventions in 5 diverse settings. Our approach centres on continuous engagement with all key stakeholders, ranging from school communities and road users to enterprises and authorities, establishing continuous consultation, collaboration, and feedback. Drawing on evidence-based tools we develop, such as the Roads4All model, framework and decision support toolkit, our interventions leverage both theoretical and empirical insights. We drive change to influence attitudes and promote safe behaviours by innovating with open schooling and Cultural & Creative Arts and experimenting with advanced technologies. We educate, increase awareness building readiness for change, cultivate empathy and co-existence on road, and recommend safe organisational practices. Ultimately, we create guidelines, a roadmap for change and suggest policies towards institutionalisation of traffic safety culture. By integrating strategy and practice, we seek to develop essential values and norms that support a robust traffic safety culture. With a special emphasis on youth, we aim to address high-risk groups and promote long-term behavioural change. Our diverse consortium, consisting of 14 partners from 8 countries, and our consultation structures at national, EU and international levels, bring together a wide range of expertise across EU and beyond, ensuring the replication and sustainability of Roads4All results in various cultural and contextual settings, and paving the way for a traffic cultural transformation that is aligned with targets for climate, health, and more.

Keywords: traffic safety culture,road user behaviour,interventions for cultural transformation
Development and validation of a pan-cancer neutrophil biomarker test for predicting clinical benefit from immunotherapy based on flow cytometry analysis of blood samples (NeutroFlow)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel,Italy,Spain,Germany
Call: Transition Open 2024 (HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITION-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2028-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3215712.86
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The recent introduction of cancer immunotherapy based on immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has revolutionised the treatment landscape for a broad range of cancer types. However, response to ICIs varies widely between patients, with the majority experiencing resistance to therapy. Moreover, the increasing use of these costly drugs coupled with management of ICI-related toxicities creates a substantial economic burden. Current biomarker tests for determining eligibility for ICIs have limited predictive performance, and many require invasive tumour biopsies. Thus, novel (and preferentially non-invasive) biomarkers for predicting ICI clinical benefit are desperately needed for better guiding clinical decisions. The NeutroFlow project directly addresses this unmet need. We build on comprehensive academic research describing a flow cytometry assay for measuring a novel predictive biomarker in the blood – Ly6Ehi neutrophil – that accurately predicts therapeutic benefit from ICIs, outperforming the approved PD-L1 biomarker. The NeutroFlow project aims to upgrade the research-level assay to an industry-level, point-of-care prototype test based on a kit comprised of an antibody panel for biomarker detection by standard flow cytometry (FC). Specifically, we will: (i) develop an FC assay according to clinical standards; (ii) develop and clinically validate a computational model that translates FC readout into a prediction of clinical benefit; (iii) evaluate analytical validity of the prototype across three medical centres (i.e., at the point-of-care); and (iv) prepare for future market introduction. The future product represents a minimally-invasive, simple, rapid, cost-effective test performed using standard hospital equipment. As a pan-cancer blood test for accurately predicting ICI therapeutic benefit, the product will potentially expand the benefit of ICIs to more patients, improve quality of life, limit the risk of ICI-related toxicities and reduce economic burden.

Keywords: biomarker immunotherapy flow cytometry neutrophil immune checkpoint inhibitor
Storage of Electrons into Chemical Bonds: Towards Molecular Solar Electrical Batteries (SOLBATT)

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: Czechia
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1449034.0
EU funding (EUR): 1449034.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

While photovoltaics has observed rapid growth in the last decades and utilization of solar energy becomes ever growing part of the total electricity produced by mankind, the lack of control over electrical output caused by fluctuation of solar irradiance is an inevitable drawback of the mass use of solar cells. Solar batteries, addressing intermittent production of solar energy, offer an elegant solution without the need of electricity transport and redistribution. In most examples solar cells are combined with rechargeable batteries (e. g. Li-ion, Pb) which increases the total weight and cost and leads to electricity losses. The approaches for molecular-based storage of light energy, solar thermal batteries, exploit photoswitching molecules (solar fuels) that generate heat upon thermal back isomerization. To this date, no molecular approach for solar energy storage and subsequent direct generation of electric current exists because this requires development of light-activatable molecules capable of hysteric electron storage and release. SOLBATT develops molecular systems for transformation of light energy into chemical bonds and their subsequent transformation to electric current. It uses fully organic redox-driven molecular switches that reversibly form an electron storing bond upon redox process and combines them with suitable redox-active partners that facilitate photoinduced electron transfer. SOLBATT (1) improves our understanding of electron storage into chemical bonds and their subsequent release, (2) delivers redox-responsive molecular systems that can be charged or discharged upon external stimulus, and (3) established design principles for photoactive redox materials suitable for the use in organic solar cells. Ultimately, SOLBATT takes the vital step in finding a solution to a challenging issue: combining organic solar cells with electron storage materials for solar electric batteries buffering the inherent fluctuations in solar electricity production.

Keywords: solar batteries,organic solar cells,photoinduced electron transfer,redox driven molecular switches
Holey Anodic Alumina and Silicon-Germanium Based Thermoelectric Modules - An Eco-Friendly, Sustainable, and Cost-Effective Solid-State Solution for Energy Harvesting and Active Cooling (HoleySTeM)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The European Green Deal targets zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, emphasizing clean energy and improved energy efficiency. In line with this objective, the HoleySTeM project focuses on waste heat recovery and cooling solutions, which are crucial given that two-thirds of global energy production is wasted via heat losses, and cooling accounts for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. The HoleySTeM focuses on developing nanostructured silicon-germanium-based thermoelectric modules (TEMs) for near-room-temperature applications on nanoporous alumina substrates. This approach draws on so-called "Holey Silicon", which uses nanometric holes to enhance thermoelectric efficiency by inhibiting phonon transport through nanopores. Intended as solid-state devices for recovering waste heat and cooling electronics, these modules will be created with advanced designs for thermoelectric generators (TEGs) and coolers (TECs), optimized through multiphysics simulations, and fabricated using magnetron sputtering—a scalable and economical method. If successful, HoleySTeM could replace Bi, Te, Pb, Sb, and Se-based TEMs with SiGe-based eco-friendly and abundant alternatives, reducing material and production costs, expanding potential applications, and simplifying integration with modern electronics. HoleySTeM also addresses Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) under Horizon Europe (2021-2027), including micro/nano-electronics, advanced materials, and advanced manufacturing. This MSCA offers a career development opportunity for Dr. Ketan Lohani (KL), mentored by Prof. Alfonso Cebollada at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology, Spanish National Research Council (IMN-CSIC) in Madrid. KL will apply his prior knowledge in thermoelectric materials to fabricate functional TEMs using experimental and computational methods. This MSCA will equip him with advanced skills in vacuum deposition, nanofabrication, and device design simulations, significantly advancing his career.

Keywords: thermoelectricity,semiconductors,thermoelectric generators and coolers,energy harvesting,waste heat recovery,energy materials,nanotechnology,multiphysics simulations,magnetron sputtering
Persianate Jews: Mobility, Community, Memory (PersCom)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2029-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1684949.0
EU funding (EUR): 1684949.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Who are Persian Jews and what can we learn from their history? Looking back on a history of almost 3000 years, the majority of Jews left the Persianate world from the mid-20th century onwards. As Jews who lived in Muslim cultures, their trajectories do not fit into mutually exclusive concepts of “Jews” and “Muslims”. However, we hardly know how interactions between Muslims and Jews worked on a daily basis because the contemporary narratives about Jewish-Muslim relations tend to be highly polarized, and access to sources in Persianate societies is hampered. Based on different forms of interconnectedness, this research provides the first comprehensive study about Persianate Jews from the 19th century until today. It analyses Jewish contacts within and outside of their communities in everyday life, to shed light on the various forms of connecting with and separation from the surrounding Muslim societies. It highlights religious identity as applied in context, rather than as fixed notion. This can only be achieved by an innovative method of combining a variety of sources that have not been brought into dialogue until now, including the different languages Persianate Jews used. Focusing on non-elites and everyday life also includes a completely new pool of data that until now was considered too mundane for analysis. Yet, exactly these documents from ordinary people and daily encounters provide significant new insights into Jewish life in the region, the role of transregional networks and their connection to global markets. In this way, the project aims to overcome the geographic, disciplinary and linguistic separation that has shaped modern Persianate Jewish history to date. Expanding this method systematically to a number of different archives will generate significant new insights on Jewish life in the region, present Jews as active members of Persianate societies, and contribute to preserving an endangered cultural heritage.

Keywords: jews in the muslim world,modern history of iran,central asia,and afghanistan,trade networks,religious and ethnic minorities,religious identity,biographic research
Devising Reliable Electronic Structure Schemes through Eclectic Design (DRESSED-pCCD)

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: Poland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1218088.0
EU funding (EUR): 1218088.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modern quantum chemistry reached a remarkable level of description of atoms and molecules and their interactions. Theoretical approaches are particularly helpful when experimental studies are hampered or slowed down due to a trial-and-error approach. In such cases, computational chemistry can provide the much sought-after understanding of molecular properties and reactivity. Unfortunately, conventional wave function models are too expensive for large-scale modeling or require user control on an expert level, while density functional theory may predict unreliable properties. To break the current paradigm of computational chemistry, novel and neat approximations are desirable. One such innovative approach models many-electron systems using electron pair states. Current electron-pair methods are, however, insufficient to reach chemical or spectroscopic accuracy for large molecules of organic electronics and must be extended to (i) accurately describe electron correlations beyond the simple electron-pairing effects, especially in cases where conventional corrections break, (ii) reliably predict molecular properties of both ground and electronically excited states of closed- and open-shell compounds, and (iii) provide an intuitive and black-box platform for non-expert users. These goals will be achieved by (a) dressing electron-pair states with information extracted from multi-reference wave functions using a bottom-up approach, where each step systematically improves the accuracy of the previous model along the ladder of approximation, (b) designing a black-box interface to automatized quantum chemistry calculations using concepts of quantum information theory, and (c) elucidating the structure-properties relationship using the picture of interacting orbitals. The synergy between an inexpensive but reliable quantitative description and the qualitative interpretation of molecular interactions will accelerate the discovery of new materials in organic electronics.

Keywords: coupled cluster,pair coupled cluster doubles,electron correlation,strong correlation,relativistic effects,electronically excited states,spin orbit coupling