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Fault-Adaptive Monitoring and Control of Complex Distributed Dynamical Systems (FAULT-ADAPTIVE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2035200.0
EU funding (EUR): 2035200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The emergence of networked embedded systems and sensor/actuator networks has facilitated the development of advanced monitoring and control applications, where a large amount of sensor data is collected and processed in real-time in order to activate the appropriate actuators and achieve the desired control objectives. However, in situations where a fault arises in some of the components (e.g., sensors, actuators, communication links), or an unexpected event occurs in the environment, this may lead to a serious degradation in performance or, even worse, to an overall system failure. There is a need to develop a systematic framework to enhance the reliability, fault-tolerance and sustainability of complex distributed dynamical systems through the use of fault-adaptive monitoring and control methods. The work proposed here will contribute to the development of such a framework with emphasis on applications related to critical infrastructure systems (e.g., power, water, telecommunications and transportation systems). It will provide an innovative approach based on the use of networked intelligent agent systems, where the state of the infrastructure is monitored and controlled by a network of sensors and actuators with cooperating agents for fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control. A hierarchical fault diagnosis architecture will be developed, with neighbouring fault diagnosis agents cooperating at a local level, while transmitting their information, as needed, to a regional monitoring agent, responsible for integrating in real-time local information into a large-scale “picture” of the health of the infrastructure. A key motivation is to exploit spatial and temporal correlations between measured variables using learning methods, and to develop the tools and design methodologies that will prevent relatively “small” faults or unexpected events from causing significant disruption or complete system failures in complex distributed dynamical systems.

Keywords: fault diagnosis,fault-tolerant control,computational intelligence,adaptive control.
3D Imaging Across Lengthscales: From Atoms to Grains (3DIMAGE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2337330.0
EU funding (EUR): 2337330.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding structure-property relationships across lengthscales is key to the design of functional and structural materials and devices. Moreover, the complexity of modern devices extends to three dimensions and as such 3D characterization is required across those lengthscales to provide a complete understanding and enable improvement in the material’s physical and chemical behaviour. 3D imaging and analysis from the atomic scale through to granular microstructure is proposed through the development of electron tomography using (S)TEM, and ‘dual beam’ SEM-FIB, techniques offering complementary approaches to 3D imaging across lengthscales stretching over 5 orders of magnitude. We propose to extend tomography to include novel methods to determine atom positions in 3D with approaches incorporating new reconstruction algorithms, image processing and complementary nano-diffraction techniques. At the nanoscale, true 3D nano-metrology of morphology and composition is a key objective of the project, minimizing reconstruction and visualization artefacts. Mapping strain and optical properties in 3D are ambitious and exciting challenges that will yield new information at the nanoscale. Using the SEM-FIB, 3D ‘mesoscale’ structures will be revealed: morphology, crystallography and composition can be mapped simultaneously, with ~5nm resolution and over volumes too large to tackle by (S)TEM and too small for most x-ray techniques. In parallel, we will apply 3D imaging to a wide variety of key materials including heterogeneous catalysts, aerospace alloys, biomaterials, photovoltaic materials, and novel semiconductors. We will collaborate with many departments in Cambridge and institutes worldwide. The personnel on the proposal will cover all aspects of the tomography proposed using high-end TEMs, including an aberration-corrected Titan, and a Helios dual beam. Importantly, a postdoc is dedicated to developing new algorithms for reconstruction, image and spectral processing.

Keywords: 3d imaging and analysis,electron tomography,nanostructures,mesoscale,atomic resolution
Hot Molecules in Exoplanets and Inner Disks (HOTMOL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Universe sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2436000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2436000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe is one of the fundamental goals of modern astrophysics. For the life we know, liquid water on the planetary surface is a prerequisite. However, a direct detection of liquid water on exoplanets, and especially on a potentially habitable Earth-size planet, is not yet possible. The existence of water almost certainly implies the presence of atmospheric water vapour which must evaporate under stellar irradiation from a cloud deck or from the surface, together with other related molecules. Therefore, devising sensitive methods to detect hot molecules on exoplanets is of high importance. This proposal develops several exploratory theoretical and observational aspects of precision spectropolarimetry for detecting water vapour and other volatiles on exoplanets and in the inner part of protoplanetary disks. These are new tools for making progress in our understanding which fraction of planets acquires water and how planet formation influences their habitability. As a “double differential” technique, spectropolarimetry has enormous advantages for dynamic range problems, like detection of weak line signals against a large stellar background and exploration at scales beyond the angular resolution of telescopes, which are crucial for both exoplanets and inner disks. Direct detection of polarized spectral lines enables recovering precise orbits of exoplanets (including non-transiting systems) and evaluating their masses as well as potentially their magnetic fields. First applied to hot Jupiters the developed tools will create a firm foundation for future exploration of Earth-like planets with larger telescopes. The same technique applied to planetesimals in the inner disks of young stars yields their orbits, temperature, and chemical composition. These will provide constraints on the formation of a planetary atmosphere in the vicinity of the star and its habitable zone.

Keywords: molecules,exoplanetary atmospheres,planetesimals,polarization,habitability
CO-FUNDED Brain Circulation Scheme (CO-CIRCULATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-COFUND, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11299762.5
EU funding (EUR): 4519905.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TUBITAK, the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research and development (R&D) in Turkey, proposes a new fellowship programme called ‘CO-FUNDED Brain Circulation Scheme’. This scheme aims at providing Experienced Researchers (ER’s) of any nationality with funding for incoming mobility for periods of 20-24 months. All funded fellows will be appointed under an employment contract, and will receive adequate funding and full social security coverage, in line with provisions in the Charter and Code. The Co-Circulation Scheme aims at enhancing career perspectives of ER’s and to assist them in obtaining an independent research position. ER’s will be appointed a mentor, and will be required to draw up and keep updated a Career Development Plan. The scheme has a bottom-up approach, and fellows are encouraged to submit proposals that fit best to their professional development needs. Support is provided to applicants during the application process. Applications will be assessed by independent, international peer review panels. The evaluation criteria and process are clearly detailed and transparent and the selection and balance of experts is in line with the provisions in the Charter and Code. Following 4 calls for proposals, 100 fellowships will be awarded. TUBITAK has ample experience and infrastructure to follow-up the results of the evaluation and to monitor and review the execution of the individual projects and the entire project. The Co-Circulation Scheme will fill a gap in the current funding opportunities offered by TUBITAK and fully supports the Science and Technology policies of Turkey. It will make a strategic impact on TUBITAK’s funding schemes and on the Turkish research landscape. The Co-Circulation Scheme is also fully supportive of the objectives of the activity heading Life-long learning and career development, and of other European policies.

Keywords: research,brain circulation,co-fund,incoming mobility,funding scheme,experienced researcher,turkey
Microfluidic assay for rapid multiplexed detection of bacterial urinary tract infections (MICRO UTI DIAG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to develop a microfluidic chip-sized assay for low-cost, sensitive, rapid, and multiplexed detection of bacteria in urine. We aim to reduce bacterial diagnostic time from the current standard of 1-3 days to several minutes. The device will have application to both conventional clinical microbiology laboratories and point-of-care settings, and will eliminate dependence on highly trained operators. We propose to use isotachophoresis (ITP) to extract and concentrate the bacterial signature 16S ribosomal RNA directly from urine samples, and detect and quantify its presence using a set of complementary fluorescent probes (molecular beacons) on a low-cost microfluidic chip.

Keywords: microfluidics,medical diagnostics,urine analysis,isotachophoresis,molecular beacons,bacteria,pathogens,urinary tract infections
Integrative Eco-mechanics of Diatom Sinking: Cellular Physiology, Complex Advection and the Biological Carbon Pump. (DIASIN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Perhaps the most striking example of the influence of aquatic microorganisms in global cycles is their role in the oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere and the transfer of photosynthetically fixed carbon from the ocean's surface to the deep ocean through sinking, a mechanism referred to as the Biological Carbon Pump, the process responsible for most of the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2. Mainly driven by phytoplankton sinking, the Biological Carbon Pump is, at its core, a fluid dynamical problem coupling physiological processes with biogeochemical cycles. As such, it spans multiple levels of biological organization and its study requires an integrative and interdisciplinary approach. This proposal aims at critically advancing our knowledge of the biological pump and its response to global changes in the environment by breaking through the current physiological bottleneck and examining the range of scales necessary to predict what the future is likely to hold. Specifically, I will focus on understanding the organism's role in organism-environment linkages, promoting phytoplankton to an active - physiologically controlled - performer in the carbon cycle. The interplay between active physiological responses and fluid transport, in what I like to call Complex (or Intelligent) Advection, remains largely unexplored whereas its consequences for biogeochemical cycles in the ocean are of paramount significance. The role of organisms in organism-environment interactions, its study through the integration of living and physical systems analysis, and its repercussions for the time course of adaptation and acclimation are three of the "Grand Challenges" in organismal biology, identified by the Executive Committee of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). All three challenges will be tackled within the proposed research program for the case of one of the most successful groups of eukaryotic micro-organisms in aquatic environments: the diatoms.

Keywords: biomechanics,molecular biophysics,fluid dynamics,aquatic biology,biochemical and hydrological cycles
Multi-compartmental Biomolecular Nanocarriers for Multi-modal Targeted Therapies (BIONANOMUTT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nanomedicine is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims to use nanotechnology to improve the pharmacokinetic profile of therapeutics and/or the contrast and information from medical imaging and diagnostics. The advances in medical treatments that nanomedicine strategies will provide will have a significant socioeconomic impact for the E.U. and is particularly timely due to the aging populations in E.U. member states. This work will use a multi-strategy approach to design novel multicompartmental, multifunctional nanoarchitectures for nanomedicine applications. Lipid nanodiscs will be evaluated as a novel hydrophobic drug carrier and the versatility of the scaffold protein for these discs will be explored by assessing its capacity to form similar complexes with synthetic block copolymers. Multicompartmental, size-limited nanostructures will be developed by using the self-organisation of functional amphiphiles into anisotropic subunits as building blocks for superstructures of greater complexity and functionality. The basic building blocks explored will consist of liposomes, polymersomes and hydrid lipopolymersome structures as well as protein-stabilised lipid nanodiscs. This project will also explore incorporating quantum dots into these nanoarchitectures as an added imaging modality. Finally, through multidisciplinary collaboration of basic scientists through to clinicians, an adjuvant nanomedicine therapy will be developed for treatment of superficial bladder cancers. These therapeutic nanoparticles will contain therapeutic, imaging and active targeting functionalities to remove residual malignant cells following the surgical resection of tumours.

Keywords: soft matter and polymer physics,nanobiotechnology,surface chemistry,biomedical materials,nanosystems,physical chemistry
Photoactive proteins: from the intrinsic properties of biochromophores towards the ultra-fast excited-state reaction dynamics in photoreceptors (PHOTORECEPTION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project is aimed at studying photoactive proteins at the atomic level theoretically as well as experimentally. Photoactive proteins are widespread in nature and enable the signal transduction in biological photoreceptors triggered by the absorption of a photon with a particular wavelength. Opsin proteins containing a protonated Schiff-base retinal chromophore are perhaps the best known as they provide vision in vertebrates. We will study the photophysical and photochemical properties of the chromophores of these proteins at different levels: intrinsic properties of the isolated chromophore units, then the well-defined atomic-scale interactions with the hosting protein medium in the binding site of the chromophore, and finally, whole proteins. One of the highlight goals is to understand the catalytic role played by proteins in the ultrafast excited-state reaction dynamics of biological photoreceptors and in the self-regulation of their photo-physical properties at the atomic-scale. Ultimately, this will lead to an understanding of both wavelength tuning and efficiency of the primary photoreaction in the vision process. Our strategy is to combine the expertise of the applicant in the field of the state-of-the-art quantum methods, who is a co-developer of one of the leading quantum chemistry packages, with the leadership of the hosting university when it comes to laser-action spectroscopy techniques for studying the biomolecular ions in the gas phase. We believe, that such collaboration forms a firm ground for the joint project with the mutual benefit of supporting experimental findings by theory and achieving a better understanding of the underlying fundamental atomic-scale interactions and excited-state dynamics in photoactive biosystems.

Keywords: quantum chemistry,photochemistry,reaction mechanisms ands dynamics
Ultra precise nanoparticles to harvest light (ULTRA PARTICLE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Solar energy is an attractive source of alternative energy contributing to fossil fuel independence. Research is still needed to bring down the cost of solar cells for commercial use. For this, novel concept solar cell research make use of low cost materials with novel techniques, often at the nanoscale. The main aim of this grant proposal lays in the development of ultra precise nanoparticles with sizes where quantum confinement becomes dominant. With these so called quantum dots (QD) the band gap of any semiconductor can be tailored by changing the size thereby harvesting different parts of the solar spectrum. The applicant has worked for 8 years outside the Netherlands and will endeavour to establish a new research line in quantum dot photovoltaics. This Career Integration Grant will help him to reach a solid starting point from which to apply to project funding in national and international consortia. A nanoparticle source (gas aggregation in vacuum) will enable the production of ultra precise nanoparticles (silicon, germanium, etc), i.e. high size control, which will considerably enhance the quality of the QD solar cell and the involved processes. A second research theme is the use of plasmonics of metal nanostructures (particles) to enhance optical absorption in solar cells. Both field enhancement and plasmonic coupling will be explored. The applicant has extensive international research experience in the field of nanoparticles. Combined with the host expertise in photovoltaics this forms a formidable effort to advance the science and technology of novel concepts in solar cells. The applicant has a tenure track assistant professor position and will start his own research team within the host group. The existing infrastructure and expertise are readily available to make this project a success resulting in a permanent position for the applicant and significant contribution to frontier solid state physics research towards a highly efficient and cheap solar cell.

Keywords: physical sciences,condensed matter properties,nanodevices,experimental physics,optical and dielectric properties,applied optics,solid state physics,generation of electricity