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Activation of old carbon from thawing permafrost in Arctic Siberia (ACTIVE PERMAFROST)

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: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-01-15
End date: 2016-08-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206350.8
EU funding (EUR): 206350.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The most important mechanism in the earth system that could move significant quantities of green house gases into the atmosphere within this century is thawing permafrost. The potential for carbon release from thawing permafrost to affect global-climate links is realized from the sheer magnitude of the permafrost pools (~2,800 Pg-C) relative to the atmospheric carbon pools (~760 Pg-C). Recent results from the host research group in Arctic rivers suggest that the organic carbon (OC) released from permafrost may be extensively degraded and converted to green house gases (GHG) in the shelf area, but the fate of the releasing old OC in the Arctic shelf and the possible microbial degradation is still unknown. During this research project the applicant proposes to address this critical knowledge gap by analyzing the composition of multiple-proxies, like lipid biomarkers, lignin phenols and CSRA and CSIA analyses of organic carbon in many environmental compartments (sediment, SPM and water samples) from two different oceanographic campaigns in the understudied East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS). CSRA measurements will represent an innovative and powerful approach for determining sources and sink dynamics of OC in the ESAS. This project also proposes the first CSRA-PLFA study in sediments from the Arctic Ocean in order to assess whether microbes are degrading the thawing permafrost. Moreover, CSRA of GHG in the ESAS seawater will determine unequivocal data of the outagassing GHG fluxes.

Keywords: chemical oceanography,biogeochemistry,carbon cycle (climate change)
Brain connectomics: modeling disconnection syndrome in Multiple Sclerosis (CONNECTMS)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173370.6
EU funding (EUR): 173370.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Brain architecture or connectivity is complex and defines the basis of cognitive processing. Recent studies have revealed new insights about its organization by the combination of structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) such as tractography (using Diffusion Spectrum Imaging, DSI) and functional MRI (fMRI) using resting-state. However, the complexity of brain connectivity and technical limitations prevent a comprehensive understanding of its organization. For this reason, the use of disease models producing disconnection syndromes, such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are important approaches for improving our understanding about brain organization. Moreover, MRI analysis of MS by DSI and fMRI can provide new insights on MS pathogenesis and development of new biomarkers of the disease, helping to solve the “clinical-MRI paradox”, namely the low correlation between MRI findings and clinical course. In this proposal we present new models for studying brain connectivity by analyzing MS. We intend to use state-of-the-art approaches in brain connectomics and apply inter-disciplinary techniques ranging form different MRI modalities to network analysis and image processing techniques. The candidate has a strong technical background and a PhD in a very related area - the technical aspects of the imaging techniques. The host group is strong in applied clinical research, with focus on MS, imaging, cognitive sciences and systems neurosciences. The host group has several ongoing collaborations with top researchers in cognitive neuroscience and connectomics. Finally, the findings and techniques that will be developed in this project can be transferable to clinical practice but also with minor modifications applied to similar neurological diseases and the research involving general questions on how the brain functions.

Keywords: brain,mri,multiple sclerosis,connectome,dsi,fmri,tractography,network analysis,image processing,neurology
Autonomous BRAking for Motorcycles (ABRAM)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269918.4
EU funding (EUR): 269918.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mobility is vital for the quality of life of citizens as they enjoy their freedom to travel. According to the White Paper on Transportation (2011) efficient transport is a great goal for the European Commission. The ABRAM project aims to contribute to the safety issue associated to the use of motorcycles and mopeds by supporting the development of one of the most promising safety functionalities for PTWs being the Motorcycle Autonomous Emergency Braking system (MAEB). MAEB represents an innovative safety device in the field of PTWs since the theoretical applicability was proved and the potential in terms of safety started to be investigated with promising results. Nevertheless this technology is not mature yet for PTW application. In this project the major scientific issues linked to the implementation of the autonomous braking on PTWs will be addressed. In particular, the potential benefit offered by the MAEB in terms of increased road safety for motorcyclists in urban and rural areas, the technical requirements of such a system, the critical aspects for a widespread application, with special emphasis on the human related factors will be investigated. Those goals will be achieved involving multi-disciplinary expertise as well as top level facilities offered by the outgoing and return host institution, respectively MUARC and UNIFI, using a wide range of approaches: in-depth and statistical crash analyses, experimental investigations involving volunteers, on-road testing with instrumented vehicles, simulations in virtual environment with the support of a state of the art riding simulator, comprehensive safety system design and final global assessment. In ABRAM, current gaps in understanding of rider behaviour, its implementation in safety technology and the effects of improved methods and technology will be filled. The research of ABRAM will make PTW use safer in order to position it as an improved transport solution for high efficient personal mobility.

Keywords: g108 intelligent systems,g204 systems engineering - sensorics - actorics - automation,g309 transport engineering,road safety,powered two wheelers
Mastering novel switchable molecular materials at the nanometric scale for their technological application in the areas of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics (NANOSCOPE)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269743.8
EU funding (EUR): 269743.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NanoSCOpe aims at supporting the career development of the candidate by means of a training-through-research project in which the coordination chemistry and physical characterization at the molecular level expertise of the applicant will be combined with the nanotechnology, physical-chemistry, nanophotonics and nanoelectronics expertise of the host institution for handling novel SCO-based switchable molecular materials at the nanoscopic scale as required for their technological application. The main scientific objectives of the research work proposed are: a) the controlled synthesis, nanopatterning and organization on surfaces of novel switchable and photo-switchable materials based on spin crossover complexes, and b) the study of the individual and collective physical properties of the obtained miniaturized systems with the aim of understanding the size reduction and molecular organization effect on the SCO properties during nanopatterning by correlating the miniaturized materials properties with the macroscopic counterparts. NanoSCOpe innovates through the development of original methods for the fabrication of nano-structures of coordination complexes with controlled composition, morphology and 3D architecture and through the study of those materials as single nano-objets using cutting-edge nanotechniques. The results of this multidisciplinary proposal addressing Material Science, Chemistry, Physics and Nanotechnology issues will be crucial for discovering novel nanomaterials with new properties for future technological use. From the technological point of view, NanoSCOpe will demonstrate the feasibility of practical applications in the areas of molecular information storage and molecular sensors by integrating the obtained nano-objects into nanophotonic and nanoelectronic devices. This will definitely contribute broadening the background and competencies of the candidate in Nanotechnology, as an ultimate step for his consolidation as independent researcher.

Keywords: spin crossover,nano-patterning,molecular switches,coordination nanochemistry,molecular sensors and molecular magnetism
New enZymes for BIOMass carbohydrate deconstruction (ZYBIOM)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2016-08-20
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 235046.7
EU funding (EUR): 235046.7
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sustainable production of fuels and chemicals from biomass has become essential considering the societal and political demands for alternatives to petrochemical commodities. Efficient enzymatic conversion of plant biomass (i.e. lignocellulose) into monomeric sugars is one of the key challenges that need to be overcome. Lignocellulolytic micro-organisms, bacteria and fungi, are a reservoir for identifying new enzymes of high potential for carbohydrate modification. ZyBiom is an ambitious project that aims at mining bacterial and fungal biodiversity through the exploration of (i) metagenomic libraries generated from Canadian mammals intestinal microbiotes and (ii) secretomes of fungi from the Polyporales order isolated from natural biodiversity. In order to assess the enzymatic modification of carbohydrates from biomass, a state-of-the-art methodological approach will be developed at University of Toronto. After treatment of biomass by microbial enzymes, (i) the solid residue will be analysed in a high-throughput mode by Tof SIMS and (ii) the soluble fraction will be analysed by the quantification of sugars using high-throughput assays. This approach will lead to the selection of novel carbohydrate modifying enzymes. Further in-depth characterization of selected enzymes will provide new information to understand the mechanisms by which microorganisms deconstruct lignocellulose, as well as new candidates for efficient industrial processes.

Keywords: microbiology,general biochemistry,molecular biology,biotechnology,lignocellulose chemistry,functional genomics,l607 microbiology,l203 proteomics
INterfacing CArbon-based NAnomaterials to neurons: toward new horizons in cellular NEuroProsthetics (INCA-NANEP)

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: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169800.0
EU funding (EUR): 169800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Neuroengineering is a growing area of Neurosciences, aimed at repairing, replacing and enhancing the function of damaged neuronal tissue. However, devices designed to interface the Central Nervous System (CNS) faces substantial clinical challenges, resulting from the CNS unique anatomy and physiology. Today, exciting perspectives are represented by reconstructive/repairing strategies, providing a functional bridge through the damaged tissue and restoring functions via implantable assisting devices. Lately, C-based nanomaterials, such as Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and Nanocrystalline Diamond (NCD) thin-films raised a lot of interest as the most promising materials in the building of nanoelectrodes and substrates for cell growth. Among their well-known properties (thermal, chemical, electrical), their in vivo stability and biocompatibility were explored and demonstrated. This project aims at studying the interactions occurring between these C-based nanomaterials and neurons, focusing on a significant step forward in the domain of neuroprosthetic materials, ultimately relevant to cognitive and regeneration/repair applications. The study of biological, electrophysiological and biophysical processes occurring at the interface between nanomaterials and neuronal systems is in fact intended to provide a solid foundation for generating novel biochips and cellular-level neuroprosthetic devices, ultimately designed to help repair damaged CNS tissues, and to build novel brain-machine interfaces. Such a research domain of Neurosciences, at the overlap between nanotechnology, physics and neurobiology, is not only offering today new exciting opportunities for better healthcare and nano-biotechnological applications, but it is also aimed to advance our basic understanding of the (dys)functional brains, through the use of C-based nanomaterials as novel tools for fundamental research, and ultimately leading to a new generation of nanomedicine and prosthetic applications in neurology.

Keywords: neuroengineering,nanotechnology,neuroprosthetics,carbon nanotubes,nanodiamonds,nanomedicine,electrophysiology
Environmental sensory perception in cyanobacterial biofilms: understanding biodeterioration of outdoor stone materials in a changing environment (ESENCYA)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 261627.6
EU funding (EUR): 261627.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many of the world’s most precious artworks are made of stone and their irreversible disappearing due to biological attack is a worldwide concern. Cyanobacteria colonize outdoor surfaces and develop biofilms, which, in turn, causes aesthetic, chemical and physical decay. The fragile character of the stone heritage material is further exacerbated by the unpredictable nature of environmental changes impacts, posing challenges for conservation management. Although there have been EU projects and scientific papers on cyanobacteria, the role and behavior of these microorganisms within the biofilm matrix and their complex interactions with the external environment is still unknown. ESENCYA provides an innovative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research to investigate perception of environmental changing in cyanobacteria within the biofilm matrix for sorting out time-spatial relationships and to elucidate microorganism-matrix, inter-organism, biofilm-atmosphere and biofilm-stone interactions. The project spans sophisticated microscopic techniques, biofilm matrix and gene expression analysis, damage assessment and data modeling techniques in world leading research institutions in microbial biofilm in USA and in cultural heritage microbiology in Italy. The research will be approached from two complementary angles: i) Lab-scale study to examine the sensory machinery of cyanobacterial biofilms by analyzing the cell’s capacity to sense different chemical and physical properties of the biofilm matrix, to integrate the incoming signals and to respond to them, triggering specific biodecay activities; ii) real heritage case studies to investigate the ecological landscape of cyanobacteria within subaerial biofilms. The outcomes will generate valuable new knowledge to model and predict surface biodeterioration in the face of environmental changes. This project represents an opportunity for Europe to keep its world leadership in research and conservation of cultural heritage.

Keywords: subaerial biofilm,cyanobacteria,biodeterioration,biofilm matrix,stoneworks
Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology (TIBET)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Worldwide interest in books as artefacts and ritual objects has raised new questions as digital technology is radically transforming book production and circulation. What is a book? Can it be really reduced to its content and therefore easily made obsolete by more efficient mediums of communication? How does a culture-specific understanding of the book as object relate to technological innovation? This project will contribute to the broad cross-cultural debate by looking at books in the Tibetan context, where its civilization has considered literary artefacts as crucial throughout its history and has developed appropriate technologies over the centuries. The research will focus on printing as a technological innovation that developed fairly rapidly in Tibet in the 14th–15th centuries and remains little documented and understood as a process involving technical, economic, political and religious factors. The proposed research spans a range of different disciplines, including Tibetology, philology, codicology, history, anthropology, chemistry, geography, archaeology and art history. It has three interconnected aims, to: 1) assemble and study early Tibetan prints from South Western Tibet by using new technologies and methods, 2) understand Tibetan book production and use in its historical and cultural context, 3) explore the relevance of Tibetan technological innovation for cross-cultural questions inspired by work on the ‘printing press’ as an agent of change in European history and by Roger Chartier’s call for the study of xylography within the wider exploration of technological innovation in communication. The research will reach beyond academia by being reflected in a public exhibition of Tibetan books as literary artefacts and by facilitating the digital repatriation of Tibetan texts preserved in Europe (especially in the UK and Italy) to Tibetan communities in their land of origin to help rebuild their cultural and spiritual heritage.

Keywords: book,tibet,printing,artefacts,technology,evolution
Misrecognition, mutual Recognition and Forgiveness in Hegel and Ricoeur (HEGELANDRICOEUR)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269743.8
EU funding (EUR): 269743.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present project pursues a twofold objective: firstly, it aims to frame Ricoeur’s position in the contemporary and interdisciplinary debate on mutual recognition (Anerkennung), highlighting original traits of Ricoeurian reception in the Hegelian category; secondly, it is designed to make a theoretical comparison between the way in which Ricoeur and Hegel interpret the nexus among misrecognition, Anerkennung and Forgiveness, in the conviction that such a comparison – pointing out convergences and divergences – may help both to cast new light on the positions of both thinkers and to advance the “theory of recognition” further. The choice of the three terms in the project’s title - Misrecognition, Anerkennung and Forgiveness – expresses the interpretative hypothesis from which to begin: the hypothesis that Ricoeur uses in an original and simultaneous way both the generative nexus that Hegel poses between misrecognition and recognition – interpreting the latter as the fruit of a struggle – and the theme of forgiveness as the only form of genuine recognition, as developed in the Phenomenology of Spirit. The objectives of the project will be pursued through a deep and exhaustive exploration of Ricoeur’s lifelong and ambiguous confrontation with Hegel’s thought, with particular attention to the points of intersections of such a confrontation with the intense dialogue that Ricoeur has constantly conducted with the principal theoreticians of the twentieth-century human sciences. The accomplishment of the project proposed, thanks to a Marie-Curie-fellowship, would therefore not only contribute to fill in a relevant gap in the secondary literature on Ricoeur, but could also furnish valuable theoretical resources with which to enrich the European philosophical paradigm of recognition and to enlarge its field of application to encompass other fields of the human sciences, such as historiography and law.

Keywords: s210 philosophy - history of philosophy,s212 ethics and morality /political and social theory: intersubjectivity,conflict,mutual recognition,individual and collective identity