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Living on the Edge: Unraveling Electron Correlations and Topological Transport in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators (Q-EDGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Q-EDGE aims to transform the landscape of energy-efficient electronics and quantum computing in response to pressing global energy and computational challenges. Central to this endeavor is the exploration of electron correlations and topological transport in Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) insulators. These are two-dimensional materials characterized by a bulk bandgap and topologically protected metallic edge states. Theoretical models hint at the potential of QSH edge states to facilitate charge transport without energy loss at room temperature and introduce unique quantum excitations in the form of Majorana fermions. Despite their potential, knowledge gaps and experimental challenges hinder harnessing their properties. These include material constraints, such as small bandgaps limiting investigations to extremely low temperatures, and technique limitations obstructing precise edge state measurements. My discovery that germanene, the germanium analog of graphene, is a QSH insulator with a sizable bandgap, combined with my advancements in scanning probe microscopies, equips me to solve these challenges and fulfill my objectives: (1) To uncover the principles underpinning charge and spin transport in QSH insulators. (2) To identify the quantum mechanisms causing deviations from ideal, dissipationless transport. (3) To engineer the QSH edge states to manifest elusive Majorana fermions. Q-EDGE aspires to set new standards in topological research, promoting germanene as a benchmark material and developing methodologies applicable to diverse quantum systems. This initiative will significantly inform and refine contemporary theories of complex quantum phases of matter. The urgency is high since the exploration of this realm has just begun, its promises have not yet been materialized, and the extent of its potential for new physics remains largely untapped. As we stand on the cusp of quantum innovations, Q-EDGE will turn theoretical potentials into tangible breakthroughs.

Keywords: quantum spin hall effect,2d topological insulator,scanning tunneling microscopy,germanene,helical luttinger liquid,zero modes,electron correlations,backscattering
Targeting Epilepsy Ictogenesis Process Through Pannexin-1 Modulation (PanThera)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS1 (ERC-2022-POC1, 2022)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Epilepsy, affecting about 1% of the population, comprises a group of neurological disorders characterized by the periodic occurrence of seizures, which disrupt normal brain function. Despite treatment with current antiepileptic drugs, one third of epileptic patients are pharmacoresistant and most patients suffer from side effects, making it crucial to develop novel therapies. Current drugs indeed target channels and receptors involved in normal brain function, not specific to the disease. Our academic work has recently identified a novel and innovative target for epilepsy. Our project thus aims at bringing to the market a new generation of antiepileptic drugs specifically targeting the disease.
Outplaying the hardware lottery for embedded AI (BINGO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and Communication Engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1995750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1995750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The next wave of smart applications in our society will need embedded devices (robots, wearables, etc.) with increased intelligence at much reduced energy and latency cost. Compared to current embedded platforms, up to 1000x efficiency gains could be achieved through tight processor-algorithm co-optimization. However, due to the slow development cycle of processor chips (many months to years) in comparison to algorithms (hours to weeks), this co-optimization today merely boils down to selecting algorithms which run well on mature, available hardware. As these processors and their tooling have been optimized for mature algorithms, not the inherently best algorithm “wins”, but the one that happens to best fit the available “old-school” hardware platforms. This “hardware lottery” holds back innovation, severely impacts embedded AI execution efficiency, and narrows the market to a few large companies. The BINGO vision to break this innovation deadlock is to enable heterogeneous compute platform customization for a given AI workload in a matter of days (100x faster), through rapid selection and assembly of prefabricated co-processor chiplets. This needs breakthroughs in: a.) A library of embedded-AI-optimized co-processor chiplets, surpassing the SotA in terms of dataflow heterogeneity for improved efficiency (100x over CPU); and inter-operability in heterogeneous chiplet meshes on a reusable “breadboard” interposer. b.) Rapid cost models and workload schedulers for beyond-SotA heterogeneous platform customization: automatically deriving the optimal chiplet combination for an application, assemble it and deploy, all in a few days. Optimizing across the disciplines of chip design, computer architecture, scheduling, and AI fits perfectly to my expertise gained at KU Leuven, imec and Intel. It will stimulate a surge of embedded AI innovations, enable efficient execution of new algorithms, and bring the EU back at the forefront of chip design and embedded AI research.

Keywords: chip let design,interposer,hardware acceleration,digital design,edge devices,machine learning,edgeai,tinyml,low power processors,heterogeneous multi core
Making Sense of the Air in China’s Socialist Industrialisation: producing and communicating airborne hazards, 1949–1976 (SENSEAIR)

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: Sweden
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): 236340.0
EU funding (EUR): 236340.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This action will provide the first historical analysis of occupational health work in a Chinese context. It will focus on changing understandings of airborne risk, illustrating how state-led industrialisation efforts introduced new ways of knowing and controlling dangerous particles in the air and how these were communicated amongst experts and to lay publics. It will analyse policy documents, educational propaganda, popular science magazines, and scientific journals related to the field of industrial hygiene to investigate how this field became an important context for reconceptualisations of the air and its relationship to the body. Industrial hygiene grew into a prominent area of public health in the early People's Republic of China, with workplaces like factories and mines designated as sites for managing health-related and environmental concerns. The emergence of industrial hygiene as a scientific regime for organising people, production, and environments in twentieth-century China has not yet been studied by historians. In centring this field, the action will reveal how the control of infectious disease, dust-related occupational disease, and emerging knowledge about pollution developed alongside new understandings of the air as well as of worker productivity. Addressing a major gap in histories of modern China, it will demonstrate the crucial role of the industrial workplace as a site for the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. By studying conceptualisations of airborne pathology in the unique setting of socialist China, it will offer novel insights into how the communication of knowledge about risk was reconciled with radical political and economic goals. The action will integrate the history of medicine with histories of labour and environmental histories, making possible an understanding of China’s role in past, present, and future global health events in relation to broader ideological, economic, and cultural shifts.

Keywords: medical humanities
INtervention on the DEterminants of, and Expertise in, Physical activity behaviours (INDEEP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Norway,Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Portugal,France,United States,Denmark
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2735136.0
EU funding (EUR): 2735136.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The INtervention on the DEterminants of, and Expertise in, Physical activity behaviours (INDEEP) research programme and training network will train a new generation of doctoral researchers who will gain expertise in innovative, interdisciplinary research activity in physical activity (PA) and health promotion. Specifically, the doctoral network will support the theoretical and applied development of the state-of-the-art of determinants of PA and evidence-based population level PA interventions, by promoting international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility across the PA for health sector. Progressing the work achieved in the JPI HDHL DEDIPAC KH, COST Action CA19101 (DE-PASS) responded directly to the gaps and research needs in relation to the absence of European harmonised data on PA and their determinants. Grounded in DE-PASS, the INDEEP network seeks to generate excellence in research and training, providing graduates that will advance the state-of-the-art in PA promotion, through a comprehensive understanding of the associated determinants. INDEEP addresses the need for a genuinely multidisciplinary approach to addressing the challenges of improving PA in youth and across the lifespan, arising from the poor efficacy of existing approaches to PA change. The network ultimately aims to provide an intervention development toolbox, supporting the integration of determinants of PA behaviours, behaviour change theory and intervention co-creation to aid in the development of evidence-based interventions which integrate top-down and bottom-up intervention approaches. Outcomes beyond the lifetime of this project have the potential to have important societal and global impacts, including contributing to achieve many of the Bangkok Declaration Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including contributing to good health and well-being, gender equality, work and economic growth, reduced societal inequalities, sustainable communities and climate action.

Keywords: physical activity,determinants of physical activity,determinants of behaviours,behaviour change,cocreation
Experimental evolution in a tri-factorial system (EXPEL)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230774.4
EU funding (EUR): 230774.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Parasitic nematode infections are a major threat to human, animal and plant health. Infection prevention or control depends heavily on chemical treatment, but resistance is becoming widespread, and the compounds used pollute surface- and groundwater. To develop new mitigation strategies, it is important to understand host-parasite interactions and fundamental mechanisms of parasitism, but parasites of vertebrates are difficult to study. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) and their hosts offer great potential in this context. EPNs are microscopic nematodes that prey on larval stages of many insects and naturally help regulate insect populations. EPNs are commercially available to target a range of soil-dwelling plant pests, but efficiency depends on the environment and the targeted pest. EPNs have also been used to study immunological responses of insect hosts. In these studies, a fraction of the hosts survives the infection. The aim of research proposed here is to select the surviving hosts and establish a model system of the EPN-host complex to study host-parasite interactions through experimental evolution of parasitism. Traits including life span and stress responses, as well as genomic and transcription changes of the host and the EPN will be studied. The downstream application of this model is the optimization of biocontrol agents of plant and animal pathogens by selecting EPNs that are resistant to environmental stressors like heat, desiccation and UV radiation, and that prey on new host species. The proposed research uses the EPN Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, its symbiont Photorhabdus luminescens, and the host Drosophila melanogaster. The expertise of the supervisor in Drosophila and evolutionary research combined with the Experienced Researcher’s (ER) empirical and computational skills provides a perfect match for the proposed project. Additionally, the project will integrate the ER’s multidisciplinary skillset for a future career as an independent academic.

Keywords: experimental evolution entomopathogenic nematodes biocontrol
Assessing the adaptive role of subindividual trait variation via epigenetic changes for ecosystem functioning under climate change. (VARSUBIN)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211754.88
EU funding (EUR): 211754.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Variability is one of the few consistent characteristics of biological systems occurring at different levels of organization, from biomes to individuals. Moreover, at individual level, a vast amount of trait variation occurs within single individuals of modular organisms such as plants. Subindividual trait variation is mainly due to organ level phenotypic plasticity, and it has an epigenetic basis. In plants, subindividual trait variation occurs between multiple repeated organs, such as different leaves, fruits, flowers, and which are reruns of the same genotype under different micro-environmental conditions. Subindividual variation can be larger than among individual or among population variation, being a major source of phenotypic variation in nature. However, because subindividual variation is generated within individual genotypes, it has been inaccurately assumed to be invisible to ecological or evolutionary processes. Therefore, its adaptative role to global changes as well as the associated potential impact on ecosystem functioning is currently unknown. Given the importance of biodiversity for ecosystem functioning and mitigation of anthropogenic change, understanding the evolutionary and ecological consequences of a vast biodiversity asset such as subindividual trait variation is a major scientific and societal challenge. The main goal of this Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship is to evaluate the role of subindividual variation for plant adaptation to climatic change and to quantify the knock-on effects on ecosystem functions. To achieve this goal MS proposes a multi-generational artificial-selection and ecosystem experiment at a state-of-the-art experimental research facility (the Ecotron of Montpellier) equipped for automatic high-frequency measurements of multiple ecosystem processes (e.g. CO2 net ecosystem exchange, water use efficiency) and stable isotope 13CO2 labeling (for estimation of soil carbon storage).

Keywords: ecosystem fluxes,atmospheric carbon capture,soil carbon storage
Demonstrator of an Electrified Modern Efficient Transport Regional Aircraft (DEMETRA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Aviation
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEAN-AVIATION (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Italy,United Kingdom,Canada,Netherlands,Poland
Call: Flight Test Demonstration of Hybrid-Electric Propulsion for Regional aircraft (HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2025-01, 2025)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 56856110.91
EU funding (EUR): 35000000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

In a scenario where the climate change is becoming more and more important, it is pivotal to explore new solutions for a greener mobility that help reduce the emission related with aviation. In this context, the DEMETRA project aims to demonstrate disruptive technologies for regional aviation with high level of maturity, targeting entry into service in 2035. The objective is the validation and feasibility of hybrid propulsion for regional aircraft, as well as the development of innovative technologies for emission reduction. A real scale solution for hybrid powerplant, powered by batteries, is developed and tested on a typical CS25 regional aircraft platform, with tailored modifications to integrate the hybrid powerplant and any necessary ancillary systems needed to validate TRL6 for such technologies. Besides the flight demonstration, other enabling technologies will be tested on ground to validate TRL5 at the end of the project. These technologies include: i) development of a more innovative propeller, together with nacelle and wing, tested in wind tunnel facilities to assess aerodynamic and acoustic performance; ii) development of new control logics and single lever to improve the cockpit operations, tested on specific bench representative of avionics system of the aircraft. Certification activities will also be at the centre of the project, to ensure that each technology identified show readiness not only for technology but also for certification maturation: the return of experience from the flight prototype preparation and the definition and assessment of CRL will help maturate the technologies and show readiness for entry into service in 2035. With such large portfolio of technologies and demonstration, the DEMETRA project aims to prepare real scale solutions to accelerate the introduction of such technologies at the earliest and maximise the impact on the emission, thus identifying itself as a relevant player in the regional aviation decarbonisation context.

Keywords: hybrid electric,turboprop,regional aviation,technology demonstration,environmental sustainability,battery technology,wind tunnel tests,acoustic performance,flight tests,available seat kilomet
Innovation Activities to mature Turbulence Cancelling Technology for Light and Business Aircraft from TRL 6 to TRL 8 as Key Enabling Technology for the Future of Sustainable Air Mobility (TurbulenceCancelling)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Breakthrough innovations for future mobility (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02, 2025)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2996685.14
EU funding (EUR): 2097679.6
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Global studies show a rise in severe weather events, particularly storms and turbulence, increasingly impacting air traffic. These adverse conditions lead to fuel-consuming detours, higher maintenance costs, in-flight injuries, and an increased workload for pilots and Air Traffic Management, raising accident risks. Light and Business Aircraft are especially vulnerable due to their lower weight and typical operation in lower atmospheric layers where turbulence is more prevalent. Turbulence Cancelling is a break-through technology that reduces the adverse effects of in-flight turbulence by more than 80%. It mimics birds' natural turbulence mitigation, enabling aircraft to deliver smoother, more stable flights. Turbulence Cancelling has already proven effective in the European Ultralight Aircraft segment, providing credibility for its expansion into more regulated markets like certified Light Aircraft and Business Aircraft. The emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector, focusing on electric aircraft for urban transport, will also benefit from TCS, particularly as aircraft operating in urban canyons are susceptible to turbulence. NASA has highlighted the importance of mitigating turbulence to foster public acceptance of AAM technology, making TCS a key enabler for the sector's success. The EIC Accelerator provides important funding for the innovation development in highly complex and regulated markets that cannot be reached otherwise. Our request for 2.1M € grant-only enables us to bring the Light Aircraft and Business Aircraft to TRL 8 and to become the world-leading company for Turbulence Cancelling, making the whole aviation industry turbulence-free and not be limited to only smaller bridgehead markets. Without EIC support, our groundbreaking and patented European Turbulence Cancelling technology, would not have the means to penetrate these industries, missing out on significant worldwide economic opportunities and advancements in aviation safety and efficiency.

Keywords: aviation,turbulence,passenger comfort,climate impact,climate change,flight emissions,light aircraft,business aircraft,advanced air mobility