Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Stagnation Layers in Laser Ablation Based Analytical Techniques (SLI-LABAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-07-14
End date: 2016-07-13
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191359.8
EU funding (EUR): 191359.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Laser ablation underpins a number of key analytical techniques employed in materials, biopharmaceuticals, security, forensics,environmental monitoring, etc. These techniques inlcude laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization with time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS). LIBS allows elemental classification/quantification by analyzing the radiation emitted from a plasma formed on a sample material. In LA-ICP-MS plume constituents are transported to a plasma torch before being introduced to a mass spectrometer for elemental and isotopic mass identification. In MALDI-TOF-MS, a bio-molecule of interest, e.g., a protein is fixed in a protective matrix at low relative density and irradiated by an intense laser pulse. The main objective of this proposal is to substitute the usual single plasma plume with a stagnation layer formed at the collision front between two counter-propagating plumes which can provide significantly greater species-of interest density, temperature, plume shape control. The research programme spans fundamentals to application. The unique expertise I bring to Europe is in laser plasma diagnostics and modeling that will be brought to bear on the DCU colliding plasmas programme leading to a real enhancement in current LIBS/LA-ICP-MS and MALDI performance. In addition I intend to extend the work on interactions with femtosecond lasers and short wavelength free electron lasers (FELs) through the collaborations that the DCU group have with DESY Hamburg and LCLS-Stanford. I aim to become expert in ultrafast lasers and their interactions with matter so that I can bring this expertise back to India from where I hope to continue the collaboration with DCU and other European partners as the scientific base in India expands to embrace these leading edge technologies.

Keywords: p109 lasers and laser physics,stagnation layer,plasma,diagnostic,spectroscopy,ablation,libs,maldi-tof,icp-ms
Rapid internationalization of Small-Medium Enterprises: unanticipated evolution from local-oriented to effective international players (INTENT)

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-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-03-04
End date: 2017-09-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present research focuses on achieving a deeper understanding of how European entrepreneurs can speed up the internationalisation process and, therefore, improve the performance of their (often resource constrained) SMEs. From the field experience and recent international entrepreneurship literature, it emerges that often entrepreneurs adopt “unexpected” lines of reasoning and adapt to changing environmental circumstances by combining networking, resource based analysis and serendipity, resulting in “unplanned” internationalization. They manage to accelerate effectively the internatioanlisation process despite a limited international experience, lack of information on the host market, and lack of international experience. This specific internationalisation process is important as it rapidly transforms a local-oriented SMEs, to becoming effective player on an international level (in such a way that it can firmly compete in spite of increasing global competition). In this project, the fellow focuses on three objectives. The first objective aims at exploring the consequence of adopting “unexpected” entrepreneurial decision-making on the speed of the internationalisation process itself. The second objective aims at exploring what type of internal change is involved in the “unplanned” internationalisation process and what capabilities are required to manage it. The final objective aims at developing and testing a model based on the outcomes of the previous objectives. The model will put in relation the effects of organisational structure and capabilities with firm’s domestic and international performance and will analyse the moderating influence of entrepreneurial orientation. The first two parts of the research are of explorative nature and, therefore, will adopt a qualitative research method; whereas the third part is of a theory testing nature and, therefore, will adopt a quantitative research method.

Keywords: internationalization,entrepreneurship,small-medium enterprises
Hitting Times for Stochastic Processes (HTSP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-01-21
End date: 2017-01-20
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of this project is to develop a qualitative theory for describing the long term atypical behaviour of stochastic processes. An important characterization of such behaviour is given by atypically large values of the time (known as the hitting time) when the process enters a set. We aim to establish new results about the probabilities of large values for the hitting times of appropriate sets for a variety of important stochastic process arising in probability theory, physics and stochastic finance.

Keywords: hitting time,persistence probability,first-passage time,exit probability,stochastic process,path functional,random walk,markov chain,levy process
Network Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease (NOMAD)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-07
End date: 2017-04-06
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 270312.9
EU funding (EUR): 270312.9
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a highly prevalent neurodegenerative disease associated with gradual loss of cognitive functions and brain vitality. The leading “amyloid cascade” hypothesis for the pathogenesis of AD states that amyloid-β (Aβ) starts to accumulate ~15 years before symptom onset and starts a cascade of pathological events, including aggregation of tau. It is known (mainly from post-mortem and animal studies) that these proteins may cause disruptions in brain networks, neurodegeneration and eventually cognitive decline. It is unclear, however, how these processes interact in the living human brain and this incomplete understanding of disease mechanisms may partially account for the lack of successful treatment options to date. The recent advent of a novel PET tracer for tau, however, allows for the very first time in-depth testing of the amyloid cascade hypothesis in vivo. Drawing on state-of-the-art PET and MRI techniques, this project will investigate how Aβ, tau and neurodegeneration relate to each other and to brain connectivity. More specifically, it will 1) unravel spatial overlap between the AD hallmark pathologies and neurodegeneration, and 2) investigate how the brain’s functional architecture shapes vulnerability to Aβ, tau and neurodegeneration in AD. This project offers an innovative and multidisciplinary “network model of neurodegeneration” approach to the problem of clinical, anatomical and molecular heterogeneity in AD. By producing high-quality output and using the international networks of University of California San Francisco (outgoing host) and VU University Medical Center (return host), this fellowship will play a vital role in diversifying and consolidating the fellow’s new research line. He will be exceptionally well prepared to design and develop his own research program in AD and undertake international competitive research within the European Research Area that integrates cutting-edge neuroimaging and cognitive measures.

Keywords: alzheimer's disease,early-onset,pet,mri,amyloid,tau,atrophy,functional connectivity,posterior cortical atrophy,logopenic aphasia,graph theory,nodal stress,trans-neuronal spread
A multi-scale numerical approach for a consistent understanding and modelling of structural concrete (MSAXSC)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207928.8
EU funding (EUR): 207928.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The expressions provided by codes of practice for shear and punching strength of reinforced concrete members are based on simplified mechanical models where complex multiscale phenomena, such as aggregate interlocking, steel-concrete interaction and concrete crushing, are taken into account by means of empirical coefficients. Hence, their reliability outside the range of the experimental results over which they are calibrated is often questionable. Refinement of these models requires accurate descriptions of the multi-phase material microstructure through a meso-mechanical approach in which aggregates and matrix are explicitly represented. Moreover, the information at the meso-scale has to be transferred to the engineering scale by means of a multi-scale computational approach. The innovative methodology of the present proposal is to create a synergy between the semi-empirical approach behind the development of standards and the most advanced computational mechanics one. The main goals are: - Develop a 3D meso-scale finite element model for the analysis of quasi-static and dynamic fracture in multi-phase solid materials. - Provide a multi-scale approach to incorporate meso-structural details into the continuum scale. - Contribute to the development of an open-source code. - Simulate experimental results on shear and punching failures available in the literature. - Apply the numerical approach to better quantify the empirical coefficients entering the expressions given by the standards. Particular attention is devoted to dynamic effects consequent to extreme loading conditions (impacts, explosions, seismic loads). Within this project, the fellow will acquire new competencies and skills in the fields of non-linear modelling, dynamic fracture, multi-scale modelling, high performance computing, design concepts and strategies. This will strengthen his multidisciplinary academic profile in fracture mechanics, structural modelling and design, and computational mechanics.

Keywords: numerical modelling,multi-scale approach,fracture mechanics,contact mechanics,crushing,structural concrete,shear and punching strength,codes of practice,dynamic fracture
Characterization of the mechanisms underlying the asymmetric segregation of cell fate determinants in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ESCA-Y)

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-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 261384.6
EU funding (EUR): 261384.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the modern challenges of cell biologists is to fully understand the mechanisms underlying cell lineage that takes place during the development of multicellular organisms. This is of importance in context of adult stem cells that alternate between quiescent and proliferation states, then dividing asymmetrically to give rise to a self-renewal stem cell plus a differentiating cell. The asymmetric determinants conferring self-renewal properties are still unknown. Of interest, in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae the spores that are the meiotic products of the sporulation of diploid cells display a lineage-specific asymmetric division of kinetochore components. Because the kinetochores are directly responsible for segregating chromatids during mitosis, a tempting hypothesis is that the asymmetric segregation is involved in nonrandom segregation of sister chromatids to daughter cells immediately after meiosis. The phenotype described provides an avenue through which such a nonrandom pattern of chromatid segregation could be achieved and concurrently provides a new yeast model for the cellular asymmetry to characterize determinants of the asymmetry. The power of the budding yeast S. cerevisiae in combination with various approaches, including proteomics, genetics and cell biology, will be utilized i) to identify the key properties of cell cycle control and DNA replication in the first cell cycle after exit from quiescence, ii) to characterize the full complement of epigenetic marks/proteins that segregate asymmetrically after this first division, iii) to unravel the mechanisms underlying their asymmetric distribution to daughter cells and iv) to determine which are the cell fate determinants responsible for the establishment of a cell lineage.

Keywords: cell cycle,quiescence,dna replication,histone modifications,kinetochore,saccharomyces cerevisiae,asymmetric segregation of determinants,cell lineage,silac
Pseudorandomness and explicit constructions in discrete mathematics (PAECIDM)

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: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 152067.6
EU funding (EUR): 152067.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to investigate the pseudorandomness phenomenon in discrete mathematics. In particular, the aim of the fellow is to learn-through-research two topics at the frontier of mathematics and computer science: expander graphs (their explicit constructions, and applications in computational complexity), and explicit construction of Ramsey graphs. The field combines algebraic, combinatorial, probabilistic methods, and concepts from theoretical computer science.

Keywords: discrete mathematics,pseudorandomness,explicit constructions of pseudorandom structures,expanders,ramsey's theorem,computational complexity
Strong constraints on the nature of dark matter and astrophysical sources from multi-wavelength analysis of the Inner Galaxy (IGMULTIWAVE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243847.8
EU funding (EUR): 243847.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose a vigorous program of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies using several existing and upcoming data sets to substantially improve the sensitivity of dark matter searches as well as offer new insights into astrophysical sources of emission.

Keywords: particle astrophysics,dark matter,multi-wavelength,inner galaxy,source population studies
Transatlantic Politics of Horror and Terror in Gothic Narratives of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-2011 (GOTH-NAR-HAITIAN-REV)

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-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299558.4
EU funding (EUR): 299558.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Silenced in hegemonic historiography, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was one of the key transformations of the Age of Revolution. As the first & only successful slave revolution & one of the first anti-colonial revolutions in modern history, it has mounted multiple challenges to the transatlantic colonial economy and hegemonic North Atlantic ideologies which continue to assume the cultural superiority of Europe & the USA. Through their double act of revolutionary self-emancipation from slavery and colonialism, the Afro-Caribbean slaves radicalised both the French Revolution & the European Enlightenment. For they challenged & extended the limited scope of Rights of Man as they exposed & removed its race and class limitations: a milestone towards universal human rights. The interdisciplinary project aligns itself theoretically with (re)-appraisal of the centrality of the Haitian Revolution to transatlantic history and modernity, as it is displayed in the recent ‘Haitian Turn’ in transatlantic studies & by earlier radical black theorists and activist. It will trace the genealogy of the ‘Haitian Gothic’ in the transatlantic discourse from 1791 to the present. It understands it as a broader, powerful rhetorical-political mode that operates across a wide range of medial genres (literature, political articles, pamphlets, histories, visual representations e.g. caricatures & films). Its working hypothesis posits that the continuing ‘gothicisation’ of Haiti, its history & its people forms a reaction to the profound challenges that HR has posed to the hegemonic transatlantic political, economic and ideological (neo)-colonial order. It distinguishes between the ‘hegemonic Haitian Gothic’ that demonises Haiti & its revolution & the ‘radical Haitian Gothic’ that appropriates the Gothic to extol the radically emancipatory nature of the Haitian Revolution. UCLAN with its world-class researchers in transatlantic studies (e.g. Prof. Rice) provides an ideal host institution.

Keywords: haitian revolution,postcolonial & transatlantic studies,decolonising the enlightenment & modernity,european colonialism,slavery & resistance against,anti-colonialism,race,radicalism,revolution
Neural Field Equations: Stochastic Approach and Numerical Simulations (NEUROSTOCHSIM)

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: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-15
End date: 2015-09-14
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 124189.8
EU funding (EUR): 124189.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the present project is to provide the numerical modeling of neural processes, which can help to interpret the experimental data coming from EEG imaging. With this purpose we will use the Neural Field Equations (NFE), a widely used class of equations to model connected areas of neurons in the brain, in one to three dimensions. We emphasize on employing stochastic variants of NFEs to describe neural activity. We intend to develop new numerical methods and use them to carry out numerical simulations of the processes under investigation. We will test the results of our simulations by comparing them with the ones obtained by other methods in neuroscience, in particular data driven methods. The project includes in its final phase a collaboration with a research team working with medical data. The applicant, Pedro Lima (www.math.ist.utl.pt/~plima), is a member of the CEMAT (Center of Mathematics and Applications- www.cemat.ist.utl.pt), a research unit of the Instituto Superior Técnico (www.ist.utl.pt ), which is part of the Technical University of Lisbon (www.utl.pt). He will visit for one year the Johannes Kepler Univesity (JKU- www.jku.at ) at Linz, where he will work at the Institute of Stochastics ( www.jku.at/stochastik) , under the direction of Prof. Evelyn Buckwar (the leader of the Institute).The main training objective of the applicant is the development of expertise in Stochastic Numerical Analysis, Modelling with NFEs and Mathematical Neuroscience. He will benefit from the excellent experience of the research team of the Institute of Stochastics of the JKU, which is renowned for its interdisciplinary strengths and track record on applied mathematical modeling. This project will have a very significant impact in the career of the applicant, giving him skills that will enable him to participate in multidisciplinary projects in the field of neuroscience. In this way he will reinforce a position of professional maturity.

Keywords: neural field equations,stochastic analysis,numerical methods,mathematical neuroscience
Living the Law: Transitional Justice in Colombia (JUSTCOLOMB)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2019-09-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 379665.2
EU funding (EUR): 379665.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project “Living the Law: Transitional Justice in Colombia” is intended to help the researcher to attain a leading independent position as a socio-legal scholar.The researcher, a social anthropologist, will acquire new skills and knowledge in empirical socio- legal research and will return to her host institution equipped to teach and publish in the still under-represented field of socio-legal studies in Europe.Dr Brunnegger’s research seeks to develop an understanding of the complexity and specificity of ‘transitional justice’ which proceeds through the legal framework of the ‘Justice and Peace Law’ in Colombia.The project aims to recover an account of the subjective experiences of a range of different players involved in transitional justice (lawmakers, demobilized soldiers and victims).It will then try to make sense of these fragmentary experiences in the context of some broader, socially and legally committed characterization of justice through quantitative data. In method, the project will therefore be both qualitative and quantitative as it seeks to assess a range of processes and impacts of the ‘Justice and Peace Law’.

Keywords: socio-legal,transitional justice,colombia