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Regularized Density-Functional Analysis (REGAL)

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: Norway
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1462766.0
EU funding (EUR): 1462766.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Kohn-Sham approach of density-functional theory (DFT) is the most widely used method in quantum chemistry and its usefulness as a practical tool can hardly be overestimated. The central object is the universal density functional. However, this density functional is nondifferentiable, leaving many practical aspects of the theory unfounded. Nevertheless, extensive work has been done establishing exact conditions for the density functional, constituting one of the cornerstones of functional development. The aim of the proposal is to apply a generalization of the Moreau-Yosida regularization to DFT. This achieves not only differentiability, but also mitigates the problem of potential-representability and provides global solutions of the underlying variational problem. This unconventional approach may have transformative impact on the development of approximate functionals as well as the iterative Kohn-Sham scheme. The first objective is to establish the mathematical foundation of a regularized DFT, akin to the unregularized setting of standard DFT. Close interplay between different theories that use more than just the particle density as variables will be a guide for the regularized theory. Equipped with a regularized formulation, the aim of the second objective is to develop new and understand existing exact constraints for the density functional. This intends to open up a whole new axis of method development for approximate functionals. Since the regularization transformation considered is lossless, REGAL opens up for a new theoretical bridge between formal DFT and density-functional approximations. The third objective is the study of the regularized Kohn-Sham iteration scheme. Here a proof of guaranteed convergence is the ultimate aim. Furthermore, regularization effects to speed up convergence using bounds on the energy curvature will be studied. The feasibility is increased by the PI’s strong background in both applied mathematics and quantum chemistry.

Keywords: density functional theory,moreau yosida regularization,exact constraints,kohn sham iteration scheme,current density functional theory,density functional approximations
Holography and Topological Semimetals (HATS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Sweden,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are a recently discovered class of materials featuring an exotic array of properties, with potential applications including the building of novel electronic devices. The electrons in some WSMs interact strongly with one another, making their theoretical study challenging. One tool for modelling strongly interacting systems is holography, also known as the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. Holography has been used to model WSMs before, but there are open problems to do with holographically describing important features of real WSMs. In this project I will develop a new generation of holographic models and techniques, capable of addressing several of these problems: 1. The effects of imperfections in a WSM’s crystal structure on its electronic properties, particularly when the imperfections cause the electrons experiencing an effective curved spacetime. 2. Certain non-trivial physics that occurs at the boundaries of WSMs, partly arising due to their topological properties. 3. Holographically modelling a WSM with equations that are invariant under time reversal, as is the case for the equations describing many real WSMs. The project will be carried out at Nordita, a joint department of Stockholm University (SU) and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The supervisor, Alexander Krikun, is an expert in holographic approaches to condensed matter physics. Through the research and training in the project I will obtain new skills, such as numerical techniques for solving boundary value problems in partial differential equations. SU and KTH both have condensed matter theory groups researching WSMs, from which I will gain expertise in non-holographic methods. The project includes a secondment at Instituto de Física Teórica-CSIC/UAM in Madrid, with a group with expertise in anomalous transport, an important aspect of WSM physics. This secondment will support the research and training, and foster new international collaborations.

Keywords: holographic duality,ads cft correspondence,weyl semimetals
Advanced Circuits for Detection and Control of Diamond Quantum Sensors (ACDC_Q)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Digital
Destination: Digital & Emerging Technologies for Competitiveness and Fit for the Green Deal
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Italy,France,Germany
Call: Quantum sensing and metrology for market uptake (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-CNECT, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5939902.75
EU funding (EUR): 4999864.38
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum sensors using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spin colour centres in diamond have made great strides from scientific curiosity towards practical applications. First devices, for example Diamond Scanning Probe microscopes, are on the market. However, large scale applications are limited by the availability of a compact hardware combined with the diamond quantum chip and their cost-effectiveness. ACDC_Q, tackles these challenges by creating a fully integrated system for control and readout of NV centres by making use of semiconductor technology. The project builds upon a first demonstration of this integration (OEAW, Infineon). The device makes use of electrical readout of NV centres, as pioneered by IMEC and developed by the applicants in previous EU projects. Further development of the integrated logic in ACDC_Q will allow controlled excitation and spin manipulation devices. The integration will lead to compact and cost-effective realization, while reaching state-of-the-art performance, comparable to devices constructed on an optical table. The devices will be developed towards commercial applications in magnetometry, including non-destructive evaluation (Kwant-Tek), space magnetometry (IMEC, ASI), and remote monitoring (Thales). The device performance will be calibrated in the precise EU metrology facilities (PTB). By bringing together pioneering academic research with cutting-edge semiconductor industrial processes and leading manufacturers, ACDC_Q will transform diamond sensors from laboratory experiments to prototypes developed to target commercialization.

Keywords: diamond nv spin sensors quantum magnetometry photonics integration quantum photonics quantum engineering and standardisation
Smart electrolyte with inherent flame-retardancy for next generation fire-safe lithium-ion batteries. (SMARTBATT)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181152.96
EU funding (EUR): 181152.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Despite significant advancement in other characteristic requirements of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), safety threats to the rechargeable LIBs still persist. Main challenge of the safety concerns related to LIBs is heat accumulation during thermal runaway inside the cells, which is difficult to be eliminated due to poor thermal management associated with current technologies. In this context, the overarching aim of this ambitious yet achievable project (SMARTBATT) is to develop a thermoreversible liquid-solid transition (TLST) electrolyte integrated with inherent flame-retardancy for LIBs. The new idea of SMARTBATT is to design and synthesis flame-retardant thermoreversible liquid-solid transition electrolytes via the principals of the chemical Michael addition reaction (to incorporate flame retardant into electrolytes) and chemical Diels-Alder addition reaction (to produce liquid-solid transition in the electrolytes). In details, TLST will be comprised of Li-salt dissolved in a mixture of two organic solvents-vinylene carbonate and 2,5-dimethylfuran; as internal temperature of LIBs increases, both organic solvents will undergo a Diels-Alder addition reaction to form a supramolecular crosslinked network, as a result there will be a significant diminution in Li+ ion conductivity, led LIBs to non-operational mode. Moreover, TLST functionalized with 9,10-Dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DOPO) will offer excellent flame-retardancy to the electrolytes as fire hazard of LIBs appears. SMARTBATT is multidisciplinary and requires complementary expertise from the host (Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Fire Retardant Materials) and the researcher (Electrochemistry, Battery), is contributing to the new generation of LIBs, following the priorities of the Europe 2020 Strategy regarding reaching a Smart, Sustainable and inclusive growth and European BATTERY 2030+, and aligned with some specific priorities of Cluster 5 Framework Programme Horizon Europe.

Keywords: fire retardant materials,fire safe batteries,smart electrolytes,diels alder reaction,thermoreversible liquid solid transition type electrolytes,smart batteries
The Doctoral Network on Prognostics and heAlth management of nexT GeneRatiOn drivetraiNs (PATRON)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Sweden,Slovenia,Spain,Italy
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): 2892324.34
EU funding (EUR): 2659982.4
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

European manufacturing is at the centre of a twin ecological and digital transition, being both driver and subject to these changes. At the same time, manufacturing companies must maintain technological leadership and stay competitive. The size and the complexity of the associated challenges - such as the integration of Artificial Intelligence, the use of industrial data, the transformation into a circular economy and the need for agility and responsiveness - requires pooling of resources and a novel approach of cooperation. The objective of the PATRON project is to develop the next generation of PHM methodologies, algorithms and technologies, so enabling condition monitoring, with the focus on real-time diagnostics and prognostics. This objective will be achieved by having 10 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) working closely and interacting frequently in this inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary area. Despite remarkable progresses in health monitoring boosted by new technologies and AI, most approaches still rely on the use of rudimentary HIs defined more than half a century ago. On the other hand the Community of Tribology is working at the micro and the macroscale of the contacts where loads are applied and wear, damage and faults occur. Impressively enough the two communities, Condition Monitoring/Prognostics and Health Management and Tribology, are following separate paths. The proposed PATRON project brings together the two communities and doctoral candidates and experienced specialists from key players in academia and industry across Europe covering different scientific disciplines and industrial stakeholders from a broad range of backgrounds to optimally tackle the challenges ahead. The PATRON Fellows will be trained in innovative PhD topics as well as receiving specific theoretical and practical education in the fields of mechanical engineering and computer science, focusing towards the next generation Prognostics and Health Management techniques.

Keywords: prognostics and health management,condition monitoring,fault detection,fault diagnosis,tribology
Philosophy as Translation: Toward a Translational Education (PHILTRANS)

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: Italy,Japan
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 266318.4
EU funding (EUR): 266318.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The conviction at the heart of this project is that philosophy can no longer postpone systematic reflection on translation. This is not only due to a widespread "translational turn" in the humanities but because translation is at the core of Europe and of philosophy itself. In the European multilingual context, translation represents one of the centripetal forces of European identity and community-building. At the same time, translation offers both a praxis and a conceptual tool for orienting EU responses to migratory pressures. In order to fill the gap in the literature on translation in both the “continental” and the “analytic” tradition, I will continue an endeavour I have been pursuing for the past decade: putting translation at the centre of philosophical inquiry. This philosophy of translation must overcome the fracture between the two philosophical traditions opening a new inquiry field beyond their unilateral approaches. Throughout the history of thought, the reciprocal relation between translation and philosophy appears in two guises: on the one hand, as the translation of philosophy; on the other, as the philosophy of translation, i.e. as sporadic philosophical remarks on translation. My hypothesis is that there is an even more intimate relation between the two – one that concerns the practice and meaning of philosophy itself, which cannot do without a translational element. Translation is the motive force of philosophy; it is an inchoate and formative element of several philosophical projects, offering a transformation of the tradition’s texts and, more importantly, of the translator. In the second stage of the project, I will exploit the transformative and pedagogical dimension of translation in the context of education, fostering European multilingualism through designing specific pedagogical activities that will introduce translation into traditionally monolingual classes, e.g. philosophy classes in high schools and universities.

Keywords: philosophy of translation
Breaking frontiers of Internal Model Principle and Adaptive Control through hybrid Techniques for next-generation Mechatronics (IMPACT4Mech)

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: Italy,United States,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This project will develop innovative control strategies for the mechatronic technologies of the next decade, bolstering the design of sustainable industrial, energy, and transportation systems. Motivated by the vast development gap between several emerging technologies, such as smart materials and additively manufactured systems, and the algorithms for their safe and high-performance operation, we aim to design control techniques to handle unconventional dynamics with impacts, discrete events, and hysteresis phenomena, including large disturbances and modeling uncertainties. Specifically, we propose to embrace the formalism of hybrid dynamical systems to achieve a quantum leap of internal model and adaptive control, leading to an impact for next-generation mechatronics. This aim represents an ideal evolution for the activities of the candidate fellow, Dr. Alessandro Bosso, in a perspective of knowledge consolidation and career development in the academic world. To this end, under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Tilli and the co-supervision of Prof. Lorenzo Marconi at the University of Bologna, the project foresees an intense training and research program, where the fellow will be mentored by leading experts in hybrid and mechatronic systems. During the outgoing phase, Dr. Bosso will be hosted for 16 months at the CCDC of UC Santa Barbara, a world-leading center in control research and related multi- disciplinary topics that formed many successful scientists in the field. There, the fellow will be supervised by Prof. Andrew R. Teel, a prominent researcher among the founders of hybrid systems theory. Then, a secondment period of 8 months is planned at the laboratories LAAS and LAPLACE of the CNRS in Toulouse, France, where Prof. Luca Zaccarian will guide the fellow in theoretical and applied research. Finally, the return phase will be dedicated to developing breakthrough laboratory prototypes and disseminating the results to the scientific and industrial communities.

Keywords: hybrid dynamical systems adaptive control internal model control mechatronics
Closing the loop in stereoselective catalysis with data-driven approaches (CATALOOP)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany,United States,Spain,United Kingdom,Israel,Netherlands,Ireland,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2779982.74
EU funding (EUR): 2663654.4
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

Data-driven methods promise to enable a highly structured approach for the development of asymmetric catalytic reactions, founded both on experimental and computational data. In this new but underdeveloped method, a small number of experiments is performed and that data is used to make a mathematical model to predict how new ligands will behave. Such a model is based on calculated or measured physical descriptors of the ligand, and correlations obtained between enantioselectivity and such descriptors also provide mechanistic insight. In an iterative (“looped”) approach, the model’s predictions are tested experimentally, and fed back to make an improved model, which is again tested experimentally, until satisfactory stereoselectivity and yield is obtained. Importantly, the integration and feedback of computational and experimental data during the research process is a significantly more efficient approach to developing asymmetric catalytic reactions and also provides mechanistic insight as the reaction is developed. The main research aim of this doctoral network is to develop powerful and readily applicable workflows for data-driven development of stereoselective catalysis. Using this data-driven approach requires a fundamentally different experimental workflow to developing catalytic reactions than is currently employed in most research laboratories. Since this requires a fundamental change in the way most experimental groups work, the data-driven approach is not widespread and remains underdeveloped. The next generation of chemists requires training in combined and integrated computational and experimental approaches, both in academia and industry. The main training aim of this doctoral network is to train researchers in comprehensive data-driven experimental approach for realizing challenging asymmetric catalytic methods.

Keywords: data driven methods,computer assisted reaction optimization
Future dAta Services and applicaTions for airports and Network (FASTNet)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,France,Greece,Belgium,Denmark,Netherlands
Call: Fast Track Innovation and Uptake Capacity-on-Demand and Dynamic Airspace (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10473705.0
EU funding (EUR): 4803147.13
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

FASTNet belongs to working area WA5, addressing topic WA5.1 Fast-track innovation and uptake for capacity on demand and dynamic airspace and focusing on future data services and applications for airport and network. FASTNet proposes solutions that contribute to the evolution of ATM aviation into an integrated digital ecosystem characterised by distributed data services. This project aims at further enhancing the airports and network integration in tactical, pre-tactical and strategic planning through the development of the following two solutions: - Solution 1: Enhanced AOPs-NOP Tactical planning, with the inclusion of an “airport-to-airport(s)" AOP to AOP collaborative planning process and the use of artificial intelligence. The solution aims to extend the consolidated Demand and Capacity Balancing (DCB) process amongst airports and NM. In this context, it will include an “airport-to-airport(s)” collaborative planning process, prior to the “airport-to-network” process, for performance benefits of all connected airports and the network, such as improved punctuality, optimized use of ground and airspace capacity, thus leading to higher network efficiency. - Solution 2: AOP-NOP Strategic and pre-tactical planning. This solution aims to extend the timeframe of the AOP-NOP integration, focusing on the strategic (from months in advance until D-7) and pre-tactical (D-7; D-1) planning phases to ensure a smooth transition towards tactical phase with reduced adjustments. Both Solutions 1 and 2 involve the extension of state-of-the-art technologies to integrate new datasets available at local level, such as local restrictions, pre-tactical flight information and strategic local information in order to enrich DCB information and ensure efficient planning from the strategic phase.

Keywords: aop,nop,integration,collaborative,tactical,pre tactical,strategic,planning,airport,network,data services