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Full-field experimental and numerical investigation of novel fire resistant fibre reinforced concrete for tunnel lining (FiRe2C)

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: Greece
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169326.72
EU funding (EUR): 169326.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The problem of tunnel fires is one of the most complex areas of fire research. Under fire, concrete linings spall resulting in the collapse of the tunnel structure causing a significant scourge in the economy, society and the environment. In summary, the design of tunnel concrete linings is based on thermal calculations, which ignore spalling. Based on such calculations new types of more durable, strong and hence denser concrete have been introduced on the market recently that are much more probable to spall due to their lower permeability. To increase the permeability of the concrete and ultimately its fire resistance, it is commonly suggested to add polypropylene fibres. However, these tend to decrease the strength of the concrete and potentially its durability. In FiRe2C I propose a new type of Fire Resistant, Fibre Reinforced Concrete to improve on the tunnel lining's performance and ultimately the post-fire structural stability of the tunnel. To enhance our understanding of the performance of the Concrete on a multi-scale level, I will employ a holistic approach between state-of-the-art numerical (Discrete Element Method) and full-field experimental methods (advanced material and fire testing & x-ray computed tomography), pushing the existing boundaries of our scientific knowledge. Specifically, I will study experimentally the effect of size, distribution and orientation of the fibres on the strength and fire-resistance of concrete linings, by employing full-field imaging techniques pre- and post-fire, which has not been done before. And finally, I will create a novel DEM model to predict the thermo-mechanical response of fibre-reinforced concrete, utilising for the first time quantitative 3D experimental measurements at different length-scales to validate accurately the material response.

Keywords: fibre reinforced concrete,fire,tunnelling,experimental,discrete element method
REsolving ambiguities in Flow boiling within micro-passages: Integrated modeliNg and Experiments (REFINE)

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: Portugal
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172618.56
EU funding (EUR): 172618.56
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Electronic products are progressively smaller and more powerful, resulting to an exponential increase in the generated residual heat. Their effective and environmental-friendly cooling is therefore, of upmost importance for many applications such as Data Centres, Fuel Cells, Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors, Lithium-Ion Batteries and Photovoltaic Cells, with a market value of several billions of dollars worldwide. Flow Boiling within micro-passages has been proven as one of the most efficient cooling strategies for such High-Power Density Electronics. However, such solutions, are not yet commercially available. This is due to a lack of a deep understanding of the underpinned flow and transport processes and unresolved ambiguities in micro-scales and hence, of reliable and easy-to-use thermal design tools for small-scale components. REFINE aims to give light at such crucial ambiguities, utilising a synergic combination of novel Volume Of Fluid (VOF) based numerical simulations and tailored high-resolution experimental diagnostics. Dr Andredaki will develop a novel cutting-edge simulation tool starting from an already enhanced VOF solver that she has been developing in the last years. This will be validated against parallel advanced experimental measurements on flow boiling, that she will perform using single and multiple parallel micro-channel heat sinks. The final optimised and validated numerical solver will then be applied for a wide series of parametric simulations that in combination with additional laboratory measurements will form a unique database that will lead to the development of novel, physics-based design correlations for flow boiling micro-channel heat sinks. The word-leading expertise of Prof. Moreira, who will supervise this project, on the experimental techniques for microscale boiling, guarantees the highest level of knowledge transfer, enabling Dr Andredaki to further develop her skills and enhance her future career opportunities in academia.

Keywords: flow boiling,phase change heat transfer,micro channel heat sinks,numerical simulations,volume of fluid method,spatiotemporally resolved experimental diagnostics
Emulating complex causal socio-ecological models in digital twins of ocean (ECOTWIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Ocean, seas and waters
Destination: Ocean, seas and waters
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Greece,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: Integration of socio-ecological models into the Digital Twin Ocean (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2979801.25
EU funding (EUR): 2979801.25
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

To fully realise the potential of the European Digital Twin Ocean (DTO) to empower citizens, entrepreneurs, scientists and policymakers with accessible knowledge about ocean and coastal domains, new models, tools and methods are needed to understand and assess the complex interactions of social, economic and ecological factors. ECOTWIN delivers innovative graph theoretic solutions, developed using a multi-actor approach with policy makers, local communities, marine and coastal industries and communities, to address the challenges of modelling marine socio-ecological systems and integrating these models into the emerging DTO framework. Innovations include four different classes of novel socio-ecological models based on concepts from mathematics (graph theory), control engineering (stability), computer science (generative AI), statistics (Bayesian theory) and information science (entropy), combined with dynamic participatory feedback from stakeholders, and methodological protocols enabling seamless integration with DTOs by accounting for the interoperability, accessibility, reliability and sustainability of transdisciplinary data. The models comprise: 1) quantitative causal graph theoretic models, 2) qualitative causal graph theoretic models, 3) network models with participatory feedback and 4) parallel generative AI models. Through validation in four use cases in the North Sea (Belgium, Germany), Celtic Sea (Ireland), Thracian Sea (Greece) and Waterford Harbour (Ireland), tools will be developed for assessing scenarios including the relationships between factors including ecosystem services and health, geopolitical factors, fishing job losses, tourism and marine renewables development. Results will enable what-if scenario analysis and impact assessments, exploring the interconnected impacts of environmental changes, human pressures and policy implementation to empower better decision-making to support ocean health social prosperity and a thriving blue economy.

Keywords: hydro ecological modelling,socio ecological system,graph theory,social network analysis,fisheries,ocean renewables,mpa,spatial closures,causal model,graphical network,artificial intelligence
Smart Hybrid Materials for Opto(electro)ionics (SmartHyMat)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2123241.0
EU funding (EUR): 2123241.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modern technologies increasingly require smart and sustainable materials that adapt to their operating conditions in functional devices, such as those for efficient energy production and nanorobotics. Their development requires controlling complex material functions in response to external stimuli. While molecular machines demonstrated remarkable potential in a wide range of stimuli-responsive functions, this remains a challenge in the solid state, hampering their use in functional devices. Overcoming this necessitates an amphidynamic platform that is ordered yet permits molecular motion without compromising stimuli-responsiveness, while offering the ease of processing for device fabrication. SmartHyMat will address this enduring challenge by relying on the unparalleled capacity of hybrid halide perovskites to act as unique scaffolds for stimuli-responsive systems. These soft yet crystalline materials recently emerged as one of the leading semiconductors for thin-film optoelectronics, featuring mixed ionic-electronic conductivities and extraordinary performances in solution-processable devices. While their operational stability can be enhanced by incorporating organic moieties, their functionality remains limited to electronically inactive off-the-shelf materials. This project will realize the innovative potential of hybrid perovskites in adaptive nanotechnologies through molecular design, synthesis, and characterization of stimuli-responsive systems in hybrid solid-state architectures. Their potential will be demonstrated in unprecedented smart devices for power generation, memory, and actuation relevant for automation and nanorobotics. This will involve optoelectronic, such as smart solar cells, as well as optoionic devices exploiting mixed conductivities, including artificial synapses and neuromuscular junctions. The focus will be on environmentally friendly materials, setting the stage for an entirely new generation of smart and sustainable nanotechnologies.

Keywords: supramolecular stimuli responsive materials,hybrid halide perovskites,optoelectronics,optoionics
Numerically exact theory of transport in strongly correlated systems at low temperature and under magnetic fields (SCLoTHiFi)

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: Serbia
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2022-STG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498239.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498239.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Transport in strongly correlated materials is one of the central topics in condensed matter physics. Due to major prospects for technological applications, particular attention is paid to the cuprate superconductors, and by association, to kappa-organic materials and moiré systems. The last decade has seen great progress in the understanding of the generic high-temperature properties of these systems, largely based on the microscopic yet simplified interacting lattice models. However, there are multiple outstanding questions regarding their low-temperature physics. The mechanism of the strange-metallic linear-in-temperature resistivity and its relation to superconductivity have so far eluded understanding. There is conflicting evidence for the quantum critical (QC) scenario, which is a common view that there is a zero-temperature QC point hidden behind the superconducting dome on the phase diagram of the cuprates. Recent magnetoresistance measurements in these and other materials contribute to a puzzling phenomenology. The factors that determine the magnitude of the superconducting critical temperature are also poorly understood. Further progress is blocked by the limitations of quantum many-body numerical methods. To address these questions, we propose to employ a highly promising new approach to the numerical solution of the many-electron problem. It may overcome the long-standing limitations and allow for an unprecedented accuracy and control. The real-frequency diagrammatic Monte Carlo method will yield numerically exact results for the resistivity in a range of lattice models, at low temperature, and as a function of magnetic field. These results will help interpret recent experimental results, set new predictions, and open doors to reverse-engineering of functional materials. The tools we develop will be readily applicable to a wide range of condensed matter physics problems, and we will make all code packages publicly available.

Keywords: strongly correlated materials,electronic transport,magnetoresistance,unconventional superconductivity,hubbard model,diagrammatic monte carlo,cluster dmft,electron phonon coupling,disorder
NUclear sTructure Evolution with LAser Spectroscopy (NUTELAS)

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: Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210789.12
EU funding (EUR): 210789.12
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The study of exotic atomic nuclei with extreme proton to neutron asymmetry is one of the pillars of contemporary nuclear physics and the study of the evolution of fundamental nuclear properties across the nuclear chart is one of its key aspects. In the last decades, many experimental and theoretical efforts have been devoted to the study of the disappearance of shell closures, often accompanied by an increase of configuration mixing and collectivity, leading to the formation of islands of inversion, where ground-states are found to have a deformed structure. The experimental study of such regions is of crucial importance for our understanding of the low-lying mechanisms generating these drastic structural evolutions, which poses serious challenges to nuclear theories. Ground-state properties are known to be a very sensitive probes to the nuclear wave function and to provide stringent test to nuclear theories. The Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment is a cutting-edge experimental setup located at ISOLDE/CERN, that perform laser spectroscopy on radioactive atomes in order to extract ground state properties. The present project aims at pushing ground-state nuclear properties measurements into the region of the N=40 island of inversion and near 78Ni, in order to benchmark nuclear theories (shell model, density functional theory and ab-initio) and to shed light on the low-lying mechanism responsible for drastic structural evolutions. Among the objectives of the project is the implementation of a decay spectroscopy station at CRIS that will allow to combine decay and laser spectroscopy techniques. This will offer unique opportunities for nuclear structure studies in the 78Ni region and has the potential to lead to several crucial discoveries.

Keywords: nuclear physics,nuclear structure,shell evolution,deformation,ground state properties,radioactive ion beams,laser spectroscopy,decay spectroscopy,shell model,ab initio
Breeding for coffee and cocoa root resilience in low input farming systems based on improved rootstocks (BOLERO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Austria,Netherlands,Ireland,Germany,Denmark,Nicaragua,Viet Nam,Uganda,Italy,Czechia,Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: Breeding for resilience: focus on root-based traits (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8032818.75
EU funding (EUR): 7809605.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Fruit tree crops (FTC), represented by more than 50 species grown on over 100 M Ha, are strongly affected by climate change (CC). Thanks to grafting, rootstocks can confer enhanced tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses, providing a valuable solution to expand food production. BOLERO aims to i) develop phenotyping tools, ii) employ them to score root system architecture (RSA) traits of coffee/cocoa, including grafted plants, under controlled and on-field conditions, iii) decode the microbiome of coffee/cocoa plants and the interface with the root exudates with large-scale metabolic modelling, and iv) use these resources to build predictive models of RSA traits in terms of genotypic data and microbiome composition and abundance to accelerate coffee/cocoa breeding. This data compendium will be used in combination with a data hub to survey the genetic diversity in FTCs and use it to dissect the genetic basis of RSA traits and their plasticity. BOLERO will propose fast and low-cost breeding strategies to create rootstocks, which will be tested in low-input coffee/cocoa farming systems. The agronomic performances and profitability of grafted plants will be assessed in Vietnam. BOLERO will rely on the knowledge of the large scientific community in Europe, the support of national institutes in tropical countries, and the expertise of industries to lead a multidisciplinary study for rootstocks selection with Coffee as a model, Cocoa as proof of concept, and propose tools and techniques transferable easily to all FTCs. BOLERO will develop and demonstrate for the first time at a large scale the open-source seeds initiative. BOLERO will therefore contribute to the Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies, through significant impacts on the way FTCs are bred and on the use of beneficial soil biota and biodiversity, leading on adaptation to CC, inputs used and soil carbon sequestration.

Keywords: rootstock,on field root phenotyping,root microbiome metabolic models,open source seeds,technological transfer,coffee,cocoa,fruit tree crops
Supporting STakeholders for Adaptive, Resilient and Sustainable Water Management (STARS4Water)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Land, ocean and water for climate action
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Greece,France,Austria,Spain,Romania,United Kingdom,Germany,Norway,Poland
Call: Improved understanding, observation and monitoring of water resources availability. (HORIZON-CL6-2021-CLIMATE-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4584730.0
EU funding (EUR): 4580979.0
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

Worldwide freshwater resources are under increasing pressures of rapidly intensifying climate change effects putting the availability and quality of water resources and socio-economic developments at risk. River basin organisations need to be prepared. STARS4Water aims at improving the understanding of climate change impacts on water resources availability and the vulnerabilities for ecosystems, society and economic sectors at river basin scale. STARS4Water will develop and deliver new data services and data-driven models for better supporting the decision making on planning on actions for adaptative, resilient and sustainable management of fresh water resources. The project team will work with seven river basin organisations through a co-creation, living lab approach. The new services and models will be co-designed with stakeholders to meet their needs on data and information, ensuring relevance and uptake for use beyond the lifetime of the project. The STARS4Water project includes two distinctive elements: first, the need for an international stakeholder community to address the stakeholders’ needs and requirements and second, the development and application of innovative data and model concepts. New datasets and models offer possibilities for improved projections on water resources availability, and the new insights on links between water, nature, society ask for a broader set of indicators to be considered in decision-making on water management. These novel datasets, models and indicators are not yet fully matured and integrated in current river basin management information tools and decision-making processes. We acknowledge that these elements are of a different nature, being a stakeholder-driven approach and rather science-(data-)driven in the application of novel data and models, respectively. It is the consortium’s firm conviction that for substantial progress in climate change adaptation the two elements need to be combined.