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Photoexcitation Dynamics and Direct Monitoring of Photovoltaic Processes of Solid-State Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells (PHOTOPEROVSKITES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Abundant, cheap and clean source of energy is fundamental to preserve global environment and sustained economic growth. Solar energy is considered as the ultimate solution in this regard. Among the three generations of solar cells developed with this objective, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells with demonstrated power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 22 % have bagged the greatest attention. Despite the impressive PCE, lower cost and facile processing opportunities for hybrid perovskite solar cells, their commercialization is not yet realized; poor stability, lack of robustness to subtle variations in processing, and Pb toxicity being the bottlenecks. We take up the view that pursuing fundamental understanding of the photophysics and photovoltaic process of these highly efficient lead halide perovskites can contribute to tackle their instability issue and also to the development of Pb free organic-inorganic halide perovskites with analogous optical and photovoltaic performance to that of former, expediting their market entry. Apart from photovoltaic sector, the fundamental knowledge evolved through this project is expected to have direct impact on the fabrication of high performing photodetectors, lasers, and light emitting devices based on hybrid perovskite materials. This interdisciplinary project lying at the interface of material science, physics and chemistry is expected to bring a breakthrough in perovskite solar cell research arena.The proposed project will utilize the applicant’s expertise in the fabrication of high efficient organic and perovskite solar cells in combination with world leading scientist Prof. Ifor Samuel’s expertise on photophysics aspects of thin film solar cells and the excellent infrastructure facilities at the host institution. In implementing this ambitious project, I will gain expertise on the photophysics and photovoltaic processes (under real operating conditions) of hybrid perovskite thin films and solar cells.

Keywords: perovskite solar cells,photoexcitation dynamics,lead free perovskites,novel interlayers,time resolved spectroscopy,organometal halide perovskites,grain boundary,solution processing
Microwave driven ion trap quantum computing (MicroQC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Tackling grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Israel,Bulgaria,United Kingdom
Call: FET Flagship on Quantum Technologies (H2020-FETFLAG-2018-03, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2363343.75
EU funding (EUR): 2363343.75
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The construction of a large-scale trapped-ion quantum information processor can be made decisively simpler by using the well-developed and compact microwave technology present already in today’s mobile phones and other devices. Microwave technology has tremendous simplification potential by condensing experimental effort from an optical table with several square meters of accurately aligned optical components down to an engineered conductor microstructure embedded into a chip surface and a few off-the-shelve microwave components. Thus, this technology can be the key enabling step for addressing the formidable challenge of a scalable quantum processor. Although the field is still in its infancy, there is rapid progress: a fidelity of over 99.9999% has been achieved for single-qubit gates and 99.7% for two-qubit gates. This technology allows execution of quantum gates by the application of a voltage to a microchip potentially replacing millions of laser beams and it can operate at room temperature or mild cooling. There are still enormous technical challenges in scaling ion trap (or any other) systems up to the millions of qubits required to implement meaningful full-sale quantum computation and simulation. The main objective of MicroQC is to demonstrate, through state-of-art quantum engineering, fast and fault-tolerant microwave two-qubit and multi-qubit gates and to design scalable technology components that apply these techniques in multi-qubit quantum processors. The successful accomplishment of these objectives, in a combined effort by five leading groups in this field – three experimental groups, including the pioneers in microwave quantum logic with static and oscillating magnetic gradients, and two leading theory groups – will make large-scale quantum computation and simulation with microwave-controlled microfabricated ion traps possible. In addition, MicroQC will produce a roadmap, to take microwave quantum computation to high technology readiness levels.

Keywords: ion trap,trapped ions,microwave,quantum computation,quantum gate,quantum algorithm
Emotions, gender, and authority at the curia of Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) (PapalEmotions)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-02
End date: 2021-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

By the end of the twelfth century, the papacy had become one of the most influential institutions in Latin Christendom. Using ideas and approaches from gender studies and the history of emotions, this interdisciplinary project investigates how the pope and his curia used emotions to communicate papal authority, and how this was shaped by contemporary ideas about gender. It focuses on the pontificate of Innocent III (1198-1216), which was a period of both crisis and renewal within the Latin Church. Scholars of clerical masculinity have fruitfully analysed depictions of emotional expression in central-medieval episcopal texts to determine how clerical authors used emotional signification to convey an exclusively male authority. Few studies, however, exist on papal emotions, and scholars have not examined the role played by gender in the ways in which central-medieval popes conveyed their authority. The project makes use of a variety of sources including papal letters, sermons, and biographies. These documents are rich with gendered emotional coding, and I focus on how expressions of sorrow, anger, and emotive pastoral imagery were used in instances when the pope faced challenges to his authority. I argue that examining expressions of emotion sheds light on how the papal curia’s rhetorical manipulation and use of discourses of masculinity influenced the way in which it communicated papal authority. In doing so, I provide an innovative framework for the use of emotional discourse to understand masculine hegemonic authority. This project will be developed at CGS Aalborg (host) and IAHR Vienna (secondment) to allow me to collaborate with outstanding researchers in the history of papal communication at these institutions, ensuring that my project is at the cutting edge of research and will develop my career. The results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed open access articles, a popular history magazine article, a podcast, and workshops for high-school pupils.

Keywords: masculinity,emotions,papacy,central middle ages,innocent iii
High accuracy error detection in curved (prismatic) surfaces at high manufacturing speed (DEEPVIEW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A tube is a prismatic component designed to carry fluids, used for a wide range of applications as cooling, lubrication, braking, and energy transmission systems. Are applied in several industries, from transport (automobile, railway, aircraft) to energy generation (wind, gas turbines, nuclear). In most cases these components are security elements. The sealing between the tube and other subsystems (valve, heat exchanger, pump, tank, engine…) might be critical when it contains fluids at high pressures (up to 200 bar). In this case, a perfect tube shape and finishing is required to avoid leaking in order to ensure product safety and system efficiency. Automobile industry is the largest tube consumer nowadays. In Europe alone, automotive industry produces over 400 million tubes annually. Leaking tube assemblies are a risk to product safety. Manufacturers take this responsibility seriously, for the great costs involved in product recall, orders cancellation and reputation. They spend a great amount of money in quality control through visual inspection. Industries with more stringent quality control standards carry on the inspection twice. Human-related approaches cannot guarantee unforeseen outages considering that production accounts millions of units. Other approaches have been tried, but none of them gives 100% accuracy. Our innovative solution is based in the reflection of light, reaching 95% accuracy. During +25 years, Tetralec has been supplying machinery for tubes and it has accumulated a great experience with the challenges related to defect detection. A multidisciplinary team has studied the available technologies and its limitations. In 2015, aimed thought a market-oriented demand, we have developed a novel defect identification pilot (hardware) based in staggered analysis of the reflected light for prismatic elements. Our system is able to detect defects <0.001 mm in hoses, eliminating the need of visual inspection, and thereby increasing product quality

Keywords: surface quality assessment,prismatic components,incident and reflected light,staggered analysis,soa algorithms,rapid manufacturing,tube,hose,high resolution,accuracy,production security
Energy for Smart Objects (EnSO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Components and Systems
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ECSEL (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Smart Systems Integration (H2020-ECSEL-2015-2-IA-two-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 64564262.24
EU funding (EUR): 16677344.360000001
Participants: 51
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of EnSO is to develop and consolidate a unique European ecosystem in the field of autonomous micro energy sources (AMES) supporting Electronic European industry to develop innovative products, in particular in IoT markets. In summary, EnSO multi-KET objectives are: • Objective 1: demonstrate the competitiveness of EnSO energy solutions of the targeted Smart Society, Smart Health, and Smart Energy key applications • Objective 2: disseminate EnSO energy solutions to foster the take-up of emerging markets. • Objective 3: develop high reliability assembly technologies of shapeable micro batteries, energy harvester and power management building blocks • Objective 4: Develop and demonstrate high density, low profile, shapeable, long life time, rechargeable micro battery product family. • Objective 5: develop customizable smart recharge and energy harvesting enabling technologies for Autonomous Micro Energy Source “AMES”. • Objective 6: demonstrate EnSO Pilot Line capability and investigate and assess the upscale of AMES manufacturing for competitive very high volume production. EnSO will bring to market innovative energy solutions inducing definitive differentiation to the electronic smart systems. Generic building block technologies will be customizable. EnSO manufacturing challenges will develop high throughput processes. The ENSo ecosystem will involve all the value chain from key materials and tools to many demonstrators in different fields of application. EnSO work scope addresses the market replication, demonstration and technological introduction activities of ECSEL Innovation Action work program. EnSO relates to several of the Strategic Thrusts of ECSEL MASP. EnSO innovations in terms of advanced materials, advanced equipment and multi-physics co-design of heterogeneous smart systems will contribute to the Semiconductor Process, Equipment and Materials thrust. The AMES will be a key enabling technology of Smart Energy key applications.

Keywords: autonomous micro energy sources,form factor
GN4-1 Research and Education Networking - GÉANT (GN4-1)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: GÉANT Partnership
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Estonia,Austria,Spain,Italy,Israel,Albania,Armenia,Ukraine,Ireland,Malta,Cyprus,Slovakia,Serbia,Lithuania,Greece,North Macedonia,Belgium,Bulgaria,Hungary,Slovenia,Belarus,Türkiye,Croatia,Poland,Romania,Switzerland,Moldova, Republic of,Georgia,Latvia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Montenegro,Portugal,Luxembourg,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: GEANT (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2015)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 44177389.5
EU funding (EUR): 25000000.0
Participants: 41
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective is to provide a stable environment for the implementation of GÉANT as the European Communications Commons for the European Research Area, which will provide the best possible digital infrastructure to ensure that Europe remains in the forefront of research. GÉANT’s extensive and long-standing contacts with large data disciplines such as biology, radioastronomy and high-energy physics help shape the evolution of the networking facilities required. This is complemented by partner contacts with research domains that are new users of high-performance networks and services, such as: digital preservation, real-time art and humanities. The vision is to position the GÉANT partnership optimally to achieve the strategic objectives of the FPA while ensuring the continuity and improvement of the services successfully offered under the GN3plus FP7 project. The extensive experience of the GÉANT partnership in providing high-quality and innovative services has been applied to the preparation phase of this proposal. The following GN4-1 work package objectives deserve to be highlighted: • Maintain and enhance the production service and achieve cost reductions without negative effects on network service levels. • Coordinate with the other European e-infrastructure efforts both individually and in the framework of the increased coordination effort. • Prepare a new round of Open Call projects to start immediately after the end of the GN4-1 project. • Expand the footprint and the depth of services offered to roaming users with enhanced trust and identity services through Federation as a Service and with group and attribute management added to eduGAIN. • Develop online real-time services to improve the ease and function of videconferencing, open learning support and general multimedia use. • Review the existing service catalogue using the Product Lifecycle Management process to assess the cost/benefits of each carefully to define the future service strategy.

Keywords: networks,research networking,multi domain networking,communication networks,secure,trust,innovation,media,information society,computer sciences,e infrastructure,communication commons
Extracting Super-Resolution from Classical Fluorescence Microscopy (SUPER-RESOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2014-PoC, 2014)
Start date: 2014-12-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 62500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The beginning of this century has seen the development of optical super-resolution fluorescence microscopic methods, which yield pictures to resolutions of a few tens of nanometers. This breakthrough has transformed the field of cellular biology, but relies on approaches generally demanding in terms of optics, and which can be applied only on limited classes of fluorophores. This project aims at preparing the commercialization of a new, simple, and cheap, way of extracting super-resolution from images obtained with classical confocal fluorescence microscopes. Currently, this approach yields images with a resolution between 80 nm to 50 nm, which can most likely be increased in a near future. This method can thus be used with any type of fluorophore, just by equipping (confocal) microscopes with a high-end X-Y table and a 2D detector. More complex super-resolution fluorescence microscopic techniques have generated more than 7000 citations in the last years, mostly in biology, but also in chemistry and material sciences. The proposed technology, which can i) easily be implemented for a limited cost and ii) requires no more maintenance and alignment than classical confocal microscopy, is expected to be rapidly implemented in a very large number of laboratories, thus generating new knowledge and a vast range of scientific advances. In the frame of this project, which is a direct consequence of the work started in the frame of the PhotProt ERC advanced grant (id n° 267333), we will in parallel i) improve the performances of this technology by modifying its present design, ii) perform the necessary patenting of this technology, iii) start market studies to evaluate its actual commercial potential iv) enter in contact with companies devoted to microscope engineering and development, and with detector manufacturers, to raise their interest, and envision under which form this new technology can be commercialized, how to conceive the corresponding commercial prototype.

Keywords: fluorescence,microscopy,super resolution,imaging
Exosome and ribosome coupling (EXORICO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms, Structures and Functions
Panel description: Molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics, synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2004375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2004375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To date, mechanistic studies on the macromolecular complexes that synthesize or degrade RNAs or proteins have investigated these machines individually to understand how they execute different steps in the gene expression process. Although the individual complexes catalyze their reactions independently of each other in vitro, increasing evidence suggests that they function in a highly coordinated manner in vivo. The molecular basis for such a coordination remains largely unknown. During the past five years, our group has focused on deciphering the mechanisms of multiprotein complexes that mediate mRNA turnover in S. cerevisiae. Here, I propose to take these analyses to the next level and visualize how a major RNA degradation machine, the exosome, is directly coupled to the protein-synthesis machine, the ribosome. In particular, we want to study two different exosome-ribosome assemblies that underpin opposite outcomes of RNA degradation: a constructive function of the nuclear exosome in the maturation of the large ribosomal subunit and a destructive function of the cytoplasmic exosome in the elimination of ribosome-bound mRNAs. Building on our preliminary data from both the yeast and human systems, we will use a combination of bottom-up biochemical reconstitutions and top-down endogenous purifications to isolate 1) an exosome complex and its nuclear cofactors bound to a pre-60S ribosomal subunit and 2) an exosome complex and its cytoplasmic cofactors bound to a stalled 80S ribosome. We will determine the structures of these ~3 - 4 MDa nuclear and cytoplasmic assemblies using the combined information from cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography approaches. The structural studies, combined with biochemical and genetic information, will reveal how these machines interact and coordinate RNA metabolism with protein synthesis. Overall, this work will provide important insight into the principles that coordinate different steps of eukaryotic gene expression.