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Data-Driven Bioinspired Design of Fatigue Super-Resistant Structures: learning by Nature and Flying into the future (ButterFly)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499811.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499811.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biological material science is a new research topic at the interface of biology and physical science, having a common ground in chemistry, physics, mechanics and engineering. During their evolution, biological materials have developed a unique combination of properties to fulfil specific functions through a series of ingenious and distinctive design elements, evident in different systems created by nature. As an example, butterfly wings have an extraordinary combination of lightness, durability and iridescence. We have merely scratched the surface of this knowledge. Exploring the basis of the unique performance of natural and biological materials, a material science perspective has been widely adopted. However, the study of natural systems considering a structural perspective is still at its early stage and, up to now, we have not fully taken advantage of this potentially unique and immense source of design inspiration, especially in the field of structural integrity and fatigue design. ButterFly is aimed to fill this gap in knowledge making a ground-breaking jump towards bioinspired fatigue design. Fatigue is in fact the most ubiquitous mode of fracture accounting for more than 80% of all in service failures in structural components; however, available design approaches are still deterministic and uselessly repetitive. ButterFly will, for the first time, develop a novel and reliable mechanistic approach able to capture the salient design principles allowing long-term durability of natural systems and will transfer this new fundamental knowledge to design fatigue super-resistant structures. Building upon promising results from my research group, I am convinced that ButterFly will induce an utterly new paradigm-shift in fatigue design inspired by Nature with a considerable impact on industrial design practice, paving the way to a new era of smart and fully optimized fatigue design.
ENHANCING THE SCIENTIFIC CAPACITY OF TUBITAK MAM IN THE FIELD OF SMART ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES (SMART4ENV)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Türkiye,Italy,Spain,Ireland,Norway
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499417.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499417.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

SMART4ENV aims to improve TUBITAK Marmara Research Center (TUBITAK MAM) R&I capacities to strengthen its scientific reputation, attractiveness and networking channels while stimulating scientific excellence in the field of Smart Environmental Solutions (SES) for climate change adaptation and mitigation of key applications for the Turkish economy within water, agriculture, and public health sectors. It will reinforce R&I and knowledge transfer capacity of TUBITAK MAM. The project will develop capacity building of permanent scientists, Early-Stage Researchers (ESR) training, enlarge cooperation between academia, industry, and stakeholders in Turkey with a general sustainable framework for research, international networking, mobility, and integration in the European Research Area (ERA). Strengthening the experience of the research staff of TUBITAK MAM, including a new generation of young scientists, will be developed through the cooperation with EU partners of established scientific excellence in the topics and demonstrated experience in economic impact and awareness raising and integration into national policies. At scientific level, it is expected to enlarge the community of competitive prestigious researchers at TUBITAK MAM in SES, stronger and better-connected to a core of international and relevant R&I systems, supported by skilled R&I managers with their international networks. At social level, it is expected an improvement in environmental quality, public health, improved customer experience and communication, a better mitigation and adaptation to climate change because of new SES for intelligent, connected, and responsive environmental services and a sustainable use of water and resilient treatment systems with stable effluents quality. At an economic level, the project will contribute to the development of an innovative SES industry and the profitability of regional companies through new product development, process improvements, innovation support, and job creation.

Keywords: smart environmental solutions,climate change adaptation,water and wastewater,agricultural irrigation,decision support system,geographical information systems
Stepless High-Lift Configurations for Optimised Aircraft Energy Management in the TMA (STEPLESS)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Germany,France,Netherlands,Spain,Switzerland
Call: ATM application-oriented research for the aviation Green Deal (HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999605.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999605.5
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

STEPLESS aims to minimise the flight environmental footprint during final approach under operations with conventional and increased glideslope angles (IGS). IGS is intended to reduce the noise perception on ground by a higher flight altitude. Steeper approach angles however, also reduce the aircraft's capability to decelerate to final approach speed. Therefore, the risk occurs that pilots are forced to configure the aircraft too early, which can have deteriorating effects on noise and fuel consumption. The proposed solution of the STEPLESS project dynamically optimises the intermediate settings of the high-lift system in order to better adapt the aircraft's glide performance to the prevailing approach conditions, such as wind, aircraft mass or ATC constraints. Through this, the pilot can better manage the aircraft's energy, follow speed assignments by ATC and fly as energy-optimal as possible even with increased glideslope angles. Hence, the proposed solution enables the increase of the glideslope angle for the sake of the reduction of the noise perception on ground but by avoiding deteriorating effects on fuel consumption because of non-optimal high-lift configurations. It is predicted to bring operational improvements to the flow of arriving traffic within the Terminal Manoeuvring Area (TMA), especially when increased glideslope angles are applied. The proposed solution aims to provide greater fuel efficiency and environmental sustainability together with a further reduced noise perception on ground and even slight capacity gains through the avoidance of drawbacks in the energy management of approaching aircraft because of a steeper glidepath. The STEPLESS consortium is composed of five research institutions (DLR, NLR, UPC, Empa and SkyLab), one airborne equipment manufacturer (Thales AVS) and one project consulting company (LUP). The partners are located in five countries all over Europe, namely Germany, France, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.

Keywords: stepless high lift system increased glideslope angle
Modeling causes of language change and conservatism (CAUSALITY)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Compl exity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics
Countries involved: Belgium
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): 1172500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1172500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Universally, human language changes over time. One fundamental assumption about language change is that it originates at the level of an individual as a shift in frequencies with which a particular variant of linguistic expression is chosen over another. Conceiving of language change as the loss of an equilibrium in a system of stochastically used grammatical options, a change presupposes an emerging disturbing factor or a cause. A change can then be viewed as an adaptation process whereby in a linguistic environment affected by a disturbing factor a hitherto marginal grammatical option begins to create a certain communicative advantage and grows in frequency. We might then in principle expect a fast transition to the new variant in the speech of an individual, given the general learning abilities of humans. However, another fundamental property of language change is that it proceeds gradually over generations. Therefore, there must be powerful conservative factors at play pushing against the communicative advantage presented by the new variant. It has been suggested that the contrast between the speed of learning projected based on an individual's cognitive abilities and the attested pace of language change may be due to the social aspect of language, whereby the communicative advantage of an innovation is balanced off by the necessity of group synchronization. Since many social coordination tasks can be completed within individual's lifetime, the question stands open which properties of language are responsible for a relatively slow group coordination when it comes to grammatical shifts. This project aims at understanding, via game-theoretic and reinforcement learning modeling, the interplay between the causes of language change and conservatism. The models will be evaluated against the empirical material from three West Germanic languages, which includes creating a treebank of historical Dutch.

Keywords: language change corpus linguistics historical treebanks middle dutch west germanic semantics computational pragmatics presuppositions
A Complementary Approach to Aromatic Synthesis by Diels-Alder Reactivity Followed by Desaturative Photoredox, Cobalt and HAT Triple Catalysis. (DES-B-CAT)

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: Germany
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): 173847.36
EU funding (EUR): 173847.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aromatic molecules are integral to every aspect of chemistry. In general, the preparation of these compounds is approached via the use of aromatic precursors that are progressively functionalized using reactivity like electrophilic/nucleophilic aromatic substitution. Derivatives equipped with electron withdrawing groups (ester, ketone...) are particularly used in synthesis but are often challenge to prepare. This is because aromatic chemistry has to follow some stringent selectivity rules that activate or deactivate specific positions. This means that installing a functionality on a deactivated position (e.g. meta in an electron rich aromatic) is very difficult and requires many steps. This project seeks to address this challenge by developing an innovative approach to aromatic synthesis using simple Diels-Alder cycloadditions to construct a six-carbon cyclic framework followed by an unprecedented desaturation process. In particular, we will demonstrate the integration of three catalytic modes, photoredox + cobalt + HAT catalysis, as blueprint to progressively desaturate Diels-Alder cycloadduct to poly-functionliased aromatics. This reactivity will streamline the preparation of many high-value but difficult to make aromatic products, will be used in late-stage functionalizations and will substantially expand the fields of dual photoredox–cobalt catalysis and boryl radical chemistry. This research capitalizes on recent developments of the Leonori group that has experience in the development of methodologies based on both desaturation and boryl radical reactivity. The completion of such an innovative and ambitious project at RWTH Aachen University will be facilitated by generating, transferring, sharing and disseminating knowledge, and will enhance my future career following the training plan envisioned.

Keywords: aromatic synthesis,h atom transfer,boryl radicals,photoredox catalysis,desaturation
TWINNING FOR SOLAR ENERGY-DRIVEN SURFACE ENGINEERING OF METALLIC PARTS (TWINSOLARSURF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Spain
Call: Twinning Green Deal (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1420042.44
EU funding (EUR): 1420042.44
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

TWINSOLARSURF’s overall aim is to improve the knowledge, skills, competencies and innovation capacities of the research and administrative staff of the Laboratory of Surface Engineering (Triblab) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Attica (UNI.W.A), Greece. The strategic target is the evolution of Triblab from a laboratory of a former technological institute to a unique in Greece, future-oriented research unit of an engineering school, strategically conceived as a self-sustained contact mechanics facility and eventually established as a reliable research partner for academia and industry at European level of innovation. In this perspective and in conjunction with EU and Greece’s transition into a carbon neutral economy by 2050, Triblab has partnered with two top-class EU Research Institutes, namely the Institute of Future Fuels of the German Aerospace Center/DLR and the Spanish CIEMAT-Plataforma Solar de Almeria. The consortium will work together on a strategic plan for co-developing a capacity building programme, sharing knowledge, integrating expertise and skills of institutes during and towards their transformation and evolution and delving into new research avenues. This endeavour will run in parallel with an exploratory project on the research playground of surface processing of metallic materials for use in aggressive environments (e.g. wear, abrasion, erosion, high temperature), via exploitation of solar energy, in an ambitious, yet pragmatic and feasible workplan based on previous relevant research efforts of the partners. The overall approach is fully linked to the European Green Deal strategy for green industrial technologies of the future, further penetration of renewable energies and building the skilled research personnel capable of addressing the global societal, political and environmental challenges of our future ecosystem.

Keywords: renewable energy,concentrated solar irradiation,green surface processing,solar metallurgy
3D screening system to cultivate tissue and automatically stimulate and quantify its mechanical properties (TissMec)

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: Germany
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2023-POC, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The way from potential drug candidates to clinically approved new medication is long and expensive. To improve this, we will provide the TissMec system that can create 3D human tissue while providing an automated and scalable way to quantify potential problems of drugs and other compounds of interest. Our TissMec system can not only measure the force generation of muscles and other contractile tissue but also continuously determine the viscoelastic tissue properties while mimicking mechanical situations that are known hallmarks of several critical diseases. Up to now, obtaining such information is either not possible or requires slow and expensive manual work. Hence, an automated, scalable and standardized (96 well) system that can quickly screen properties on human tissue can become a game-changer, as it identifies problematic drugs and compounds very early in the drug development process. We have a laboratory prototype (TRL4) that already demonstrates these capacities, and the proposed PoC project will develop this lab version into a user-friendly TRL6 prototype that we can give to our partners in pharmacology and toxicology and to already well-established industry partners. Our team is composed of 5 scientists spanning physics, biology, chemistry, data science, and economy. Hence, we not only have invented a new technology to greatly improve an urgent current problem but also have a powerful network and outstanding team to ensure the success of our project.
Supersolids: unveiling an extraordinary quantum phase of matter (Supersolids)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Italy,Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2027-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2065000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2065000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Supersolids are a paradoxical quantum phase of matter that combines the properties of superfluids and crystals, searched for long time in quantum solids and many other systems. Recently, we discovered a novel cluster phase in a quantum gas of magnetic atoms which realizes a supersolid. However, the limited size, the inhomogeneity, and the lack of appropriate detection methods have allowed so far to assess only very basic properties of supersolids. Here I propose an innovative density-phase microscope and original ideas that combine the best of matter-wave and condensed-matter methods to unveil the extraordinary properties of supersolids. With a two-layer superfluid-supersolid configuration we will measure both density and phase of the supersolid. With controllable optical potentials we will realize large, homogeneous crystal geometries in 1D and 2D. With high-resolution optical addressing we will manipulate locally the wavefunction, e. g. creating phase patterns or force fields, and we will follow the local dynamics. Our main goal is to explore fundamental properties that are largely unknown even theoretically: variable superfluid density under rotation; variable angular momentum of quantized vortices; dissipation-less deformation of the crystal; Josephson effect without barriers; quantum entanglement properties. We will also attempt the realization of new types of supersolid, to prove the generality of the phenomena: with coupled supersolid layers, we will move towards supersolidity in 3D; using a quasi-2D environment, we will attempt to realize two proposed types of strongly interacting and strongly correlated supersolids. Our work will establish connections between supersolids and other patterned quantum phases, such as pair-density waves in superconductors and in helium superfluids, intertwined phases in low-dimensional superfluids, and pasta phases in neutron stars. Our work might open directions for the realization of materials with novel functionalities.

Keywords: superfluids,quantum solids,quantum phase transitions
Folly and the Feminine in the Renaissance (Folie)

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,United States,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Folie: FOLly and the feminine in the RenaissancE A woman rhetor, vituperating society’s vices and errors, destined to be misunderstood, self-ironic and suave, then harsh and moralizing, at last ecstatic and preaching: Erasmus’ Folly is an imposing figure, who has interrogated scholars for centuries with her unfathomable speech, presented as a joke but of momentous relevance. The orator’s gender, which has received very little attention by scientific literature, is, instead, crucial in answering from a new perspective the construction of the feminine in Christian literature and theology and revealing a possible expressive outlet and role for women writers and theologians. The fool’s mask, as donned by Erasmus’ protagonist and by many actual female writers of the Renaissance, is at the same time revelation and refuge, epiphany and hiding place; a symbol, in its insignificance and ridicule, of the very same scandal of the Christian religion, in Pauline terms. My project will therefore study how Erasmus and other key figures of the Renaissance-influenced by Erasmus' writings and located in the same theological tradition, such as Marguerite of Navarre, Louise Labé, and others- used the mask of the fool as a tool to express and reveal truths, such as the scandalous announcement of the Gospel, and to allow women’s expression. This approach will redefine the construction of the “feminine” in Renaissance Europe, focusing on the French Italian context, by reflecting on the revelatory, positive value of “folly”, intended theologically as the language of simple, scandalous truths. My project will thus contribute to the definition of the representation and self representation of the feminine in the Renaissance and, through the permanence in the USA and the according supervision, I will be able to present an innovative and much-needed profile of expert.

Keywords: gendered culture christian theology biblical humanism