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Duality for Finite Models: Relating Structure and Power (D-FINED)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present project is positioned in the research area of logic and semantics of computation, combining a rich mathematical theory with concrete applications in computer science. Finite model theory (FMT) is the specialisation of model theory to the class of finite models, and has been called ``the logic of computer science'' because in the latter field the basic models of computation are finite. Most of the classical results of model theory fail when restricted to finite models, hence FMT is studied using different tools and methods. For this reason, FMT has developed mostly independently from model theory and the research communities, as well as the techniques, are almost disjoint. FMT exemplifies a strand in the field of logic in computer science focussing on expressiveness and complexity (``Power"), as opposed to the one focussing on semantics and compositionality (``Structure"). In this project we will apply Stone duality to bridge the gap between the semantics methods of model theory, and the combinatorial and complexity-theoretic methods of FMT, i.e., to relate Structure and Power. In his Ph.D. thesis, the applicant has successfully applied Stone duality and topology to the study of formal languages and logic on finite words. The proposed project constitutes both a natural continuation of this research line, generalising from finite words to finite models, and a novel approach to FMT. The applicant will collaborate with the supervisor, who is a leading expert in the interactions between logic and computational models arising in computer science. An essential feature of this project is its high degree of interdisciplinarity, aiming to strengthen the connections between mathematics and computer science. The host institution, which is home to several experts in logic and foundations of computer science, will benefit from the applicant's experience in duality theory and topology, thus fostering cross-fertilisation within the European research community.

Keywords: stone duality,finite and algorithmic model theory
Cold Opto-Magnetism for Random Access Devices (COMRAD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Poland,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3776243.4
EU funding (EUR): 3776243.4
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The ability to switch magnets between two stable bit states with the help of a magnetic field is the main principle of modern data storage technology. Due to many new ideas, originating from fundamental research during the last 50 years, this technology has been developing in a breath-taking fashion. However, the heat produced by modern data centers is already a serious limitation to further increase their performance. It is not clear how to improve this situation which in future might contribute greatly to the global warming and energy crisis. Our proposal is inspired by several recent breakthroughs allowing ultrafast and energy efficient magnetic recording with the help of light. COMRAD will explore novel routes for the fastest possible and least dissipative magnetic switching in random access devices by bringing together the two disciplines of ultrafast magnetism and spin-orbitronics, creating sub-100 ps stimuli in spin-orbitronics and pushing the latter into a regime beyond the limitations of equilibrium thermodynamics. The ambition of COMRAD is to train ESRs in such a way that they gain a broad understanding of the challenges in the entire process of emergence and development of opto-magnetic data storage, from fundamental research to device and failure analysis. This is a new and disruptive technology with the potential to revolutionize information storage and manipulation. Working on the ambitious goals in the Consortium of academic and multiscale industrial partners, the trained ESRs will develop unique cross-disciplinary skills in applying advanced experimental and computational techniques, state-of-the-art device engineering and analysis. Being a new generation of scientists with an affinity to commercial enterprises and ambassadors of science in commerce, COMRAD-ESRs will be able to strengthen European innovation capacity feeling the frighteningly increasing gap between fundamental science and commercial applications.

Keywords: ultrafast spin orbitronics,femtosecond opto magnetism
Human motivation: evolutionary foundations and their implications for economics (EvolvingEconomics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1550891.25
EU funding (EUR): 1550891.25
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Economics provides decision-makers with powerful tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The methodological unity of the discipline and its quest for a general understanding of market as well as non-market interactions have given the discipline great influence on policy. A core component of economics is its assumption that individuals act as if they each had some goal function that they seek to maximise, under the constraints they face and the information they have. Despite significant advances in behavioural economics, there still is no consensus as to whether and why certain preferences are more likely than others. Further progress could be made if the factors that shape human motivation in the first place were understood. The aim of this project is to produce novel insights about such factors, by establishing evolutionary foundations of human motivation.The project's scope is ambitious. First, it will study two large classes of interactions: strategic interactions, and interactions within the realm of the family. Second, to obtain both depth and breadth of insights, it will consist of four different, but inter-related, components (three theoretical and one empirical), the ultimate goal being to significantly enhance our overall understanding of the factors that shape human motivation. The methodology is ground-breaking in that it is strongly interdisciplinary. Parts of the body of knowledge built by biologists and evolutionary anthropologists in the past decades will be combined with state-of-the-art economics to produce insights that cannot be obtained within any single discipline. Focus will nonetheless be on addressing issues of importance for economists.The proposed research builds on extensive work done by the PI in the past decade. It will benefit from the years that the PI has invested in understanding the biology and the evolutionary anthropology literatures, and in contributing towards building an interdisciplinary research ecosystem in Toulouse, France

Keywords: preferences,behavioural economics,altruism,morality,game theory,evolutionary game theory,natural selection,cultural evolution,strategic interactions,intra family sharing,mating systems
Development and Commercialisation of PVC- DEHP Free Blood Packs To Ensure Appropriate Control Of Red Cells (ACORN-BP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Italy,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3528497.5
EU funding (EUR): 2642720.8899999997
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Blood transfusion saves lives and improves health, but many patients requiring transfusion do not have timely access to safe blood. Currently, all commercially available blood bags are manufactured using Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and a plasticizer called Di (2-ethylyhexyl) Phthalate (DEHP). DEHP is classified as a reproductive toxin and is listed in the Reach candidate list of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). DEHP-PVC bags are affecting our environment and our health adversely. 1. Through this 24 months FTI project Ducit Medical, Ireland along with our development partners Global Polymer Consulting, Ireland , Keifel Technologies Germany and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service Scotland are developing a complete blood pack system ‘ACORN-BP’ which is PVC and DEHP free, thereby, reducing the threat posed by DEHP and which has no detrimental effect on the storage of red blood cells up to 42 days storage stability in-line with European Council guidelines. Once developed and accredited, ACORN-BP will be commercialised as a direct replacement of PVC-DEHP bags. Using the direct sales force model, we will target capturing 10.9% of the global PVC-DEHP blood pack market through a cumulative sales of <27million blood bags. This will generate cumulative revenues of >€216 million in the first five years, with a cumulative net profit of ~€65.60 million across the consortium. The ROI against total project costs of €3.53 million is ~18:1.

Keywords: blood bags,pvc free blood bags,dehp free blood bags
The Colours of the Past in Victorian England (COPAST)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project entitled “The Colours of the Past in Victorian England” (COPAST) aims to analyse the reception of the chromatic material culture of Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the works of writers and painters from William Morris’s close circle. These politically-committed poets and artists looked towards the ideologically-charged colours of Hellenic and medieval arts and crafts, in order to retrieve and emulate supposedly more meaningful hues and dyeing processes which they believed modern science and economic imperatives had stripped of their symbolic and artistic value. The Victorian age (1837-1901) was indeed a turning point in terms of scientific discoveries of new chemical colours, including coal-tar based synthetic dyes. Dr. Ribeyrol will investigate ideological approaches to ancient polychromy in the context of the Greek and Gothic Revivals which affected industrialized England in the second half of the 19th century. Using close analysis of art works, literary texts and pigment recipe books, she will contrast these ancient hues with the new chemical aniline dyes which were mainly devised for the expanding textile industry. This innovative focus on chromatic materiality in the field of Victorian art history and literature will enable her to shed light on the artistic impact of this colour revolution which radically unsettled the way certain avant-garde Victorian writers and artists related to chromatic terminology and used traditional, organic pigments.

Keywords: colour,chromatic materiality,victorian art and literature,reception theory,visual culture studies,victorian hellenism,victorian gothic,science of pigments,synthetic and aniline dyes,morris
Response of soil microbial communities to climate warming: from local to global scale (MicroWar)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2027-09-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156980.64
EU funding (EUR): 156980.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Climate warming represents one of the most complex issues of the present time and climate models predict further increase of temperature in the next decades. Soils worldwide represent the largest terrestrial carbon (C) pool, exceeding the amount of C stored in the atmosphere and plant biomass. Microbes are known to play key roles in both soil C stabilization and its release into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide or methane. Rising temperatures could accelerate the activity of microbial decomposers resulting in greater losses of C from soils into the atmosphere. However, the extent of microbial response to predicted climate change at global scale is unknown and the details of the structural and functional shifts in soil microbial communities under warming represent a major knowledge gap. Here, I propose to characterize the functional response of “local” soil bacterial and fungal communities to warming in Arctic tundra as northern latitudes represent one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change. This will be achieved by the analysis of in situ ecosystem manipulation experiment simulating increased summer temperatures using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches. In order to assess the global scale responses of soil microbial taxa to climate warming worldwide, I will conduct a meta-analysis of microbial responses to warming treatments utilizing the combination of sequencing and environmental data available in published literature. The validity of the modeled responses of microbial taxa will be checked using the analysis of communities from the “local” experiment. The project will give an answer on the “global” future of microbial communities as well as on the functional responses of soil microbes to climate warming on the local scale. Proposed project will allow to applicant gain the knowledge of novel methods in microbial ecology and represent important transition phase towards applicant’s professional maturity and independent future research career.

Keywords: microbial communities,climate warming,global change,soil,tundra,climate manipulation,meta study,metatranscriptomics
Domestic Servants in Colonial South Asia (DOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 899849.0
EU funding (EUR): 587789.1
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Title: Domestic Servants in Colonial South Asia The ubiquity of domestic servants in contemporary South Asia has received scarce attention from historians. Servant pasts have been used instrumentally to write others’ histories. In contrast, this project centrally situates servants at the intersection of households, labour and forms of relationships. Everyday relationships between servants and masters were based upon labour and wage on the one hand and intimacy and affect on the other. The paradox of pervasive visibility of servants and their marginality in history writing is explicable once theoretical templates are laid bare. To achieve that, the project raises three key questions: 1) How did servant labour unsettle the often rigid and easy categorisation of work into ‘productive’, ‘reproductive’ and ‘unproductive’? 2) How did the multiplicity of relational axes forged around male-male, male-female and female-female affects and hierarchies question the standard accounts framed by assumptions of heterosexual interactions? 3) How did the hierarchies of social and shared worlds marked by race, class, caste, religion, rank, profession and age shape the legal, juridical and criminal bases of labour regulation? Servant histories need to move beyond the employer’s household into the realm of ghettoes, streets, bazaars, barracks, hospitals and mission houses. Two research units involving the PI and a co-applicant cover two periods of colonial history: one, the period from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth; and second, from the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth century. By locating servants in the wider social, political, and moral world, the project combines empirically grounded case studies with the political economy of imperialism. It aims to develop a new understanding of labour, gender and social history, each of these in turn being rewritten, even as they lay the foundations of the first historically grounded account of domestic work in South Asia.
Synthetic Circuits for Robust Orthogonal Production (SynCrop)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3971347.92
EU funding (EUR): 3971347.92
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The repertoire of industrially produced fine chemicals in various biological systems will rapidly expand using the tools from the emerging field of synthetic biology. However, the high-level production of non-natural products or de novo activities through synthetic circuits compromises the integrity of host organisms, which significantly impacts or even prevents the development of an industrial pipeline. Our ability to exploit the potential of synthetic biology for industrial production is constrained by our understanding of the integrated cell response when introducing a new synthetic circuit into the homeostatic network of the cell. SynCrop’s main goal is to establish a European Training Network that merges the fragmented scientific expertise in theoretical, experimental and application-driven quantitative biology to educate the next generation of researchers to construct modular and tunable synthetic circuits and foster the development of novel production platforms for food additives (e.g. vitamins, carotenoids and exopolysaccharides). Researchers with inter-disciplinary skills in both experimental and computational biology are needed to solve complex application-driven problems. SynCrop brings together ten academic partners from quantitative biology, cell engineering, microbial physiology and mathematical modelling fields and six industrial partners, including key experts in metabolic engineering and industrial biotechnology. The consortium will provide 15 early-stage researchers with cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research training, through tailored research projects, rigorous exchange of expertise among researchers and partners, and participation in specialised courses, workshops and conferences augmented by extensive training in complementary skills. SynCrop will generate a strong cohort of highly-employable scientists with unique inter-disciplinary and intersectoral skills to address complex questions and develop innovative biotechnological processes.

Keywords: quantitative biology,quantitative single cell biology,biophysics,biological chemistry,cell engineering,microbial physiology
Sexual Citizenship and Disability - Implications for Theory, Practice and Policy (SCD)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The sexuality of disabled people is a taboo subject in disability services, health care and in society as a whole. Additionally, physical inaccessibility, lack of social policy and failure by professionals to recognise the needs of disabled people to be supported in their sexual expression can lead to unmet needs, misconduct and reproduction of stereotypes of disabled people as asexual. In the findings from a participatory action research project that sought to identify future priorities for disability research, the issue of sexual support was suggested as such a priority by disability rights organisations. In many countries a new generation of service users are growing up with recognised human rights through strengthened disability policies and discrimination laws, as well as being backed up by European and global conventions – notwithstanding often only briefly mentioning sexual rights on an abstract level. The aim of this study is to analyse the conditions, implications and consequences of claims for sexual facilitation on a policy level in three countries: The UK, The Netherlands and the state of New South Wales in Australia. Disabled people have vastly different possibilities for sexual recognition and expression in different policy contexts. Adopting a mixed-method design, including critical policy analysis, interviews, and workshops, with a comparative case study approach allows for a qualitative insight into the policy processes as well as their consequences in practice. A central aim of the study is to develop good practices together with local disability rights organisations in order for research results to not only contribute to theoretical understandings of sexuality and disability, but also to developments in policy and practice, based on expert knowledge and experience.

Keywords: disabled people,sexuality,sexual rights,discrimination laws,disability rights