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Motivic Integral p-adic cohomologies (MIPAC)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172750.08
EU funding (EUR): 172750.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to study p-adic cohomologies of varieties using tools from motivic homotopy theory. Voevodsky's theory of motives has played a crucial role in solving deep mathematical conjectures. However, motives intrinsically lack a theory of étale p-adic realizations. In this project, we will use logarithmic geometry tools to generalize the motives category and overpass this problem. More specific goals are related to: Develop a theory of integral log-étale motives and realizations. Prove a general comparison between the log-étale p-adic realizations and tame cohomologies Develop a theory of motives over log points with an integral Hyodo-Kato realization Solve structural problems in the theory of motives of logarithmic schemes MIPAC is an innovative project in motivic homotopy theory built to impact several areas within motivic and arithmetic geometry. The project will be completed at the University of Milan, in a leading multi-disciplinary and collaborative environment. I will bring extensive experience in log motives and some unique expertise on non-A1-invariant cohomology theories. I will benefit of the experience and knowledge of the groups of Algebra and Geometry in p-adic cohomologies and motivic homotopy theory. This will facilitate the research in the group and the transfer of knowledge, and expand my experience and intuition, transferable skills, and professional networks. Carrying out MIPAC within a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship will enhance the development of my career as a complete and independent leading researcher, with a reinforced position within arithmetic and motivic geometry. The leading position of the groups and the department will ensure a great network of international researchers with an impact to the disseminations of the ideas of MIPAC.

Keywords: motives,motivic homotopy theory,p adic cohomology,tame cohomology,p adic hodge theory
MuTi-modulE smArt systeM for selective electroSynthesis (TEAMS)

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: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Electrosynthesis, powered by renewable energy, has the potential to remap existing industries like energy, transport, and manufacturing, by generating clean fuels and chemicals. Examples include water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen and the emerging CO2 electrolysis to synthesize important carbon chemicals such as ethylene. One challenge in these reactions is reactant and product management – gas, both as a reactant and product, brings solubility barriers (e.g., limited solubility of CO2) and strong fluctuations due to the formation of bubbles (H2 in the cathode, and O2 in the anode). Inefficient reactant supply and complex interfacial phenomena are often addressed in these systems at the atomic scale and in a static fashion (i.e., catalyst and environment design). TEAMS (MuTi-modulE smArt systeM for selective electroSynthesis) seeks to address this problem through the nano-macroscopic scale and in a dynamic way. It proposed to do so by integrating three key modules in a modular and smart, self-driven architecture: a nanobubble generator to increase gas availability, an interface reaction module to enhance efficiency and selectivity, and a feedback optimization module for continuous real-time system adjustments. TEAMS targets the application of this system into two reactions limited by gas availability and interface bubble formation, such as CO2 electrolysis into ethylene (cathode) and ethylene oxidation into ethylene oxide (anode). By combining nanobubble engineering, fluid dynamics, and electrochemical methodologies, TEAMS aims to create a next-generation, scalable, and automated electrosynthesis system.

Keywords: nanobubble engineering,multiphysics simulation,smart system engineering,gas liquid interface engineering,power to x
Co-construction in the field of social welfare (Cocoso)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France,Denmark,Portugal,Greece,Poland,Austria,Romania,Spain,Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2028-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3957537.6
EU funding (EUR): 3957537.6
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

COCOSO brings together 6 universities and 16 partners from the non-governmental and public sectors. This industrial doctoral network is dedicated to participation and co-construction as a core dimension of democracy and innovation in social welfare. Doctoral research and training are designed to address the pressing demand for meaningful and efficient participation of citizens involved in social services and policies: services users, practitioners, managers, decision and policy-makers. Citizens experiencing welfare systems are often subject to one or several factors of inequality and vulnerability, which directly or indirectly hinders their participation. To effectively address contemporary challenges in co-construction of social policies and practices requires the following steps: - identify different perspectives on participation and co-construction; - overcome power, trust and management barriers to embed co-construction in policies and services; - address limitations in co-construction due to vulnerability and cross-sectionality; - enhance the potential of digital tools for participation. These tasks will be fulfilled by researchers under close collaboration and supervision of senior academic and industrial partners from different disciplines including social policy, education, sociology, management and history; as well as different sectors such as local authorities and non-for-profit social organisations. Cocoso will thus contribute to develop: (a) research- and practice-based evidence and knowledge about barriers and facilitators to co-construction; (b) edge-cutting methods to embed co-construction in practice and collaborative research (networking of universities, NGOs, users, local authorities) and (c) effective implementation of co-construction by highly skilled researchers who will be well prepared to face the challenges experienced by organisations and policy-makers in their relationships with vulnerable citizens.

Keywords: citizen participation
SENSING USING QUANTUM OCT WITH AI (SEQUOIA)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Poland,Spain,France
Call: Next generation quantum sensing technologies (RIA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6435635.0
EU funding (EUR): 6435635.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

OCT is a key imaging technology, allowing non-contact high resolution 3D imaging which has helped to save the sight of millions of people. However, progress has stalled since reaching the axial resolution (dz) limit of 1 um. Quantum OCT (QOCT) offers a step change x2 improvement in dz and greatly reduces dispersion. In addition, control of orbital angular momentum (OAM) reduces noise and improves edge and surface profile definition and discrimination of chiral objects. SEQUOIA will deliver the highest resolution OCT system ever built, protected from noise by artificial intelligence (AI) based OAM control in a real-world application: retinal imaging. Underpinning SEQUOIA is an ultra-stable, ultra-low noise comb source of unprecedented bandwidth (250-400 nm) which builds on NKT’s world-leading supercontinuum sources and adds new PTB techniques for stabilisation and noise control. AI-based algorithms (UPV) will be used at TUD to program spatial light modulators to encode high purity high-dimensional OAM onto the QOCT beams to increase resilience to noise and improve imaging quality. MPD will deliver new single-photon avalanche diode arrays specifically tailored for quantum imaging, to perform photon coincidence correlation at an unprecedented rate. NOR’s world-leading classical OCT software will be extended to create the first ever QOCT software. Theoretical work at NCU will develop the first mathematical models of noise in QOCT to optimise the spontaneous parametric downconversion. PTB will perform metrological characterisation of all relevant parameters and DTU will quantify the QOCT advantage over classical OCT. Retinal imaging using stable test standards from WWU will be performed, with automated AI-algorithms (UPV) to compare performance with classical OCT. ARD will perform a detailed techno-economic and social life cycle analyses to evaluate future markets and impacts. VIV will coordinate an extensive dissemination programme with a high-profile Advisory Board.

Keywords: optical coherence tomography oct angular orbital momentum
Robot-mediated development of statistical models for mechanistic analysis amplification in synthetic organic reactions (Cyb-org)

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,United States,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-07-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 322164.36
EU funding (EUR): 322164.36
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Cyb-org aims to apply well-established machine learning (ML) techniques to innovate mechanistic studies and optimization protocols in organic chemistry. Within this project, a robotic platform will be programmed to autonomously set up and sample reactions for kinetic analysis, extracting data on reaction rates, yields, and enantioselectivity. The primary goal of this proposal is to develop statistical models capable of generalizing mechanistic insights across a range of substrates or catalyst variables, focusing on the selected organic transformations. The new model will generate predicted outputs, which can subsequently be experimentally validated to achieve enhanced performance. Identifying outliers within this data will allow for the analysis of atypical reactions, potentially leading to the discovery of novel reactivity and the development of new, significant synthetic strategies. This advanced ML tool could be adopted by the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, enhancing automated systems for optimizing organic chemical transformations.

Keywords: data science,machine learning,multi variate linear regression models,computer assisted reaction development
Eco-friendly ytterbium-doped perovskite nanocrystals embedded in glasses for solar cells (NEBULAE)

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: Finland,Brazil
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum cutting down-conversion materials have emerged as a novel approach to increase solar cell efficiency by reshaping the solar spectrum. Efforts worldwide have focused on Yb-doped lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) due to their highly efficient near-infrared (NIR) photoluminescence (PL) that matches the bandgap of the commonly used photovoltaic materials. However, two major challenges limit their commercialization: 1) the high toxicity of lead (Pb), 2) the instability of PNCs against moisture. Therefore, there is a need to develop Yb-doped Pb-free PNCs and embed them in dense structures like glass to increase their chemical stability over time. To this end, the interdisciplinary NEBULAE project aims to develop new fluorophosphate (FP) glass-ceramics (GCs) that contain Yb-doped Pb-free PNCs. It will be the first to report not only Pb-free PNCs in FP glass but also Yb-doped perovskite FP GCs for solar cells. Thus, 1) Yb-doped FP glasses will be synthesized using the melt-quenching method and characterized by a complex of spectroscopic methods to study the composition-property relation. 2) Nucleation and growth will be investigated, and heat treatment will be conducted to obtain transparent GCs with enhanced NIR PL, in which Yb-doped Pb-free PNCs are embedded in the volume of the glass. 3) The GCs will be tested in a solar cell to demonstrate proof-of-concept improvement in cell performance. NEBULAE is based on the PI’s expertise in optics, the supervisor’s in glass science, and the co-supervisor’s in solar cells, ensuring the achievement of the research goals, dissemination, and exploitation of the results. The training/research activities will equip the PI with the skills needed to apply to ERC Starting Grant and/or obtain a tenure track in the EU, which will allow the PI to launch his own research group. NEBULAE contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals and EU Green Deal by reducing the use of toxic elements and promoting clean energy.

Keywords: glass,glass ceramics,melt quenching,perovskite nanocrystals,ytterbium,optics,photoluminescence,energy transfer,down conversion,solar cell,photovoltaics
Integrated Prevention and Biocontrol Solutions for most devastating Citrus Pests (CITRUSBUSTERS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Slovakia,Netherlands,Italy,Greece,Brazil
Call: Tackling outbreaks of plant pests (HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-02, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2029-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6461683.75
EU funding (EUR): 6461683.75
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

CITRUSBUSTERS proposes an ambitious and efficient R&I initiative aimed at developing solutions tailored to address Citrus pests with devastating impacts worldwide: Candidatus Liberibacter (CL), its associated insect vector (T. erytreae) and Phyllostycta citricarpa (PC), considered priority and quarantine pest in the EU. With an approach prioritising prevention, CITRUSBUSTERS will enlarge the IPM toolbox for high-value citrus crops by: (i) demonstrating the feasibility and benefits of smart tools for pathogen observation and early detection, enabling the prediction of future outbreak risks, based on co-culture models for CL and PC to provide solid knowledge on their spatiotemporal dynamics, technologies based on hyperspectral and LIDAR imaging, and predictive models through MLA linking soil health, vectors and plant parameters; ii) developing innovative tools, substances and agroecological practices to enhance plant resilience against biotic stresses by means of DNA-free and genetic changes for breeding purposes and innovative extraction technologies for active molecules triggering immune responses in plants; and (iii) developing sustainable and safe biocontrol active formulations for improving crop health during cultivation, by means of encapsulated endolysins for CL, microbial antifungal substances for PC and dsRNA targeting T.erytreae. CITRUSBUSTERS will strenghten the abilities of stakeholders to respond to pest outbreaks relying on a solid multiactor approach for the co-creation of solutions and the assessment of environmental, social and economic impacts of the pests of the solutions, developing policy recommendations and best practices guidelines. This will ensure the adequacy of the proposed solutions and the wider acceptance of IPM strategies contributing to promote fair, healthy and environment-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption and to restoring Europe’s ecosystems and biodiversity.

Keywords: multiactor approach,surveillance,multiactor approach,early detection,surveillance,methods,remote sensing,soil health,smart solutions,resistant varieties,plant resilience,biocontrol formulations
High-Precision Gravitational Wave Physics from a Worldline Quantum Field Theory (GraWFTy)

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: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2022-ADG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2195121.0
EU funding (EUR): 2195121.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project will determine the gravitational waves emitted in the encounter of two black holes or neutron stars in our universe at highest-precision. The gravitational waves emerging from such violent mergers are now routinely detected at the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories since their discovery in 2016. With the presently planed third generation of observatories the experimental accuracy will dramatically increase. Theoretical predictions for the emitted waveforms at highest-precision are therefore needed in order to determine the source parameters, such as masses, spins and intrinsic parameters of the two compact objects. Obtaining these waveforms requires solving the extremely difficult field equations of Einstein’s gravity. Major obstacles are the inclusion of radiative and spin effects at high-precision, as well as access to the strong gravity regime. Together with my research group, I have recently devised a novel quantum formalism to attack this classical physics scenario – worldline quantum field theory – that is methodologically rooted in elementary particle physics. It is the leading formalism to compute observables in the gravitational scattering of spinning black holes and neutron stars. My goal is to extend the scope of worldline quantum field theory to include radiative, higher spin and tidal effects, that discriminate between black holes and neutron stars. Moreover, I will uncover a hidden supersymmetry in the scattering of two spinning black holes. Finally, by matching to curved space-times I will develop theoretical tools that apply to strong gravitational fields as they arise close to the merger. These are presently unreachable by analytical methods. Our results will set the basis to test Einstein’s theory of gravity in extreme regions, possibly uncovering deviations from known physics; to understand black-hole formation; and to uncover the nature of neutron stars.

Keywords: quantum field theory,gravity,effective field theory,gravitational waves,feynman diagrams,scattering amplitudes
Enhancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Education (EFFEct)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Theme: Culture, creativity and inclusive society
Destination: Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Italy,Ireland,Hungary
Call: Efficiency and effectiveness of investment in high-quality education and training (HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2773643.75
EU funding (EUR): 2773643.75
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

High-quality education is a key driver of economic growth and social progress. Despite large investments in education over the past few decades, the quality of education in some EU countries has stagnated or even deteriorated. Marginalized populations are particularly vulnerable to the negative consequences arising from inadequate educational policies. Understanding the efficiency and (cost-)effectiveness of investment in quality education is crucial for allocating resources to where they could have the largest economic and social impacts. The EFFEct research project has been established as an impact-driven initiative that aims to provide evidence-based policy recommendations to improve the quality of education. By investigating the effectiveness and efficiency of education systems and specific policies in EU countries by using (quasi-)experimental evidence, EFFEct advances knowledge in several critical areas, including diversity, equity and inclusion; teachers, trainers and digital transition; instruction and (adult-)learning. EFFEct has four interrelated objectives. Objective 1 offers novel insights on diversity, equity and inclusion by investigating targeted programs for disadvantaged students as well as religious and elite schools. Objective 2 investigates how teacher shortages can be mitigated and examines the role of digital environments. Objective 3 evaluates policies related to instruction, admission standards, and upskilling and reskilling of adults. Finally, objective 4 analyzes how the efficiency of EU educational systems has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic and establishes the main policy levers and qualitative insights that may explain efficiency changes. EFFEct brings together a multidisciplinary research team of economists, sociologists, (neuro-)psychologists, teacher trainers, education scientists, mathematicians, and sustainability and operational research experts from four European research universities, a research institute and a NGO.

Keywords: diversity,equity,inclusion teachers,trainers and digital transition instruction and adult learning efficiency