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On-chip quantum MagNonIcs (OMNI)

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: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174167.04
EU funding (EUR): 174167.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum technologies allow to harness the fundamental properties of nature for practical applications. An ongoing challenge is the combination of these technologies, to convert between flying and stationary qubit systems, as for example quantum transducer promise. The emerging field of quantum magnonics, dealing with precessional excitations of electron spins at single-magnon power levels, offers the unique opportunity to integrate different quantum systems within a solid-state platform. Although quantum magnonics was theoretically formulated in the 1960’s, only now progress in cryogenics and ultra-sensitive microwave technology allows the first experimental steps. While recent miniaturisation of monocrystalline yttrium iron garnet (YIG) waveguides provides access to propagating single-mode magnons, their use in larger quantum circuits requires the development of different separate building blocks, such as phase shifters, delay lines and attenuators. The project On-chip quantum MagNonIcs (OMNI) is formulated to demonstrate these functionalities on a dynamic on-chip 3-terminal device (3-TD). To this end, I will use the unique magnonics knowledge at the University of Vienna and combine it with my strong expertise in quantum optics, quantum electronics and nanofabrication. The 3-TD YIG device will be designed and modelled numerically, fabricated using modern nanopatterning techniques, and characterized by Brillouin light scattering and microwave spectroscopy at ultra-low temperatures. The device operation will be governed by the magnon dispersion affecting its passage through a non-uniform magnetic field created by an electric current. The successful realization of the project will allow me to demonstrate the required building blocks of Quantum Magnonics and will establish me as a future research leader at the forefront of this novel field of research.

Keywords: quantum magnonics,hybrid quantum systems,magnon devices,integrated magnonics,low temperature magnonics
Agroecology for Europe (AE4EU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Romania,Greece,Sweden,Greece,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Strengthening the European agro-ecological research and innovation ecosystem (H2020-FNR-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999886.61
EU funding (EUR): 1999886.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The current situation in Europe clearly indicates that major changes are needed to develop sustainable agricultural and food systems. In this respect, agroecology is increasingly seen as an important pathway as it designs, develops and promotes the transition towards sustainable farming and food systems. Although a certain development of agroecology and its different facets in Europe can be stated, it remains so far too limited to allow a successful transition to sustainable agriculture and food systems. The present project will contribute to agroecology research and innovation development through different strategic objectives. AE4EU will develop a road map and framework for a European network of agroecological living labs (LL) and research infrastructure (RI), and other relevant actors. Major avenues for this will be the mapping of local, regional and national state of the art and initiatives in different European countries, provide also a more comprehensive and detailed overview of how agroecology is understood. This will lay out the ground to connect relevant actors of identified initiatives, LL, RI, funding schemes and policies. Further, the project will identify and assess past and ongoing agroecological LL and RI initiatives, and how they derive relevant and successful approaches for transition to agroecological production and food systems. Moreover, AE4EU will identify and analyse policy frameworks that include elements of agroecology and provide recommendations for future reinforcement and adaptation. The project will as well work out propositions for potential changes and improvements for enlarged and complementary funding of public and philanthropic/private funders to enhance research, practice and innovation of agroecology in Europe. The overall goal of AE4EU is through reinforced networks development and connection of a large diversity of relevant actors across Europe accelerate the transition to sustainable agriculture and food systems.

Keywords: agroecological practice,education and training,living lab,multi actor,policy deliving lab,research infrastructure,policy development
Conceptual Engineering, Inquiry and Communication (CEIC)

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: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191852.16
EU funding (EUR): 191852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

In our daily lives, we often take our concepts for granted. Yet, in particular circumstances, it may turn out that the concepts we use are defective in relevant respects, and need to be revised (think, for instance, of the concept of marriage in several legal systems). Analytic philosophers have coined the term “conceptual engineering” to describe processes of evaluation, revision or design of conceptual representations. Often, the conceptual engineer modifies a word's intension (its “dictionary meaning”), thus changing the word's extension (its reference). Yet, as suggested by British philosopher P. F. Strawson in a seminal paper, such revision may lead to a “change of subject”: while modifying the term's semantics, one ends up talking about something else. In the current discussion, changes of subject are deemed detrimental to the unity of one’s inquiry, and are associated with the risk of communication breakdowns. The aim of CEIC is to assess the impact of the change of subject objection on conceptual engineering projects. CEIC consists of two workpackages (WPs). WP1 will examine current strategies to respond to the change of subject objection (based on the notions of “topic”, of “concept function”, and on semantic externalism respectively), and will highlight their limitations. WP2 will diagnose said limitations by pointing out a flaw in the objection itself: the notion of subject is highly indeterminate. The objection can, therefore, be downplayed. The potential problems associated with it (namely, inquiry discontinuity and miscommunication) can, however, be addressed by adopting new strategies that highlight the importance of systematic meta-linguistic reflection throughout our inquiries. Overall, CEIC will: (1) put the change of subject objection in the right perspective, and (2) explore novel methodological strategies for carrying out conceptual engineering projects both in philosophy and in other disciplines.

Keywords: philosophy of language,concepts,semantics,conceptual revision,subject matter,inquiry,communication
FleXible user-CEntric Energy poSitive houseS (EXCESS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low environmental impact
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Spain,Austria,Spain,Germany,Austria,Cyprus,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,Finland,Finland,Belgium,Greece,France
Call: New developments in plus energy houses (IA) (H2020-NMBP-EEB-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 63.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9210808.18
EU funding (EUR): 7886231.38
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The EXCESS project builds up on nearly-zero energy multi-storey building (consumption below primary energy threshold) residential concepts of the main 4 EU climatic zones towards Energy fleXible user-CEntric poSitive houseS (EXCESS). EXCESS defines a positive energy building (PEB) as a building that produces more energy than they use, with high RES self- consumption rate (instead of using the grid for solving seasonal balancing issues) over a time span of one year. RES and smart technologies exist, but complete packages for different climates do not. Important technical developments for plus energy building materials and other individual technologies are required to address specific climate related needs in order to meet the PEB level; especially in harsh climates. Integration is needed for upgrading single technologies to be part of a large orchestra enabling also user-context-aware energy flexible services between utilities and customers (selling flexibility). These will unlock additional revenue streams that reduce the lifetime cost of the developed PEB solutions, making them affordable also large portion of the society. Thus, EXCESS will advance new materials, technologies and integrated technological systems (TRL5-7) promoting a user centric approach (building tenants), capitalized on new ICT opportunities, for optimizing the interplay of local generation, storage, consumption at the building and district level. The demonstration activities in each of the climatic zones (Austria, Belgium, Finland and Spain) will be accompanied by co-innovation, replication and exploitation activities to maximize the project technical, social and economic impact and to prepare for a future market roll out of the PEB concept by also scouting energy efficiency funding opportunities.
Isogeny-based Toolbox for Post-quantum Cryptography (ISOCRYPT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495575.0
EU funding (EUR): 2495575.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A quantum computer exploits quantum-mechanical effects such as superposition to solve hard mathematical problems that are intractable on classical computers. The most prominent example is Shor's algorithm that renders all widely deployed cryptographic systems such as included in TLS totally insecure, and thus also all digital services that crucially rely on them. Post-quantum cryptography deals with the design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms that remain secure against attacks not only by classical computers, but also by quantum computers. The threat of quantum computers is a very real and pressing issue as evidenced by the ongoing NIST standardization effort for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms. Isogenies are maps between elliptic curves, and hard problems related to the computation of such maps, have recently been proposed as a candidate for post-quantum cryptography. Due to its versatility, isogeny-based cryptography has the potential to become the only fully fledged alternative to lattice-based cryptography, providing much needed diversity. The goal of ISOCRYPT is to develop the full potential of isogeny-based cryptography into a secure, efficient and practical approach to post-quantum cryptography, and to provide a toolbox to easily instantiate secure isogeny-based applications. To achieve this goal, a number of key research challenges need to be solved: determining the exact security of isogeny-based systems, providing efficient and secure implementations and building a suite isogeny-based post-quantum secure applications. Our approach to solving these challenges relies on a deep exploration of the mathematical properties of isogenies, guided by the functionalities needed to build practical applications. This proposal will build on the renowned expertise of the PI and his team in mathematical foundations of post-quantum cryptography to ready isogeny-based cryptography for real world deployment.

Keywords: post quantum cryptography,isogeny based cryptography
Advanced Ohmic Heating for resource efficient Thermal Treatment to produce high quality food products (OHFASTT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ohmic heating is an alternative fast heating method for food products that results in less thermal damage than conventional heating. In Ohmic heating, foods are made part of an electric circuit and heat is generated within the foods due to their electrical resistance. The process offers advantages such as rapid uniform heating, reduced surface fouling, high energy efficiency and high quality food products. Ohmic heating has potential to be dominant in the food processing industry. However, the potential is supressed by technical deficiencies such as electrode design problems, inefficient pump design, and lack of control in electrical conductivity, which limit the technology’s extensive application. Ohmic heating currently processes 8% of the global fruits and vegetables production, but if the technical incapacities are solved, it has the potential to process over 35% of this sectors requirements, creating a market opportunity of €85 billion. OHFASTT give breakthrough Ohmic heating technology capable of producing high quality food through advanced engineered solutions to problems that have hampered the uptake of Ohmic heating. This will realise a new commercially attractive technology to the EU and global markets. Food processing companies will benefit through a15% reduction in energy use and a subsequent 8% reduction in energy costs. This will reduce CO2 emissions by 16.6% and thus prevent the emission of a total of 326,808 tonnes of CO2 globally every year. They will also benefit through a 40% reduction in processing time and a greater price value for their products. In total this will save customers €63,000 annually per installation compared to conventional installations and a combined total of €6.6m annual savings across the EU. This innovation project will play a significant role in advancing our commercialisation strategy. Phase 1 will enable market, technical and financial feasibility assessment prior to product finalisation and demonstration with a customer.

Keywords: resource efficiency,food security,health and nutrition
Illuminating the mechanisms of mitochondrial DNA quality control and inheritance (IlluMitoDNA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cellular, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Panel description: Structure and function of the cell, cell-cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1851834.0
EU funding (EUR): 1851834.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Essential subunits of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, which generates the majority of energy in eukaryotic cells, are encoded in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) that is present in hundreds of copies in every cell. Mutations within mtDNA have been identified as the cause for a multitude of human diseases and have been tightly linked to the ageing process and altered stem cell homeostasis. Accordingly, to ensure organismal health, good copies of mtDNA have to be faithfully inherited during cell division, their integrity needs to be maintained over generations and they need to be distributed throughout the mitochondrial network to provide all mitochondrial segments with mtDNA encoded proteins. Astonishingly, it remains poorly understood how cells accomplish these fundamental tasks. Through the development of a novel system that for the first time allowed minimally invasive tracking of mtDNA in living cells, we have gained unique insights into the cellular principles that govern distribution and inheritance of mtDNA and the maintenance of its integrity. This work paved the way to understand the molecular mechanisms that underlie these processes and provides the tools required to elucidate them. We will build on this work and combine cutting-edge microscopy and next generation sequencing with biochemical and genetic approaches to identify and characterize the machineries responsible for (1) mtDNA inheritance and distribution and (2) mtDNA quality control. While these first two aims will exploit the unique experimental advantages of S. cerevisiae, our ultimate goal is (3) to transfer our findings to higher eukaryotes through the development of a mammalian mtDNA imaging system. This powerful multipronged approach will mechanistically unravel mtDNA dynamics and quality control and will thus provide the necessary basis to understand diseases where these processes are dysregulated.

Keywords: mitochondria,mitochondrial dna mtdna,yeast,s cerevisiae
Migration Solidarity and Acts of Citizenship along the Balkan Route (MigSol)

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: Hungary
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 134239.2
EU funding (EUR): 134239.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this 24-month Fellowship is to explore how refugees and refugee solidarity groups along the “Balkan route” relate to and enact European citizenship. While the project of European citizenship is an unprecedented political development, it has institutionally been modelled upon and reproduces national conceptualisations of citizenship, rights and identity. The research will undertake a comparative analysis of discourses and practices of refugees and pro-refugee volunteers in both EU and non-EU sites, and of the way in which they challenge concepts and institutions of European citizenship derived from national models of membership. It will pay particular attention to the relationship between “movement” and the constitution of new European political subjectivities. The main objectives of this study are (1) to engage in a critical examination of the processes and institutions of European citizenship with a specific focus on countries of the “Balkan route”; (2) to develop a cross-national and cross-local perspective on solidarity practices with refugees that have emerged along the Balkan route; (3) to investigate “acts of citizenship” emerging from both EU and non-EU citizens in relation to refugee mobilities and to assess their implication for European citizenship; (4) To develop analytical and theoretical frames to reflect on new politics of solidarity in Europe and the way in which they contest exclusionary readings of Europe; and (5) to contribute to conceptual debates on citizenship, the governance of migration and social movements and solidarity in the EU and beyond. In the current context of uncertainty regarding the future of the EU, these questions appear of rising urgency. This study proposes to address these issues through ethnographic research with a range of pro-refugee initiatives in Hungary, Serbia and Greece, three countries at the heart of the Balkan route yet which hold different historical and political relationships to “Europe” and the EU.

Keywords: solidarity,citizenship,migrants,refugees,europe,balkan route
What do we learn from dialogues in fiction? (FictDial)

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: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2024-04-22
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FictDial investigates the function and processing of dialogue in literary fiction in exchange with what we know about real-world conversational dialogue and, thereby, aims to bridge a gap between the current psycholinguistic and neuroscientific knowledge of verbal interactions (conversations) and literary research. Its starting point is the suggestion that reading literary fiction can augment our capacity for social inference and empathy. The project aims to understand 1) what could be learned from fictional (literary) dialogues about every day social interactions (objective 1), 2) how fictional dialogues are processed (objective 2) and 3) how these dialogues affect the knowledge of adults and adolescents about real-life social interactions (objective 3). It applies methods from different disciplines from qualitative, literary analysis to behavioral experiments and measurements of eye-movements. Fictional dialogues are studied with special attention to gender-specific ways of verbal interactions, and mechanisms of social learning are examined in relation to embodied experiences and immersion during reading. The project is hosted by the Norwegian Reading Centre, with a secondment at the University of Oslo, involving experts from education, empirical reading research, narratology and cognitive science. The proposed project includes activities of dissemination and communication to the academic sector but also to teachers, pupils, and policy makers. The research, training and publication activities of the project will enable me to enhance my profile as an independent researcher.

Keywords: dialogue,empirical methods,interdisciplinarity,literary reading,immersion,embodiment,social learning