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Extending the perovskite-inspired mixed-metal chalcohalide alloy space for solar cells (EXT-PIMMCH)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Finland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199694.4
EU funding (EUR): 199694.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Renewable energies play a central role in the decarbonisation of the energy sector and mitigating man-made climate change. Photovoltaic (PV) technology provides a clean, safe, and affordable renewable source of energy. New photovoltaic materials with high power conversion efficiencies are needed to meet the European Green Deal's 2050 targets and to ensure the large-scale deployment of solar cells. An encouraging material class are perovskites, but as they suffer from toxicity and stability problems, this impedes their commercial viability. One promising alternative are mixed-metal chalcohalides (PIMMCHs), which have the potential to overcome these known problems with perovskites and still exhibit good optoelectronic properties, thus making them of interest for PV applications. However this promising class of materials remains widely unexplored. The aim of this project (EXT-PIMMCH) is to expand the material space of PIMMCH compounds and our understanding of this material class. I will explore I) binary and II) ternary PIMMCH alloys in order to identify promising PIMMCH alloys which are suitable for indoor and outdoor PV applications. For this purpose I will use a combination of density functional theory (DFT) and machine learning to accelerate the material exploration. Finally I will identify a few dozen promising PIMMCH alloys for indoor and/or outdoor PV applications to facilitate further experimental research. Also I will study III) the influence of defects such as vacancies, interstitials and antisites on PIMMCH materials using DFT, which can be used to determine the defect tolerance/intolerance of PIMMCH materials. A profound understanding of defects in PIMMCH materials is essential, because they could have a significant effect on the performance of PV applications. Overall EXT-PIMMCH will facilitate the development of efficient, stable and non-toxic PSCs, thus accelerating large-scale commercial adoption of PSCs.

Keywords: perovskite inspired mixed metal chalcohalides,materials exploration,compositional engineering,defects,machine learning,density functional theory
ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Doctoral Network (EXODOCS)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland,United States,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4618263.6
EU funding (EUR): 4618263.6
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Doctoral Network (EXODOCS) aims to establish a groundbreaking doctoral training program in planetary exploration and astrobiology, with a strong focus on advancing the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin (ERF) rover mission and laying the groundwork for future Mars and astrobiology missions. The network’s primary purpose is to train a cohort of highly skilled doctoral candidates (DCs) through a multidisciplinary program that combines cutting-edge research with comprehensive training in technical and transferable skills. By fostering strong collaboration between academic institutions, space agencies, and industry leaders, ERFDN ensures that researchers are equipped to address the challenges of planetary exploration while enhancing their career prospects in both academic and non-academic sectors. EXODOCS offers unique advantages by integrating research objectives with real mission goals. Doctoral candidates will work on projects that directly contribute to understanding the Martian environment, from surface processes and subsurface properties to the detection of biosignatures. The network’s innovative approach leverages the expertise of world-class researchers, advanced analytical tools, and real mission data. Through access to spare flight models, Martian simulants, and terrestrial analogues, the DCs will gain unparalleled hands-on experience, ensuring their contributions have a measurable impact on the ERF mission and beyond. This doctoral network stands out by addressing gaps in existing training programs, emphasizing cross-sector collaboration, and aligning with EU priorities in planetary science. EXODOCS not only prepares researchers to excel in mission science and operations but also ensures their skills are applicable to the evolving demands of the space sector, fostering European leadership in space exploration.

Keywords: mars,planetary exploration,astrobiology,rover missions
The effects of sexual selection on epidemic outcomes (EpiSex)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental B iology, Ecology  and E volution
Panel description: For all organisms : Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change , evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology , marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and mod elling
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-06-01
End date: 2031-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499262.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499262.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Sexual selection has two intuitive but overlooked implications for epidemics. First, infectious diseases spread when individuals contact each other. Reproduction is a major driver of contact: mate preferences should affect who contacts whom, and thus parasite transmission opportunity. Sexual selection research shows that choosers prefer mates with high quality ornaments, which generally indicate parasite resistance, but the predicted epidemiological consequence of such contact with more resistant individuals – that transmission slows – is untested. Second, choosers selecting mates that resist parasite infection may benefit indirectly as this increases the parasite resistance of their offspring. If choosers consistently produce offspring with the most genetically resistant mates, population-level parasite resistance should increase through generations: again, untested. I will leverage essential existing knowledge and artificial selection lines of the Trinidadian guppy, its gyrodactylid parasites, and a successful workflow I have developed, to test how variation in female preference affects epidemics in three ways. First, I will run replicate experimental epidemics in groups of individually identified guppies, tracked using machine learning, in which females do, or do not prefer males with larger orange ornaments. These ornaments indicate parasite resistance in this system. Second, I will assay the offspring produced post-epidemic for parasite resistance and paternity. I predict that epidemics in which females prefer ornamented males will be slower, and the offspring produced will be more resistant to parasites. Finally, I will use the results from both experiments to refine a mathematical model. We will validate model predictions with surveys of natural populations known to vary in female preference for males with larger orange ornaments. The resulting framework of how sexual selection affects parasite transmission will improve our predictions of epidemic dynamics.

Keywords: disease ecology sexual selection trinidadian guppy parasite transmission epidemiology mate choice mate preference ornaments
Physics-based Remote Touch (ReTouch)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Netherlands,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 272536.32
EU funding (EUR): 272536.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Humans rely on their sense of touch to achieve fine manipulation tasks and interact with their surroundings. However, feeling the tactile properties of a remote environment remains a challenge for two main reasons: first, current robotic systems are rarely equipped with tactile sensing and second, only forces are fed back to the users. In this project, the final goal is to create a bilateral tactile telemanipulation system, bridging the gap for touch over a distance. To cope with the large bandwidth required for this tactile interaction, I propose a new encoding of the tactile information, inspired by human touch. First, I will acquire a large database of robotic mechanical interactions in order to extract primitives of spatio-temporal deformation. Second, this dictionary will allow me to distill tactile features from any interaction and render tactile properties to a remote user. The robotic decoding part will be carried out under the supervision of Prof. Adelson in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, using the GelSight tactile sensor. In the return phase, I will integrate humans in-the-loop by designing a novel haptic device and studying the effect of applied skin deformation on the perception of tactile properties. This integration will be done under the supervision of Dr. Wiertlewski from Delft University of Technology. This interdisciplinary project requires skills in biomechanics, perception, robotics and control as well as modeling and machine learning, which will be part of the applicant training. If granted, this project will for the first time encode the tactile information in a dictionary of primitives, essential for sensing, compression, and reproduction of rich tactile stimuli. In addition, the remote touch platform will have applications in a wide range of the fields where delicate touch is necessary, such as healthcare, or remote exploration and navigation in environments such as nuclear reactors or space.

Keywords: tactile feedback,haptics,robotics,teleoperation
BiPhySO: Combatting critical uncertainties in biological vs. physical drivers of future oxygen budgets in the Southern Ocean (BiPhySO)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The Southern Ocean is one of the most biogeochemically-important regions on Earth, representing a critical region for inorganic and organic carbon sinks. However, regional differences and logistical challenges, make general statements about Southern Ocean processes difficult and inaccurate. To get a more accurate understanding of the Southern Ocean and globe, direct comparisons of key processes between regions are needed. Here I will use sensor-based measurements of dissolved oxygen and particulate backscatter to calculate these key biogeochemical rate measurements during the December-January productive season using the novel but already-proven equations. I propose to leverage pre-existing glider and other autonomous asset datasets from three major research programs to the Ross, Amundsen, and Weddell Seas in a novel manner to generate estimates of net community production (NCP) and carbon export that are of higher spatiotemporal resolution and more consistently-produced than ever before. In this two year project, entitled BiPhySO, I will parameterize the key biological and physical processes individually, enabling me to assess their importance in NCP calculations and export through time and in each Antarctic sea, individually. I will apply these findings to earth system models in order to forecast future Southern Ocean production-export dynamics under climate change. BiPhySO will be conducted with Professor Karen Heywood at the University of East Anglia (UEA) with secondments at the Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (Italy) with Dr. Gorgio Dall’Olmo and at the National Oceanography Centre (UK) with Professor Stephanie Hension. BiPhySO will expand my current skillset to better include glider and profiling float experience and make my current research more interdisciplinary in nature, combining biogeochemistry and physical oceanography. This will train me to become the tenure-track professor and leader of the field that I hope to be.

Keywords: biogeochemistry and physical oceanography of the southern ocean
Rapid Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits (RaPPIC)

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 GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Photonic integrated circuits enable trapping of photons, the fundamental particles of light, in a waveguide on a chip to allow their manipulation, similar to electrons in classical integrated circuits. While photonic circuits offer superior performance in speed and energy efficiency, their application in computing has so far been limited by their programmability. Electronic integrated circuits are based on transistors that until recently have become both smaller and more energy-efficient according to Moore's law. Photonic circuits on the other hand are controlled through phase modulators that typically rely on the same materials used in the electronic industry but suffer from fundamental limitations, which so far have hindered the implementation of dedicated scalable photonic computing hardware. We propose to explore an innovative and efficient phase modulation technology utilizing the novel material platform of atomically thin semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides that promises to outperform conventional technologies in all key performance metrics, including energy consumption, modulation efficiency and optical losses. One promising integrated photonics platform to host these novel devices is represented by laser-written waveguides that allow for a rapid design cycle, thereby drastically reducing timescales provided by conventional semiconductor foundries. This ERC Proof of Concept project aims at leveraging atomically thin semiconductors to implement programmable photonic integrated circuitry.
Reading Minds and Machines (MindReading)

Framework: Horizon Europe — 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: Israel
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2023-ADG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499333.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499333.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Can we decode the training data of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) directly from its parameters? Training data of DNNs are assumed safe. Recent findings by us and by others indicate that this is not the case, with severe implications on Data-Privacy. Yet, such findings shed light on why DNNs perform so well. On a different front: Can we decode what a person saw/heard/thinks directly from their brain activity? This may have huge benefits: communicate with “locked-in” patients, explore dreams, man-machine interfaces, enhance our understanding of the human brain. No risk of violating human privacy here, as thoughts do not “float” in the air and person’s collaboration is required. Each of those 2 questions is intriguing on its own, with far-reaching implications. Despite the inherent differences between Human Brains & DNNs, they also have much in common. Exploring the two in-tandem can lead to significant breakthroughs in both fields. Recent advancements in both areas, with recent incorporation of Deep-Learning (DL) tools to analyze brain activity, opens the door to explore the two jointly. Our expertise in both domains will enable explicit Encoding/Decoding between Brain activity & DNN activations, allowing to directly learn/infer from one about the other. Initial explorations indicate that our proposed goals, although ambitious, are within reach. Our intermediate goals in each domain are worthwhile on their own, forming a strong safety net. Expected outcomes include: •Deep Data-Privacy •Insights on DNNs, their Generalization & Vulnerabilities •Insights on of “what is encoded where” in the brain •New scientific tools for brain-scientists to explore the brain •Allow “locked-in” (ALS) patients to communicate their thoughts/needs •Use Brain scanning to improve DNNs & DNNs to improve Brain scanning Our project requires no human subjects nor BrainScience expertise; only publicly available datasets. All methods lie in Computer-Vision & DL, with impact on both DL & BrainScience.

Keywords: computer vision,deep learning,data reconstruction from brain activity,data reconstruction from deep networks,self supervised learning
HIgh-performance circular and BIo-baSed materials in the Construction and bUilding Sector (HIBISCUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Circular Bio-based Europe
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CBE (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Netherlands
Call: Circular and SSbD bio-based construction & building materials with functional properties (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9173874.14
EU funding (EUR): 7497302.5
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The construction sector is the second largest industrial ecosystem in the EU in economic terms, generating 11,5% of the EU Gross Value Added in 2023. However, while creating economic value, the highly polluting materials derived from petroleum also contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for up to 37% of global operational energy and process-related CO2 emissions. This represents a serious challenge and calls for an urgent transition towards a circular economy. Despite a change taking place in the consumption and production of materials, the sector is facing limits in terms of price, efficiency of materials and social acceptability. The HIBISCUS project aims to revolutionize the building envelope sector by replacing fossil based materials with innovative bio-based alternatives to enhance sustainability, economic viability, and regulatory compliance while reducing the industry's carbon footprint. Coordinated by SOPREMA and 11 partners across Europe, the project uses a thorough methodology to provide new biobased materials for the building envelope thanks to the conversion of several feedstock sources. Partners will demonstrate at pilot scale the feasibility of scaling-up biobased materials while meeting the market standards and the industry’s needs. The project expects to create five bio-based construction materials - (2) waterproofing, (2) insulation and (1) carpentry solutions - with an average of 80% bio-based components and a 25% improved environmental profile. Within five years post-project, HIBISCUS aims to ensure that all materials meet CE-marking standards and attain a 10% market share for bio-based materials. Ultimately, HIBISCUS seeks to consolidate the EU position at the forefront of sustainable construction practices, promoting circular economy principles and supporting more resilient buildings through interdisciplinary research and collaboration.

Keywords: pine tree,lignin,waste cooking oils,vegetable oils,biobased construction materials,waterproofing membranes,insulation foams panels,door,window frames,wood fiber insulation,building envelope
Developing First-in-Class Diamond-based Quantum Microscopy for immediate semiconductor industry applications (DIAMONIQ)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Emerging semiconductor or quantum technology components (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2027-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3536042.5
EU funding (EUR): 2475229.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Semiconductors are an essential component of modern electronics. The miniaturization of semiconductors has been a key driver of technological innovation. However, as semiconductor technology continues to advance, the available quality control methods, such as thermal imaging or voltage alteration measurements, become insufficient. Diamond-based quantum sensing has the potential to answer the need for precise diagnostics of detecting magnetic field alterations caused by chips defect. But available implementations suffer from a tradeoff between speed and imaging resolution. At QuantumDiamonds, we overcome these challenges and developed a Super-resolution Quantum Imager (SQI) that combines advanced optical components with proprietary diamond production and software. Our system enables imaging at sub-100 nm resolution and fast measurement in the range of minutes. In this project, we will test it with actors from the semiconductor industry and prepare our system for commercialization.

Keywords: quantum,quantum sensing,diamond sensors,magnetometry,quantum microscopy