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What was and what could have been: Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum's role in the philosophy of probablity. (Janina Project)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum (1899-1942) was a philosopher working on inductive reasoning and the interpretation of probability. In spite of her impressive publication list and international recognition, she never managed to secure a university post; and the histories of analytic philosophy barely engage with her work. This project will contribute to our understanding of what led to her exclusion from the philosophical canon, and develop a thorough analysis of the full body of her work—establishing what her rightful position in the history of analytic philosophy actually is. The first objective of the project is to understand how the career of Hosiasson-Lindenbaum and the uptake of her ideas in the philosophy community were influenced by her social status and her academic biography. This will be done by analysing her academic and social environment in Warsaw, focusing on how it shaped her intellectual development and how it determined her chances and recognition as a professional philosopher. Then, I will look at the last period of her career: her unsuccessful efforts to secure funding as a refugee scholar during World War II. I will identify the causes that led to the rejection of her appeals. The working hypothesis here is that the factors identified in these two parts are relevant to the uptake of Janina Hosiasson’s ideas in the wider philosophical community. The second objective is to reconstruct Hosiasson-Lindenbaum’s position on the foundational questions in philosophy of probability and inductive logic and to evaluate its conceptual and historical importance. This will be achieved by a detailed study of her whole body of work, spanning over thirty published and unpublished items, and her correspondence with other philosophers. Based on this analysis, I will first reconstruct her own position on the nature of the concept of probability. Then, I will establish what was her role in the development of confirmation theory.

Keywords: confirmation theory,history of analytic philosophy,women in analytic philosophy,interpretations of probability,inductive logic
The historical roots of global inequality (ROOTS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Spain,Italy
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 748079.0
EU funding (EUR): 748079.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of this project is to understand the historical roots of global inequality. Specifically, it will address two questions: Why did some regions experience an early start in the development of complex hierarchies? How relevant is such an early transition in explaining current comparative economic development. A series of theories, going back to the origins of the social sciences, emphasize the role of some crucial environmental factors, in explaining the rise of the very first complex hierarchies. Unfortunately, however, the scarcity of global datasets on natural environment and hierarchy, going back to the first human societies, has made it difficult to test these theories. Partial empirical validation has come almost exclusively from either cross-sectional empirical studies, using data on the current environment to proxy for past conditions, or case studies focusing on a limited numbers of well-studied areas. This project aims at filling this gap by combining new global panel data on ancient climate (a result of recent advances in paleoclimatology), ancient migrations (reconstructed through archaeogenetics) and ancient societies (constructed from aggregating archaeological reports) with advanced econometric techniques. The project comprises three lines of research. The first line will test a prominent theory that relates a series of changes in the natural environment with the emergence of intensive food storage and the subsequent rise of the first relevant socio-economic inequalities among hunter-gatherers. The second line will focus on farming societies and investigate the role of long-distance trade, spurred by the invention of bronze, on the rise of the first urban civilizations and new unprecedented economic inequalities among farmers. The third line will document the long shadow that ancient hierarchies (either among hunter-gatherers or farmers) have produced on current comparative economic development.

Keywords: long term persistency,comparative development
Intermolecular enantioselective amination of unactivated C(sp3)–H bonds (Rhod-to-N)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-05-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226420.56
EU funding (EUR): 226420.56
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Alkanes, the principal components of natural gas and widely produced by the petrochemical industry, represent a significant carbon source for chemical synthesis. However, due to the low reactivity of the C(sp3)–H bond, converting alkanes into higher-value products is challenging and remains one of the Holy Grails of chemistry. In this context, transition metal-catalyzed C(sp3)–H bond amination has emerged as a powerful tool for alkane derivatization. However, this transformation is almost exclusively limited to the functionalization of activated C–H bonds, such as those at benzylic positions. Therefore, the development of catalytic systems that enable the exclusive regio- and stereoselective functionalization of unactivated C–H bonds in the presence of more reactive sites would represent a groundbreaking advancement in organic synthesis. The Rhod-to-N project (intermolecular enantioselective amination of unactivated C(sp3)–H bonds) aims to push these boundaries by discovering efficient enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed methods for the transformation of aryl alkanes into β-arylethylamines and α-methylamines, which serve as privileged chiral building blocks for the development of novel life-saving medicines. To achieve this ambitious goal the project will focus on accomplishing the following objectives: 1) Development of the intermolecular enantioselective amination of homobenzylic sites. 2) Intermolecular enantioselective amination of terminal methylenes. 3) Continuous flow applications employing reusable catalytic columns. The successful completion of this project will contribute to the innovative valorization of low-cost aryl alkanes, yielding significant scientific, societal, and economic impacts, and bolstering European competitiveness in the sustainable production of fine chemicals. Additionally, the project will offer substantial growth opportunities to the researcher through high-value scientific and complementary training.

Keywords: c h functionalization amination nitrenes flow chemistry c n bond rhodium catalysis chirality
Electricity-Driven Enzymatic Cascades to Transform CO2 to C2+ Chemicals (TransCO2)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189687.36
EU funding (EUR): 189687.36
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The increasing level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere presents a critical factor for climate change and action must be taken urgently to minimise its impact. Using CO2 as a carbon source in the chemical industry for its conversion into valuable chemicals is an advantageous strategy to reduce CO2 emissions and provide a sustainable and cheap source of raw materials to help combat raw material scarcity. Interfacing CO2 reducing enzyme/enzymatic cascades with electrocatalysis present a particular approach to directly power product generation from CO2 with renewable electricity. This was achieved for a few enzymatic cascades; however, these proof-of-concept demonstrations are far from practical use due to lack of efficient method to guide the rational design of these complex multi-enzymes cascades on electrodes, resulting in high costs and low yields. Within this project (TransCO2), my overarching aim is to apply quantitative analysis and rational assembly of enzymatic cascades to enable a breakthrough in bioelectrocatalytic-technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) directly into high value mevalonate (C5) at high isolated yields, using electricity as energy source. Specifically, CO2 is firstly converted to formate by the enzyme Formate dehydrogenase (FDH), which is then further converted to mevalonate via 8 steps enzymatic conversions. The whole system will function in an electrochemical cell to make use of electricity as power input. I will build a kinetic model for this enzymatic cascade and implement it to guide the design and optimisation towards highest efficiency with minimal utilization of expensive cofactors.The overall technology in TransCO2 will be a generally applicable breakthrough for efficient production of high-value chemicals from CO2, enabling the large-scale use of CO2 utilisation.

Keywords: co2 transformation,enzymatic cascade,kinetic modelling
Quantum violations of Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations in Strongly Coupled Open Quantum Systems (QuTUR)

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: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222727.68
EU funding (EUR): 222727.68
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Recently thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) were discovered in the field of stochastic thermodynamics, which fundamentally connect the efficiency, power output and reliability of any classical heat engine. Roughly speaking, these TURs imply that any efficient heat engine operating at finite power output must suffer from diverging fluctuations in the power output, making the engine unreliable. Surprisingly, these TURs can be broken in quantum heat engines allowing them to achieve a quantum thermodynamic advantage regarding their output precision with obvious implications for nano-scale applications. The proposal research aims to theoretically analyze TURs in quantum dot heat engines and establish a clear understanding for which conditions and specific setups TURs can be broken. Unlike previous and most ongoing work this proposal directly attacks the theoretically complicated but experimentally realistic parameter regime of both strong tunnel-coupling and strong Coulomb interaction. This advance is made possible by a new thermodynamic renormalization group method recently developed by the fellow. Besides analyzing TURs in non-equilibrium steady-states, we will also analyze more challenging transient phenomena relevant for the control of device operations and derive generalized quantum TURs using a recently discovered non-perturbative fermionic duality mapping. The fellow will be integrated in the group of M. Leijnse at Lund University, whose experience in quantum thermodynamics and transport is essential for the action, in particular for the planned close collaboration with the experimental groups at the host institute who recently achieved to measure current flucuations of quantum dot heat engines, a key step towards the first verification of quantum violations of TURs. Supporting collaborations are set up with the external experts P. Potts (University of Basel, Switzerland) and J. Splettstößer (Chalmers University, Sweden).

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics,open quantum systems,quantum dot heat engines
Smart disassembly, functionalisation and reassembly of plant fibres for fully recyclable bio-based composites. (RE-Fibre)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Austria,Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland,Sweden,Germany,France,Belgium
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2443996.8
EU funding (EUR): 2443996.8
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The building and construction sector are material intensive and heavily dependent on fossil-based synthetic ingredients, therefore are strong contributors to CO2 emissions globally and EU-wide. These industries are under tremendous pressure to find fully renewable alternatives with competitive performance. Natural fibres will play a pivotal role in enhancing the sustainability and resiliency of these industries and help Europe deliver on defossilization and Green Deal goals. However, the widespread utilization of wood- and other plant-fibre-based materials is hampered by the inherent natural variability and inhomogeneity of biomass and requires the assembly of plant fibres with fossil-based synthetic adhesives, coatings and resins in order to achieve the required properties. These materials are partially bio-based which raises challenges with recyclability and hinders the full potential of fibrebased composites in the circular economy. There is a strong urge to integrate wood-derived waste-streams, in particular large amounts of lignin, produced on an industrial scale, into emerging product applications in the EU Bioeconomy. To tackle these challenges, RE-Fibre aims at training 11 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) with an entrepreneurial and sustainability-oriented mindset in the disciplines of circular engineering, green/ lignin chemistry, new biobased materials, environmental systems science, to generate fully recyclable functional wood and plant fibre-based materials with advanced capabilities and performance. The DCs will develop technical competencies, not only in a breakthrough scientific field but also in interpersonal and day-to-day skills, allowing them to work and collaborate across academic and industrial sectors. This training will significantly contribute to their employability as future leaders, in the fields of biorefining, chemical industry and sustainable manufacturing industry, supporting the green transition and a sustainable circular economy in Europe.

Keywords: lignin bio based composites lignocellulose life cycle assessment recycling colloids
Can tissue oxidation be sensed by positronium? (POSITRONIUM)

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: Poland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-10-01
End date: 2030-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A method for non-invasive assessment of hypoxia (deficit of oxygen in tissue) is keenly awaited in medicine. This project is motivated by the exciting question whether it is possible to assess the concentration of oxygen in the tissue by detecting photons from positronium decays inside cells. Positronium (a bound state of an electron and positron) is copiously produced in the human body during positron emission tomography. Its properties in tissue depend on the size of the intramolecular voids and the concentration of molecular oxygen. Thus, it is plausible to expect that positronium may serve as a biomarker of tissue oxidation. Yet is this really the case? Is it at all possible to disentangle annihilation of positronium after it interacted with oxygen from the annihilation with electrons from the tissue’s atoms? This question has no a priori answer because the number of classical observables accessible by the measurement of annihilation photons is less than the number of mechanisms leading to positron annihilation in the tissue. Here we put forward the fundamentally new hypothesis that tissue oxidation may be sensed by the measurement of the degree of entanglement of photons from positronium. Theoretically, these photons are quantum entangled in polarization and exhibit non-local correlations. The entanglement is reflected in the distribution of relative angle between photons’ polarization planes. We hypothesize that such distributions are sensitive to tissue hypoxia. This leads to the expectation that the degree of entanglement for photons from positronium interacting with dissolved oxygen differs from the case when it annihilates by picking-off an electron from a molecule. Answers to these fundamental questions will be delivered for the first time. The project will be implemented by using a unique tomography system invented by the PI facilitating imaging of positronium lifetime and detecting the polarization of photons from the positronium annihilation.

Keywords: beta plus decay,positronium,electron positron annihilation,compton scattering,plastic scintillators,photon s polarisation,tissue hypoxia,positron emission tomography
MIWA - SMART REUSABLE PACKAGING (MIWA - SMART REUSABLE PACKAGING)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery (HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3807848.75
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MIWA creates a complex and highly scalable ecosystem of Smart Reusable Packaging, built as an integrated hardware and software solution, with embedded IoT elements, connected to a vast digital environment and powered by advanced data analytics. MIWA reusable packaging carries the goods as well as data, working in tandem with unique electronic dispensers placed in retail and our digital platform operating in the Cloud. The data flows throughout the entire value chain thanks to IoT modules embedded in MIWA’s hardware, offering substantial opportunities to all stakeholders involved to enhance efficiency, product & consumer safety and outperform the effects of the current single-use dominant approach. Life Cycle assessment study proves that MIWA can reduce overall negative environmental footprint of packaging by 71%, reflecting on several factors: packaging waste reduction, eco-toxicity, fossil feedstock, water consumption and climate change impact.

Keywords: precycling,smart technologies,retailers,branded producers,effectiveness,non food supply chain,smart packaging,reuse packaging,sustainability,waste prevention,circularity
Frictions of space: the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism (FRICTIONS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2030-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499975.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499975.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tourism is a pervasive phenomenon as are the contemporary global dialogues about slavery and colonial heritage. Globally, the tangible and intangible remnants of slavery and the colonial past generate tensions that can yield both productive and destructive outcomes. In such locations, visceral narratives and experiences that evoke these tensions are being crafted for visitors. The FRICTIONS project will unravel how tourism transforms and narrates this heritage while navigating the ensuing contestations and tensions. In our increasingly diverse society at risk of polarisation, the stories we tell about our history can directly address challenges such as racism, discrimination and inclusion. FRICTIONS develops an interdisciplinary theory of cultural memories linked to slavery and colonial heritage tourism. The project employs an innovative and rigorous qualitative methodological research design to explore the tensions arising from slavery and colonial heritage tourism within three key geographical contexts: (a) Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands; (b) Angola-Brazil-Portugal and; (c) Namibia-Brazil-Germany. FRICTIONS will map and examine: (1) to what extent and under which conditions sites of slavery and colonial heritage are transformed into tourism products, practices and performances; (2) the ways in which such transformations create frictions of space; and (3) how these frictions influence broader societal narratives concerning the collective heritage of slavery and colonial heritage. FRICTIONS is an ambitious project combining insights from cultural geography, tourism studies and heritage and memory studies to advance conceptual knowledge that renders the transformative role of tourism into wider societal discussions of slavery and colonial heritage beyond specific places. Such insights inform ongoing societal debates on dealing with this shared heritage. This is important and urgent for charting a path towards a truly inclusive and just global society.

Keywords: slavery heritage,space,place,colonial heritage,tourism,cultural memories,cultural geography,tourism studies,heritage studies,memory studies,frictions,tensions,contestations,slavery,colonialism,apologies,reparations,tour guides,tourists,visitors,walking tours,angola,brazil,ghana,suriname,netherlands,portugal,germany