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The Fragments of Aristotle: A Reconstruction of his Lost Works (FragArist)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

One of the greatest minds of antiquity was no doubt Aristotle. He left a lasting impression on Western civilization, influencing among others the Founding Fathers in designing the US constitution. But what many do not know is that only a fraction of his works survive. Those preserved through medieval transmission - his so-called esoteric works - go back to college lectures and were intended to be used by his small circle of students. But Aristotle also wrote many works for a wider audience, which survive only in "fragments," i.e. citations in later authors, and a number of epitomes. In fact, what is preserved today is not what Aristotle was famous for throughout most of antiquity or even what he intended to be known for. Yet modern research focuses almost exclusively on the esoteric works. The result is that the Aristotle one meets in contemporary scholarship is really only the Aristotle of the preserved school writings. In order to truly understand his views on politics, ethics, poetry, rhetoric, logic and the soul or his approach as a scientist and historian, we must also study the lost works. The fragments are essential to understand his philosophy and assess his impact on Western thought. FragArist aims to shift the attention back to what were initially his most important works and establish a new understanding of Aristotle by reconstructing and interpreting his lost works. We will combine methods taken from philology, papyrology, philosophy, ancient history and Digital Humanities and apply pioneering editing techniques and the latest cutting-edge imaging techniques. For the first time we will also incorporate the fragments found in Syriac and Arabic sources. We will create a radically new perspective on Aristotle's personality and elucidate his influence on later authors, including the Alexandrian grammarians, Roman philosophers, Neoplatonic philosophers and Christian authors. This will also revolutionize our knowledge of the history of literature and science.

Keywords: aristotle,fragments,digital critical edition,ancient philosophy
Building Intelligent Positive Energy Districts (BIPED)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Climate neutral and smart cities
Destination: Climate neutral and smart cities
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Belgium,Austria,Czechia,Ireland
Call: Positive clean energy district (PED) digital twins – from modelling to creating climate neutral Cities (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CIT-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7017437.5
EU funding (EUR): 6304468.75
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

Positive clean Energy District’s (PED) are a key building block in the future energy paradigm for carbon-neutral cities and communities. With the rise of modern technology, local digital twins – the digital representations of a functional territory combining low- and high-velocity data with dynamic models – play a significant role in PED development and the scaling of it, supporting decision makers and planners in taking informed decisions towards a sustainable future. However, focusing narrowly on energy and mobility topics confined to the traditional sectors, digital twins for PEDs currently lack representation of significant aspects such as social, economic, and environmental properties, and hence, draw only part of the picture of a district or a city. Limited by data availability and lacking awareness of existing data, this shortcoming in digital twin modelling for PEDs leads to suboptimal decisions, impacting negatively ambitious efforts of sustainable development in cities and communities. This becomes even more clear when reflecting on the scalability issues across the 80.000 municipalities in the EU27: As highly complex entities, cities and communities differ in their physical, social, economic and even cultural structures, making it challenging to replicate PEDs in a trivial way across Europe. The BIPED project demonstrates how to overcome these barriers in a simple yet highly efficient manner that works everywhere by answering three key questions to push PEDs to the next level: wide deployment. Three key questions needs to be addressed to push PEDs to the next level: • How can digital twins be extended to refine a district’s profile representation, guiding PED design and demonstrators? • How can the quantitative collection of soft data support the advancement in digital twin development? • How to boost the replication potential of PED solutions for climate neutral cities with reinforced decision-makings

Keywords: energy models,mobility models
Welfare, redistribution and financial stability in housing and mortgage markets (HousingAndMortgages)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494124.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494124.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Worldwide, housing wealth represents the most important asset in households' balance sheet, and mortgage debt is the most important liability. In the past two decades, several countries have experienced house price bubbles, excessive households' leverage, and increasing risk-taking behavior of banks. To limit these phenomena, and in response to the 2008 financial crisis, new regulations have been introduced in housing and mortgage markets. The lack of disaggregate and extensive micro level data on housing and mortgages has so far prevented researchers from carefully investigating these events and the effectiveness of regulation. This project will bridge this gap. I will assemble a unique and extensive platform of datasets on housing and mortgage markets, combining disaggregate information on housing transactions, buyers and sellers, and loan level data on mortgages for two European countries, the Netherlands and Norway. These data will be used to develop and estimate novel structural econometric models of demand and supply in housing and mortgage markets. These models will serve to investigate three main questions of concern to policymakers, and to evaluate the welfare effects of existing and alternative regulations via counterfactual simulations. First, I will investigate a novel demand channel of housing and mortgages driven by the rise of accommodation sharing platforms such as Airbnb. While these platforms provide extra income to households renting their property, they also fuel housing bubbles and affect mortgage markets. Second, I will evaluate the role of mortgage securitization in reducing lenders' funding costs, quantify its effect on lenders' risk taking behavior, and propose regulations to balance this trade off. Last, I will document the distributional effects of leverage regulations, that have helped to reduce credit risk, but have also disproportionally penalized low income households and first time buyers, worsening income and wealth inequality.

Keywords: structural estimation,wealth inequality,airbnb,securitization,leverage regulation
Hunting for Dark Matter using Magnetically-Levitated Superconductors (MaglevHunt)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2436971.0
EU funding (EUR): 2436971.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Magnetically-levitated superconductors have strong potential to revolutionise inertial sensing and magnetic field sensing. In this project I will develop levitated superconductor sensors with unprecedented sensitivities, and use an array of these sensors to search for well-motivated dark matter candidates in unexplored parameter regimes. The sensors will consist of gram-scale superconducting particles stably confined within anti-Helmholtz-like magnetic traps. I will precisely measure the motion of the levitated particles using superconducting quantum circuits. The particle motion will be highly isolated from unwanted effects of the surroundings, since the particles will levitate far from surfaces, in ultrahigh vacuum, at millikelvin temperatures, within nearly dissipationless traps. Passive and active vibration isolation will be used to mitigate vibrational noise, and magnetic shielding will diminish magnetic field noise. Furthermore, the sensor array will be configured to reject common noise. The mechanical sensors will be sensitive to oscillatory forces caused by axion-like particles, dark photons and vector B-L dark matter. Additionally, they will be sensitive to impulses caused by ultraheavy dark matter near the Planck mass. The primary focus of this project is to hunt these diverse dark matter candidates. This project will also establish the groundwork for future searches with this innovative platform. In the long term, levitated superconductor sensors hold the potential to search for dark matter through its gravitational interaction with ordinary matter. Such a search would be able to conclusively probe the existence of dark matter near the Planck mass.

Keywords: quantum sensing,direct detection of dark matter,magnetomechanics,levitated superconductors
Novel Methods to Identify Endocrine Disruption Induced Neurotoxicity (neurOmics)

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: Denmark,Canada
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-05-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 220845.76
EU funding (EUR): 220845.76
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Currently, the incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorders and autism spectrum disorders are increasing among children; a trend that has been linked to man-made chemicals suspected of causing developmental neurotoxicity (DNT). Despite this, the current guidelines are insufficient to properly identify chemicals that are toxic for the developing brain and scientists across the world have recently called for better DNT testing methods. neurOmics will find new approaches to evaluate endocrine disruption induced DNT. Using cutting-edge molecular methods neurOmics will apply exploratory omics in a powerful alternative model system to form novel hypotheses on how endocrine disrupting chemicals affect the brain. We propose that lipids and myelination represent promising key events for endocrine disruptor-induced DNT and by using technologies such as high-resolution mass spectrometry and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging, we will move the field from a point where hazard characterization relies on fluctuating hormone measurements to more reliable, feasible and quantifiable molecular key events. The project will utilize a representative of true frogs, the cosmopolitan tadpole model American bullfrog (Rana [Lithobates] catesbeiana), to understand the causes of DNT and exploit this gained knowledge to establish adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) applicable for risk assessment of chemicals — a European Commission priority focus area and supporting the Green Deal. Neurodevelopment is highly conserved across animal species so the novel testing strategies will contribute to breaking down the wall between human and environmental toxicology. This will enable for a better and more feasible identification and safety assessment of hazardous chemicals, improve ecosystem health and ultimately reduce the neurodevelopmental disorders observed among children today

Keywords: eco toxicology,developmental neurotoxicity,endocrine disruption,amphibia,adverse outcome pathways
Isotopes of micronutrients to trace margin sediment fluxes (IsoMargin)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn) are essential micronutrients for phytoplankton growth and directly influence the biological carbon pump, which sequesters about 10 billion tons of carbon per year, thereby limiting climate warming. Although intrinsically linked with the oceanic carbon cycle, their marine biogeochemical cycles are not fully understood. The role of oceanic margins, which modulate the transfer of these trace metals (TMs) between land and ocean, is critically under-constrained. The overarching objective of IsoMargin is to characterise and quantify the fluxes of micronutrients from the sediments at the margins. I will contribute to this effort by using a novel multiple-metal concentration and isotope system (Cu, Ni, Zn) on dissolved and particulate phases (suspended particles and marine sediment) using both field and experimental approaches. The oceanic behaviours of these three TMs are distinct enough to respond differently to specific processes, generating complementary information. Hosted by the CNRS-LEGOS, I will produce the first database of Cu, Ni, Zn concentrations and isotope compositions in both dissolved and particulate phases above and off two margins of the Indian Ocean. These observations will be completed by new measurements of TM isotope signatures induced by sediment dissolution in controlled experiments. The experimental data will be integrated into a thermodynamic model, allowing a better description of the transfer mechanisms between the sediment and dissolved pools and thus a broader application of my findings. This project is in line with the Horizon Europe programme priority “exploring and forecasting the impacts of climate change” and the GEOTRACES programme. My close involvement in the leadership and management of this project will promote me as an independent and mature career researcher in marine geochemistry. The data and science products will be open source, and I will share my knowledge via dedicated outreach actions.

Keywords: oceanography,micronutrients,margin,sediments,trace metals,zn,cu,ni,fluxes,isotope compositions
Flexible Optical Breath Sensing Patch (BreathS)

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: Germany,Poland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202125.12
EU funding (EUR): 202125.12
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

For many years, breath analysis has been vital for clinical diagnosis of different diseases. Conventional respiratory rate monitors, however, provide only limit portability and restricted accuracy due to uncomfortable mounting of the sensors. Meanwhile, innovative healthcare monitoring gadgets emphasizing flexible and ‘imperceptible’ sensors have emerged from the rapid evolution of organic and wearable electronics. In this research project, an ultrathin sticker-type optical detector that can be worn on the chest for breath sensing is proposed. Organic semiconductor materials will be implemented into organic light-emitting and light-sensing devices (OLEDs and OPDs), integrated on ultrathin flexible substrates, and patterned to different arrays. To enable invisible sensing and to improve sensitivity, the sensor will use near-infrared (NIR) light, which provides higher penetration through skin. Narrowband organic semiconductor devices for NIR emission and detection are particularly challenging to achieve and will hence be at the heart of the project. Complementary expertise of host and fellow in OLEDs and OPDs, respectively, will lead to two-way knowledge transfer. OLED development will be further supported by a secondment at Silesian University, where photophysics of suitable NIR emitters will be investigated. Device integration and application for breath monitoring will add interdisciplinary aspects and enable the fellow to explore fields of optoelectronics, materials research, and biomedical engineering. The outlined training in material and device characterization, along with new experience in biomedical research and tailored personal development will enable the candidate to grow and pursue an academic career. Finally, BreathS will advance both OLED and OPD research while at the same time marking a breakthrough for breath monitoring, aligning perfectly with the European Union's global strategy for advancing healthcare.
Electrical and electronic architecture for connected, cooperative and automated mobility (EEA4CCAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CCAM (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Belgium,France,United Kingdom,Austria,Netherlands
Call: Centralised, reliable, cyber-secure & upgradable in-vehicle electronic control architectures for CCAM connected to the cloud-edge continuum (CCAM Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5993452.5
EU funding (EUR): 5993452.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

EEA4CCAM proposes in-vehicle electronic control architectures for Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) applications, ensuring safe and cyber-secure deployment across diverse operating conditions. By integrating hardware and software co-design, EEA4CCAM enables smart data flows and secure operation through a centralized, upgradable architecture. The project aims to empower the safe and cyber-secure deployment of CCAM solutions through a novel, centralized, and upgradable in-vehicle electronic control architecture. This will be achieved by performing a paradigm shift in in-vehicle electronic control architectures, developing a centralized, upgradable, and open-source design that integrates HW and SW co-design, enables smart data flows, and ensures safe and cyber-secure operation. The project will foster international cooperation, harmonization, and standardization, promoting open-source interfaces and layouts, and facilitating the development and integration of CCAM applications through exemplarily deployment and validation methods. Five key objectives will be achieved: developing a new, centralized design; exemplarily deploying level 4 automation use cases; enabling safe and cyber-secure operation through system agility and distributed intelligence; realizing a paradigm shift to integrated, resource-efficient architectures; and setting up international cooperation for harmonized electronic control architecture layouts, promoting open-source interfaces and layouts. By achieving these objectives, EEA4CCAM will lay the foundation for the software-defined-vehicle, enabling the widespread adoption of CCAM applications and paving the way for a safer, more efficient, and more connected transportation system.

Keywords: e e architecture,safety and security,verification and validation,sensors,communication,operational design domain,l4 automation
Photoemission Orbital Cinematography: An ultrafast wave function lab (Orbital Cinema)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2022-SYG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-07-01
End date: 2029-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11348614.0
EU funding (EUR): 11348614.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Directly watching in slow-motion videos how electrons move in quantum mechanical orbitals and how this motion shapes the functionalities of condensed matter has been a dream shared by all natural and life sciences. Yet, this vision comes with the daunting challenge of mapping the microscopic structure of electronic orbitals with simultaneous ultrafast time resolution. We will turn orbital cinematography into reality. This seminal breakthrough will rely on the unique synergies between photoemission orbital tomography (POT), ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy, lightwave electronics and advanced theory, developed and pioneered by us. Secured by our recent proof-of-principle studies, we will combine these aspects to transform POT to a cinematography at unprecedented time scales, faster than a single oscillation period of light. This will allow us to systematically explore the nanocosmos on its intrinsic femto- to attosecond (the billionth part of a billionth of a second) scales. We will take actual slow-motion movies of molecular orbitals during charge transfer processes, surface chemical reactions, and wave packet motion driven by lightwaves. Orbital Cinema will thus resolve key questions related to a wide range of applications, from next-generation optoelectronics, energy conversion, photochemistry and catalysis to prospective electronics at optical clock rates. We expect it to revolutionize our understanding of the nanocosmos by elucidating–on elementary spatio-temporal scales–the inner structure of quantum leaps, strong-field control of electrons, charge transfer processes, and chemical reactions as well as their control by electric fields and light. Since the dawn of quantum mechanics, the temporal evolution of electronic orbitals has been among the most sought-after, yet elusive quantum processes. Our model-free observation of orbital motion establishes an unprecedented ultrafast wave function lab that will carry us to the very foundations of quantum science.

Keywords: photoemission orbital tomography,ultrafast photoemission,lightwave electronics,time dependent density functional theory,charge transfer,chemical reactions,nuclear motion,wave packet dynamics