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Terahertz graphene receiver for wireless communications (TERACOMM)

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: Spain
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS2 (ERC-2022-POC2, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

6th generation (6G) mobile broadband communications will transform the communications industry, leading to high speed networks capable of linking integrated communication, sensing, and computing capabilities to fuse the physical, biological, and cyber worlds. However, 6G infrastructure will require a significant increase in data transfer rate (>10 times larger than current standards), ultra-low power consumption (<1pj/bit), and high reliability. 5G technology, originally designed for data rates up to 20 Gbps, cannot fulfill these requirements. The sub-THz spectrum (~100GHz-300GHz) could provide the required capacity for 6G short-range wireless links. On the other hand, Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems, consisting of multiple transmitting/receiving antennas, are a key element of 5G tech, dramatically increasing the spectral efficiency of the wireless link, multiplying the data transfer rate of the single TX/RX antenna system by the number of implemented channels. Developing a technology that can combine the advantages of the sub-THz spectrum and MIMO systems could yield short-range 6G wireless connectivity, significantly enhancing data rates, power consumption, and reliability. ICFO’s patented Antenna-integrated-Graphene-THz-Detector (AGTD) technology, providing ultrabroadband frequency operation, high speed (potentially >100GHz), high sensitivity, small footprint and low power consumption, represents an ideal solution able to meet all the requirements for the realization of a MIMO system operating at unprecedented frequencies. TERACOMM envisions the realization and the demonstration of the receiver module of a graphene-based wireless MIMO system able to reach data rates >100Gbps for short range applications. Industrial links, protection of intellectual property, and commercial exploitation will lie at the heart of the project from the outset, in order to maximize the potential for this technology to realize a significant social and economic impact.
Multiphase Flow Optimisation Strategies with Industrial Applications (MFLOPS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece,Austria,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Italy
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3066945.94
EU funding (EUR): 2607717.6
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

Efforts to reduce CO2 emissions require innovative and technologically viable solutions to be developed. Technology holds the greatest potential to help society address the challenges of designing energy efficient concepts at affordable prices. Among the wide envelope of factors, one core characteristic relevant to this proposal is the occurrence of multiphase flows, which are ubiquitous in nature and industry. For example, hydraulic turbomachines, ship propeller systems, and e-fuel injectors are compromised by the occurrence of catastrophic cavitation. In the field of power generation, boiling heat transfer is the predominant energy conversion method. Multiphase flows for immiscible fluids seem to hold the key to the efficient design of emerging electrification technologies of the transport sector, such as battery thermal management systems and Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells for innovative aviation propulsion systems, as well as in the design of energy efficient marine vessels. Optimisation methods for designing efficient systems are largely missing from the relevant technological sectors. MFLOPS aspires to develop coupled multiphase flow and optimisation methods, including adjoint methods, and apply them to cases specified by MFLOPS’s non-academic beneficiaries and partners. This coupling of research with industry makes MFLOPS a truly innovative network for Doctoral researchers to start their career. A holistic training is provided by scientists and industry leaders to facilitate the accomplishment of the scientific tasks and to apply them to industrial practice. Additional networking, transferable skills and rigorous scientific training on the relevant topics make MFLOPS a well-connected cohort of future leaders with the ability to communicate across disciplines, aiming to support European industries, while been heavily involved in the public mandate for global CO2 reduction.

Keywords: cfd,optimisation,e fuels,fuel cells,marine vessels,btms,cavitation,boiling,immiscible fluids,adjoint
How digital money is shaping the future of political collectivities? A comparative perspective from Latin America (DIGIMONEY)

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: France,Mexico
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 225475.2
EU funding (EUR): 225475.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Over the last decade, digital innovations have transformed a fundamental aspect of our societies: money. These innovations have brought new actors to the realm of issuing currencies, leading to what some have defined as the end of an era in which money was defined by the state. DIGIMONEY will study two of these developments. On one hand, cryptocurrencies. Thanks to blockchain technology, these would allow a decentralized and state-independent access to money. On the other hand, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). These would serve to reaffirm state regulatory power in the face of private and anti-state monetary initiatives. In short, while CBDCs seek to uphold the nation-state political structures, cryptocurrencies aim to transcend them. Through an anthropological approach, DIGIMONEY main objective is to study the critical role of digital money in shaping both established and emerging forms of political collectivities. Instead of treating money as a purely market catalyst (as orthodox economic theory often does), project’s originality lies in its analysis of money as a battleground where diverse political collectivities attempt to reaffirm their power and trace the boundaries of their presence and sovereignty. To achieve this, DIGIMONEY research will be developed in two countries that constitute paradigmatic cases in relation to each digital currency: Mexico (where the state is on the verge of launching its CBDC) and Venezuela (the third country in the world with the highest volume of cryptocurrencies transactions). By integrating an outstanding international research environment and developing an adapted training program, the candidate will qualify as a leading researcher in a new and promising field of research at the crossroads of anthropology of money and political economy of money. Furthermore, he will acquire new writing, communicative, and management skills that will allow him to reach a position of professional excellence and independence.

Keywords: money,digital technologies,anthropology,state,political collectivities
Understanding Material Synthesis Conditions and Complexity at High-Pressure (UNMASCC-HP)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Materials Engineering
Panel description: Advanced materials development: performance enhancement, modelling, large -scale preparation, modification, tailoring, optimisation, novel  and combined use of materials, etc.
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Functional materials with outstanding technological properties can be found under extreme pressures and temperatures. This is particularly true for nitrides and hydrides, where the application of high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) conditions has recently revealed an unexpectedly rich and complex chemistry and enabled the synthesis of compounds showing outstanding mechanical and electronic properties with applications in electronics, hard coatings, hydrogen storage, superconductivity and many more. However, great challenges remain to be conquered in order to truly explore the possibilities permitted by these exotic materials. Indeed, their properties often vanish when brought back to ambient conditions, either because the atomic arrangement or the underlying physical processes becomes energetically unfavourable. Moreover, the importance of finite-T effects and the structural and dynamical complexity of these HPHT phases, prohibit computations so far from efficiently guiding experimental synthesis. The goal of this project is to provide the computational tools for guiding the efficient and targeted synthesis of next-generation technological materials, including the choice of synthesis conditions and precursor materials. We will search for materials retaining their functional properties under decompression or are directly synthesizable at ambient pressure. To accomplish this, we will develop a work flow based on machine learning inter-atomic potentials to numerically explore experimental synthesis conditions at ab-initio accuracy. This will enable an analysis of thermodynamic competition between different phases at HPHT and rigorous benchmarking against experiments to ensure that we truly portray nature's behaviour.This project will open up uncharted horizons for exploiting pressure and temperature as thermodynamic variables to explore new chemistry and synthesis pathways, ultimately guiding experiments towards industrially relevant novel technological materials.

Keywords: materials modeling from first principles,nitrides,hydrides,extreme conditions,machine learning inter atomic potentials,density functional theory,computational material exploration
Governing Health, Family and Religion: The Biopolitics of Genetic Counselling and Religious Family Formations (RELI-GENE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2030-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999883.31
EU funding (EUR): 1999883.31
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

RELI-GENE is an interdisciplinary project which examines minorities’ attitudes towards genetic counselling and reproductive options in the case of inherited genetic recessive disorders and analyses how healthcare policies govern communities’ family formations. It focuses on close-knit religious minorities that emphasise consanguineous and endogamous marriages to strengthen communal bonds to provide a sense of solidarity and of safeguarding lineage and purity. Current scholarship focuses predominantly on single national contexts, specific healthcare policies and individual religious communities, neglecting comparable perspectives. RELI-GENE specifically analyses how transnational spaces serve as strategies to navigate and bypass national healthcare policies and legal restrictions related to marriage and reproductive practices. The project adds a new conceptual framework to understanding (a) the broader implications of directive, nondirective and mandatory genetic counselling within diverse national healthcare systems; (b) communities’ own use of biopolitics to construct discourses around lineage and purity; (c) how individuals respond to both state policies and to the religio-cultural norms and expectations within their communities. RELI-GENE offers a perspectival shift on the governmentality and biopolitics of family formation by 1. examining the different forms of power in state-led biopolitics in Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Sweden and Germany and their respective healthcare systems, 2. exploring communities and their transnational links which for religious, cultural and political reasons manifest a biopolitics of purity and examining how these communities construct lineage-oriented narratives to counter their minority status or sense of persecution and marginalisation, 3. analysing how individuals respond to state policies but also to the religio-cultural traditions of their communities, and how they engage in various forms of self-governing.

Keywords: family planning,genetic counselling,biopolitics,governmentality,ultra orthodox jews,palestinians,iraqis,syrians,emiratis,israel,sweden,germany,united arab emirates
Delineating Responses to Respiratory Viral Infections Through Lung-on-Chip Modeling (REACT-HOpOn)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Greece
Call: Hop on Facility (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-06, 2023)
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 599750.0
EU funding (EUR): 599750.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

REACT-HopOn aims at enhancing the overarching goal of the REACT project, which seeks to deepen our understanding of the interactions between the human host and respiratory viral infections. The REACT project utilizes state-of-the-art technologies like single-cell sequencing, T-cell epitope mapping, T and B cell receptor sequencing, antibody functional assessment, and functional assays of blood T cells and nasal epithelial cells to model innate and adaptive immune responses to viral infections. What sets REACT-HopOn apart is its integration of lung-on-chip technology into REACT's in vitro modeling methods. Lung-on-chip systems use microfluidic technology to replicate the intricate architecture and cell interactions found in the lower respiratory tract. This addition allows for a more detailed examination of how the lower respiratory tract responds to viruses and enables the simulation of organ-level pathophysiology and tissue functionality beyond conventional culture systems. To achieve this, REACT-HopOn replicates multicellular architectures, tissue-tissue interfaces, chemical gradients, mechanical cues, and vascular perfusion. An innovative aspect is the use of human lung tissue fragments in creating lung-on-chip models, incorporating various stromal, innate, and adaptive immune cell types for a richer understanding of lung responses to respiratory viruses. One of the project's strengths is its partnership with the BSRC Fleming, which coordinates the BronchoBOC consortium focused on advancing organ-on-chip technology for drug screening, particularly in lung tumor research. This collaboration leverages advanced technology and expertise to bolster REACT-HopOn's goals. In summary, REACT-HopOn complements and enhances the REACT project's comprehensive approach to understanding the molecular interactions between respiratory viral infections and the human host. Its findings promise to provide critical insights into these complex diseases, offering enhanced modeling tools

Keywords: virus,host,respiratory,infections,lung,immune,t cells,stromal cells,biomarkers,targets,chips,microfluidics,culture,host pathogen interaction,sars cov 2,influenza,rsv,genetics,t cells
Life-history genes in fishes: bridging functional and evolutionary genetics for understanding life-history trait evolution (FishLEGs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Finland
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Life history is one of the most central concepts in biology. Numerous biological questions ultimately revolve around the causes and consequences of variation in reproduction and survival i.e. fitness. Tremendous effort has been put in establishing the causes and mechanisms for life history trait variation and trade-offs. But even in well studied model organisms, evolutionary genetic and functional genomic approaches are rarely combined, and thus the path from genotype to phenotype often remains a black box. A strategy to overcome this major hurdle has recently emerged, with the discovery of loci that explain exceptionally large proportions of the variation in various life history traits. These “life-history genes” offer new opportunities to study not just the why (evolution) but also the how (functional genetics) of life history trait variation. I will address critical outstanding questions by bridging functional and evolutionary genetics approaches to study multiple loci linked with life-history traits including age at maturity, migration timing and migration strategy in 3 fish species: Atlantic salmon, Rainbow trout/steelhead and Atlantic cod. The relatively simple genetic architecture of the traits, combined with the features of these species as model systems, offer a unique opportunity to finally reveal the genetic architectures, molecular mechanisms and ecological drivers that translate large-effect genotypes into adapted life history phenotypes, and examine how evolution shapes these processes. In FishLEGs I will: i) characterize the molecular functions behind genotype-life history associations; ii) elucidate life history trait reaction norms and evolution in variable environments and iii) determine the strength of natural and sexual selection on life history traits, their sex specific effects, and model the evolutionary consequences. Life history research also has societal relevance for health, sustainable fisheries, conservation and climate resilience.

Keywords: evolutionary biology,evolutionary functional genomics,population genetics,sexual conflict,sexual selection,sex specific differences,fishes,conservation and management,ecological genomics,evolutionary genomics
Multi-carbonyl-COFs as high-capacity organic cathodes for lithium batteries (McCOFs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209914.56
EU funding (EUR): 209914.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Lithium-ion batteries are the most promising materials for sustainable energy storage due to their high energy density, low self-discharge rate, and longer life cycles. Organic electrodes based on redox-active covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are promising alternatives to the often-used inorganic electrode materials. However, improving specific capacity, voltage, cycling stability and rate performance is required for practical applications. In this project, we aim to develop six polyimide-linked Multi-carbonyl-COFs (McCOFs) as cathodes with high energy density. We will achieve it by [3 + 2] reticular condensation of tritopic knots such as hexaazatripheas tris anhydride (HATTA) and mellitic trianhydride (MTA) with various diatopic linkers such as 2,7-diaminopyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone (DAPT), 2,7-diaminobenzophenanthroline-tetraone (DANT) and pyromellitic-N,N′-bisaminoimide (BDH). The designed McCOFs incorporate the highest numbers (24) of carbonyl groups per pore along with six pyrazine of HATTA groups, which are evenly distributed along the pore walls, assisting rapid Li+ ions diffusion. Additionally, some of the targeted McCOFs have the highest theoretical capacity values such as HATTA-DAPT (Qtheo = 484 mAh g−1), HATA-BDH (Qtheo = 423 mAh g−1), HATA-DNT and (Qtheo = 385 mAh g−1). Thus, McCOFs aim to develop high-performance organic cathodes with superior energy density than previously reported for other McCOFs by the rational combination of carbonyl-rich framework, pyrazine-based building block with multiple redox centres and stable polyimide-linkages. I will receive advanced training in the synthesis, characterization, and exfoliation of McCOFs (Prof. Manuel Souto, Host PI, CIQUS-USC) and in the fabrication of COF-based bucky paper electrodes (Dr. Rebeca Marcilla, IMDEA Energy, Secondment). This work addresses ambitious objectives and nurtures my scientific development and independence in organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and materials science.

Keywords: redox active covalent organic frameworks cofs,organic electrode materials,multi carbonyl cofs,exfoliation of cofs,lithium ion battery,energy storage materials