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Poly(catechol)-Lignin Hybrid Electrodes for Sustainable Batteries (SUBPOL)

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: Sweden,Spain
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 278409.6
EU funding (EUR): 278409.6
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Designing safe and sustainable batteries is of great importance for sustainable development of our modern society. Hereof, rechargeable aqueous metal-polymer batteries (RAMPBs) that combine inherently sustainable redox-active polymer (RAP) organic cathodes, safe and abundant metal anodes in water-based electrolytes are identified as promising candidates. However, to date, most of the tested RAPs are synthetic ones, and their commercial exploitation hasn’t been accomplished due to high cost/performance factor. SUBPOL proposal aims to develop sustainable RAMPBs by hybridizing cost-oriented biopolymer (Lignin; Lig) and performance-oriented synthetic RAPs (PolyCatechols; PC) into organic cathodes, and combining with appropriate metal anodes (Zn, Pb, etc), targeting their performance beyond state-of-the-art (150–600Wh/kg, ~$150/kWh). SUBPOL will follow an integrated approach of macromolecular engineering-tailor made PCs, biopolymer platform-ease of Lig modification, novel electrode fabrication methods-LbL of complimentary charged PC and Lig polyelectrolytes or polyelectrolyte complexes and device optimization. This Fellowship will provide ER strong technical, professional and transferable skills, especially with acquisition of biopolymer batteries and scale-up, which will complete his practical expertise in synthetic RAPs, their applicability in different batteries. The success of SUBPOL depends on material design, device fabrication, scale-up, and all members of this consortium: Dr. Patil-ER, supervisors, Prof. Crispin-Linköping University at host, Dr. Marcilla-IMDEA Energia (secondment), Dr. Nilsson-Ligna Energy (placement in non-academia) have already demonstrated required skills in this regard. Optimistically, SUBPOL will cover some of the priorities of HE-WP for energetic future of EU, and also its multidisciplinary aspect provide a true opportunity to reach his career goal of becoming an independent researcher in either a leading university or R&D batteries company

Keywords: redox active polymers,organic electrode materials,organic batteries,aqueous batteries,polymer batteries,macromolecular engineering,polycatechol,lignin,bioelectrodes,cost performance,low cost
Innovative insight into the endogenous kallikrein-kinin system in tissue in health and disease state (TIKKS)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265647.84
EU funding (EUR): 265647.84
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and sepsis are the leading causes of death worldwide. In all of them, a strong involvement of the endogenous kallikrein-kinin system (KKS) is postulated. However, the KKS is only rudimentarily understood, which is also reflected by the large proportion of developed drugs showing insufficient efficacy. The KKS is a 2-arm cascade that is present in both the blood as well as the tissue and its actions are mediated by the so-called kinins. Comprehensive insight into the cascade is greatly hindered by the lack of appropriate bioanalytical techniques. While the fellow has recently developed an innovative mass spectrometric method for the plasma KKS and applied in clinical studies, the tissue KKS has not yet been investigated, although the physiological action is likely exerted only in tissue. The advances in mass spectrometric imaging are currently used for metabolomics or mapping of biomolecules in tissue, but appear to be highly promising also for targeted kinin detection in the tissue KKS. The fellow with his key expertise in targeted mass spectrometric kinin quantification will use different mass spectrometric imaging techniques (DESI, MALDI, MasSpec Pen) to evaluate the tissue KKS. Hence, the TIKKS project is to first time study the presence, distribution, metabolism and overall profile of kinins in different (diseased) tissues by mass spectrometric imaging. For this purpose, various malignant tissues are examined as a main objective and subsequently extended to cardiovascular diseases and angioedema. This innovative approach will allow the fellow to uniquely investigate physiology and pathophysiology across both arms of the KKS (tissue & plasma) and therefore strengthen him on his path to his own professorship. The combined power of the innovative imaging approach and the already established mass spectrometric platform for plasma KKS will critically accelerate the discovery of promising drug targets for non-communicable diseases.

Keywords: kallikrein kinin system,bradykinin,mass spectrometry
Constraining forEst Responses to drOughts with carBon Isotopes (CEROBI)

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: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187624.32
EU funding (EUR): 187624.32
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing frequency and intensity of droughts in response to climate change threaten the capability of forests to act as climate regulators and carbon sinks. Currently, Land Surface Models (LSMs), the terrestrial components of climate models used to make climate projections, underestimate severity of and the recovery time from droughts. Therefore, credible and reliable climate projections, require improving the realism of forests drought response in the LSMs. CEROBI will address this problem by using carbon isotopes in tree rings and in the atmosphere to constrain model parameters related to ecosystem response and resilience to droughts. This objective will be achieved through four key steps using the ORCHIDEE LSM, although the methods developed throughout the project will be applicable to any LSM. First, I will add a few missing processes required to fully represent the carbon isotopic composition of tree rings in LSMs. Second, I will eval-uate the drought response and resilience of forests in ORCHIDEE using various kind of carbon isotope data. Third, I will identify the key model parameters controlling the drought response. Finally, using Bayesian techniques, I will assimilate carbon isotopes measurements at eddy-covariance sites and in tree-rings to calibrate these key model parameters. The newly calibrated ORCHIDEE LSM will be run globally during the period 2000-2100 under a range of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways CO2 emissions scenario to assess the long-term impact of droughts on the carbon and water cycles. The project is designed to exert my skills in atmospheric photosynthetic tracers and to develop my knowledge of ecosystem processes while generating highimpact results. The fellowship will be a springboard to become an independent leading researcher in the fields of the carbon and water cycles.

Keywords: droughts,carbon cycle,modelling,forest,isotope,data assimilation,land surface model
Extreme flood events in western Mediterranean: integrating numerical MODelling and flood records in KARST systems (MODKARST)

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: Spain,Switzerland
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-16
End date: 2026-11-15
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 293445.6
EU funding (EUR): 293445.6
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Changes in rainfall patterns are a direct consequence of the current climate change. Climate projections indicate an intensification of extreme rainfall events (and floods), which will directly affect social, ecological, and economic systems. Thus, one of the greatest challenges of climate science is to understand, model, and predict the variability of floods both in temporal and spatial terms in the context of the present-day global warming. Nevertheless, the uncertainties in projected rainfall at regional scale are still high, and even higher in Mediterranean areas where the climate is characterized by extreme and sudden rainfall events. The instrumental record is too short to correctly estimate return floods periods. Thus, geological records are required to better understand the long-term variability, at millennial to decadal scales, of natural extreme flood events. Among the most important flood archives, including riverine and lake sediments, stalagmites represent one of the best geological records (i.e. accurate chronology, wide temporal range and good preservation) to study past flood frequency. However, stalagmites have not yet been properly exploited for this purpose. MODKARST will provide a unique opportunity to develop a quantitative flood database for the Western Mediterranean realm based on speleothems. To do so, the action plans to infer past flood events from the last 18,000 years based on detrital layers (indicative of flood events) recorded in stalagmites from 5 different caves. This data in combination with karst hydraulic models and water-level monitoring will allow to quantify past extreme flood events. MODKARST will help to better understand the relation among flood recurrence and climate changes, and will shed light on how to better predict the variability of floods in the context of present-day global warming.

Keywords: paleo floods,stalagmites,hydrological modelling
Compositional Approximation Schemes (CompAS)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183600.96
EU funding (EUR): 183600.96
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neural networks have firmly established themselves as powerful tools in many scientific domains, e.g. for protein folding, recovering images of black holes, or solving Schrödinger equations. Although empirically highly successful, neural network based methods very often lack the mathematical foundation to be able to guarantee the accuracy of the solution they produce. While this lack of reliability constitutes a major issue for many applications, I believe that, for scientific machine learning in particular, there is a promising path towards overcoming these issues, as there usually exists knowledge of the ground truth one would like to learn, e.g. that it must satisfy some partial differential equation. The goal of this project is understanding, from an approximation theory perspective, when and why such knowledge may be exploited. A defining property of neural networks is that they consist of a composition of simple building blocks. From the view of approximation theory this is a major paradigm shift, as it classically focuses on superpositional approximation, i.e. based on taking linear combinations of simple building blocks. This project aims to understand, on a fundamental structural level, how compositional approximation differs from classical superpositional approximation. Specifically it will first prove the existence of cases, in which compositional approximation provides a fundamental advantage over superpositional approximation, and subsequently develop ways to characterize these cases. On one hand this will significantly deepen the comprehension of this paradigm-shift in approximation theory, on the other hand it will establish a foundation for the development of provably accurate neural networks based machine learning algorithms.

Keywords: approximation theory,asymptotic geometric analysis
Simple minds – competition of parallel neural filters in behaviour selection of Drosophila (SimpleMinds)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing , nervous system  function and dysfunction , systems neuroscience  and modelling , biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders – In humans and all other organisms
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2022-COG, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2028-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2477303.0
EU funding (EUR): 2477303.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How we and other animals ‘make up our minds’ is an everlasting question that has occupied philosophers and scientists for centuries. Sensory-evoked activity patterns, memory engrams and internally generated brain activity conveying the animal’s internal state are meant to integrate to promote an appropriate behaviour. Still, direct evidence for how integration works on the network, the neurophysiological and the molecular level remains limited. Exemplifying internal needs with tiredness and hunger, and focusing on the numerically simple brain of Drosophila, we here test a parallel filter hypothesis to explain how sensory and internal states are integrated across the relevant centres of the fly brain. We posit that parallel neural filters will have changed permeability for sensory stimuli and to compete: e.g., if hungry, neural networks promoting food approach behaviour will change their permeability for sensory cues relative to those promoting sleep. Our approach will visualise neural activity, while recording online fly behaviour related to hunger, sleep and experience on a treadmill. It will tackle the physiological basis shaping filters, including oscillatory cell and network activities as well as synaptic gating, while recording whole brain activity. We capitalise on our expertise in functional imaging and previous discoveries of hunger and sleep gates as well as their synaptic and network substrates. We will investigate and interfere with key molecular factors underlying filtering to directly challenge network integration and behavioural outcome. Finally, we will remote control competing parallel filters, to test whether sensory permeability can switch the animal’s state between an ego- and an allocentric-like world view and whether depression-like states related to learnt helplessness will favour an egocentric filter setting. Understanding neural filter properties should allow further insights to the physiological basis of depressed states.
VERTical EXchange in the Southern Ocean (VERTEXSO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth System Science
Panel description: Physical geography, geo logy, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499464.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499464.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Mitigating global climatic changes due to human influences is of paramount importance in the coming decades. Historically, the global ocean has played a critical role in this process by taking up the majority of the excess heat and about 30% of the anthropogenic carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions from the atmosphere. The largest share of this uptake process occurred through the subduction of waters in the Southern Ocean that sequester heat and carbon in deeper layers of the ocean. Yet, global climate models have their largest biases in this region and difficulties in representing its past climatic changes. Thus, their future projections bear large uncertainties in the potential of the Southern Ocean to continuously provide such a mitigation service. VERTEXSO addresses this challenge by studying vertical transport processes, improving their representation in models, and developing novel methods to continuously monitor the vertical exchange. In order to reach these goals, this project performs simulations with a regional ocean model that is able to directly resolve convective plumes and assesses their impact on vertical carbon exchange. We then scale the insights to a global level by improving parameterisations of vertical processes in an Earth System Model, and by investigating their impacts on global climatic changes. Facilitated by most recent advances in remotely observing the Southern Ocean high latitudes, we explore tracers of convective plumes in subsurface data and integrate these observations with satellite data to assess surface density stratification changes. The latter forms a new measure for vertical exchange that serves as a benchmark for model simulations and a tool to monitor the potential of the Southern Ocean to take up and release CO2 and heat. Through this combination of observational data with multi-scale model simulations, VERTEXSO advances the understanding of vertical exchange in the Southern Ocean and how its changes affect the global climate.

Keywords: southern ocean,stratification,convection,carbon,heat,ocean circulation,remote sensing,observations,modelling
History of Animal Governmentality: Models of Animal Exploitation and Resistance in Europe (mid-17th-19th Centuries) (GOVERN-ANIMALITY)

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
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

"History of Animal Governmentality: Models of Animal Exploitation and Resistance in Europe (mid-17th-19th Centuries)" (GOVERN-ANIMALITY) investigates the different forms of animal exploitation taking place in Europe between the mid-17th and the 19th century. By linking together concepts and practices of human relationships to other animals, my aim is to write an epistemological and political history of animal government. To this end, I use different kinds of historical sources, ranging from philosophical, naturalistic, and economic texts to technical manuals (equestrian, veterinary, and zootechnical works). My central question is: what are the actual logics of power over animals, and how did they change over the course of the modern period? By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, GOVERN-ANIMALITY intertwines the epistemological problem of the status of living beings in the history of philosophy and science, with the material history of animal husbandry. This project uses methodological tools that have not been previously employed in the analysis of animal exploitation: namely, historical epistemology and Foucault’s genealogy. By including the voice of the technicians of animal exploitation – who provide abundant testimony of animals' needs and resistance –, this project also aims to restore, at least in part, the agency of animals. Moreover, it looks at the connections between animal inferiorization and mechanisms of animalisation deployed against a variety of human categories. Within the context of a growing academic and social interest in the relationship between human societies and nature, intensified by recent ecological and pandemic crises, GOVERN-ANIMALITY thus provides a critical reflection on the shaping of modern forms of knowledge-power over living beings, characterising Western societies.

Keywords: historical animal studies governmentality biopolitics zootechnics acclimatization domestication and reproduction in 18th and 19th century europe animal agency and resistance
Artificial INtelligence-based Interactive Microtonal Compositional Assistant (ANIMA)

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: Spain,France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194074.56
EU funding (EUR): 194074.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The ANIMA (Artificial INtelligence-based Interactive Microtonal Compositional Assistant) project addresses the limitations of current AI-driven music generation systems by shifting the focus toward human-centered creativity. Unlike platforms that risk homogenizing musical output, ANIMA empowers users to engage deeply with novel harmonic structures, specifically microtonal harmony. This project explores music systems beyond traditional Western 12-tone equal temperament (12-TET), embracing 31-tone and 53-tone equal temperaments to unlock new musical possibilities and enhance compositional diversity. The project is rooted in European academic perspectives and draws on computational modeling and machine learning to support rather than replace human agency. It builds on the ongoing work at institutions such as the MUSAiC (ERC) project, the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the Algomus lab at Université de Lille. ANIMA allows composers to explore expanded harmonic and melodic vocabularies with real-time interactive interfaces and data visualization to navigate microtonal harmonic spaces. ANIMA aims to establish a microtonal music corpus and develop computational models integrating advanced music theory with machine learning techniques. This paradigm shift contributes to a broader understanding of harmony, promotes cultural diversity, and supports the preservation of non-Western musical traditions. The open-source framework also paves the way for its integration into music education, musicology, and digital humanities, with potential commercialization through collaborations with industry partners. In summary, ANIMA is poised to revolutionize AI-assisted music composition by offering innovative tools for microtonal music exploration while maintaining the intrinsic value of human creativity.

Keywords: music and musicology,history of music,artificial intelligence,human computer interaction,interface design,machine learning,computational creativity,visualization and natural language processing