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Interactions, Superconductivity, Catalysis and Topology In Flat Bands (SuperFlat)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2343750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2343750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Physics is at the brink of a quantum revolution. Condensed matter research keep churning out breakthroughs almost every year. Topological insulators and superconductors, high-temperature su- perconductivity in hydrates under pressure and in pnictides, and a plethora of many-body phases in the (topological) flat bands of Moire lattices, are some of the paradigm-shifting discoveries of the past years. These seminal advances allow us to understand and predict new states of matter, with one possible goal of finding High-Temperature superconductivity. Using in-house tools developed by the PI, SuperFlat proposes a program of seminal advances focusing on new phases of matter and mate- rials exhibiting flat bands with high-temperature bulk and surface superconductivity, high catalytic properties and new topology. Specifically, SuperFlat will investigate six new intertwined directions: (1) Development of unifying principles to create flat bands whose electrons are not localized on atoms (2) Accurate prediction of materials with such electronic flat bands in the bulk and surface (3) Predic- tion of electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions in the flat bands of the discovered materials (4) Prediction of high-temperature superconductivity or other phases of matter in the discovered flat bands (5) Prediction of surface states, with flat bands, in all the large-gap (obstructed) insulators in nature (6) Concomitant analysis of the catalytic properties of the surface states in the obstructed insulators. The PI’s track record of developing new theoretical fields and experimentally realized pre- dictions - (a) the first topological insulator (HgTe), Weyl semimetal (TaAs), type 2 Weyl semimetal (WTe2), non-symmorphic insulator (KHgSb), higher order topological states (HOTI) (Bi, WTe2) (b) phonon-based superconductivity, flat-band topology, and related many-body numerics in Moire lat- tices (c) the existing in-house high-throughput materials databases to be used for the search
Truth within Proof-Theoretic Semantics (Truth in PTS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Truth plays an important role in our everyday discourse. However, the philosophical study of truth has proven challenging. The semantics of truth is complicated both by questions of the nature of truth and by the paradoxes naïve theories generate. Traditional views about truth hold that a statement is true if it corresponds to reality. These views require positing a correspondence relation between reality on the one hand and language on the other; spelling out the details of such an account has fallen prey to vicious circle arguments and other accusations of triviality. Deflationism about truth, in contrast, assumes that the meaning of “true” can be explained with reference only to its linguistic and logical role. As such, it is natural to try and clarify the content of deflationism by offering an inferentialist explanation of deflationism. Proof-theoretic semantics brings precision to inferentialism. Hence, if the truth predicate can be given a proof-theoretic semantics, we will finally be able to state precisely what deflationism amounts to. The main objective of this project is to assess to what extent proof-theoretic semantics is compatible with the deflationist conception of truth and to deploy proof-theoretic semantics in elucidating what it means for truth to be a metaphysically light notion. This is important because it has been argued that no proof-theoretic semantics can be given to truth. However, the argument is based on a naïve, classical, inflationary notion of truth. Deflationism opens up a non-classical, non- naïve approach to truth. There is no research on whether proof-theoretic semantics is compatible with this approach to truth. This project will provide a proof-theoretic semantics for deflationary truth, focusing on intuitionistic and intermediate logics, and thereby give strong support to deflationism and clarify its implications and contents.

Keywords: proof theoretic semantics,formal theories of truth
International Authority and Intellectual Domination: External Donors and Local Organizations in Latin American Social Sciences (1945-1973). (PHILANTHROPIC RULE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2020-01-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159460.8
EU funding (EUR): 159460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Scholars interested in Global Governance and international authority favour a broadly Weberian idea of legitimacy as the explanation for the stability and effectiveness of international authority. However, I expand here the focus of analysis in order to include additional concepts like “commonality of interests” and “means of domination”, which are crucial for Weber, but absent from the IR literature on international authority. Among the means of domination, knowledge is of particular importance because it distinguishes the rational from the other types of domination, which explains why knowledge, experts, and diplomats have become an increasingly important topic for IR scholars interested in organizations and in authority. The potential consequences of international authority at local level, like resistance and protection, also receive their due consideration. To put it in a nutshell, what this project pretends is to offer a better account of how donor organizations transfer knowledge, money, goods, salaries to local organizations like universities and research centres, purportedly with the intention of making possible for recipients to pursue their educative policies goals and policies. In reality, I submit, these are “means of domination” that foundations and IOs award local actors so that they operate teaching programs and research projects chosen by the patrons or, in other words, in order to move local actors to collaborate in realizing the goals of donors. In empirical terms, the question is to what extent international organizations – UNESCO, ONU – and transnational ones – philanthropic foundations like Rockefeller and Ford – succeed or failed in their efforts to wield influence on academic organizations, more specifically on teaching and research in the social sciences, in Latin America during the post-war years (1945-1973).
Rethinking Conscious Agency (ReConAg)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1064712.0
EU funding (EUR): 1064712.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project will investigate the nature, structure and significance of conscious agency along three related fronts. First, although philosophers have emphasized the importance of various aspects of consciousness for human agency, work on conscious agency within philosophy remains unsystematic. Cross-talk regarding the phenomena at issue hampers progress, as does a lack of significant attention to the richness of the phenomenology that accompanies human agency. In response, we will develop a new account of the nature and mechanistic underpinnings of agentive phenomenology. Second, although psychology’s recent progress in explaining agentive capacities – e.g., metacognition, cognitive control, attention, perception, decision-making, and motor acuity – is impressive, insights regarding the importance of consciousness for these capacities need to be made explicit, and leveraged to construct a next generation model of action control. In response, we will map the phenomenology of agency onto the structure and function of action control capacities, with special focus on three areas: the role of explicit knowledge and its signatures within consciousness, the function of phenomenal states for cognitive control resource allocation, and the relationships between conscious intentions and perceptual feedback. Third, we will deploy the tools of experimental philosophy – that is, the use of psychological methods to study philosophical questions – in two novel areas. First, we will complement and advance this project’s philosophical work by experimentally investigating agentive phenomenology. Second, we will explore the practical and moral significance of conscious agency, by determining what aspects of conscious agency drive commonsense moral thinking about responsibility for action.

Keywords: intentional action,conscious control,experimental philosophy,phenomenology of agency
Fostering Sustainable Living cities (FEASIBLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call: Aggregation - Project Development Assistance (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-13
End date: 2022-12-12
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1073099.86
EU funding (EUR): 1070941.8599999999
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

FEASIBLE focuses on the fostering of actions for the energy efficiency upgrading of residential and public buildings in the municipalities of the Parma Province. The target audience of the project are the owners and renters of apartments pertaining to a same condominium as well as owners/managers of public living-assisted places. For what concerns the private sector, the project makes explicit reference to the recent tax incentive measures put in place by the Italian state to substantially improve the deep renovation of the multifamily buildings. In this framework FEASIBLE intends fostering the penetration of these measures through targeted support actions like a consensus building process addressed to the apartment owners living in these buildings and the institution of a one-shot stop facility to provide institutional, legal and technical support to the citizens and the building (condominium) managers interested to improve the energy efficiency of their living places. As for the public sector FEASIBLE aims at improving the energy efficiency of the real estate asset managed by public company of the Parma Municipality that takes care of elder and in need people. This will happen through the development of a set of energy efficiency interventions (cogeneration, trigeneration, replacement of lighting facilities, energy service management) constituting a benchmark and a reference standard for their possible replication in other structures of this type. The consortium is led by the Parma Municipality with 6 partners all based in Italy. Total effort is 135,75 with a budget of 1,070 k€ in 30 months. The expected leverage factor is greater than 15 with an expected total investment of, at least, 16,6 M€.

Keywords: energy efficiency in buildings,energy saving measures,consensus building process,public living assisted places
The Long-Term Consequences of Shocks to Housing Wealth: Insights from History (HISHOUSHOCK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211735.68
EU funding (EUR): 211735.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Climbing the housing ladder is the most important way for households to accumulate wealth, but households differ significantly in their access to housing wealth and the housing returns they realize. The goal of this project is to investigate the long-term impact of shocks to housing values on the wealth of individuals and their neighborhoods. Measuring the impact of such shocks is difficult, because differences in housing wealth and housing values are typically closely related to economic trends and the individual choices of households, making it difficult to identify variation in housing wealth that is unrelated to the property or its owner. The limited availability of long-term data on the wealth of individuals further constrains the possibility to study long-term effects. The solution I take in this project is to go back into the past. I propose a set of three studies in the context of historical Amsterdam that exploit shocks to housing wealth to investigate their impact over the long run. The particular institutional setting of Amsterdam in the 18th and 20th centuries allows me to isolate changes in housing wealth or access to housing wealth that are unrelated to individuals or economic conditions, and whose effects can be traced using extensive recently-digitized archival records. The first study examines how the level of house prices when individuals enter their home-buying years affects their lifetime wealth accumulation. In the second study, I investigate how tax-driven losses and gains in housing wealth affect the income and wealth of individuals and their offspring. In the final study, I take the house as a unit of observation and investigate how shocks to property- and neighborhood-level housing returns affect long-term housing values. The proposed project will be hosted by the Erasmus School of Economics and Columbia Business School, making use of world-leading knowledge and training in real estate and financial history.

Keywords: real estate,household finance,financial history,housing markets,wealth accumulation
European Researchers' Night in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018-2019 (RiNG-18-19)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 208000.0
EU funding (EUR): 172200.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

European Researchers' Night in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018-2019 (RiNG-18-19) will jointly represent research and innovation landscape from Republika Srpska and Federation of BiH, promote scientific careers and enhance public recognition of researchers' work with the message "Researchers are amongst us" by engaging interactive communication with the public at large in whole BiH. RiNG-18-19 slogan is “Let's STEAM! We are all creators.” where STEAM refers to Arts in STEM, and is modified to highlight people in Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Arts and Makers. RiNG is a Researchers’ Night of national character, involving coordinated actions in at least eight cities in BiH, and incorporates cross-border aspect by involving researchers and research-driven business from the Balkan region as participants in RiNG activities. Promotion campaign will largely rely on European dimension and will be coordinated with other Researchers' Nights in EU and Western Balkan region. Specific activities will be organized in several cities in BiH, thus becoming "national" research promotion event in this country: - Edutainment parks with hands-on experiments, directly engaging general public into communication with researchers; - High school competitions for the best science projects; - Various competitions, games and quizzes, especially directed to younger audience; - Thematic activities at supporting universities, research centres and museums; - "Stand Up Science" lectures and presentations in TED format; - "Science for Cultural Heritage" hackathon; - 3 min research idea pitch competition for students; - Large EU area: EU corners with policy and gender issues advisory, as well exhibition of EU-funded projects in BiH; - Science Movie Night and Science Party. RiNG-18-19 total quantitative targets are: - Number of people to be reached through awareness raising campaign in BiH: 1.000.000; - Expected number of direct attendees to organized events in whole BiH: 42.000.

Keywords: european researchers night,science communication,edutainment,steam,public recognition of researchers,promotion of science careers
Cosmic Ray Tomograph for Identification of Hazardous and Illegal Goods hidden in Trucks and Sea Containers (SilentBorder)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Strengthen security through border management
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Germany,Italy,Estonia,Belgium,Switzerland,Türkiye,Finland,United Kingdom
Call: Technologies to enhance border and external security (H2020-SU-SEC-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7471577.5
EU funding (EUR): 7471577.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Everyday our customs workers need to tackle counterfeit goods and piracy to protect the health and safety of our citizens, yet it is estimated that only a small fraction of cargo is inspected and even smaller fraction of illegal goods are detected. Today, the most widely used technology for scanning vehicles, ranging from vans and trucks to railcars, is gamma-ray and X-ray radiography. But new technologies are required for overcoming current technological shortcomings like inability to detect the materials, usage of radioactive and harmful source, low throughput to name some. Cosmic-ray tomography (CRT) is considered as beyond the state-of-the-art technology in cargo screening. Cosmic-ray muons are highly penetrating, their average energy is about 10,000 times the energy of a typical X-ray and they are practically non-absorbable. They are suitable to identify materials hidden inside of shielded material, too thick or deep for other imaging methods. The CRT is completely passive, exploiting naturally occurring secondary cosmic radiation. Contrary to conventional X-ray or gamma-based imaging techniques it allows to distinguish between different materials and localizes it inside the cargo or vehicle by providing visualised 3D image. We will bridge the major security gap for fast and safe inspection of large number of cargos by developing the Multi-Functional Passive Detection System. The detection capability is based on using high accuracy sensors for particle tracking in combination with beyond state-of-the art tomographic reconstruction and material classification algorithms. The main objective of SilentBorder is to develop and validate a new high-technology CRT scanner for border guard, customs and LEAs that enables safe and fast screening, detection and identification of hazardous and illegal goods (e.g. SNM), contraband (e.g. tobacco or explosive) as well as hidden persons in up to 20’ iso containers.

Keywords: scanning technology,passive scanning technology
Neural processing of context-dependent innate behavior (FlyContext)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497600.0
EU funding (EUR): 1115199.9
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

How do we decide what to choose? While certain cues are preferred, others are avoided. But even innate preferences and aversions must be evaluated in a context-dependent manner. These contexts are environmental cues, but also internal state. In this proposal, I will address how the nervous system integrates chemosensory information with internal state to produce appropriate behaviors. I will present a research program relying on fly genetics, behavior analysis, and in vivo physiology to characterize the neural circuits and mechanisms involved in context-dependent processing of sensory cues. Specifically, I will address how three different internal states (hunger, mating state, sickness) change the perception and processing of odors and tastes. Together with my lab, I have previously demonstrated that the innately aversive odor CO2 is processed in a metabolic state-dependent manner in the fly brain. Exclusively in the context of hunger, CO2 aversion depends on a pathway that involves the mushroom body, a higher brain structure required for learning and memory in the fly. In objective 1, based on two prior behavioral screens, we will analyze the role of additional brain centers such as the lateral horn and the superior lateral protocerebrum in hunger-dependent processing of CO2 and the appetitive odor vinegar. In objective 2, we will dissect the neural underpinnings of polyamine perception. These molecules are indicators of protein breakdown that flies use in a mating state-dependent manner as cues for egg laying or foraging. Objective 3 will focus on the largely unexplored question of how infectious disease and subsequent immune reaction alters chemosensory choice behavior. Results of this proposal will establish a causal link between internal state-dependent chemosensory behavior and neural processing. Ultimately, understanding fundamental rules of context-dependent processing in the fly will provide an important framework for understanding human choice behavior.

Keywords: chemosensory processing,drosophila,neural circuits,neuromodulation,innate behavior,internal state,context dependent behavior