Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Novel miniature machine tool design and realization for next generation high performance micro-components: A coupled-dynamic modelling and simulation approach (SIM-MMT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-09
End date: 2013-12-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185964.8
EU funding (EUR): 185964.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The demand for micromachining is currently increasing with the reduced device dimensions in medical, electronics, aerospace and defense fields. As nanotechnology advances in leaps and bounds, the mechanical interface of these devices becomes more critical. Unfortunately, the techniques of micromachining have not been able to keep up with the advances in nanotechnology. This disparity between the two provides an opportunity for research. To bridge this gap, new techniques in micromachining need to be created Machine choice is a critical step in the micromachining. The rigidity of the machine tool is important as the small vibrations are amplified relative to the smaller tool diameter (e.g. vibration of 0.001 mm is a much larger fraction (1%) of a 0.10 mm end mill) and reduce the precision and damage tools In contrast to large machine tools, meso-scale machine tools (MMT) are apt due to their small footprint, reduced energy consumption and less cost. However, the manufacture of MMT is at its nascent stage. The existing approaches considers the dynamics of machine tool subsystems individually, which can not represent the performance of machine tool in operation Hence, in this work, a generic framework is proposed for building of high performance MMTs based on coupled simulation approach that consider the dynamics of - integrated MMT, controller and machining process, without building the prototype. This approach will reduce time and cost of manufacture and increases the performance of machining The model of the existing MMT is developed by including the model of proposed novel dampers and the performance will be improved by coupled dynamics simulations. This approach is validated by physically modifying the existing design of MMT with suggested changes by simulations. From the gained knowledge, a generic framework will be developed for building of MMT and will be demonstrated The training activities include development of technical (multibody dynamics, machine tool d

Keywords: microengineering,micro machining,miniature machine tool,multibody dynamics,simulation,modelling,sustainable manufacturing,machine dynamics,optimisation,machining process dynamics
Nonlinear Energy Harvesting Solutions for Micro- and Nano-Technologies (NEHSTECH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-02
End date: 2013-05-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194064.0
EU funding (EUR): 194064.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Vibration energy harvesting at micro-scale is considered essential to enable low-power, maintenance free and long-lasting wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, many problems still limit the efficiency of current vibration-driven generators: narrow bandwidth, low power density, MEMS scaling, inconsistent vibrating sources. The scientific objective of this research project is to overcome the present limitations by proposing an innovative dynamical concept. This is based on the exploitation of multiple-mass velocity amplification and nonlinear dynamical features. An high-efficient micro vibration energy harvester will be implemented by using electrostatic (and/or electromagentic) conversion method. The prototype will be realized by using silicon-base MEMS fabrication facilities at disposal of the hosting institute. In terms of power density and frequency bandwidth performances, this technology is expected to demonstrate an improvement by more than a factor four compared to traditional harvesting generators. Intellectual property is also highly anticipated. The training objective of the Fellow Researcher will be to complement and improve his skills in MEMS manufacturing and characterization by attending at formal and informal technical courses and practicing with the resources provided by the hosting institute. The results will be communicated by the Fellow Researcher in conferences and journal papers. A patent application is also envisaged.

Keywords: energy harvesting,micro-electro-mechanical-systems,nonlinear physics,technological sciences,vibration harvesting generators
The Europeanization of Military Training and Education (EUROMITE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150040.4
EU funding (EUR): 150040.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

After the Cold War, European militaries transformed officer education. Several consolidated military education institutions into a new arrangement of National Defence Universities with civilian academic accreditation. The proposed study will analyze their evolution and meanings using the “Officership as a Profession” school. The study sees officership to be a profession, and officers as professionals. The military profession is unique in its reliance on knowledge and skills related to the “management of violence”. Professional military educational institutions equip officers with expert knowledge and values unique to the profession. These institutions are especially important when militaries facing dramatic changes. Such an upheaval resulted from the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). One of its results is a growing demand for improved interoperability between European armed forces which turned to military colleges for achieving a better level of interoperability. The research aims to consider the derivation of these reforms; To consider the impact(s) of civilianization and Europeanization on long-standing proud institutions; To disaggregate their impacts on military education institutions; To investigate their future implications on the nature of the European military profession and civilian-military relations; To contextualize these reforms within an EU context; and assessing prospects for further intra-European cooperation in military education.

Keywords: common security and defence policy (csdp),military professionalism,national defence university,military education,european military cooperation,defence studies,military science
2D glacial drainage system model (GlaDS): application and coupling to ice sheet model (GLADS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 233947.2
EU funding (EUR): 233947.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The prediction of future sea level rise due to dynamic changes of the ice flow in Greenland and Antarctica is one of the great outstanding problems of climate science. One reason why ice sheet models fail to provide this information is their lack of a realistic glacial drainage system model, providing basal boundary conditions. The applicant is currently developing such a glacier drainage system model (GlaDS-model), which incorporates, for the first time, both the channelised and distributed drainage system at the glacier bed in 2D. He is seeking support to apply and enhance this next-generation model, as well as couple it to an ice sheet model. First, the GlaDS-model will be applied to Alpine glaciers, where there is an abundance of data to validate and test it. The model will be parallelised to run on larger domains which will allow to apply it to ice sheet catchment basins. The applicant will study the influence of higher water flux rates, due to climate change or subglacial lake drainages, on the drainage system. The GlaDS-model will then be coupled to a higher order ice sheet model and the effects on ice dynamics under above scenarios are studied. This will give invaluable results to asses the impact of climate warming on ice sheet dynamics and will contribute to future estimates of sea level rise. The outgoing host, Prof.~Flowers (Simon Fraser University, Canada), has the unique background of having developed the most comprehensive glacier drainage system model to date. The applicant will profit from her experience, both for applying and enhancing the model. The return host, Prof.~Payne (University of Bristol), is a prominent ice sheet modeller, will propel the coupling the GlaDS-model to his ice sheet model and the interpretation of the model results. The completion of this project will make the applicant a matured, well rounded researcher, provide him with worldwide collaborations and leave him in a very strong position to establish his own research group.

Keywords: glaciology,subglacial drainage system,hydrology,environmental physics,computer modelling
Pluggable Platform for Personalised Multilingual Patent Search (PERFEDPAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-10-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 235990.0
EU funding (EUR): 235990.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Patent search is an economically important problem, central to the R&D operations of many industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, automotive and many more. Besides the economic interest, from a technological perspective, patent search reveals important challenges for the field of information access. This is because it has important differences (lengthy search sessions, demand for high recall, high value documents) despite it shares a number of important characteristics with web search. The PerFedPat proposal aims to research into a new generation of advanced patent search systems for the patent related industries and the whole spectrum of patent users by designing a new exciting framework for integrating multiple patent data sources, patent search tools and UIs. The iPerFedPat system, which will be the main result of the project, will have a pluggable architecture, providing core services and operations being able to integrate multiple patent data sources and patent related data streams, thus providing multiple patent search tools and UIs while hiding complexity from the end user. At the core of the system’s architecture lies the idea of Personalised Federated Search. In iPerFedPat federated search is used as a method for retrieving information from distributed data sets into user’s workbench, possibly operate and/or integrate, and finally deliver to the patent users for using them in a parallel, coordinated way. As a result the iPerFedPat system will be able to provide a rich, personalised information seeking experience for different types of patent search types, potentially exploiting techniques from diverse areas such as distributed information retrieval, machine learning and human-computer interaction.

Keywords: multilingual information access,machine translation,new trends in interactive information access
Ultrasensitive Quantum Cascade Laser spectroscopy for the heterodyne detection of exhaled biomarkers (QCLASER NOSE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 176185.6
EU funding (EUR): 176185.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal is designed to combine high-performance Quantum Cascade Lasers with the most advanced cavity-enhanced spectroscopic methods in order to develop new trace-gas methods. This project will lead to a non-invasive and compact, diagnostic tool for the real-time analysis of trace gas concentrations in human breath. The detection in human breath of gases with medical relevance, and particularly of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and hydrogen cyanide (HCN), will be our main challenge. The first innovative step of this research will be the development of a continuous wave mid-infrared External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers (EC-QCL), offering broad frequency tuning range in the 4-11 micrometer infrared region, high tuning speed, and high output power. This laser source will be able to probe a vast majority of molecular gases exhibiting strong or fundamental vibrational absorption bands in the mid-infrared. For this project the detection sensitivity has to be pushed to extreme limits. Therefore, as a second step, Frequency Modulation of the EC-QCL source will be developed, to perform for the first time with QCLs, Noise Immune Cavity Enhanced Optical Heterodyne Molecular Spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS). Based on the use of high-finesse optical cavities, it will enable the tracing of molecules at the low part-per-trillion volume: the required sensitivity to trace exhaled biomarkers from humans.

Keywords: physical sciences,physics,applied physics,optics
Logarithmic conformal field theory as a duality between Brauer-type algebras and quantum groups at roots of unity (LCFTDUAL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-18
End date: 2013-09-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185864.0
EU funding (EUR): 185864.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project concerns the little studied class of logarithmic two-dimensional conformal field theories (LCFTs) - with unusual properties such as non-unitarity and non-semisimplicity. LCFTs have applications in statistical mechanics (sand-piles, percolation, polymers, disordered electrons) and in the AdS/CFT conjecture. They have come under increased interest in the mathematical physics community . Yet, very few LCFTs have been understood at the writing of this proposal, and the subject is still in its infancy. LCFTs involve difficult mathematical aspects, and bear a resemblance to non semi-simple Lie algebras. Their study involves such problems as the description of non-semisimple (modular) braided tensor categories of modules over vertex-operator algebras (VOAs), as well as representation theory of affine Hecke algebras and quantum groups at `roots of unity'. We propose to bridge and further develop two recent promising approaches. One - put forward by the applicant - uses a new, mathematical, description of LCFTs based on VOAs, screening operators and ribbon Hopf algebras. The other, pioneered by the host, uses a more physical approach based on explicit lattice regularizations, and study of the corresponding lattice algebras. Both rely on similar mathematical structures, such as quantum groups, bimodules over mutual centralizers, non-semisimple tensor categories, and Morita equivalence. It is hoped that, by bridging the two approaches, several goals will be reached. On the mathematical side, these include better understanding and classification of indecomposable modules for chiral algebras in LCFTs, better understanding and definition of the scaling limit, and reconstruction of non chiral LCFTs from their chiral counterparts. On the physical side, these includes construction of the full consistent LCFT description of geometrical problems and of sigma models describing phase transitions in disordered electronic systems.

Keywords: applied mathematics,mathematical physics,non-semisimple braided tensor categories,quantum groups at roots of unity,affine hecke algebras,logarithmic conformal field theory,brauer algebras
Plant biodiversity of China in a changing world: evolution and conservation (PDIVCHINA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215390.4
EU funding (EUR): 215390.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

What determines large-scale patterns of species richness remains one of the oldest unresolved questions in biology. A plethora of hypotheses have been proposed to explain such patterns, most of which focus on the effects of contemporary processes and environment, especially those associated with climate. A current challenge for ecologists is to link the effect of such contemporary factors with factors associated with the evolutionary history of a region and its species. By combining novel methods in macroecology with species distribution modeling in an integrated framework, I will explore the geographical patterns in species richness and associated phylogenetic structures using high-quality data of plant distributions and phylogenetic information. Additionally, I will determine the threats to plant biodiversity caused by global change in climate. Based on the identification of hotspots of evolutionary history and global changes, I will evaluate the efficiency of the nature reserve network in China. My research will focus on eastern Asia using information on 11,405 species of woody plants. This large biogeographical region contains steep spatial variation in diversity and climate, making it immensely suitable for testing hypotheses proposed to explain species richness patterns. It is a region that has yet to be rigorously investigated using high quality data. Thus, knowledge from this project will compliment the many related studies based on European and North American data, thereby facilitating a more global overview on these issue. I will be supervised by Prof. Carsten Rahbek, a leading scientist of macroecology and global change ecology, and hosted by the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, a Center of Excellence at the Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark. The proposed project, PDIVCHINA, will substantially improve my scientific competencies by providing multidisciplinary knowledge and advanced training for complementary scientific skills.

Keywords: macroecology,macroecovolution,large-scale patterns of species richness,species distribution modeling,woody plants,endangered species,eastern asia
Quantitative exploration of catalytic landscapes underlying the functional divergence of triterpene synthases. (TRICYCLE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-19
End date: 2013-09-18
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 201049.6
EU funding (EUR): 201049.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Plants have evolved the ability to produce diverse terpenes to communicate, thrive and survive in various ecologies and these have profound benefits for humanity as therapeutics and bioactive compounds. While chemical novelty has contributed to the success of sessile organisms like plants, the evolutionary origins of terepene complexity are poorly understood at the molecular level. Among terpenes, triterpenes are produced by oxidosqualene cyclase (OSC’s) family members. In OSC family, beta-amyrin synthases (BAS) is involved in triterpene secondary metabolism and functionally diverged from but is closely related to cycloartenol synthases (CAS) of sterol primary metabolism. Structural changes that interconnect this pair of enzymes remain unknown and hence form a prime model system to address many basic questions; what are/were the key structural changes responsible for the conversion of CAS to BAS?Is this transition unique or a recurring theme? How has this functional transition occurred in other CAS contexts?To approach these questions, project quantitatively explores catalytic landscape subtended by extant CA and BA synthases of plants. Catalytic landscaping is a novel concept that uses multidisciplinary approaches to discern the structural changes that interconnect a pair of recently diverging enzymes. Elucidating the catalytic landscape of CAS and BAS would yield important insights into the evolution of triterpene complexity as a whole and aid applied efforts to engineer pathways for novel triterpenes. Project aims to; i)computational and structural modelling of CAS and BAS to identify functionally relevant amino acids to enable ii)in silico design and synthesis of mutant library in CA background using structure-based combinatorial protein engineering. Library will be iii) expressed in yeast to identify and quantify triterpenes using GC-MS. iv)analysis of data to build models to relate changes in product specificity to the underlying structural changes in CAS-BAS.

Keywords: natural sciences,computational biology,phylogeny,proteomics,in vitro culture of plant material,molecular evolution
In-fiber optical cavities structures for telecommunications and sensing. (IFOCS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200549.6
EU funding (EUR): 200549.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed work is focused on in-fiber optical cavities structures (IFOCS), which are the “in-fiber” implementation of coupled multicavity structures. “In-fiber” optical devices are embedded in an optical fiber, and they are highly desirable because of their easy integration, high power handling, tolerance of harsh environments, flexible form factor, variable wavelength accommodation, low cost and scalable manufacturing. The main aim of the proposed research consists of the study and research of the potential applications of IFOCS, focusing on the options for designing and fabricating tuneable devices and the combination of complementary structures , on the following fields: • Optical communications (OC), using the multichannel capabilities of IFOCS. • Fiber sensing (FS), using the fact that local perturbations in the fiber affect the local frequencies of the spectral responses. • Microwave photonics (MP), where the discrete-time impulse response will be exploited for the photonic processing of microwave signals.

Keywords: applied optics,communication technology,biotechnology,multisensory technology,multi-sensing