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Brain & BehaviouR InterDisciplinary rEsearch (BRIDGE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5658950.0
EU funding (EUR): 2263580.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This programme aims at enabling a new generation of researchers to tackle frontiers issues about the brain and mind in a multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological fashion. Neuroscience has made many recent advances to connect mental and social phenomena with brain processes. But social sciences and humanities have also made a major progress in understanding human behaviours, and it is urgent to train fellows to better integrate knowledge and technical skills from various traditional disciplines. A rare opportunity to educate young scientists to make novel bridges between brain and behavioural sciences is offered by the creation of the Brain & Behaviour Laboratory (BBL) at UNIGE. The BBL does not only have cutting-edge research facilities (from MRI, EEG, and TMS to virtual reality and multimodal social observation labs) – but it constitutes a unique structure since it is jointly coordinated by two multi-disciplinary institutions: the Interfaculty Neuroscience Centre (CIN) regrouping neurologists, biologists, cognitive psychologists, and computational scientists; and the Interfaculty Centre for Affective Sciences (CISA) gathering psychologists, philosophers, economists, sociologists, lawyers, and art experts – who all study emotional and motivational behaviours in individual and societal contexts. These two centres have launched an innovative and dynamic collaboration in the BBL that now allows many catalytic interactions and bridges between different approaches and levels of analysis among scientists from various disciplines. BRIDGE will train incoming fellows to master the scientific approaches and techniques developed in the BBL, while it will also support outgoing fellows to acquire knowledge, skills, or data that are not currently present in the BBL, and encourage them to return afterwards with reintegrating fellowship. BRIDGE will also set up a new education program completing at a common postdoctoral level the existing doctoral schools of CIN and CISA.

Keywords: psychological sciences,cognitive science,social sciences,experimental psychology,neurosciences,philosophy
Rubicon II (RUBICON II)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5718160.0
EU funding (EUR): 2287264.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Crossing the river Rubicon marked for Julius Caesar the beginning of a long line of victories that resulted in the Roman empire. The Rubicon programme offers young researchers the opportunity to an equally successful academic career. Rubicon is an existing mobility programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The present budget is 5,3M euro on a yearly basis. NWO receives about 300 applications per year for Rubicon of which approximately 27% received granting. The aim of the Rubicon programme is to encourage talented researchers at Dutch universities and institutes to continue in research after gaining their PhDs. It offers them the opportunity to enhance their career prospects by spending from 12 to 24 months gaining relevant knowledge, skills and experience outside the Netherlands. Rubicon also offers researchers the option of using the grant to conduct research in the Netherlands for a period of 12 to 24 months. The mobility of the researcher plays an important role in the selection process, as international research experience is likely to be an advantage at a later stage in the applicant’s academic career and in applying for subsequent NWO grants. The Rubicon programme is open to all scientific disciplines and all nationalities. Any researcher within the first year after having received the PhD is allowed to apply for a Rubicon grant. With EU Marie Curie Co-funding the Rubicon programme will be able to fund 14 incoming fellowship years in the Netherlands per year and finance the social conditions of the outgoing fellows of the Rubicon programme by organising employment for the fellows at the host institutes. NWO wishes to implement the Co-Fund for the submission rounds in 2011 with the duration of projects within the 48 months from March 2011 until April 2015. In the Cofund round 2009 Rubicon was granted funding for the submission rounds to be held in 2010.

Keywords: mobility,incoming,outgoing,the netherlands,dutch,rubicon,nwo,postdoc,research
TAPIR-COFUND (TAPIR-COFUND)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 515205.0
EU funding (EUR): 206082.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR) is a two-year programme for young academics with a background in international relations and international security. The fellows spend a total of 24 months in three different research institutions or think tanks in the United States and Europe in order to build skills in policy-oriented research and create their own networks. Fellows will be working with a supervising researcher at the host institute and will be integrated into relevant research units or projects there. Host institutes provide office space and overhead costs arising during the fellow’s period of research. The fellows’ research will be published by their respective host institutions and/or in adequate academic journals. At the end of each year of the programme, a seminar brings together all fellows so they can exchange information about their experiences and present their research. The circle of participating institutes is composed of eleven high profile research institutes and think tanks on both sides of the Atlantic as for example the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), RAND Corporation, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), United States Institute of Peace (USIP), and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). The programme makes a substantial contribution to the creation of international networks and fosters mutual understanding. As highly accomplished academics looking for a career in policy-oriented research and consulting, TAPIR fellows will be able to experience different policy consulting approaches on the job and to forge contacts within the transatlantic policy community. In addition to the exchange of information and resources across boundaries and across the Atlantic, the fellowship programme provides a pool of qualified professionals for future employment in top-end policy consulting and research.

Keywords: social sciences
International Fellowship Program on Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology (IFP-MUST)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2998170.0
EU funding (EUR): 1199268.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MUST is an interdisciplinary network of Swiss research groups, all with research efforts in ultrafast science. In Switzerland, ultrafast science has reached a critical mass of individual research efforts, spread out over various universities and research centers. In almost all key technologies and in theoretical modeling, Swiss research groups are among the leaders in the field and represent a very complementary set of experimental and theoretical teams. In the future, our society faces a number of key challenges, such as developing alternative energy sources, synthesizing complex functional drugs, or designing post-Moore's law electronics. Addressing these challenges requires a detailed microscopic understanding of the structural and dynamic behavior of matter. This understanding can only come from sophisticated and advanced visualization techniques, which the members of MUST will help to develop within a highly integrated research network. Here, we propose to establish an International Fellowship Program on Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology (IFP-MUST) integrated in and fed by our national network of research teams. It is our vision that novel technologies, advanced modeling techniques, and the spirit of our thriving network would create an ideal environment for high-level postdoctoral research projects. Our program will provide Europe with a new generation of researchers in ultrafast sciences and therefore considerably improve the research quality of the ERA. It is our goal to attract about 75% of all postdoctoral fellows from all around the world (incoming), while having the option to reintegrate European researchers who have worked oversees into a European research environment (25%).

Keywords: physical sciences
REgional innovation STrATEgy relies on researchers’ mobility (RESTATE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-17
End date: 2015-10-16
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1190730.24
EU funding (EUR): 476292.09
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Science is the driver of change in economic activity, in the delivery of public services, and in the private life of citizens in all professions and ages. Change reaches society through mobile individuals carrying innovation from laboratories to applications. Young researchers are in the best position to drive this process, and to benefit from the opportunity. Trentino hosts quality institutions of higher education and research, as well as R&D centers of multinational corporations; FBK is part of the winning tender for the European Institute of Technology (EIT, I.C.T. call); the University of Trento (UNITN) holds the # 1 position in Italy according to the Ministry of Education. All master and doctoral courses at UNITN are taught in English. With this project, FBK aims at creating matching opportunities that will expand employability of incoming and returning post-doc scientists by industry and the public services. Scientists recruited by FBK benefit from hospitality offices; tutoring and career planning; employment contracts with full benefits, independently of nationality and length of stay. Young scientists will be encouraged to perform stages in companies for up to 2 year sabbaticals, through structured relationships with local industry networks. FBK leads the regional effort to build and succeed in a number of knowledge-based clusters. As a result of this experience, FBK expects that candidates will substantially increase the range of employment opportunities, and become more knowledgeable as to how to best contribute their skills to industry and the public services. Employability and mobility of doctorate holders is a two-way process; it requires active partnership between companies and universities, including technology transfer and recruiting initiatives. However, training researchers about the key ingredients for a successful career in the private sector is a necessary task that FBK can perform. A better understanding of the interaction between research institutions and the private economy, development of transferable skills and training on competencies specific to industry are examples of such knowledge creation.

Keywords: biotechnology,information technology,micro-technology,nanotechnology,religious sciences,neuroethics,nuclear physics,ambient assisted living
Astronomy Fellowships in Italy (ASTROFIT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1532454.0
EU funding (EUR): 612981.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Astrophysics research has typically an international dimension, since most of the projects require large collaborations. Many scientific projects are conducted by international teams. It is therefore essential that young researchers have the opportunity to work with teams in different countries. INAF – the Italian Institute for Astrophysics- intends to launch a programme of incoming mobility for researchers non-resident in Italy. The AstroFIt programme here proposed will allow INAF to set up for the first time such a programme. The fellowships will be carried out at INAF structures, that include 19 Institutes broadly distributed in Italy and the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) in the Canary Island. Two mobility types will be implemented: a) Incoming Mobility and b) Re-integration fellowships. Both types are of utmost importance for INAF, considering the so-called “brain drain” phenomenon, not counterbalanced by an adequate attractiveness of Italian research centres for foreign scientists. Both the proposed types of fellowship try to invert this tendency. The limited number of fellowships foreseen is due to the fact that AstroFIt Programme is an integration of other international scientific collaborations, schemes and initiatives in which INAF is already involved. Nevertheless, Astrofit is important because unrelated to a single scientific programme but is devised to the strenghthening of the fellows capabilities in working in an environment different from the environment where initial training was achieved. The program will be 4-year long. Fourteen (14) fellowships will be offered, with two calls, each one including 3 Incoming mobility fellowships and 4 Re-integration fellowships. Every fellowship will last two years. All the fellowships will be easily completed within its 4-year duration, including a final meeting to present and discuss the programme results. .

Keywords: physical sciences,astronomy,incoming mobility
NOBLE GAS TRACING OF SOURCES AND SINKS OF VOLATILE ELEMENTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE (NOGAT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2281806.0
EU funding (EUR): 2281806.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal has the objective to greatly enhance our understanding of sources, sinks and processes fixing the composition of the atmosphere at different time periods of time, from 3.8 Gyr ago to Present. For achieving this goal, I shall develop the high precision analysis of noble gases, which are key tracers of atmospheric evolution. The core of the proposal is : (i) the development of multi-collector mass spectrometry analysis of noble gas isotopes coupled with standard bracketing, aimed at reaching the per mil or better precision level, which will constitute a world premiere, (ii) the analysis of unique cometary samples, of ancient sediments already partly available at my laboratory, and of present-day air sampled at different geographical and altitudinal scales, (iii) the quantification of sources and sinks of atmospheric volatiles through the study of the fluxes of noble gas isotopes. With this proposal, I develop a new and extremely competitive area of geochemistry, aimed at better understanding the early evolution of our planet habitability, as well as at improving our knowledge of fluxes of volatile elements triggering anthropogenic climate change. This proposal will establish the leadership of Europe in high precision geochemistry of exceptional tracers, the noble gases.

Keywords: isotope geochemistry,noble gases,atmosphere evolution,early earth
Dynamics on homogeneous spaces, spectra and arithmetic (GMODGAMMADYNAMICS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1229714.0
EU funding (EUR): 1229714.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We consider the dynamics of actions on homogeneous spaces of algebraic groups, We propose to tackle the central open problems in the area, including understanding actions of diagonal groups on homogeneous spaces without an entropy assumption, a related conjecture of Furstenberg about measures on R / Z invariant under multiplication by 2 and 3, and obtaining a quantitative understanding of equidistribution properties of unipotent flows and groups generated by unipotents. This has applications in arithmetic, Diophantine approximations, the spectral theory of homogeneous spaces, mathematical physics, and other fields. Connections to arithmetic combinatorics will be pursued.

Keywords: flows on homogeneous spaces,ergodic theory,arithmetic combinatorics
A 16-bit, 2 Giga -sample-per-second, Digital-to-Analog Converter with 85 dB SFDR at Fout=400MHz. (HSDAC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A current steering Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) is the enabling integrated circuit for high-speed waveform generation, with key applications such as UMTS cellular base stations, DOCSIS compliant digital TV broadcast, and RF test equipment. There is continuous demand for higher speed and higher resolution DACs that can generate waveforms at higher output frequencies with good linearity. The most important linearity metric of a high speed DAC is Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR), and other measures such as Intermodulation Distortion (IMD) or Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) depend on SFDR. Even with the state of the art DACs, SFDR drops very fast with increasing output frequency. Best 16-bit, high-speed DACs can achieve 95 dB SFDR at Fout = 1MHz, however, SFDR drops to less than 70 dB at Fout > 100 MHz. To generate more accurate waveforms at high frequencies, it is crucial to identify, understand and address the dynamic error mechanisms of DACs. In a nutshell, the project proposal consists of identification, avoidance and elimination of dynamic error mechanisms, demonstrated by a 16-bit, 2 Giga-sample-per-second (GSPS) DAC , on a 0.18u CMOS process. The focus will be on switch design, clock network design, output network design, switching algorithm design and built in self-test (BIST) structures. VLSI design tools and test equipment will be provided by Istanbul Technical University. Project funds will be used to support two researchers and, and multiple shuttle tape-outs. The project coordinator is familiar with the real technical issues involved, he has 13 years of industry experience in DAC testing, DAC design, and DAC design management at prestigious US corporations such as Texas Instruments and Linear Technology. He released numerous DACs to production and he has many refereed publications and patents on DAC design.

Keywords: technological sciences,electronic engineering,vlsi design,analog ic design,dac design
Integral and Algebraic Points on Varieties, Diophantine Problems on Number Fields and Function Fields (DIOPHANTINE PROBLEMS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 928500.0
EU funding (EUR): 928500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Diophantine problems have always been a central topic in Number Theory, and have shown deep links with other basic mathematical topics, like Algebraic and Complex Geometry. Our research plan focuses on some issues in this realm, which are strictly interrelated. In the last years the PI and collaborators obtained several results on integral and algebraic points on varieties, which have inspired much subsequent research by others, and which we plan to develop further. In particular: We plan a further study of integral points on varieties, and applications to Algebraic Dynamics, a possibility which has emerged recently. We plan to study further the so-called `Unlikely intersections'. This theme contains celebrated issues like the Manin-Mumford conjecture. After work of the PI with Bombieri and Masser in the last 10 years, it has been the object of much recent work and also of new conjectures by R. Pink and B. Zilber. Here a new method has recently emerged in work of the PI with Masser and Pila, which also leads (as shown by Pila) to signi_cant new cases of the Andr_e-Oort conjecture. We intend to pursue in this kind of investigation, exploring further the range of the methods. Finally, we plan further study of topics of Diophantine Approximation and Hilbert Irreducibility, connected with the above ones in the contents and in the methodology.

Keywords: integral points,algebric points,diophantine equations