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Bayesian inference of massive black hole binaries formation and evolution scenarios with gravitational waves (MASSIVEBAYES)

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: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The massive black holes (MBHs) that we currently observe in the center of galaxies are the final stage of a complex evolutionary path in which seed BHs at high redshift grow in proto-galaxies through episodes of merger and accretion. If MBHs are brought sufficiently close during a galaxy collision, they can merge, emitting gravitational waves (GWs). In 2034, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe the GWs from merging MBHBs across the entire Universe, providing exquisite estimates of the binary parameters. As astrophysical processes, such as gas accretion, supernova feedback and dynamics, leave an imprint on the MBHBs masses, merging redshift, spins and eccentricity distributions, detecting MBHBs will provide us indirectly information on MBHBs formation and evolution scenarios. The scope of the project is to asses LISA ability to constrain the MBHBs astrophysical and formation mechanisms, combining state-of-the-art simulations to predict the MBHBs population with reverse Gaussian process and hierarchical Bayesian analysis. We plan to implement a semi-analytic model (SAM) to describe the complex processes shaping the MBHBs distribution and to model astrophysical processes and formation scenarios with population hyperparameters. We will construct a grid in the hyperparameter space where each node will correspond to a realistic population of MBHBs. These points will serve as a template bank for a Gaussian Process interpolator, which in turn will be the backbone of a hierarchical Bayesian inference framework. This framework will be employed to extract the posterior distributions of the population hyperparameters with the final goal of inferring the contribution of different astrophysical processes to the MBHBs population.

Keywords: black hole binaries astrophysics,lisa,bayesian inference
Metal-ion-based fabrication solutions for green AI hardware, addressing one of the today’s urgent needs (HiPIMS-Fmemories)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-02-01
End date: 2028-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 263393.28
EU funding (EUR): 263393.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Data centres running artificial intelligence AI and machine-learning workloads significantly impact climate change due to their massive electricity consumption. The urgent need for sustainable solutions has highlighted the potential of emerging ferroelectric random-access memories (FRAMs), particularly HfO2-based FRAMs. These devices offer low power consumption and fast switching speeds, making them ideal for energy-efficient data storage technologies. However, achieving stable and uniform ferroelectric properties in HfO2-based thin films requires the precise engineering of strain and defects under specific conditions. Overcoming these technical challenges is crucial for the widespread adoption of the FRAM technology to help mitigating the environmental impacts of data centres. I aim to tackle these challenges by proposing metal-ion-based magnetron sputtering strategies. HiPIMS-Fmemories will enable the growth of HfZrO2 thin films (as a model HfO2-based material system) with specific polar phases and nanocolumnar structures, essential for achieving uniform, enhanced ferroelectricity. HiPIMS-Fmemories will deliver: (1) fabrication of high-quality thin films using high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) and the effects of metal-ion irradiation on metastable domains and material properties, (2) rapid, energy-efficient ferroelectric switching by optimising key metal-ion parameters, (3) enhanced understanding of the relationship between polarisation responses and resistive switching arising from ionic-conduction effects, and (4) device fabrication and testing. These fabrication solutions can also be applicable for other ferroelectric thin-film materials. Overall, this research aims to represent a significant advancement in developing sustainable and efficient FRAM technologies.

Keywords: sputtering,hipims,hybrid co sputtering,ion solid interactions,energetic metal ions,device materials,functional oxides,ferroelectrics,resistive switching,heterostructures,ionic conductors
Envisioning an alternative Future for the dispossessed in the Middle East and North Africa A study of property conflicts in Palestine, Morocco, and Tunisia (VIZPROP)

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: Belgium,Palestine, State of,Morocco
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 279120.0
EU funding (EUR): 279120.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

In this project, I aim to tackle the growing trend of studying the issue of dispossession and property conflicts by bringing the MENA region into the discussion. The MENA region has a significant contribution to make to this issue. New interest in the issue of dispossession has been revived in the decade following the Arab revolutions. Due to increasing urbanization, climate change, and political conflict, MENA has been experiencing several political crises, increasingly focused on housing, land, and property rights. My project will combine the examination of the formation of property rights with digital practices and spaces. My research hypothesis states that in circumstances where property rights are uncertain and contested, the emerging use of digital technology as a tool to reclaim property rights by dispossessed communities creates a virtual space for envisioning alternatives to current property regime. I suggest that these new methodologies allow for the legitimization and re-imagining of an alternative property regime that contests the current legal regime by providing what I refer to as a virtual "proof of existence". VIZPROP builds on my previous work, seeking to develop a collaborative web platform to examine the contested conceptions and claims regarding land and property ownership in Palestine/Israel, Morocco, and Tunisia. Using innovative methodologies, it combines a cross-country collaborative mapping exercise with an ethnographic study of actors and organizations using information and communication technology (ICT) to reclaim property rights. Through collaborative work and open innovation, my research will lead to the development of innovative digital tools aimed at the gathering of collectively assembled data, maps and knowledge on property and property rights with the long-term goal of securing property rights of marginalized communities and creating advocacy tools in their interactions with policy makers.

Keywords: dispossession,property rights,mena,digital humanities
The Role of Non-Canonical DNA Structures in Insulin Expression (NC-DNA-INS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2027-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260347.92
EU funding (EUR): 260347.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The insulin-linked polymorphic region (ILPR) resides in the promoter region of the gene coding for insulin (INS). This region consists of a 14-base pair tandem repeat DNA sequence of 5'-ACAGGGGTGTGGGG-3'/3'-TGTCCCCACACCCC-5' and is located 363 base pairs upstream of the transcription start site of insulin. The insulin-linked polymorphic region can form non-canonical DNA secondary structures such as G-quadruplexes, i-motifs and hairpins. Previous work at the UCL School of Pharmacy has shown that different native insulin-linked polymorphic region sequence variants form different DNA structures and these result in differences in insulin gene transcription. This project aims to reveal insights into the relationship between different DNA sequences in the insulin promoter region, the types of non-canonical structures they form, transcription of insulin and how this is influenced by small molecule ligands. The project will use biophysical approaches to determine the structure of different sequences in the insulin promoter, cell and molecular biology to understand the effects of different sequences and structures on insulin expression, including using small molecule ligands as probes. Finally, computational biology and x-ray crystallography will be used to design improved compounds that target the insulin-linked polymorphic region and switch on insulin transcription using structure-based rational design.

Keywords: dna,i motif,g quadruplex,non canonical dna,gene expression,epigenetics,chemical biology,insulin,diabetes
Spain On Stage: Dance and the Imagination of National Identity (SpainOnStage)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Texts and Concepts
Panel description: Literary studies , literature,  philosophy
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2023-COG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2029-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1993335.0
EU funding (EUR): 1993335.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims to propose new narratives of Spanish dance history analysing the components, processes, and contexts involved in the configuration of the dancing body through its negotiations with national identity at the turn of the 20th century. It will recuperate, study, and reconstruct a corpus of choreographies and dances conserved in footage and film fragments between 1894 and 1936, the period between the crisis of the colonial system and the military coup that caused the Civil War and the following four decades of dictatorship. The study will articulate new theoretical tools to rethink the place of Spanish dance between the colonising and the colonized, understanding the body as a living archive through intersectional and transcultural perspectives. A research team from CSIC will apply a ground-breaking interdisciplinary methodology based on three main areas: archive-based research; practice-in-research and movement analysis; and dance motion capture and 3D animation. Thus it will provide a theoretical and practical understanding of the evolution of the languages, codes, and gestures in order to integrate that reading into a revised history of Spanish dance. The versatile results will include an open-access dance motion capture database and the basis for a Virtual Spanish Dance Museum through an immersive Virtual Reality platform, serving future research projects, dance companies, educational institutions, and the general public. Finally, the results will contribute to enjoying these recovered treasures of European intangible heritage and preserving them for the knowledge of future generations.

Keywords: dance history,spanish dance,cultural identity,imaginaries,dancing body
HAlogen bonding for Lead-free LOW-dimensional Perovskite Light Emitting Diodes (HALLOW-PeLEDs)

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: Italy,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-16
End date: 2028-01-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209483.28
EU funding (EUR): 209483.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Lighting sector accounts for nearly ~ 20 % of the global electricity consumption, over 2 % of green-house emission and carbon footprint. With the growing demand of energy consumption, it is urgent to develop alternative technologies, that mitigate global warming. In this regard, light emitting diodes (LEDs) have revolutionized lighting technology, as they are recyclable, energy-efficient and require less power than traditional bulbs. In this regard, LEDs has been lighting our homes, industries ad even medical applications. Particularly, Organic-LEDs (OLEDs) containing organic/polymer molecules such as anthracenes, coumarin derivatives, biphenyl acetylene aryl derivatives etc have been successfully employed in our smartphones and screens. However, their application is limited by cost of manufacture and difficulty in color-tuning with high color-purity, especially over the visible and infra-red regions. Since 2009, a new class of semiconductors known as halide perovskites have emerged as potential candidates for next-generation LEDs owing to their feasibility in terms of processing and manufacturing and excellent opto-electronic properties. However, they possess lead toxicity and are unstable under ambient conditions. In this regard, replacement of lead with other alternatives and use of functional spacer cation has been adopted as a strategy to overcome these challenges. Specifically, designing a functional cation with halogen bond (XB) is rarely studied and can be useful in developing novel halide perovskites with improved structural stability (>1 year, ambient conditions) and improving luminescence properties for PeLEDs. Thus, with the help of MSCA-PF funding program, HALLOW-PeLEDs, attempts to combine the synergy of physical chemistry with supramolecular interactions for optoelectronic applications, by harnessing the virtues of halogen bonds (XB) to form ordered low-dimensional lead-free metal halide perovskites for obtaining efficient Perovskite LEDs (PeLEDs).

Keywords: halogen bonds,supramolecular interactions,peleds,lead free halide perovskites,fluorinated cations,low dimensional halide perovskites
Powering Satellites by a Combination of Solar and Microwave Energy Harvesting (POWERSAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Ireland,Romania,Sweden,Italy,Greece,Spain
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: In-space solar energy harvesting for innovative space applications (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3492810.0
EU funding (EUR): 3486560.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

POWERSAT focuses on scavenging the unexploited solar infrared (IR) spectrum by providing an original THz (10-400 THz) energy harvesting platform, thus completing the function of photovoltaics cells, and on harvesting the microwave spillover losses from satellite’s antennas and transform them into a DC power supply. POWERSAT will deliver an original solar-microwave combined platform based on rectennas to harvest a big part of the IR radiation coming from the sun and the spillover electric field radiated by satellite’s antennas in four main bands, i.e., C-band (4-8 GHz), X-band (8.2-12.4 GHz), Ku-band (12-18 GHz), and K-band (18-27 GHz). This harvested energy will be employed to fuel the low-power embedded electronics within satellites, including components like low-noise amplifiers, various sensors, and oscillators. Moreover, antennas designed for energy harvesting can also facilitate efficient and low-power inter-satellite links (ISLs). Satellites are often arranged in constellations, flying in formation as they orbit Earth. In such configurations, satellites can establish communication links with neighboring satellites using RF or laser links. These ISLs enable satellites to connect with others, allowing data to traverse different gateways within the satellite network. To achieve this, POWERSAT will propose five demonstrators, i.e., a solar energy harvesting platform integrating micro/nanoantennas and MIM diode-based rectifiers, and four demonstrators integrating several rectennas, each demonstrator being suitable for one of the four microwave bands mentioned before. These same antenna arrays will be instrumental in enabling low-power backscattering communications. The final goal is to provide a seamless integration of the newly developed rectennas into satellite’s electronic systems, which in perspective will allow the future partial replacement of satellite’s solar cells, thus lowering satellite’s overall weight and, hence, the launch costs.

Keywords: in orbit energy harvesting,rectennas,spillover losses,mim diodes,self switching diodes,iii v based schottky diodes,inter satellite links,backscattering communications
Hippo signalling Pathway in Endosymbiosis (HipPiE)

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: France
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195914.88
EU funding (EUR): 195914.88
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae is a pest insect which can cause major damages to cereal crops worldwide. S. oryzae hosts an endosymbiont, the intracellular gram-negative bacterium Sodalis pierantonius, which produces amino acids necessary for the host’s cuticle thickening. This biological interaction, called nutritional endosymbiosis, generally increases the weevil’s fitness, for example as a thicker cuticle protects the host against desiccation. Consistently, the bacterial load in S. oryzae has been shown to fluctuate throughout the development, with a peak in young adults, at the same time as cuticle thickening. However, maintaining endosymbiotic bacteria also constitutes an energetic cost for the host, and after the peak in young adult weevils, S. pierantonius load decreases. As the endosymbiont is present in specialised cells (i.e., bacteriocytes), organised in organs (i.e., bacteriomes), regulation of S. pierantonius load relies on a strong coordination between the two partners. The HipPiE project aims at investigating further the regulation of the endosymbiont dynamic, in order to find new sustainable strategies for pest management, using symbiosis disruption. By using dual transcriptomics at different developmental stages in S. oryzae, a recent study from the host team showed that several genes from the Hippo signalling pathway were differentially expressed in young symbiotic adult weevils as compared to weevils with no endosymbiotic bacteria (aposymbiotic weevils), suggesting a role of this pathway in the endosymbiont dynamic. The Hippo signalling pathway is involved in several biological responses like growth, cell differentiation, cell death, and tissue regeneration. However, its role in endosymbiosis has not been studied yet. During this project, we will study the role of the Hippo signalling pathway in the regulation of the endosymbiont load in young adult weevils, using interference RNA, flow cytometry, imaging and transcriptomics.

Keywords: endosymbiosis pest insect rice weevil hippo signalling pathway bacterial load
Advancing Civil-Military Interoperability and Coordination through Excellence in Science and Technology (ATM-EXCITE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Romania,Italy,Slovakia,Czechia
Call: ATM Excellent science and outreach for civil–military interoperability and coordination (HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 956607.5
EU funding (EUR): 956607.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The ATM-EXCITE project will identify the requirements of ATM systems for civil-military aviation coordination and cybersecurity and develop a set of solutions. The project will engage with stakeholders throughout the solution development phase to ensure that the proposed solutions meet their needs. By engaging with stakeholders and using a rigorous approach to solution development, the project team is confident that it will develop effective and implementable solutions to the challenges of civil-military aviation coordination and cybersecurity. Once the requirements have been identified, the project team will design, develop, and test proposed solutions using a variety of approaches, including system design, software development, and cybersecurity testing. The project team will design system architectures for the proposed solutions. The system architectures will take into account the requirements of ATM systems, cybersecurity best practices, and operational constraints. The SESAR ER call explicitly emphasizes the need for enhanced security, confidentiality, and anonymisation in the realm of military aviation data. The call also draws attention to the vulnerabilities associated with real-time airborne position data. Our proposed solutions aim to directly address these vulnerabilities by introducing methods for verification of ADS-B data and selective encryption and model the interaction between civil and military systems in an efficient manner. This strategic alignment ensures that the solutions directly impact the priorities outlined in the European ATM Master Plan, further promoting the harmonisation of civil and military aviation in the European sky. Within the work areas of improved security of military operations and digitalisation for Airspace Management (ASM) and mission trajectory management (MTM), ATM-EXCITE proposes 5 research solutions. In a second phase ATM-EXCITE will identify synergies among them in order to propose one or several integrated solutions.

Keywords: atm,civil military coordination,cibersecurity,ads b,cns