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Scattering Amplitudes for Effective Field Theory: Simplicity and Structures from Classical to Quantum (AmpEFT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental Constituents of Matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-08-01
End date: 2030-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

I propose a research program that may forever change the way we build and apply effective field theory to connect with formal theories and experiments. This will be achieved through the lenses of scattering amplitudes, which are the central observables in quantum field theory. By manifesting fundamental principles using scattering amplitudes in effective field theory, we can uncover surprising simplicity and new structures. My research has already led to the discovery and developments of this kind. This proposal selects two important systems to demonstrate the full power and wide applicability of this new renaissance: the classical two-body problem in general relativity and the quantum effective field theory for new particles beyond the Standard Model. Both systems are of interest to current and future experimental developments. Specifically, this research consists of three concrete goals: to solve the gravitational two-body problem in a new regime with radiation; to solve the gravitational two-body problem beyond the weak-gravity regime; and to identify new organizing principles and classification in the effective field theory for new particles. The three research objectives, despite a large disparity in scales, share common skills and are highly complementary to each other. The unique combination of tools and topics also depart from mainstream approaches. Progress toward any one of the above aims would have important conceptual implications and valuable practical applications to classical gravity and particle phenomenology. I will pursue a data-driven strategy for this project by generating and exploring theoretical data. My suitability and expertise are amply demonstrated by my research and tracked records: not only have I played a central role in applying amplitudes to obtain important results in effective field theory, but my record-breaking results have led to important implications from classical to quantum.

Keywords: scattering amplitudes,effective field theory,post minkowskian expansion,standard model effective field theory
Light-induced macroscopic assembly under dissipative conditions: communication between artificial swimmers (brightLINK)

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,United States
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265099.2
EU funding (EUR): 265099.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Nature exploits transient self-assembled architectures that require a continuous input of energy to express functional properties across length scales. The development of synthetic mimics of such non-equilibrium systems provides access to innovative materials with life-like properties, which respond to external stimuli while adapting their structure. However, the production of macroscopic building blocks that self-assemble under dissipative conditions to display emergent functionalities remains an ongoing challenge. This multidisciplinary project aims to create a macroscopic self-assembling system that shows communication between the constituent artificial building blocks under dissipative conditions. In particular, swimmers that self-assemble under light irradiation are exploited as a minimalistic model of responsive macroscopic matter with dissipative characteristics. Light induces the swimmer locomotion, concomitantly providing energy to allow the anchoring between them. Thanks to a reaction-diffusion network, a successful connection is signalled by fluorescence emission confined at the interface of the interlinked swimmers. Due to the nonequilibrium state, the fluorescence is maintained when light is removed and the assembled structure slowly relaxes back to individual entities (no emission). Upon re-establishing the illumination, the cycle is repeated. These results make a leap from passive building blocks to dynamic molecular systems to macroscopic functional matter with embedded networks. This MSCA project will be performed at the Aizenberg and Prins groups, where I will enrich his scientific background with acquired knowledge in adaptive materials and dissipative systems. Moreover, I will improve my leadership, management and teaching skills with the proposed training activities and by closely working with both Supervisors. Ultimately, this MSCA will allow me to become an established researcher in a highly competitive scientific environment.

Keywords: macroscopic assembly,dissipative conditions,communication,life like behaviour,synthetic biology
Microbial navigation strategies in ecologically relevant porous media (MINIMA)

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: Luxembourg,Germany
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191760.0
EU funding (EUR): 191760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The navigation of microorganisms in porous environments has received much research attention not only because of its relevance to many ecological, medical, and technological situations, from soil bioremediation to pathogenesis, but also as a representative problem in the recently emerging field of active matter. Taking soil as an example, such a hierarchical complex porous structure presents multiple challenges to navigating microorganisms, but we still lack a comprehensive mechanistic model that could solve the active navigation problem of microorganisms in such environments. In this project, I aim to uncover navigation strategies of microorganisms in features of different length scales, focusing on their swimming in porous structures and sliding on rough surfaces. Leveraging a cross-disciplinary approach by combining microfluidics, advanced optical microscopy, computer-assisted image analysis, and numerical modeling, I expect to extract a general criterion for the optimal spreading by microorganisms in porous media, and to discover underlying microbial feedback mechanisms in relation to their porous environments. The results of the proposed research will be of interest not only to the fundamental physics of "active matter under confinement", but also of practical relevance to soil bioremediation, biomedical micromotor and antimicrobial surfaces development. This project will provide a solid opportunity to build my multi-disciplinary research profile and experimental skills, ultimately bringing me significantly closer to my career aspirations of being an internationally visible independent researcher.

Keywords: active soft matter,porous media,transport phenomena,confinement,microbial ecology
Dissecting the role of sperm transcriptome dynamics in intergenerational inheritance through native RNA nanopore sequencing (EpiSperm)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative B iology : from Genes and Genomes to S ystems
Panel description: For all organis ms: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics  and other ‘omics studies , bioinformatics, systems biology , genetic diseases , gene editing, innovative methods and modelling,  ‘omics for personalised  medicine
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2021-STG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499428.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499428.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mammalian sperm RNA is increasingly recognized as an additional source of paternal hereditary information beyond DNA. Environmental inputs, such as diet and stress, can reshape the sperm RNA signature and induce offspring phenotypes that relate to paternal environmental stressors. However, how, when and to what extent sperm RNA populations change, and what is the role that RNA modifications and other post-transcriptional regulatory layers play in shaping sperm RNA dynamics, remains poorly understood. Here, we propose to characterize the dynamics of RNA populations during sperm formation and maturation using native RNA nanopore sequencing. This technology is suited to provide an integrative and comprehensive view of the transcriptome, epitranscriptome, degradation patterns and tailing dynamics simultaneously, and with single molecule resolution. We will establish novel library preparation methods that can capture the full sperm (epi)transcriptome, and will capitalize on our recently developed algorithms to map and quantify RNA modifications in individual RNA molecules. We will then apply these methods to reveal how paternal dietary exposures affect sperm RNA populations and the metabolic phenotypes of their offspring, and test whether the novel identified RNA candidates can transmit diet-induced paternal phenotypes to the subsequent generation. Finally, we propose to expand our previous work on direct RNA multiplexing to establish single cell direct RNA nanopore sequencing, to characterize the diversity and heterogeneity of the sperm RNA (epi)transcriptome at an unprecedented single cell and single molecule resolution.

Keywords: rna modifications sperm rna intergenerational inheritance nanopore sequencing single cell epitranscriptomics
A Game Changer in Greening Trade between the EU and China in a Polarized World: A Bilateral Soft-Law Paradigm (EDUARDO)

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: Denmark,Belgium,China
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2026-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 247553.28
EU funding (EUR): 247553.28
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This proposed research comes to light at such a time when both scholars and policymakers have to face an urgent challenge that the conventional free trade paradigm is being shaken in a polarized world and by the green transition towards climate neutrality, which has been vividly reflected in the EU-China dynamics. How to achieve a paradigm change of green trade is the defining topic of the EU-China relation at our time in a polarized world. The research sheds new light on the potential of a bilateral soft-law paradigm to address environmental and climate concerns within the context of EU-China trade – greening the trade. This project meticulously examines the feasibility, design, and applicability of such a paradigm change in enhancing environmental sustainability in greening trade between the EU and China, focusing particularly on its integration with three new EU flagship trade-related environmental instruments – the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Deforestation Regulation, and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations (PPWR). The study aims to offer a nuanced understanding of how this bilateral soft-law paradigm could serve as a strategic legal tool and potentially a “game changer” to balance the intricate trade-environment dynamics between the EU and China, while concurrently addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. It serves as the very first study that integrates hard law measures and soft law paradigm in EU-China bilateral narratives, connecting environmental and trade regimes. The expected impact of the project extends far beyond academia, offering actionable strategies that can be adopted by EU-China policymakers to balance trade and environmental imperatives between the two economic powerhouses. It will even further contribute to a global beacon in the ever-changing game of greening trade coopetition – a real paradigm change to address the triple planetary crisis.

Keywords: greening trade,eu china relations,environmental law,trade law,eu law,european green deal,free trade agreement,soft law,trade related environmental instrument,climate neutrality,eu,china
Keyless Cryptography for Efficiency and Security (KEYLESS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer Science and Informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-01-01
End date: 2029-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497941.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497941.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cryptographic primitives are the foundation of security in any secure information system. Permutations and similar keyless cryptographic primitives have risen to great popularity in recent years thanks to their flexibility and performance. They power new lightweight cryptography standards or serve as core building blocks of post-quantum cryptography and advanced privacy-preserving protocols. However, the security analysis of these designs still follows the traditional cryptanalytic methodology based on decades of research in block ciphers, largely ignoring the substantial differences between the two design paradigms. In KEYLESS, we propose new methodologies to achieve an accurate, transparent security evaluation of keyless primitives. This has the potential to enable drastic performance improvements as well as prevent security vulnerabilities arising from hidden dependencies. We will establish new, fine-grained models of keyless primitives to obtain tighter proofs and lightweight designs. This allows to simultaneously improve both security and efficiency. We will tackle the challenges of keyless settings with novel cryptanalytic techniques and develop formal methods to prove optimality of attacks. In particular, we will systematically take dependencies between rounds or primitive calls into account and thus achieve complete models of complex attacks. Finally, we will explore the full potential of keyless primitives to not only provide efficient security, but also practical robustness and resilience under suboptimal conditions, including misuse and side-channel attacks. Unlike previous work, we will study robustness properties in conjunction to exploit synergies, and obtain new designs that achieve full robustness while maintaining efficiency. KEYLESS will fund 4 PhD students in the research group of Maria Eichlseder, co-designer of the new NIST standard for lightweight cryptography.

Keywords: lightweight cryptography,hash function,permutation,authenticated encryption,cryptanalysis techniques,security model,efficient security,robustness,side channels
Groups Of Algebraic Transformations (GOAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1709395.0
EU funding (EUR): 1709395.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

During the last decade, spectacular achievements have been performed in the study of groups of birational transformations of algebraic varieties. We now have a detailed understanding of such groups in dimension 2. Far less is known in higher dimensions, but the last five years saw the birth of a large array of techniques that apply in arbitrary dimensions. They include powerful tools from p-adic analysis, isometries of CAT(0) cube complexes, pluripotential theory, and algebraic geometry. Simultaneously, recent arithmetic equidistribution theorems have been combined with holomorphic dynamics to solve problems of unlikely intersection in the dynamics of polynomial maps and to study parameter spaces of such maps. The novelty of this proposal will be to combine these recent advances coming from two active sujects. I propose to develop a global study of groups of algebraic transformations of higher dimensional varieties, both from the dynamical and the algebro-geometric viewpoints. I have been developing this program progressively during the last ten years. Moving to higher dimensions is crucial to broaden the range of applications and is now possible with the advances mentioned above. The first leitmotif will be the large scale geometry of groups of birational transformations. The second will be the dynamics of natural actions of such groups on families of geometric objects, notably on families of rational surfaces and on character varieties. There a three long term goals: (a) to extend some of the geometric features of linear groups to all groups acting faithfully by algebraic transformations (this includes the mapping class groups of closed surfaces, for instance); (b) to compare the geometry of distinct (rationally connected) varieties through a comparison of their groups of birational transformations; (c) to get new properties of families of geometric objects (such as rational surfaces) via dynamics in their parameter or Teichmüller spaces.

Keywords: group theory
Towards a European-wide harmonised, transport specific LCA Approach (TranSensus LCA)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Mobility
Destination: Clean and competitive solutions for all transport modes
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: 2ZERO, Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,France,Sweden,Belgium,Ireland,Italy,Austria,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Spain,Switzerland
Call: LCA and design for sustainable circularity - holistic approach for zero-emission mobility solutions and related battery value chain (2ZERO & Batteries Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3675176.25
EU funding (EUR): 3675176.25
Participants: 48
Project status: SIGNED

TranSensus LCA aims to develop a baseline for a European-wide harmonised, commonly accepted and applied single life cycle assessment (LCA) approach for a zero-emission road transport system. Such a European single LCA approach is seen as a key element in achieving the Green Deal targets, making Europe the first digitally enabled circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy. Bringing together relevant stakeholders from industry and research, an evidence- and real-life data-based LCA approach will be conceptualised and harmonised embracing environmental, economic and social aspects. By consensus, TranSensus LCA will enable industry, mobility providers and planners to provide sustainable products and to optimise mobility solutions as needed to combat climate change.

Keywords: lca,s lca,harmonised approach,consensus building,ontology,lci database
Chromatic Maghreb. Untangling the Complexities of Race in the Contemporary Maghreb (CHRoMa)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Studies of Cultures and Arts
Panel description: Social anthropology, studies of cultur es, stud ies of arts
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2025-STG, 2025)
Start date: 2026-03-01
End date: 2031-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1322375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1322375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the Maghreb, raising ethno-nationalism excludes Blackness from the national body. These racial tensions build on a long history of social differentiation that political, public, and academic discourses tend to reduce to a Black/white dichotomy. CHRoMa explores these current dynamics in light of earlier histories of racial differentiation. By addressing Maghrebi lexicons, grammars, and genealogies of race, the project cross-fertilises three disciplinary fields: Critical Race Theories and Methodologies, recent anthropological reflections on race, and history literature on race in the Maghreb. The objective is to study today’s Maghrebi patterns of racialisation through a bottom-up approach that grounds the understandings of racial identities within specific cultural, social, political, and religious contexts. An innovative method that starts from people’s lived experiences will prevent an essentialised and a priori reading of racial identities. On a broader comparative level, the project considers racialised hierarchies and political and personal spaces of resistance to racial discrimination across Maghrebi geographies, histories, and societies. Three are the ground-breaking shifts 1) to develop an analytical approach that combines nuances of colour with other discriminatory factors, thus moving beyond the Black/White dichotomy 2) to promote a Maghreb-centred approach to the study of processes of racialisation 3) to strengthen the emergent field of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Critical Race Studies. The Maghreb is a privileged standpoint to narrate patterns of racialisation outside dominant Western thinking, as it is both a “post-colonial” and a “post-slavery” context. Case studies comprise the legacies of racialised slavery, the meanings of whiteness, racialised internal divisions within the “white” Amazigh population, the racialisation of Sub-Saharan migrants, and the new categories crafted by anti-racist activism.

Keywords: race,maghreb,swana studies,racism,colourism,tunisia,algeria,morocco