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cavity quantum materials

lightmatter coupling has the potential to modify functional properties of quantum materials to yield the tunability required for quantumtechnological applications however lightmatter control concepts such as floquet engineering and lightinduced phase transitions suffer from the requirement of strong laser driving and the lack of coherence on long time scales overcoming these key limitations through advancing the infant field of cavity quantum materials is the central objective of cavmatthe main hypothesis behind cavmat is that cavity materials engineering combines the efficiency of stronglight matter coupling in cavities with the flexibility of floquet engineering of macroscopic quantum manybody phenomena cavmat aims to explore and expand this new frontier with a combined theoreticalcomputational effort the three key objectives of cavmat are i to establish cavitydriving schemes that successfully bridge the gap between quantum cavity and semiclassical manyphoton floquet limits ii to propose realistic cavity quantum materials platforms providing guidance for nextgeneration experiments iii to develop and combine numerical methods that can treat the relevant nonequilibrium electronpolariton problems at short and long time scales these objectives will be tackled in three work packages namely wp 1 quantum floquet engineering wp 2 plasmonic superconductivity and wp 3 excited states by designthe proposed work goes well beyond stateoftheart in both nonequilibrium quantum manybody systems and quantum optics and its success will be groundbreaking through providing microscopic underpinnings for pathways towards versatile solidstate platforms for cavity and floquet physics
iverdrought investigating how intraindividual variability in embolism resistance helps plants to cope with increasing drought

droughtinduced plant mortality is increasing across the world and interindividual variation iiv in embolism resistance a key driver of plant death is a likely important but unknown factor in the ability of plant species to tolerate and adapt to drought recent research has shown that embolisms airbubbles that form in the plant water transport system under droughtstress cause tissue death highlighting the critical importance of quantifying embolism resistance for understanding drought damage and death recently developed noninvasive techniques to visualise embolism such as the ovt the use of optical cameras and light enable us to quantify how embolism resistance varies within between and among individuals emerging research using the ovt suggests that iiv in embolism resistance is high in the canopies of droughtresistant trees utilising both natural and experimental systems iverdrought will investigate the role of iiv in leaf embolism resistance at the speciesscale for the first time and determine how coordination or tradeoffs with other traits may confer species drought resistance this project will combine physiology ecology statistics and more involve a global network of researchers a highly skilled supervisor and host institution and activities to engage scientists and the local and global community the applicant dr kate johnson has the ideal technical and communication skills to undertake this project which is also perfectly designed to expand her skillset leveraging her career by interpreting key aspects of plant physiology through the lens of ecology iverdrought will bridge the gap between these fields providing a novel and urgently needed assessment of what drives species drought resistance in an increasingly arid world
minds in the wild conceptualizing and attributing the mental among mongolians

the term mind is as much an everyday word in english language as it is a technical term widely used across various subdisciplines in the cognitive sciences and it is not uncommon to see the englishbased understanding of mind as representing a universal category of human thought no doubt our basic ability to understand various mental states that we attribute to others and to ourselves is crucial for our social life this has been acknowledged by the theory of mind tom research tradition and more recently by mind perception research still the english term mind has remained a starting conceptual point for studying the folk theory of mind as universal this state of affairs is problematic since there is little systematic nonenglish crosscultural data about the very concept of mind or how the mental sphere is categorized and organized this is especially noteworthy given the fact that many languages do not even have an equivalent lexical expression of english mind it might as well be a culturespecific concept infused with specific semantic connotations thus this project will 1 bring a richer cultural perspective to the study of the folk concept of mind by investigating indepth mongolian cultural model of mind and comparing it to the dominant englishlanguage based model of mind
an attentional code for memory

declarative memory is fundamentally relational we not only remember things or events but also whether and how they are related to each other cracking the mental code that supports relational memory is one of the greatest challenges of cognitive neuroscience here i suggest that memories are relationally encoded through an attentional repertoire such that different types of conceptual relationships beforeafter bigger than part of caused by etc correspond to different dynamic attentional patterns such an attentional code is largely decodable from eyemovement and embodies the structure of our relational knowledge i provide preliminary data showing that spontaneous eye movements encode conceptual similarity as well as conceptual relationships in abstract semantic spaces and cognitive maps and that the eye movements of different people synchronize while listening to the same narrative even if their eyes are closed on this basis i hypothesize that i structural knowledge in the form of lowdimensional schemas is encoded in attentional templates that support relational thinking and crossdomain generalization ii in principle all conceptual relationships encoded in memory can be represented through an attentional code that can be decoded from eye movements iii the construction of this code through sequential movements of attention is supported by hippocampalparietal mechanisms for sequence generation and memory consolidation iv this attentional code allows us to understand each other via intersubject synchronization of attentional schemas i will test these hypotheses using cuttingedge eyetracking technology multimodal neuroimaging fmri meg ieeg and deep neural networks atcom is a highriskhighgain investigation of a novel groundbreaking hypothesis that if correct will have a longlasting impact in cognitive neuroscience artificial intelligence and related fields reshaping the way we think about memory
research infrastructure services for renewable energy

the european green deal aims to transform the eu into a modern resourceefficient and competitive economy with zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to achieve more efficient competitive and costeffective energy systems and devices risenergy fosters a european ecosystem of industry research organizations and funding agencies aimed at developing novel energy technologies and concepts risenergy brings together a consortium of 69 beneficiaries from 23 countries eric institutions technology institutes universities and industrial partners to jointly improve the economic performance of technologies members of the european energy research alliance are establishing the core european ecosystem the main objectives of risenergy are 1 enable research and innovation to increase energy efficiency and reduce the cost of energy technologies to foster wider use of renewables into energy systems through proactive innovation management having single entry point with tailormade access roads for academics industry and smes and advising ri providers all acces users and policy makers on lca ict development and networking issues 2 provide efficient transnational access tna to facilities to support renewable energy technologies and systems provide more than 2500 days of access to major european and international worldleading analytical facilities 3 reach out to all stakeholders performing research along the value chain from materials and technology development to applications in the eight most relevant fields of pv cspste hydrogen biofuels offshore wind ocean energy integrated grids and energy storage research infrastructure providers and policy makers 4 provide comprehensive services of unprecedented quality new crossri services a single entry point tailormade access roads for academia industry and smes with a particular focus on scientists from research fields in which the use of research infrastructures is not yet established
artificial intelligence to enhance civic participation

ithaca project aims to better understand the complexities and controversies for applying ai into the field of civic participation and stimulate new and responsible practices of research and innovation that anchor ai technologies design in human rights values and principles and moral and ethical reflectionthe project vision is to contribute to the maximisation of the possible positive impact of ai on the functioning of democratic institutions and processes by developing and testing of a human centric artificially intelligent and ethics by design online discussion platform for civic participation in local governance which incorporates human and social interpretations into the design process to ensure that ai decisionmaking processes are explainable transparent and fair ithaca will pay particular attention to the needs and voices of citizens from vulnerable groups with a view to ensuring that human rights impacts stemming from the design development and ongoing deployment of algorithmic systems are comprehensively monitored debated and addressedthrough its pilot activities in two different eu countries ithaca plans to assess the ability of ai to enhance citizens participation in the local governance while preventing or minimizing possible adverse effects stemming from unregulated use of ai and empowering citizens with knowledge about the ai model involved ithaca will also provide scalable tools for the identification of security risks and threats and for conformity with the fairness principle and privacy principle in aibased systems and big data for civic engagement applications based on its implementation experiences the project will define a data governance framework with relevant ethical principles and practices to be implemented in the design development deployment process for ai civic engagement platforms as well as policy recommendations on philosophical legal and ethical values that should be embedded in the development of such platforms
geosphere infrastructures for questions into integrated research

geoinquire will provide and enhance access to selected key data products and services enabling the dynamic processes within the geosphere to be monitored and modelled at new levels of spatial and temporal detail and precision geoinquire aims to overcome crossdomain barriers especially the landseaatmosphere environments and will exploit innovative data management techniques modelling and simulations methods developments in ai and big data and extend existing data infrastructures to disseminate these resources to the wider scientific community including the eosc landscape geoinquire benefits from a unique partnership of 51 partners consisting of major national research institutes universities national geological surveys and european consortia geoinquire will enhance and make interoperable the activities of the involved partners and conduct dedicated training programs for their optimal use a portfolio of over 150 virtual access va and transnational access ta both virtual and onsite installations will be offered to the scientific community while many such resources are already available at a high level of maturity geoinquire will ensure that they not only reach the highest level of scientific excellence through targeted actions on availability quality and spatial and temporal resolution but also that they follow fair principles adopt proper standards and open licenses and aim at crossdisciplinary interoperability furthermore the integration of different data including new observables products and services will be optimized through ta activities via 6 test beds which will also host workshops and summer schools dealing with the available resources ultimately geoinquire with its enhanced data product and service portfolio will enable the next generation of scientists to carry out leadingedge research addressing societal challenges from a multidisciplinary perspective making intelligent use of these resources
strategies and technologies for united and resilient critical infrastructures and vital services in pandemicstricken europe

the covid19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the continuity of vital services has shown the need to work together for the common good it has proven that a pandemic is not only a health crisis and that it does not only disrupt critical infrastructures cis but that there is an extremely important link between the resilience of cis and our societies the economic crisis caused by the pandemic also provides a unique opportunity to jointly build back better with the focus on sustainability and green recoverysunrise will facilitate active collaboration of cis across europe to share best practices and jointly tackle future pandemics by q32025 this collaboration will result in a new stable working group for resilience to pandemics with at least 100 memberswith a group of 4 ci authorities 16 ci operators 3 other ci stakeholders 4 experts in social sciences and humanities 2 experts in epidemiology and climate extremes and 12 security researchers and sw developers we will 1 identify pandemicspecific vital services and cis their dependencies risks cascading effects and effective measures to tackle them at european level 2 develop a comprehensive strategy trl8 and four innovative tools trl7 ensuring greater availability reliability security robustness trustworthiness costeffectiveness climatefriendliness and continuity of pandemicspecific vital services in europe tools for riskbased access control resource demand prediction and management cyberphysical resilience and remote infrastructure inspection 3 pilot the results in operational environments of the cis while tackling some of their biggest pain points exposed by the current pandemic 4 promote our approach across europe to ensure a united front and resilience of cis to pandemicswe will carefully consider legal ethical societal economic and climate aspects ensuring that our results address not only the needs of the cis but also those of our society
empowered participation through ideating cultural worlds and environments youth imagining creating and exchanging cultural values and heritage through gamemaking

epicwe introduces cultural game jams culture and valuesensitive gamemaking and games through and for culture as a novel approach to empower young people as cocreators of european culture and shapers of their own futures in society cultural institutions chis and creative industries cis the backbone of the project is the epicwe helix ecosystem a transferable framework where youth chis cis and higher education institutions heis cooperate as actors in the ecosystem together epicwe engage in cultural games jams to create games through and for culture inspired by cultural heritage the framework explores the potentials of this approach as a method for strengthening european values belonging and cultural participation through gamemaking activities epicwe will equip youth with culturalcreative imagination and competencies to face societal challenges with curiosity creativity agency and imagination what we call empowered participation the project is carried out as an ambitious designbased research and innovation dbr action across three european sites where epicwe ecosystem actors cocreate and through this develop implement and evaluate the proposed framework the validated dbr innovations are presented as accessible resources that enable organisations across europe to replicate the epicwe ecosystem formats and methods through extensive research capacity building and policy advocacy activities epicwe will ensure that the projects results reach a wide range of european chi ci and hei actors including the game industry civil society organizations and youth the consortium is in itself a helix ecosystem bringing together leading research cultural and creative sector organisations with multidisciplinary excellence in dbr participatory and valuesensitive design game design and youth engagement to empower youth as future culturemakers and gamemakers in chis ccis and heis and as valuesensitive agents of change in society
just central banking

the recent financial crisis and the ongoing ecological crisis call for an urgent examination of the central banks place in society both as a cause of harm and as a potential agent of justice the central aim of this project is to determine what role central banks can play in the transition towards a more just and sustainable economyfirst this project will attempt to uncover what if anything is wrong with current central banking practices the financial ethics literature is divided on whether their core problem is their lack of legitimacy or their negative effects on justice and environmental sustainability the first part of the project aims to show that all these problems stem from the unfair and inefficient division of political and epistemic labor between states central banks and commercial bankssecond this project will delineate and defend potential reforms which are able to improve the fairness and sustainability of central banks practices the project will focus on new monetary policy instruments that central banks could use to target firms banks and citizens more directly it will investigate how these policy tools can achieve a fairer balance of power between central banks states and commercial banksin sum by producing a unified theory that is able to account for the diversity of harms and benefits of central banking this project aims to provide guidance on the ethical role of central banks and the necessary reforms of central banking
attenuation of ethological traumatic memories

traumatic experiences generate among the strongest memories that can result in traumarelated disorders despite the high prevalence of these disorders effective treatment options are scarce calling for a deterministic understanding of the neuronal mechanisms underlying traumatic memory attenuation for this rodent studies classically use fear extinction paradigms where aversive experiences are modeled with the exposure to an electrical foot shock however the simple nature of this stimulus does not mirror the complexity of traumatic events in humans which is likely to be processed by equally complex networks here i propose to investigate for the first time the neural circuits underlying the extinction of traumatic memories induced by exposure to naturalistic threats namely predators and aggressive conspecifics first we will compile a comprehensive atlas of brain activity underlying extinction of these ethological traumas and generate network organization models which will be causally probed by pathwayspecific chemogenetic manipulations second we will characterize the functional inputoutput connectome of ethological extinction centers using a combination of viral tracing neuronal activity and optogenetically assisted circuit mapping this set of data will third provide the substrate for the study of the neurophysiological and molecular mechanisms underlying efficient extinction of ethological traumas which will be analyzed by pathwayspecific invivo ca2 imaging closedloop optogenetics exvivo electrophysiology and rna sequencing lastly we will investigate whether impairments at the level of these newly identified networks underlie extinction deficits at the basis of traumarelated disorders together these results will pave the way for the identification of novel therapeutical targets for traumarelated disorders and shed light on how the brain can flexibly update complex memories
decoding and targeting treatmentresistant metastatic neuroblastoma

the childhood cancer neuroblastoma nb is a major challenge in pediatric oncology and children with relapse have a very poor prognosis due to treatmentresistance at metastatic sites there is an urgent need to better understand nb treatment resistance to inform the design of novel therapeutic strategies however current models do not mimic relapsed human nb in its most common metastatic niches in the bone and bone marrow we recently developed advanced patientderived and humanized nb in vivo models and 3d tumor organoid models which are excellent tools for preclinical drug testing here we aim to further develop and exploit these models investigate mechanisms of nb metastatic treatment resistancerelapse and target relapsed nb with combination therapies first we will develop patientderived in vivo and ex vivo models of relapsed nb in the human metastatic bone marrow niche exposed to standardofcare chemotherapy treatment these models will be exploited to investigate mechanisms of metastasis and treatment escape upon therapy and at relapse we will integrate nb and stromal cell lineages cell states and molecular details with phenotype and drug response and elucidate nb tumor cell plasticity and clonal evolution the mechanistic data and our new models will help us to identify novel therapeutic targets and compounds targeting relapsing and resistant nb which we will validate experimentally the project will lead to a deeper understanding of nb metastatic treatment resistance and identification of novel cell statedirected treatments to target resistant and metastatic diseasemy combined background in clinical medicinepathology in vivoex vivo modeling nb chemoresistance and preclinical drug testing coupled with development and application of stateof theart advanced assays will generate the next generation of patientderived models mechanistic insight and novel treatment against relapsed nb
deconstructing adaptive evolution of metastasis

adaptmet aims to develop an advanced training program encompassing the multifaceted aspects of metastasis adaptation mechanisms intending to equip budding researchers with the necessary skills to emerge as leaders in this field a robust mentoring and training strategy coupled with cuttingedge methodologies and a diverse range of complementary soft skills are crucial to this endeavour these skills are imparted through local and networkwide events fostering seamless research progression and nurturing successful career trajectories scientifically adaptmet addresses an unmet medical need by harnessing basic science to revolutionize drug development and ultimately enhance patient care specifically scientific work packages wps have been designed to approach metastasis from various functional perspectives in order to metastasize cancer cells must adeptly coordinate diverse cellular functions cell fate wp1 additionally understanding the intricate interactions between metastatic cells the host immune system and tissue stroma is pivotal environment wp2 crucial aspects such as the kinetics of metastasis and the mechanisms governing latency particularly remain inadequately understood latency wp3 clarifying this complexity unravelling mechanisms underlying therapy failure and identifying expansion pathways are central to defining novel therapeutic targets expansion wp4 in essence adaptmet stands at the intersection of a rapidly evolving multidisciplinary domain amalgamating distinct fields that often face challenges in mutual communication the success of adaptmet hinges upon robust partnerships open exchange of ideas stateoftheart methodologies and equipment and the exploitation of synergistic opportunities among network members this collaboration spans diverse perspectives bridging gaps between different disciplines thereby breaking down barriers and fostering interdisciplinary cohesion