[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-erc-starting-grant-2026":3,"awarded-stats-erc-starting-grant":1144},{"awarded":4,"total":1143},[5,16,23,29,36,42,49,56,62,68,75,81,87,94,101,107,113,119,126,133,140,147,153,158,164,170,177,183,190,195,200,206,213,218,225,230,235,240,246,251,257,262,268,274,279,285,289,294,300,306,313,319,325,330,335,341,346,352,357,363,369,374,380,387,393,395,401,405,412,418,423,429,435,441,447,453,458,464,469,475,482,488,494,501,507,512,518,524,530,536,541,547,552,558,563,569,575,581,587,593,597,603,607,613,620,626,632,638,644,650,655,661,667,673,678,683,689,695,701,707,711,718,723,729,735,740,746,753,758,764,770,775,780,787,793,798,803,808,814,820,826,831,837,842,848,854,860,866,872,878,883,887,892,898,903,907,912,917,922,927,933,938,943,949,954,959,963,969,975,981,987,993,998,1003,1008,1012,1017,1022,1027,1032,1038,1043,1048,1052,1057,1062,1068,1074,1079,1083,1089,1095,1101,1107,1112,1116,1121,1127,1132,1138],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":15},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-starting-grant-101219072-hypopause","European Research Council","ERC Starting Grant","POMC AMPKα1 deletion drives male-specific BAT thermogenesis and obesity resistance","Ismael González‐García","Universidade de Santiago de Compostela","ES",2026,null,"Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC) play a critical role in energy homeostasis. 5'-adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a serine\u002Fthreonine kinase, which acts as the main energy sensor in the cell. The heterotrimeric AMPK results from the combination of a catalytic α subunit (α1, α2) with two regulatory subunits, β (β1, β2) and γ (γ1, γ2 and γ3). Hypothalamic AMPK plays a key role in the control of energy balance, but current e",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":19,"institution":20,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":22},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2021-stg-101042309","Multilevel sex-influenced neurobiological signatures of early life adversity","Elisabeth B. Binder","Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry","DE","Stress exposure early in life is an established risk factor for adult psychiatric illness, yet these disorders-including anxiety disorders and depression-show significant sex differences in prevalence, symptomatology, and treatment response. The biology underlying these differences remains largely unexplored and may contribute to the clinical heterogeneity in anxiety and depression. Here, we characterize the lasting impact of developmental stress on adulthood neurobiology and behavior in mice by",{"id":24,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":25,"piName":26,"institution":27,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2020-stg-948514-u2014edge-cam","How cell edges shape plant morphogenesis","Charlotte Kirchhelle","Lyon 1 Université","FR",{"id":30,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":31,"piName":32,"institution":33,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":35},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2018-stg-803338","Own and others’ confidence in social information use","Lucas Molleman","University of Amsterdam","NL","The behaviour of friends, colleagues, television hosts and social media feeds affects what we buy, how we dress, and who we vote for. People tend to be more sensitive to social influence when unsure about their beliefs and when the source is highly confident. Less is known about the relative impact of the confidence of self and others’ on social information use, and how they jointly shape social transmission. We present results of two incentivized decision-making tasks (N=203 and N=213, samples ",{"id":37,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":38,"piName":39,"institution":40,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":41},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-2022-u2013101076740-stoikos","Beyond pH and macronutrients: Soluble manganese and habitat heterogeneity shape multi-taxon soil biodiversity across a wide regional environmental gradient","Rubén Olmo-Gilabert","Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona","Global change threatens biodiversity across ecosystems worldwide, yet soil biodiversity remains comparatively poorly understood due to the challenges of quantifying belowground life. As a result, its main drivers and spatial patterns remain unresolved across environmental gradients. Here, we analyzed soil biodiversity across 102 sites in the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula, spanning ecosystems from arid to boreal (alpine) biomes. Using multi-taxon DNA metabarcoding, we assessed richness and Shan",{"id":43,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":44,"piName":45,"institution":46,"country":47,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":48},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-101221737","Theoretical and practical challenges for capturing reserve and resilience in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A narrative review","Valentin Ourry","Douglas Mental Health University Institute","CA","The concepts of reserve and resilience in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are widely used but their operationalization remains challenging and often lacks conceptual and methodological consistency. In this narrative review, we describe the chronological history of these concepts and then summarize and discuss key theoretical and practical issues, along with proposed solutions and different perspectives, in the context of aging and AD. Theoretical challenges include risk versus protective fact",{"id":50,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":51,"piName":52,"institution":53,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":55},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2016-stg-715371","Image-enabled cell sorting permits prospective isolation of primitive hematopoietic stem cell subsets with distinct functional potential","David G. Kent","University of York","GB","Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) has been a core technology for the identification, characterization and isolation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), allowing for prospective isolation of cells which express specific molecules at specific levels of intensity. A recent technological breakthrough, image-enabled cell sorting (ICS), is based on FACS but it also permits separation of cells based on the differential distribution of these molecules across the cell. Using ICS in primary HSCs,",{"id":57,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":58,"piName":59,"institution":60,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":61},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2022-stg-01075451","Variations in human ecodynamics in the southern Pyrenees: chert procurement and use at Cova Gran de Santa Linya during the Upper Paleolithic","Javier Sánchez‐Martínez","Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social","The southern slope of the Pyrenees is rich in siliceous resources, particularly chert. This material, widely distributed across the region, was the primary raw material exploited by anatomically modern humans (AMH) during the Upper Paleolithic. However, it remains unclear whether the procurement strategies employed during this period—marked by multiple climatic fluctuations and chrono-cultural phases remained consistent or changed over time. To address this question, an archaeopetrological chara",{"id":63,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":64,"piName":65,"institution":66,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-metapg-716575","Biodiversity and biogeography of the multi-kingdom cancer microbiome","Anders B. Dohlman","Dana-Farber Cancer Institute","US",{"id":69,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":70,"piName":71,"institution":72,"country":73,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":74},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2015-stg-678202","Bifurcating oxidation reactivity of a meso-chloro-isoporphyrin-iron(III)-dichloride complex","Aidan R. McDonald","Trinity College Dublin","IE","The reactivity of [Fe(Cl) 2 (T(OMe)PP-Cl)] (T(OMe)PP = meso -tetra(4-methoxy-phenyl)porphyrinyl) towards a series of substituted phenols was investigated. The oxidation reaction proceeded via a hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) mechanism where [Fe(Cl) 2 (T(OMe)PP-Cl)] displayed entropy of activation values typical of a metal-mediated HAT. In contrast, for hydrocarbon oxidation the entropy of activation indicated an organic radical-mediated HAT reaction, we address this dichotomy. • The reactivity of ",{"id":76,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":77,"piName":78,"institution":79,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":80},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-950617","Always on the move: Mapping spatiotemporal interactome with proximity labeling in mammalian cells","Ginny G. Farías","Utrecht University","Compartmentalization is central to coordinate complex biochemical processes in eukaryotic cells. Proteins governing organelle function and proteome complexity are dynamically trafficked intracellularly and intercellularly to maintain cellular homeostasis and communication. Proximity labeling (PL) enzymes such as TurboID and APEX2 coupled with mass spectrometry emerged as powerful tools to capture snapshots of subcellular proteomes. However, as protein trafficking is a dynamic process, this prese",{"id":82,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":83,"piName":84,"institution":85,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":86},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-679124","Interfacial ruthenium–titania nanosheet engineering for highly selective electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia across a wide pH range","Ahmad Tayyebi","Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases","Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction (NO₃RR) is a promising strategy for simultaneous wastewater remediation and decentralized ammonia production, but requires catalysts with high activity, NH₃ selectivity, and stability. Here, we report a Ru\u002FTiNS electrocatalyst composed of well-dispersed Ru nanoparticles on oxygen-deficient monolayer titania nanosheets (TiNS), enabling simultaneous precise control over nitrate adsorption, interfacial charge transfer, and hydrogen evolution reaction. Systematic v",{"id":88,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":89,"piName":90,"institution":91,"country":92,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":93},"openalex-european-research-council-award-101116162-0-drift-erc-2023-stg-","The path to no-drift MEMS inertial sensors with on-chip stress calibration","Erdinc Tatar","Bilkent University","TR","Navigation is vital for the future of autonomous mobility. Data from multiple sensing modalities (GPS, camera, radar, …) are fused in navigation. Among these sensors, inertial navigation is error-proof and can fit into every car and smartphone if a low-cost, no-drift sensor is invented. Drift is a major problem for inertial sensors, limiting their utilization in navigation applications. Inertial sensor data, i.e., acceleration and rotation, is integrated to estimate position, but drift leads to ",{"id":95,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":96,"piName":97,"institution":98,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":100},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg2019-852529","Elastoviscoplastic rheology suppresses drag growth in particle suspensions","Shahriar Habibi","Swedish e-Science Research Centre","SE","We perform direct numerical simulations of elastoviscoplastic (EVP) duct flows at particle volume fractions up to $\\phi = 15\\,\\%$ . Unlike Newtonian suspensions, which exhibit pronounced drag increase with particle loading, EVP suspensions show only modest drag growth in dilute and semi-dilute conditions and achieve significant drag reduction relative to their Newtonian counterparts beyond a threshold $\\phi$ that increases with the Bingham number. This behaviour results from two coupled mechanis",{"id":102,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":103,"piName":104,"institution":105,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":106},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-853045-shextreme-grant","Investigation of North Sea high-frequency sea-level extremes using long-term sea-level measurements","Gözde Güney Doğan","Delft University of Technology","Extreme sea-level events occur across a range of temporal and spatial scales, including high-frequency oscillations (periods T \u003C 2 h). However, most research uses hourly or daily data and neglects higher-frequency processes such as seiches and meteotsunamis. This study investigates the characteristics of high-frequency (HF) sea-level extremes along the North Sea coast. Long-term (1993-2025) measurements were analysed from 29 tide gauges. After quality control, the astronomical tide was removed t",{"id":108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":109,"piName":110,"institution":111,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":112},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2015-stg-ga-639020","Preserving Proton Resolution Under Cryogenic Dynamic Nuclear Polarization for Biomolecular Solid‐State NMR","Antoine Loquet","Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique","ABSTRACT The combination of proton detection with cryogenic dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) promises to unite the intrinsic sensitivity and resolution of 1 H‐detected magic‐angle spinning (MAS) NMR with the large signal enhancements afforded by hyperpolarization, but has long been considered impractical because of cryogenic line broadening and the limited spinning frequencies available under DNP conditions. Here, we demonstrate that high‐resolution proton‐detected spectra of proteins can inde",{"id":114,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":115,"piName":116,"institution":117,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":118},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-scarce-714080","Implications of temperature polarisation in membrane crystallisation revealed by direct measurement of nucleation","E.J. McAdam","Cranfield University","Membrane crystallisation presents a promising approach to selective salt recovery for brine mining, yet its performance is frequently constrained by scaling phenomena that can be induced by temperature polarisation at the membrane interface. Although temperature polarisation has been recognised as a critical barrier to efficient crystallisation, its specific mechanistic role in governing nucleation dynamics remains poorly understood and largely unquantified. To address this gap, this study prese",{"id":120,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":121,"piName":122,"institution":123,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":125},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2024-stg-101165179-artdisq","Neural surrogates for designing gravitational wave detectors","Carlos Ruiz-Gonzalez","Johannes Kepler University of Linz","AT","Abstract Physics simulators are essential in science and engineering, enabling the analysis, control, and design of complex systems. In experimental sciences, they are increasingly used to automate experimental design, often via combinatorial search and optimization. However, as the setups grow more complex, the computational cost of traditional, CPU-based simulators becomes a major limitation. Here, we show how neural surrogate models can significantly reduce reliance on such slow simulators wh",{"id":127,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":128,"piName":129,"institution":130,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":132},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-nomiss-101077526","Melanins Enhance Radical Scavenging Through Wavelength‐Selective Excited‐State Manifold Diversity","Matthew D. Shawkey","Ghent University","BE","ABSTRACT Melanin is a ubiquitous pigment that mitigates photoinduced damage in biological systems through light absorption, heat dissipation, and radical scavenging. While these functions have traditionally been considered independent, recent studies suggest that they may be intrinsically coupled, with radical scavenging activity enhanced with light irradiation. However, the underlying photophysical mechanism remains unclear. Here, we present the first comprehensive wavelength‐dependent comparis",{"id":134,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":135,"piName":14,"institution":136,"country":137,"year":13,"amount":138,"abstract":139},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101302418","Luminophores Containing Carbon in Place of Metal","USTAV ANORGANICKE CHEMIE AV CR VVI","CZ","€1,498,722","There is an apparent discrepancy between the photoluminescent performance of heavy metal-based luminophores and their all-organic counterparts. While the former have long dominated optoelectronic and light conversion applications, the latter often lack suitable excited-state dynamics, particularly in processes involving triplet states. This remains a major limitation of luminophores composed of light elements, which are otherwise potential cost-efficient and sustainable alternatives to heavy met",{"id":141,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":142,"piName":143,"institution":144,"country":145,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":146},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-starting-grant-mighealthgaps-101116721","Age at First Marriage or Cohabitation Among First-, Second-, and 2.5-Generation Immigrant Women, Finland 1987–2020","Citlali Trigos-Raczkowski","University of Helsinki","FI","Immigrants and their descendants are increasingly forming families across Europe, yet little is known about how immigration background shapes first union entry in emerging immigration contexts. Here, we examine whether immigrant generation, age at arrival, and sending region are associated with entry into opposite-sex first unions for women in Finland from 1987 to 2020. Treating cohabitation and direct marriage as competing events, we estimate cause-specific hazards in separate accelerated failu",{"id":148,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":149,"piName":150,"institution":151,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":152},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-2023-101117085","STING agonist profiling by nucleotide library defines structural determinants of cyclic dinucleotide recognition","Carina C. de Oliveira Mann","Acatech","Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is the principal mammalian receptor for cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) and a central hub of innate immune signaling. CDN analogues and small-molecule STING agonists are in active development for cancer immunotherapy and as vaccine adjuvants, although clinical translation has proven challenging. Here, we systematically profile STING nucleotide preferences by treating THP-1 monocytes and pancreatic cancer cells with a structurally diverse nucleotide library. We ",{"id":154,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":155,"piName":156,"institution":157,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2018-stg-804135-invaders","Food additive and naturally occurring glutamate and risk of cardiovascular diseases in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort","A Hasenböhler","Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers",{"id":159,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":160,"piName":161,"institution":162,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":163},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2020-stg-3dx-flash-948426","Synchrotron X-ray multi-projection imaging (XMPI) for high-resolution 4D characterization of multiphase flows","Tomas Rosén","KTH Royal Institute of Technology","Multiphase flows where particles, bubbles, or droplets are suspended in a fluid govern critical processes in biology, medicine, materials processing, and geophysics. However, observing their microscale dynamics in opaque systems has remained a fundamental challenge. We present Synchrotron X-ray Multi-Projection Imaging (XMPI), a novel approach enabling four-dimensional (3D + time) tracking of microparticles in visibly opaque suspension flows without requiring sample rotation. By capturing simult",{"id":165,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":166,"piName":167,"institution":168,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":169},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-vascular-rhythms-project-number-101220624","LPL-Positive Endothelial Cells Control T-cell Homing in Liver Metastasis","Hellmut G. Augustin","German Cancer Research Center","Combination therapies involving vascular targeting drugs have shown promise in overcoming resistance to immunotherapy. However, the prerequisite for vascular modulation to evoke an effective antitumor T-cell response remains elusive. Tracing the transcriptional response of liver metastasis-associated peritumoral and tumor endothelial cells (TEC) to T-cell intervention, we discovered an immunomodulatory TEC subpopulation that highly expressed lipoprotein lipase (LPL). LPL+ TECs facilitated intrat",{"id":171,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":172,"piName":173,"institution":174,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":176},"openalex-european-research-council-award-2021-stg-101041487-regal","Capturing electron correlation at mean-field cost: Assessment of i-DMFT and the underlying correlation conjecture","Christian Schilling","Center for Theoretical Physics","PL","Accurately treating strong electron correlation in quantum chemistry typically requires multireference wave function methods with steep computational scaling. The recently proposed i-DMFT method promises near configuration-interaction accuracy at mean-field cost by invoking an empirical linear relation between correlation energy and entropy (Collins' conjecture), whose validity remains unclear. We systematically assess this relation across a range of di- and polyatomic molecules, including diver",{"id":178,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":179,"piName":180,"institution":181,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":182},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-850861","The primate claustrum as a hub for precision weighting of prediction errors across the cortical hierarchy","Henry Kennedy","Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1","Understanding how signals are exchanged across the cerebral cortex is a central challenge for theories of perception and cognition. Although crucial gaps exist in empirical knowledge, evidence is emerging in macaques for complementary functional roles of cortico-cortical and cortico-claustral-cortical loops in predictive coding and perceptual inference. This Essay puts forward a roadmap for investigating these cortical networks in the primate brain by integrating parallel neuroimaging investigat",{"id":184,"funder":185,"programme":8,"title":186,"piName":187,"institution":188,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":189},"openalex-horizon-europe-european-research-council-award-erc-starting-grant-b-wex-project-101039426-","HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council","Future trends of desalination and wastewater treatment accounting for risks of maladaptation","Marina Andrijevic","International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis","The intensifying effects of climate change on global water scarcity require ensuring reliable, equitable, and sustainable water supply, with novel technologies becoming increasingly central to adaptation. In this study, we develop projections of wastewater treatment and desalination capacities and analyze their associated energy demand and CO 2 emissions. While technologically mature and rapidly expanding, their future development remains underexamined as a risk of maladaptation that stems from ",{"id":191,"funder":185,"programme":8,"title":192,"piName":193,"institution":14,"country":14,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":194},"openalex-horizon-europe-european-research-council-award-rc-2024-stg-101165038-remmu-","A Cosmic Archipelago of lensed metal-poor galaxies at z ∼ 6","H. Yan","The Cosmic Archipelago is an ensemble of galaxies, strongly lensed by the Hubble Frontier Fields cluster MACS,J0416, displaying some of the most extreme physical properties known at z ∼ 6.14. In this work, we combined JWST\u002FNIRCam with deep VLT\u002FX-shooter and JWST\u002FNIRSpec IFU to perform a joint spectrophotometric analysis from the far-ultraviolet to the red-optical rest frame. In particular, we focused on CA4, a UV-faint ̊m UV = -17.7), isolated, and compact (r_ ̊m e =81 ± 11 pc) galaxy at z = 6.1",{"id":196,"funder":185,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":198,"institution":111,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":199},"openalex-horizon-europe-european-research-council-award-erc-starting-grant-101042293-hepiq-","Quantum state design and emergent confinement mechanism in measured tensor network states","Guglielmo Lami","Abstract Randomness is a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics, arising from the measurement process that collapses superpositions into definite outcomes according to Born’s rule. Generating large-scale random quantum states is crucial for quantum computing and many-body physics, yet it remains a key challenge. We present a practical method based on local measurements of random Tensor Networks, focusing on random Matrix Product States (MPS) generated by two distinct quantum circuit architectur",{"id":201,"funder":185,"programme":8,"title":202,"piName":203,"institution":204,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":205},"openalex-horizon-europe-european-research-council-award-erc-2021-stg-101042680-2d-smarties","Twist-Induced Altermagnetism in a Metallic van der Waals Antiferromagnet","José J. Baldoví","Parc Científic de la Universitat de València","High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Altermagnetism offers a promising route for next-generation spintronic devices. In two-dimensional (2D) magnets, twist engineering enables its realization by breaking the combined inversion and time-reversal symmetry ( P T ). Here, by first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis, we demonstrate that twisting the recently synthesized metallic van der Waals antiferromagnet Co-doped bilayer Fe 3 GaTe 2 (Fe 2 CoGaTe 2 ) provides a robust plat",{"id":207,"funder":185,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":209,"institution":210,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":212},"openalex-horizon-europe-european-research-council-award-erc-2022-stg-101077348","Dietary perspectives on social asymmetry in a full Iron Age community of northern Italy: stable isotope evidence from the Patavine CUS-Piovego necropolis","Giusy Capasso","Sapienza University of Rome","IT","Understanding how social inequality influenced access to food resources in past societies is a central issue in archaeology, as dietary practices provide important insights into how resources were distributed within communities and how social hierarchies were structured and maintained over time. During the Iron Age, in line with broader European patterns, northern Italy – and particularly the Veneto region – underwent processes of urbanisation and increasing social complexity that likely reshape",{"id":214,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":215,"piName":216,"institution":181,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":217},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-metabo3dc-101042759-","Intestinal FXR deficiency uncouples steatosis protection from liver inflammation and fibrosis in MASH-diet fed mice","Margaux Nawrot","Abstract The Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR), a nuclear bile acid (BA) receptor highly expressed in the liver and intestine, is a potential pharmacological target for Metabolic dysfunction-Associated SteatoHepatitis (MASH). While intestinal FXR inhibition reduces high-fat diet (HFD)-induced hepatic steatosis, its role in MASH progression remains unclear. This study investigates the impact of intestinal FXR-deficiency on MASH development in a diet-induced murine model. Intestinal FXR-deficient ( int F",{"id":219,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":220,"piName":221,"institution":222,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":224},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2020-stg-949301","Combination of 3D and 2D Small and Wide Angle X‐Ray Scattering Imaging Reveals Diminished Bone Quality in the Superior Human Femoral Neck Cortex","Marianne Liebi","Paul Scherrer Institute","CH","The human femoral neck is particularly vulnerable to fracture, with failure most often initiating in the superior region. While age-related microstructural changes such as cortical thinning and increased porosity are well established, the contribution of material properties at the lamellar and mineralised collagen fibril (MCF) levels remains poorly understood. Here, regional differences in nanostructural properties of cortical bone from 78 femoral necks obtained from 44 donors aged 54-96 are inv",{"id":226,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":227,"piName":228,"institution":14,"country":14,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":229},"openalex-european-research-council-award-714062-erc-starting-grant-c2phase-","Volcanic aerosol effects on warm and cold cloud microphysics: ICON-ART simulations of Holuhraun and La Soufrière eruptions","Corinna Hoose","Abstract. Volcanic eruptions are a rich source of particles, such as sulfate and ash, that can act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) or ice nucleating particles (INPs). They offer a unique opportunity to study the effects of aerosols on clouds because they create a natural laboratory with high concentrations of aerosols adjacent to an unperturbed environment. In this study, we used the ICON–ART (ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic weather and climate model with Aerosols and Reactive Trace gases) modelin",{"id":231,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":232,"piName":233,"institution":14,"country":14,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":234},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-2023-101116016","Cultura caballista","Gwen Burnyeat","Abstract The world of Colombian gaited horses, or cultura caballista (horse‐riding culture), is often linked with uribismo , the right‐wing identity associated with former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Ethnographic fieldwork in conflict‐torn Antioquia reveals how horse‐human practices of training, breeding, and competition cultivate orientations toward hierarchical authority, disciplined hypermasculinity, and control over land and living bodies. This occurs within histories of racialized regiona",{"id":236,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":237,"piName":238,"institution":111,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":239},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-804106","Regio- and Enantioselective Alkoxycarbonylation of Unactivated Terminal Alkenes under Palladium-Bromide-Monophosphine Catalysis","Paweł Dydio","reveals that the chiral ligand forms a deep asymmetric pocket around the metal center, enabling precise enantiocontrol. The bromide ligand, in turn, is essential for achieving branched regioselectivity and suppressing deleterious chain-walking processes.",{"id":241,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":242,"piName":243,"institution":244,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":245},"openalex-european-research-council-award-nemus-stg-950084","Numerical convergence of the scalar auxiliary variable method applied to nonlinear stiff string models","Riccardo Russo","University of Bologna","Abstract This work is concerned with the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) method applied to geometrically nonlinear string models, focusing on the analysis of numerical convergence across various model formulations. An ODE system with a potential akin to that of the geometrically exact string is first analysed, providing both mathematical and numerical insight. Then, three nonlinear stiff string models are considered: geometrically exact (in two formulations), cubic, and Kirchhoff–Carrier models,",{"id":247,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":248,"piName":249,"institution":79,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":250},"openalex-european-research-council-award-948066-erc-stg-rationalgic-","Topological groupoids with involution and real algebraic stacks","Olivier de Gaay Fortman","Abstract To a topological groupoid endowed with an involution, we associate a topological groupoid of fixed points, generalizing the fixed-point subspace of a topological space with involution. We prove that when the topological groupoid with involution arises from a Deligne-Mumford stack over $$ \\mathbb {R} $$ \u003Cmml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.w3.org\u002F1998\u002FMath\u002FMathML\"> \u003Cmml:mi>R\u003C\u002Fmml:mi> \u003C\u002Fmml:math> , this fixed locus coincides with the real locus of the stack. This provides a topological framewo",{"id":252,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":253,"piName":254,"institution":255,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":256},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-948219","Supplementation with effective microorganisms in earthen ponds affects common carp growth and abundance of specific bacterial families","Joanna Szyda","Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences","BACKGROUND: Effective microorganisms are increasingly explored in aquaculture to improve fish health and growth without leaving harmful residues. However, their efficacy in real-world pond environments remains poorly understood. Here, we conducted a 103-day field experiment to assess the effects of supplementation with two effective commercial microorganism products on the microbial communities and growth performance of common carp (Cyprinus carpio). BACKGROUND: Effective microorganisms were add",{"id":258,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":259,"piName":260,"institution":85,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":261},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-101039748-electrocofs","Electrolyte–Framework Matching in High‐Voltage TEMPO‐COF Cathodes for Lithium Batteries","Marilyn Esclance DMello","ABSTRACT High‐voltage organic cathodes based on stable nitroxyl radicals are promising candidates for sustainable energy storage. However, porous TEMPO‐based frameworks remain underdeveloped compared to linear polymers, and the role of electrolyte anions in governing their performance is poorly understood. Herein, two imine‐linked covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are post‐synthetically functionalized with N 3 ‐TEMPO via click chemistry, affording crystalline, porous TEMPO‐TB and TEMPO‐TP COFs ",{"id":263,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":264,"piName":265,"institution":266,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":267},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-851004","Saving the Olive Trees? Ontological Politics and Plant Disease Governance in Apulia, Southern Italy","Fabio Gatti","Wageningen University & Research","In Apulia, everyone wants to “save the olive trees”—yet what is to be saved is far from clear. Since 2013, the spread of Xylella fastidiosa and Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS) has devastated Southern Italy’s groves and triggered a highly contested phytosanitary crisis. This paper argues that the controversy cannot be reduced to technical uncertainty, knowledge disagreement, or economic interests alone; it is also an ontological conflict—a struggle over the nature of the entities at stake. Dr",{"id":269,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":270,"piName":271,"institution":272,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":273},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-101075514","Selenite reduces algal reactive oxygen species accumulation and enhances algal resistance to a bacterial pathogen","Einat Segev","American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science","Abstract Oxidative stress arises when cells fail to maintain redox balance. Among marine microalgae, oxidative stress is a hallmark of interaction with pathogenic bacteria. In co-culture of Emiliania huxleyi algae with pathogenic bacteria of the species Phaeobacter inhibens, algal intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase prior to bacterial-induced population collapse. Here, we tested whether antioxidant amendments can alter the pathogenic outcome. Screening several environm",{"id":275,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":276,"piName":277,"institution":210,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":278},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-loop-101162173","Optical spin glasses","Claudio Conti","Spin-glass theory emerged in the 1980s as a merger between theoretical physics and condensed matter. Soon, physicists realized that spin glasses serve as a paradigm for complex systems, as underscored by the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, and for applications in machine learning and neuroscience, with a profound connection with the Hopfield model and Boltzmann machines, subjects of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. However, the connection with optics and photonics is even more profound and fundamen",{"id":280,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":281,"piName":282,"institution":283,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":284},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-2016-714388","Affective and cognitive theory of mind and associated brain functional alterations in frontotemporal dementia","Federica Agosta","Vita-Salute San Raffaele University","Abstract Theory of mind (ToM), the ability to infer others’ beliefs (cognitive ToM) and emotions (affective ToM), is compromised in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). However, its diagnostic and prognostic value in other frontotemporal dementia (FTD) variants remains underexplored due to limited understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms. This study investigated whether ToM deficits are shared across the frontotemporal dementia spectrum and explored the functional connec",{"id":286,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":287,"piName":203,"institution":204,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":288},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2021-stg-101042680-2d-smarties","Tunable itinerant ferromagnetism in two-dimensional FePd2Te2 hosting 1D spin chains","One-dimensional (1D) magnetism offers unidirectional spin interactions that allow unique tunable properties and unconventional spin phenomena. However, it often suffers from poor stability, limiting practical applications. In this regard, integrating 1D magnetism into two-dimensional (2D) materials enables a promising route to stabilize these systems while preserving their anisotropic magnetic characteristics. Here, we focus on the 2D ferromagnet FePd 2 Te 2 (T C = 183 K), which hosts 1D spin ch",{"id":290,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":291,"piName":292,"institution":293,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-101165479-re-twist-stg","Real-time identification of parametric sloshing-induced heat and mass transfer in a horizontally oriented cylindrical tank","Samuel Akatchi Ahizi","Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics",{"id":295,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":296,"piName":297,"institution":298,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":299},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2021-stg-101040046","Targeted KRASG12V Degradation \u003Ci>In Vivo\u003C\u002Fi> Elicits Lung Adenocarcinoma Regression with Subsequent Relapse from Dysregulated Proteolysis","Cristina Mayor-Ruiz","Institute for Research in Biomedicine","Abstract Recent drug discovery breakthroughs have led to the approval of KRASG12C inhibitors in lung adenocarcinoma. Unfortunately, clinical responses are often hampered by the rapid onset of resistance. Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTAC) have emerged as promising alternatives to traditional inhibition. However, there is limited mechanistic understanding of KRAS degradation in vivo. In this study, we developed a preclinical lung adenocarcinoma mouse model and demonstrated that targeted onco",{"id":301,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":302,"piName":303,"institution":304,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":305},"openalex-european-research-council-award-stg-101165485","Influence of a low atmospheric pressure on the growth and lipid composition of Chlorella vulgaris","Cyprien Verseux","University of Bremen","Within crewed missions to Mars, microalgae could be used for the production of essential consumables. Their cultivation there could be less resource-intensive if the pressure inside bioreactors was reduced. However, whether this would decrease their growth is unclear; and how the composition of their lipidome would change (for instance, to compensate for the tendency of low pressure to increase membrane fluidity) is unknown. Here we demonstrate that the growth of Chlorella vulgaris is unaffected",{"id":307,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":308,"piName":309,"institution":310,"country":311,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":312},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2015-stg-680156-zpr","The insertion of an ATTTC repeat in an Alu element hyperactivates a neurodevelopmental enhancer in spinocerebellar ataxia type 37","José Bessa","i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto","PT","Alu elements are evolutionarily very old primate-specific interspersed repeat elements that constitute ∼11% of the human genome. They are a source of short tandem repeats (STRs), which often expand in size and cause inherited neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders. How expanded STR insertion mutations within Alu STRs culminate in disease remains unknown. Here, we report an Alu STR located in an intron of DAB1 that functions as a neurodevelopmental enhancer. We demonstrate that an ATTTC re",{"id":314,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":315,"piName":316,"institution":317,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":318},"openalex-european-research-council-award-starting-grant-no-336084","Air–water dynamics and wave forcing mechanisms in a pneumatic long-wave tsunami generator","David McGovern","London South Bank University","The pneumatic tsunami generator enables the generation of Froude-scaled long waves in laboratory flumes through controlled air-pressure variation within a sealed tank. The internal water height responds to pressure evolution above the free surface, which in turn initiates wave formation at the connected flume interface. This configuration represents a canonical pressure-driven free-surface problem in which compressible gas dynamics are coupled to an incompressible liquid through a moving interfa",{"id":320,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":321,"piName":322,"institution":323,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":324},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2023-stg-648916","Longitudinal first-trimester reference charts for crown to rump length and related fetal structures in a Population-based setting","Vincent W. V. Jaddoe","Erasmus MC","BACKGROUND: Early fetal growth is a critical period for human development and of great importance for later life health. Detailed knowledge on normal and abnormal development of first trimester fetal and related structures is limited. This study aimed to construct first-trimester population distribution centiles for weeks of gestation and reference centiles for fetal crown to rump length, and yolk, gestational and amniotic sac between 6 and 13 weeks of gestation. METHODS: We used data from 3464 ",{"id":326,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":327,"piName":328,"institution":14,"country":14,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":329},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2022-stg-bootes-101076343","X-ray eclipse tomography: Resolving the extent of X-ray-emitting region(s) in the Seyfert galaxy ESO 362-G18","G. Miniutti","X-ray spectral variability in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be either intrinsic or caused by external processes, such as variable absorption. Several transient occultation events from individual clouds or X-ray eclipses have been identified in a number of AGNs in the past two decades. We report results from the analysis of two . Our results highlight the potential of X-ray eclipse tomography for providing a clearer view of the innermost accretion flow geometry and of the AGN surroundings out",{"id":331,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":332,"piName":333,"institution":79,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":334},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2021-stg-no-101041824","Live shopping as a participatory spectacle: The intersection of user practices, platform affordances and governance regimes in the repurposing of TikTok LIVE for e-commerce","Taylor Annabell","Although the formal integration of e-commerce through TikTok Shop has not yet been fully launched in Europe, users leverage other platform affordances, such as livestreaming, to facilitate shopping. In the Netherlands, TikTok LIVE serves as a hybrid space where entertainment, interaction and commerce come together, exemplifying the platformisation of consumer culture on social media. This article examines how streamers and viewers stage shopping as an interactive, participatory spectacle during ",{"id":336,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":337,"piName":338,"institution":339,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":340},"openalex-european-research-council-award-fair-rfb-erc-2021-stg-101042844","Investigating the Effects of Surface Chemistry and Pore Structure in Grafted PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers","R M van der Horst","Eindhoven University of Technology","Abstract The carbon support surface chemistry strongly influences ionomer interactions, water management, and electrochemical performance in polymer electrolyte fuel cell catalyst layers; however, studies that decouple these effects from Pt particle size remain limited. Here, diazonium grafting is applied to commercial 40 wt% Pt\u002FVulcan and Pt\u002FKetjenblack catalysts to introduce five aryl functionalities (–NO₂,–NH₂,–CF₃,–COOH,–SO₃H) spanning a wide range of polarities and wettabilities without alt",{"id":342,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":343,"piName":344,"institution":111,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":345},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2020-stg-no-949812","Beyond network-based approaches: uncovering the true cost of connectivity","Cécile H. Albert","Abstract Context Fragmented landscapes challenge biodiversity conservation. While connectivity elements are promoted to mitigate the effects of fragmentation, their effectiveness remains debated. Objectives This study evaluates the effectiveness of corridors and stepping stones in enhancing dispersal success and population dynamics in a high-resistance matrix. We compare two experimental approaches: a landscape-based design that explicitly accounts for matrix resistance, and a traditional networ",{"id":347,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":348,"piName":349,"institution":350,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":351},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-starting-grant-284108-","Effects of the semantic context on the processing of careful and casual speech","Marco van de Ven","Radboud University Nijmegen","Listeners need contextual information to recognize the highly reduced word pronunciation variants that frequently occur in casual speech. Especially, semantically related words preceding them may be informative. It is unclear, however, whether listeners also benefit from preceding semantically related words when these are reduced as well, which is typically the case in casual speech. The present study reports two experiments examining how semantic priming modulates the semantic and phonological ",{"id":353,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":354,"piName":355,"institution":111,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":356},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-949812","Time-lag in the interacting effects of habitat amount and fragmentation on genetic diversity in red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris)","Aurélie Coulon","Genetic diversity is important for adaptation and persistence of populations. It is influenced by many scale-dependent factors including demographic history and interactions with surrounding landscape, including the availability of habitat. We aim to determine the independent and interactive effects of habitat amount and habitat fragmentation on red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) genetic diversity. We also assess the spatial and temporal scales at which habitat amount and fragmentation have the str",{"id":358,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":359,"piName":360,"institution":361,"country":73,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":362},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-21-101039636","Rigid and electrode-compatible multicomponent organic crystals for piezoelectric energy harvesting","Suman Bhattacharya","University of Limerick","O represents the first multicomponent piezoelectric crystal disc in our research that simultaneously demonstrates high voltage output, low surface roughness, and high mechanical strength without a corresponding increase in brittleness.",{"id":364,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":365,"piName":366,"institution":367,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":368},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2022-stg-101076100","Exact downfolding and its perturbative approximation","Jonas B. Profe","Goethe University Frankfurt","Solving the many-electron problem, even approximately, is one of the most challenging and simultaneously most important problems in contemporary condensed matter physics with various connections to other fields. The standard approach is to follow a strategy that combines various numerical and analytical techniques. A crucial step in this strategy is the derivation of an effective model for a subset of degrees of freedom by a procedure called , which often corresponds to integrating out energy sc",{"id":370,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":371,"piName":372,"institution":323,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":373},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2024-stg-101161004","Maternal and paternal early-pregnancy dietary glycemic index, embryonic development and adverse birth outcomes","Mireille C. Schipper","BACKGROUND & AIMS: We examined associations of parental early-pregnancy dietary glycemic index (GI) with embryonic growth and yolk sac development, and their subsequent associations with fetal growth and adverse birth outcomes. METHODS: Among 778 women and 602 partners participating in a population-based prospective cohort study from preconception onwards, we assessed dietary intake GI by FFQ at median 12.4 weeks gestation. Crown-rump length (CRL) and yolk sac volume were assessed by 7, 9, and 1",{"id":375,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":376,"piName":377,"institution":378,"country":311,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":379},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2023-stg-101116461","Engineered Biopolymer Architectures for Selective Metal Ions Extraction","Amir Nobahar","University of Aveiro","ABSTRACT The separation and recovery of metal ions from industrial and municipal wastewaters and leachates is essential for environmental sustainability and resource conservation. Bio‐based polysaccharides, such as cellulose and chitin; proteins, such as keratin; and other biomacromolecules, such as lignin, offer a promising, sustainable alternative to conventional adsorbents due to their abundance, renewability, and inherent presence of metal‐binding functional groups. This review explores stra",{"id":381,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":382,"piName":383,"institution":384,"country":385,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":386},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-2018-801965","Association between the gut microbiota and estimated glomerular filtration rate in two Swedish population-based cohorts","Lin Yi-Ting","Kaohsiung Medical University","TW","INTRODUCTION: Evidence for gut-kidney interactions in early kidney disease is limited, particularly in community-dwelling adults with largely preserved kidney function. Here, we quantified links between gut microbiota and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in two population-based Swedish cohorts. METHODS: Deep shotgun metagenomics profiled fecal samples from 9788 adults in the Swedish CArdioPulmonary BioImage Study (SCAPIS) discovery cohort (mean age 58 ± 4 years; 52% women) and 2080 ad",{"id":388,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":389,"piName":390,"institution":391,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":392},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-949667","Integrated Chronic \u003Ci>In Vivo\u003C\u002Fi> and \u003Ci>In Vitro\u003C\u002Fi> Screens Uncover \u003Ci>NFIL3\u003C\u002Fi> as a Driver of T-cell Dysfunction","Nayan Jain","Columbia University Irving Medical Center","CAR therapy has transformed the treatment landscape for hematological malignancies but its efficacy in solid tumors is limited, owing in part to insufficient functional persistence of the engineered T cells. To elucidate the basis for their functional decline, we conducted integrated chronic in vivo and in vitro screens of 400 transcription factors, which revealed NFIL3 as a driver of CAR T cell dysfunction. Genetic disruption of NFIL3 in CAR T cells sustains their expansion, increases cytokine ",{"id":394,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":389,"piName":390,"institution":391,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":392},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-101163805",{"id":396,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":397,"piName":398,"institution":399,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":400},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-101078307","Integrated left ventricular multi-omics landscape of human cardiometabolic HFpEF","F Capone","University of Padua","BACKGROUND: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), the leading form of heart failure, is burdened by high morbidity and mortality, owing to gaps in our understanding of its molecular and pathophysiological mechanisms. The obese\u002Fcardiometabolic HFpEF phenotype is particularly prevalent and morbid, and obesity is increasingly recognized as a driver of the syndrome, though the underlying mechanisms distinguishing cardiometabolic HFpEF from obesity remain unclear. Comprehensive mult",{"id":402,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":403,"piName":404,"institution":14,"country":14,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":14},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2018-stg-quahq","Breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in an Interacting Quantum Hall Metamaterial","Anonymous",{"id":406,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":407,"piName":408,"institution":409,"country":410,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":411},"openalex-european-research-council-award-101161952-ignite-erc-2024-stg","Social behavior and climate change: how rising temperatures shape insect societies","Jelena Bujan","Ruđer Bošković Institute","HR","Eusocial insects are master regulators of their thermal environments, using collective behaviors to thrive in diverse and extreme climates. Nevertheless, accelerating climate warming threatens to destabilize insect societies, due to the temperature-dependence of behaviors that underpin group organization and functioning. Here, we synthesize recent advances in our understanding of temperature effects on social behavior, focusing on the eusocial bees, wasps, ants, and termites, and scaling from in",{"id":413,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":414,"piName":415,"institution":416,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":417},"openalex-european-research-council-award-starting-grant-850529-e-direct","Evolution of noisy learning in games","Marta C. Couto","Intelligent Systems Research (United States)","People make strategic decisions many times a day-during negotiations, when coordinating actions with others, or when choosing partners for cooperation. The resulting dynamics can be studied with learning theory and evolutionary game theory. These frameworks explore how people adapt their decisions over time, in light of how effective their strategies have been. The outcomes of such learning processes depend on how sensitive individuals are to the performance of their strategies. When they are mo",{"id":419,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":420,"piName":421,"institution":266,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":422},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-grow-grant-agreement-no-10104110","Challenges in upscaling process-based groundwater quality models to the global domain scale","Floris Sebastiaan Rogier S.R Teuling","Abstract Groundwater is a critical freshwater resource that is protected from contamination on short timescales. Nevertheless, ongoing contamination increasingly threatens groundwater quality and affects its role in global biogeochemical cycles. Global-scale assessments of groundwater quality remain limited due to sparse observational data and the absence of suitable mechanistic models.
 
This study reviews groundwater quality modelling approaches from catchment to global scales.",{"id":424,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":425,"piName":426,"institution":427,"country":67,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":428},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-stg-2019-852529","Viscoelasticity of biomimetic scale beams from trapped complex fluids","Pranta Rahman Sarkar","University of Central Florida","We investigate the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of a biomimetic scale-covered beam in which shear-dependent complex fluids are trapped between overlapping scales under bending loads. These fluids mimic biological mucus and slime layers commonly enveloping the skins found in nature. An energy-based analytical model is developed to quantify the interplay between substrate elasticity, scale geometry, and fluid rheology at multiple length scales. Constant strain rate and oscillatory bending are e",{"id":430,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":431,"piName":14,"institution":432,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":433,"abstract":434},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221688","Pioneering High-performance Orbital Engines with Non-steady Innovative ACCeleration","SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA","€1,660,691","Over the last decades Electric Propulsion (EP) has emerged as a transformative technology in space mobility, offering significant advantages and enabling ambitious new missions. Thanks to their high exhaust velocity and fuel efficiency, EP systems have fostered the miniaturization of space assets, catalysing the rise of the New Space era.\nEP devices generate thrust by converting electrical energy into kinetic energy of a propellant exhausted from the spacecraft. State-of-the-art technologies, su",{"id":436,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":437,"piName":14,"institution":438,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":439,"abstract":440},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219592","Innovative CAR immune cell communities to break solid tumor barriers","UNIVERSITAT ZURICH","€1,498,153","Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumor in adults. It is paradigmatic for many incurable, poorly immunologic solid tumors that desperately need more effective therapies. Cellular immunotherapies with engineered immune cells expressing synthetic chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) to recognize cancer cells have great therapeutic potential. However, significant barriers related to cell manufacturing, immune cell migration and activation in the tumor environment and fai",{"id":442,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":443,"piName":14,"institution":444,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":445,"abstract":446},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221890","Postcolonial Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging in Former European Colonial Powers","CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITE","€1,499,450","Decades after decolonisation, uncertainties surrounding the possession of the former colonial power’s nationality and struggles for citizenship rights among postcolonial migrants and their descendants remain pressing issues in Europe. Sitting at the crossroads between citizenship and migration studies, colonial and postcolonial history and legal consciousness studies, POSTCOLCIT breaks new ground as the first comprehensive, comparative and longitudinal study exploring the relationships between f",{"id":448,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":449,"piName":14,"institution":450,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":452},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221419","Single-cell OMICS-informed in vitro models of human development","GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET","€1,500,000","From immunotherapy to restoring neural function in Parkinson’s disease, cell-based therapies are shaping medicine. Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) could be an invaluable resource, given their unlimited in vitro self-renewal and ability to differentiate into any cell-type. However, in vitro hPSC-derived cells show defective performance in transplantation assays. Using the long-sought in vitro production of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) as a model, I propose a strategy to assess and rectify",{"id":454,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":455,"piName":456,"institution":350,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":457},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2020-stg-948786-hhair","Consistent Performance in Adaptive Learning Technologies as a Measure of Self-Regulated Learning","Josh Ring","Self-regulated learning (SRL) is the process by which students set goals, monitor progress, and regulate behavior during learning. SRL is an acquired skill; by distinguishing students who struggle with content knowledge from those who struggle with SRL, suitable support can be provided to each. We present a novel behavioural measure of SRL which quantifies how consistently students perform during adaptive learning technology (ALT)-supported practice. Using parameter estimates of an item response",{"id":459,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":460,"piName":461,"institution":462,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":463},"openalex-european-research-council-award-erc-2016-stg-gravibone","Microanatomical features of bovids long bones: What are the effects of mass and habitat?","Morgan Proust","Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution","Bovids are a valuable group for studying limb long bone adaptations due to differences in size and the environment that the nearly 280 species inhabit. Their analysis can thus shed light on the constraints that occur during locomotion, which affect muscles and both the outer and inner bone structure. Nevertheless, no study has directly looked at the bone inner structure within bovids. This study is the first to analyse the inner structure of stylopod and zeugopod bones within bovids of different",{"id":465,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":466,"piName":467,"institution":111,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":468},"openalex-european-research-council-award--phenovigour-grant-erc-stg-2020-949843-to-fv","The multiple dimensions of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal","C. Y. Utami","Abstract Seed dispersal plays a central role in plant ecology and evolution, and understanding its variation is key to predicting species demography and range dynamics. However, dispersal is difficult to measure, and most modelling and field studies assume uniform dispersal within species, ignoring individual variation. Yet dispersal potential can differ strongly among individuals within species. More empirical data at the individual level are therefore needed to quantify the magnitude of intras",{"id":470,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":471,"piName":14,"institution":472,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":473,"abstract":474},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219278","Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe","JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ","€1,499,541","Although sexual and gender minorities, often collectively referred to as LGBTQ*, constitute at least 10 percent of Western societies – with increasing representation among younger age cohorts – the influence of sexual and gender identity on political behaviour remains underexplored. Only a few case studies on the US, Canada, and a few Western European states have empirically demonstrated the significance of LGBTQ* mobilisation for party competition. The absence of comprehensive cross-country dat",{"id":476,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":477,"piName":14,"institution":478,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":480,"abstract":481},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222357","How do criminals communicate and organise across cultures?","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","UK","€1,499,458","The repression of organised criminal groups (OCGs) in a country can lead to a paradoxical outcome: their expansion abroad. In Japan, intensified actions against the yakuza, Japan's OCGs, over the past fifteen years have resulted not only in a reduction of formal membership, but also in a strategic exploration of opportunities beyond national borders. The yakuza's established trade networks in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China are well-documented, and recent reports indicate the emergence of branch of",{"id":483,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":484,"piName":14,"institution":485,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":486,"abstract":487},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219479","Geometry-driven self-organisation in active living matter","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","€1,473,000","Living materials process information through their physical degrees of freedom, enabling autonomous functions beyond the capabilities of electronic systems. For example, a migrating cell uses its own shape dynamics to navigate through complex environments and decide which way to go. Yet, the principles underlying such physical information processing have not been identified due to the complexity inherent to problems involving fluctuating dynamic boundaries, and the need for a multidisciplinary a",{"id":489,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":490,"piName":14,"institution":491,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":492,"abstract":493},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220348","Robust Econometrics of Games in IO","QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","€1,477,651","REGIO develops advanced econometric methods to identify and estimate economic fundamentals in games played by firms, addressing a broad spectrum of real-world industrial organization scenarios. These methods bridge critical gaps where existing techniques fall short and provide a disciplined framework to relax less credible assumptions about firm behavior and the game environment, enabling researchers to draw robust empirical conclusions. Their effectiveness is demonstrated through applications, ",{"id":495,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":496,"piName":14,"institution":497,"country":498,"year":13,"amount":499,"abstract":500},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222542","Archaeological Robotics for Mapping and Investigating Shipwrecks in the Arctic","NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU","NO","€1,949,705","In the waters around Svalbard there are more than a thousand undiscovered shipwrecks from the early whaling period on the seabed. With the environmental changes rapidly happening in the Arctic, this presumably well-preserved underwater cultural heritage may be under threat. ARCHEOROBOTICS aims to develop methods for autonomous robots to find and investigate these wrecks and secure the invaluable human and ecological history they represent before it is too late. ARCHEOROBOTICS is divided into fiv",{"id":502,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":503,"piName":14,"institution":504,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":505,"abstract":506},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222116","Gut Influences on Brain and Mind","DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUER ERNAEHRUNGSFORSCHUNG POTSDAM REHBRUECKE","€1,499,980","A “gut feeling” is an intuition arising without conscious reasoning. This idiom reflects a profound biological truth: the gut is directly connected to subcortical systems that regulate arousal, mood, and behavior. However, brain-body theories often overlook these connections and their influence on arousal, a key mechanism through which the gut affects cognition. Moreover, we lack a detailed understanding of how different time scales of gut activity -from rapid contractions (seconds to minutes) t",{"id":508,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":509,"piName":14,"institution":510,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":511},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222665","Unravelling early dinosaur success through fossil digestive contents and trophic dynamics","UPPSALA UNIVERSITET","The early radiation of dinosaurs, spanning approximately 30 million years from their emergence to dominance of terrestrial ecosystems, remains a complex and poorly understood evolutionary event. While previous studies have focused mainly on phylogenetic aspects, less attention has been given to the ecological dynamics that drove their success. This project aims to fill that gap by employing a novel, multidisciplinary approach to investigate the early evolution of dinosaurs through the lens of th",{"id":513,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":514,"piName":14,"institution":515,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":516,"abstract":517},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219600","Universality in the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang class","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","€1,402,866","This proposal aims to solve central open problems in the study of the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) class as well as develop new tools to study its models.The KPZ class consists of a large set of models, sharing common microscopic  dynamical features and aiming at modeling the physical phenomena of random growth interfaces.  The two main goals in my proposal are1) Show that the KPZ-scaling is universal  in a large family of non-integrable models in the KPZ class.It is believed that models in the KPZ",{"id":519,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":520,"piName":14,"institution":521,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":522,"abstract":523},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220383","Foundations of Delay Doppler Communications and Sensing","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN","€1,499,586","Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is listed as one of the six primary usage scenarios in the forthcoming 6th Generation (6G) network. However, the current wireless infrastructures are far away from meeting the 6G key performance indicators (KPIs) of both sensing and communications. 6G requires a 1.5 to 3 times growth in spectral efficiency compared to 5G, and significant improvements in sensing ability. These stringent requirements cannot be met by the current physical-layer waveform.",{"id":525,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":526,"piName":14,"institution":527,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":528,"abstract":529},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220531","Potential impact of sea level rise related salinization on lowland tropical coastal peatlands","GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAT GOTTINGEN STIFTUNG OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS","€1,966,888","Sea level rise (SLR) poses risks of flooding and salinization to coastal ecosystems. At present, research on SLR impacts still heavily focuses on saline ecosystems (e.g., mangroves, saltmarshes), despite the impact of salinization being particularly dire for freshwater ecosystems. Southeast (SE) Asian coastal peatlands are freshwater wetlands playing important role in tackling the triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Mainly located in low-lying coastal plains",{"id":531,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":532,"piName":14,"institution":533,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":534,"abstract":535},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221750","Single Cell PTSD: Novel Target Identification","SIEC BADAWCZA LUKASIEWICZ - PORT POLSKI OSRODEK ROZWOJU TECHNOLOGII","€1,403,931","Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a devastating psychiatric disease triggered by severe psychological trauma, affecting 4% of the global population - a prevalence projected to rise due to ongoing conflicts like the war in Ukraine and the looming threat of climate change. Despite its widespread impact, we lack effective treatments of PTSD, placing a significant burden on individuals and society.Previous PTSD research was hindered by limitations such as bulk tissue analyses, a lack of epige",{"id":537,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":538,"piName":14,"institution":539,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":540},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219462","Where the wild things were: how the rise of farming changed human-wildlife relationships","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","WILDERFARM explores the significant changes in human-wildlife relationships that occurred with the rise of farming in western Europe between 6000 and 2000 BCE. Up until now, research on this period has focused strongly on the domestication of animals and plants and the emergence of the new relationship between humans and domesticates. WILDERFARM shifts the perspective, examining how farmers renegotiated the age-old relationship with wild animals and how the rise of farming and its activities, su",{"id":542,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":543,"piName":14,"institution":544,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":545,"abstract":546},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222104","From streetlight to starlight: How light pollution disrupts insect orientation and alters habitat connectivity","CARL VON OSSIETZKY UNIVERSITAET OLDENBURG","€1,499,511","The widespread use of artificial lighting has drastically changed night skies across the globe, creating a specific threat to nocturnal species: light pollution. Recently, light pollution has been identified as one driver of insect decline. Among nocturnal insects, moths are particularly important as they serve as both key pollinators and food source, providing essential ecosystem functions. To mitigate the effects of light pollution, a comprehensive understanding of moth orientation is essentia",{"id":548,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":549,"piName":14,"institution":550,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":551},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221218","Elucidating molecular principles of RNA phage-host interaction","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFEKTIONSFORSCHUNG GMBH","Bacterial viruses called phages are highly diverse predators with multifaceted life cycles. Recent major breakthroughs in phage biology brought phages back into the spotlight, highlighting their tremendous potential in basic and applied research. For instance, bacterial immune systems were shown to be the origin of human innate immune systems and there was significant progress in developing phages into therapeutics to treat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.However, this recent renaissanc",{"id":553,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":554,"piName":14,"institution":555,"country":73,"year":13,"amount":556,"abstract":557},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220950","Identity-Error: How Social Self-Evidencing Exposes Vulnerability to Falsehoods and Conspiracy Beliefs","UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK","€1,499,093","Understanding how people discern the “truthfulness” of information is of fundamental importance to science. However, the complexity of dynamic information processing in social environments has made it convenient to “silo” research at different levels of analysis (neurological, psychological, social). To overcome this, we need end-to-end modeling that explains when and why people are vulnerable to falsehoods and mistruth.IDENTITY-ERROR pursues a new methodological framework that integrates a soci",{"id":559,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":560,"piName":14,"institution":561,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":562},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222613","Manufacturing Modernity in Africa - How Industrialisation Transformed Late- and Postcolonial Societies, Politics and Economies (Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe, 1940s-2000s)","CENTRE MARC BLOCH EV - DEUTSCH-FRANZOSISCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN EV","This interdisciplinary project investigates the long-term history of factories built by the multinational company Bata in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe in the late colonial period and still operating today. This research addresses the under-studied area of industrialisation and manufacturing in Africa, particularly the lack of comprehensive understanding about the local impact of these factories, and the mechanisms behind their influence.The project’s innovative approach combines historical anthrop",{"id":564,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":565,"piName":14,"institution":566,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":567,"abstract":568},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220119","Studying Imaginative Otherworlds: Chinese Fantasy Fiction, Literary Politics, and Media Creativity","ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG","€1,419,850","Fantasy fiction is one of the most understudied areas in in the field of contemporary Chinese literature, a gap that is particularly striking given the current popularity of genres such as Eastern fantasy, science fiction, and silk punk. Over the past two decades, Chinese fantasy fiction has undergone both a quantitative surge and a qualitative transformation, evolving from a niche youth subculture into a fixture of everyday cultural life. The popularity of fantasy fiction reflects not only its ",{"id":570,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":571,"piName":14,"institution":572,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":573,"abstract":574},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220130","Quantum Enhanced Sensing with Trapped ions for Atomic Parity Violation","STICHTING VU","€1,968,875","The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics classifies the known particles and describes their non-gravitational interactions extremely well. However, it fails to provide answers to various big open questions, such as the origin of dark matter. The QuEST project aims to break new ground in fundamental physics by probing the electroweak (EW) sector of the SM. The weak force is the only fundamental interaction that is known to break spatial mirror symmetry known as parity. In atomic systems, parit",{"id":576,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":577,"piName":14,"institution":578,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":579,"abstract":580},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219775","Remote control of multiple cell functions through multi-stimuli-responsive nanoparticle assemblies","FUNDACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION DE MALAGA EN BIOMEDICINA Y SALUD","€1,740,080","CELL-NANO-REMOTE aims to achieve flexible, remote control over therapeutic cell behaviour. In previous work in optogenetics and magnetogenetics, only partial remote cell control has been attained using light or magnetic fields as triggers. Furthermore, these approaches are generally limited to single cell responses, typically influencing one particular gene, receptor, or ion channel. In contrast, CELL-NANO-REMOTE seeks to obtain independent control over various cell functions without cross-activ",{"id":582,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":583,"piName":14,"institution":584,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":585,"abstract":586},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220388","Generative Polymer Informatics","UNIVERSITAT BAYREUTH","€1,498,891","Embarking on a transformative journey, this groundbreaking research proposal unveils generative polymer informatics (genPI)-a revolutionary paradigm that leverages the unprecedented capabilities of transformer-based artificial intelligence to catapult polymer discovery, design, and development into a new era. In a time when sustainable and advanced materials are more crucial than ever,  genPI aims to overcome key challenges in polymer science by exploring vast chemical spaces, accurately predict",{"id":588,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":589,"piName":14,"institution":590,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":591,"abstract":592},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219447","Large-Scale Structure of Entanglement","GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER","€1,499,297","Entanglement is the key resource for quantum information processing. Its study has revolutionized our understanding of condensed matter, quantum fields and even quantum gravity.One of the most fascinating insights is the connection between the classification of topological phases of matter and long-range entanglement.This project will explore a novel aspect of entanglement in ground states of quantum many-body systems:their large-scale structure of entanglement (LSSE), describing those entanglem",{"id":594,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":595,"piName":14,"institution":584,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":596},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219325","Socio-Economic Metabolism PATHways for sustainable metal cYcles","SEMPATHY aims to develop and apply a multi-material, mass balance-consistent, composition-aware, and process simulation-based method called Material Pathway Analysis to provide the basis for modelling, simulating, and optimising sustainable global material cycles for technology metals. SEMPATHY addresses the urgent challenge of global metal cycles not being closed and the environmental impacts of metal production and processing becoming more relevant globally. At the same time, global demand for",{"id":598,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":599,"piName":14,"institution":600,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":601,"abstract":602},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219826","Learning from Experience and Agency in Displacement (LEAD): Building a Refugee-led Approach to Displacement Justice","UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL","€1,579,270","Both in political and academic conversations, refugees are often spoken about but rarely spoken to. Refugees, of course, often discuss displacement justice with their own communities in response to their personal experiences and expertise, and with charities and agencies with whom they interact. But politicians, policymakers, and philosophers alike do not often have experience of displacement and fail to include those who do. Because of this, philosophers lack the resources to develop a fully co",{"id":604,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":605,"piName":14,"institution":600,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":606},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221668","The impact of climate on cooperation","Understanding how cooperation evolves is a major cross-disciplinary research ambition. Recently, in biology, a new picture of cooperation has begun to come into focus, due to a series of global analyses collating decades of natural history observations across animals. Excitingly, in mammals, birds, and insects, global mapping projects have revealed that the distribution of animal cooperation is linked to climatic factors, including aridity and unpredictable rainfall. These findings have establis",{"id":608,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":609,"piName":14,"institution":610,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":611,"abstract":612},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221509","Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying adaptive flexibility  in cognition, emotion and behavior","JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG","€1,499,845","The ability to adapt behavior to unfamiliar situations is crucial in our complex and ever-changing world. In such circumstances, we often rely on the statistical structure of our environment, allowing us to generalize previously learned behaviors to new, similar situations. Two brain regions are key to this flexibility: the hippocampus, which creates cognitive maps that represent the structure of the world, and the prefrontal cortex, which accesses and uses these representations based on current",{"id":614,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":615,"piName":14,"institution":616,"country":617,"year":13,"amount":618,"abstract":619},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222412","Attention on inattention: Dissecting the causal mechanisms of adult ADHD features","TARTU ULIKOOL","EE","€1,499,750","The world is witnessing a sharp rise in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. While historically considered a childhood neurodevelopmental disorder, an increasing number of adults are now seeking help for impairing ADHD-like features like inattention, disorganization, restlessness, impulsivity, forgetfulness and emotional dysregulation. Strikingly little is known about the mechanisms causing specific adult ADHD features, raising ",{"id":621,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":622,"piName":14,"institution":623,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":624,"abstract":625},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101202342","Monodisperse Nanocrystals: Thermal Refinement for High-Performance Microlasers","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO","€1,984,992","Materials discovery is a central theme in science. The right material may solve grand challenges such as the energy problem or the colonization of other planets. Often this discovery of a new material occurs when scientists find conditions to stabilize new structural arrangements at the nano- or mesoscale. One versatile approach relies on artificial building blocks known as nanocrystals (NCs). NCs are nanometer-scale atomic crystals with size-tunable physical properties. Their hierarchical assem",{"id":627,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":628,"piName":14,"institution":629,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":630,"abstract":631},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220854","Establishing a Spatio-Temporal Language for Scene Representation","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT NURNBERG","€1,563,730","We have recently experienced a boost in AI as the performance of ChatGPT-like large language models has matured from a purely scientific endeavor to deployment in various businesses and real-world applications. Also in computer vision, we have seen tremendous gains that were enabled by scaling to large models trained on vast corpuses of data in an unsupervised fashion. Language is symbolic and can inform about abstract properties and relationships, while vision without human labels does not mode",{"id":633,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":634,"piName":14,"institution":635,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":636,"abstract":637},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220944","next-Generation Handling of  Optical Stray-light in Telescopes","UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE","€1,963,750","In the ever-evolving realm of space instrumentation, the quest for excellence is endless. Scientists tirelessly pursue optical instruments that can capture the universe in unparalleled clarity. Over the years, instruments have improved through the introduction of innovative design concepts and manufacturing techniques, as well as with the use of better detectors. However, for the most demanding applications, stray light (SL) increasingly emerges as the primary limiting factor. SL must be minimiz",{"id":639,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":640,"piName":14,"institution":641,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":642,"abstract":643},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101218152","Making the Islamicate Bishop: Episcopal Governance and Networks under Islam","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","€1,492,143","By overcoming entrenched disciplinary divides and proposing a theoretical reframing, MASLAB explores how the social, religious and political changes of the Islamic period (mid. 7th-10th c.) fashioned episcopal governance, networks and power in the Christian communities of the Near East. Relying, for the first time, on a multi-language and multi-genre corpus, MASLAB looks at the actions that bishops took and the relations and resources they mobilized in handling new socio-political and religious ",{"id":645,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":646,"piName":14,"institution":647,"country":498,"year":13,"amount":648,"abstract":649},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220868","Zoonotic Anthropology and Multispecies Infrastructures along China's Belt and Road","UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET","€1,499,925","This project develops a zoonotic anthropology by examining the intersection between infrastructure development and multispecies relations along China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It addresses the increasing risk of zoonoses due to infrastructural expansions reshaping ecosystems and interspecies dynamics. The construction of roads, railways, and ports creates new contact zones between humans, animals, and microbes, amplifying the risk of zoonotic spillover. This is critical as zoonoses like ",{"id":651,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":652,"piName":14,"institution":653,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":654},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219299","StrUcture PREserving Methods on Unstructured grids for continuum Mechanics","UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA","SUPREMUM aims to develop and theoretically study innovative structure-preserving (SP) numerical methods to solve challenging non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDE) modelling continuum mechanics. The ultimate groundbreaking goal consists on devising the first existing numerical methods simultaneously verifying at the discrete level all structural properties of the continuous models: provable thermodynamical compatibility, so that the systems satisfy an extra conservation law f",{"id":656,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":657,"piName":14,"institution":658,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":659,"abstract":660},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222043","DamAged memories: organelle heterogeneity en route to T cell diversity","UNIVERSITAT BASEL","€1,499,672","Maintenance of long-lived and quiescent stem cells is impaired during ageing, which negatively impacts tissue regeneration by restricting cell diversity. In the context of T lymphocytes, ageing is linked to profound changes in their repertoire, which becomes less diverse due to naïve T cell attrition. This leads to the accumulation of terminally differentiated cells and results in poorer immune responses. I aim to understand whether T cell diversification is fostered by the unequal inheritance o",{"id":662,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":663,"piName":14,"institution":664,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":665,"abstract":666},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219961","Navigating volatility in different welfare state contexts","UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN","€1,841,705","Income targeting has permeated social policy design in European welfare states, in order to boost their efficiency and effectiveness. Yet real-life examples of integrated income-targeted schemes highlight the shortcomings of an overly technocratic view. Social policy research needs to analyse how policy design interacts with the month-to-month income variability experienced by households, and the strategies they develop to cope with and navigate this volatility.VOLARE disentangles the relationsh",{"id":668,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":669,"piName":14,"institution":670,"country":617,"year":13,"amount":671,"abstract":672},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222486","Solidarity Lost in Implementation? Social Mobility and Belief in Meritocracy Shaped by School Choice Policies.","TALLINN UNIVERSITY","€1,494,660","Educational choices shape futures, influence life chances, and are among the most significant factors in social mobility. Despite political and academic consensus on avoiding early selection, inequalities in educational opportunities are on the rise, even in systems that aim for equity or discourage parental choice. Paradoxically, the belief that today’s educational opportunities are meritocratically earned is growing, reducing the demand for inclusive education.EDUMERIT aims to explain the poli",{"id":674,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":675,"piName":14,"institution":653,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":676,"abstract":677},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219072","Hypothalamic cell changes during menopause: the neuroendocrine origin of its metabolic alterations","€1,498,325","Women health is heavily impacted by menopause, and specifically, metabolic alterations increase their prevalence compared to the pre-menopause stage. Among them, body weight increase associated with abdominal adiposity, augmented risk of metabolic syndrome accompanied with dyslipidemia, worsening of insulin resistance coupled to type 2 diabetes and reduced bone density which favors osteoporosis are commonly associated with this women’s period of life.The hypothalamus is a key brain area controll",{"id":679,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":680,"piName":14,"institution":491,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":681,"abstract":682},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221056","Digital Welfare Borders: The effects of Artificial Intelligence in Migrants’ Access to Welfare","€1,499,763","DigiWeB is the first study of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is merging welfare systems and migration management. Governments are increasingly relying on AI to make decisions about who gets welfare benefits. This is important because AI combines large amounts of data and makes predictions based on risk factors, which can be discriminatory, especially against marginalized migrants.DigiWeB takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach and makes four contributions: 1. It pushes the frontiers of resea",{"id":684,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":685,"piName":14,"institution":686,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":687,"abstract":688},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221094","The gravitational S-matrix: from theory to experiment","INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES SCIENTIFIQUES","€1,498,875","Recent insights into the gravitational S-matrix, which describes the scattering of gravitating particles, have lead to a breakthrough in the perturbative understanding of the two-body problem in General Relativity, with direct relevance to gravitational wave physics.  Such advances have been enabled by the methods of scattering amplitudes and effective field theory, originally developed in the context of particle and collider physics. Despite recent progress, a formalism to extract the dynamics ",{"id":690,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":691,"piName":14,"institution":692,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":693,"abstract":694},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221673","Icons in Crisis: Exploring Global Iconoclastic Politics in the 21st Century","FONDATION POUR L INSTITUT DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT","€1,600,139","This research project addresses iconoclasm (the deliberate destruction of images and visual signs) as a transhistorical and transversal cultural phenomenon, carried out by individuals, grass-root movements, or institutions of power across the globe. Whereas previous research established structural similarities between instances of religious and political iconoclasm of the past, this project intends to provide a socio-anthropological analysis of the contemporaneous dimension of iconoclasm, as a f",{"id":696,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":697,"piName":14,"institution":698,"country":498,"year":13,"amount":699,"abstract":700},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221109","Rituals in combatant-to-civilian transformation","INSTITUTT FOR FREDSFORSKNING","€1,499,981","In 2023, the number of conflicts reached its highest level since 1946, making it one of the most violent years on record. Many of these conflicts were recurring, suggesting that efforts to reintegrate ex-combatants from non-state groups have largely been unsuccessful. While most research on reintegration has focused on its economic and political aspects, it has overlooked the role and impact of one of the most universal activities in human social life: rituals.The overall objective of Com2Civ is",{"id":702,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":703,"piName":14,"institution":704,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":705,"abstract":706},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220341","Electrified CO2 Capture using HiGee Vortex Reactors","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","€1,499,375","The fossil fuel-driven chemical industry is notorious for its massive CO2 emissions and energy consumption, demanding an urgent shift toward cleaner, more efficient technologies, with CO2 capture as a critical component. Existing gas-liquid reactive absorption\u002Fsolvent regeneration technologies, relying on bulky packed columns or motor-driven rotating packed beds, fall short due to transport limitations and scale-up challenges. e-CAPTURE seeks to revolutionize the field with a scalable and electr",{"id":708,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":709,"piName":14,"institution":704,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":710},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101217270","Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600","ECOLENT develops a new conceptual-methodological framework to study the impact of ecological entanglements, interconnections between different regions, on biodiversity in a historical context. It will do so by using the late medieval Hanseatic League as a case study. This merchant association bought food products and raw materials in Scandinavia and the Baltic, and exchanged them for manufactured goods in the urbanised Low Countries and England. In this way, they created both economic and ecolog",{"id":712,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":14,"institution":714,"country":715,"year":13,"amount":716,"abstract":717},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222199","Archiving and Curating the Margins: Queer Memory Activism and Infrastructures in Southeastern and Eastern Europe","UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI","SI","€1,499,500","In the In the 21st century, a new wave of anti-LGBT+ sentiments have emerged in global and local politics, often framing queerness as newly invented and imported from outside the local borders. Challenging this erasure from collective memory are queer memory activists and grassroot infrastructures such as archives and cultural festivals, which store, curate and circulate queer memories and resist heteronormative histories. Research into memory activism’s role in (re)imagining local and transnati",{"id":719,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":720,"piName":14,"institution":721,"country":498,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":722},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219670","Hashtag-wars: The politics of war participation in the digital age","CHR MICHELSENS INSTITUTT FOR VIDENSKAP OG ANDSFRIHET STIFTELSE","The overall objective of #WARS is to achieve an understanding of the interrelationship between warfare and world society in the digital age. ‘Hashtag-wars’ are collective acts of political violence which take place in global crisis ecologies that intermesh the physical and virtual battlefield. Thanks to the Web 2.0 revolution, hashtag-wars give rise to a new mode of participatory warfare as digital technology now enables ordinary people across the world to participate in an armed conflict. Start",{"id":724,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":725,"piName":14,"institution":726,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":727,"abstract":728},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220814","Function, role, and control of gigantic bacterial roll","UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES","€1,499,568","R-bodies are probably the largest organised intracellular proteinaceous structures in bacteria. They adopt a roll-like structure that occupies almost the entire cellular volume. Upon acidification, R-bodies extend telescopically up to 20 micrometres. First discovered in endosymbiotic bacteria, they were proposed to eliminate symbiont-free hosts, however their mechanism of toxicity remained unexplored. In addition, structures of similar composition and activity form ejectile defence organelles in",{"id":730,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":731,"piName":14,"institution":732,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":733,"abstract":734},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220376","Unlocking Hidden History:  The Sami in Swedish Farming Areas","UMEA UNIVERSITET","€1,234,258","The Sami, the indigenous population of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and parts of Russia, are usually perceived as a reindeer-herding, nomadic people living in barren mountains and forests. However, the Sami have also for a long time been a part of farming societies dominated by other ethnicities. Despite some research on the “Parish Sami” of Central Sweden, this part of rural history is generally ignored.The SESAME project aims to unlock hidden history and deliver the first comprehensive study of th",{"id":736,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":737,"piName":14,"institution":653,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":738,"abstract":739},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222586","DIPOLAR fermionic SuperFluidity","€1,915,505","Strongly correlated systems give rise to fascinating emergent phenomena, such as high-temperature and topological superconductivity. Due to the complexity of those materials, understanding the underlying microscopic mechanisms is very challenging. While ultracold Fermi gases have emerged as a model system to investigate strongly interacting systems, they have primarily focused on  local and short-range interactions. This proposal aims to overcome these limitations and pioneer the quantum simulat",{"id":741,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":742,"piName":14,"institution":743,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":744,"abstract":745},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101216416","Unraveling tipping dynamics of marine biogeochemistry from past climate transitions","UNIVERSITAET BERN","€1,498,700","CO2 emissions are the primary driver of anthropogenic climate change, and it is thus vital to enhance our understanding of the global carbon cycle, its changes, internal processes, and feedbacks with Earth’s climate system. Climate change further threatens to push the Earth system across multiple tipping points, which could have significant, but yet unconstrained impacts on the carbon cycle. BGCTip will address these challenges by investigating the potentially cascading interactions of climate a",{"id":747,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":748,"piName":14,"institution":749,"country":750,"year":13,"amount":751,"abstract":752},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220297","Mapping and Conceptualizing a Legal Framework for Maternal Rights during Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Motherhood (MaMas)","ROSKILDE UNIVERSITET","DK","€1,499,955","Many mothers in Western Europe experience some distress during the times of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, a period called “matrescence”. Although health, social and welfare laws offer some protection and accommodation to women during matrescence, the approach is fragmented and incomplete. The law has yet to address issues such as early pregnancy loss, obstetric violence, and the “motherhood penalty” at work. These experiences have been under-explored and under-theorised in law and feminist le",{"id":754,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":755,"piName":14,"institution":610,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":756,"abstract":757},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220706","Neural representation of space: From individual to social place learning in bees","€1,499,988","With ease, we daily navigate through our places of residence. From any familiar place, we can compute the shortest route to our workplace or to our favorite coffee shop. Additionally, we can flexibly adjust our route, if a road is suddenly blocked. This flexibility in route planning is based on a topological representation of different places in our brain (cognitive map). While place cells, a neuronal substrate of cognitive maps, have been identified in diverse species across the vertebrate line",{"id":759,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":760,"piName":14,"institution":761,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":762,"abstract":763},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101217531","Quantitative Quantum Matter Analysis","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","€1,499,190","The assumption that the plain vanilla single-band Hubbard model captures the relevant physics of the cuprate materials has been a key motivation for a host of numerical work and quantum simulation experiments. Recent numerical advances challenge this assumption and raise the pressing question: which minimal model can be used to understand quantum materials exhibiting unconventional superconductivity?  However, extracting the relevant Hamiltonian of real materials is a formidable challenge and us",{"id":765,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":766,"piName":14,"institution":767,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":768,"abstract":769},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222072","Actionable systems integration for energy-enabled sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa","BERGISCHE UNIVERSITAET  WUPPERTAL","€1,492,305","Current approaches to increasing energy access in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are not working. In 2022, 570 million people had no electricity access in SSA, 130 million more than in 1990 and 10 million more than in 2021. Energy poverty hinders much-needed progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many international donors, including the EU, are funding large energy access initiatives in SSA, but recent impact studies show that they often fail prematurely and create little wider SDG",{"id":771,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":772,"piName":14,"institution":704,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":773,"abstract":774},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222823","Frozen in time – Unravelling Younger Dryas climate variability, environmental dynamics and their impact on human recolonization in Western Europe","€1,557,358","The Late Glacial period, at the end of the Pleistocene, is marked by dynamic climatic and environmental changes. During this time, hunter-gatherers gradually recolonized Western Europe after a retreat of several millennia, representing a pivotal phase in the region’s population history. However, during the final climatic cooling of the Late Glacial, known as the Younger Dryas (ca. 12,850 to 11,650 cal BP; YD), the number of archaeological sites drastically reduced, raising questions about popula",{"id":776,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":777,"piName":14,"institution":778,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":779},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220572","Reverse salinity energy harvesting-assisted electromembrane system for metal ion fractionation and hydrogen production from battery waste","POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA","Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have revolutionised daily life and automation, but recovering them poses challenges due to the toxic, multi-component mixtures produced during acidic leaching. Here, we propose a novel method for selectively fractionating metal ions from battery waste and hydrogen production powered by salinity gradient differences that occur when two solutions with different concentrations are mixed. To achieve this, we employ reverse electrodialysis (RED). The RED process selective",{"id":781,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":782,"piName":14,"institution":783,"country":784,"year":13,"amount":785,"abstract":786},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101217736","The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars","Kassák Alapítvány","HU","€1,465,135","This project investigates the interaction between workers’ movements and the transnational scene of modern art. The avant-garde forever transformed the relationship between art and everyday life. This project argues that this shift not only dynamized the art world but also extended well beyond the confines of the cultural sphere, transforming the working-class communities in the successor states of the Austro–Hungarian Empire as well, where avant-garde art played a pivotal role in creating a wor",{"id":788,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":789,"piName":14,"institution":790,"country":791,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":792},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222215","From Understanding to Generating Meaningful Language: Unravelling the Origins of Our Words","THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM","IL","WordOrigins will establish an understanding of language generation by integrating ecological neuroscience and computational models. Language is central to human experience, enabling communication and thought expression. However, the brain mechanisms that generate meaningful language, convey coherent thoughts and elicit responses still need to be understood. I will address this gap by leveraging advances in electrophysiology (iEEG) and artificial intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (",{"id":794,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":795,"piName":14,"institution":664,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":796,"abstract":797},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220257","How The Emotions of Politicians Explain their Representative Behavior","€1,498,730","TEMPER sheds new light on the representative behavior of individual politicians by addressing an overlooked driver of that behavior: their emotions. What makes politicians decide to be responsive to public opinion signals at some occasions, but not at others? And how do politicians go about communicating their viewpoints, sometimes using very emotional or uncivil language, and at other times not? Whereas extant research has been preoccupied with studying the cognitive, strategic reasons that pol",{"id":799,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":800,"piName":14,"institution":801,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":802},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222556","Synergistic Agent for General Medical AI","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM AACHEN","Artificial intelligence (AI) holds immense potential for revolutionizing radiology by enhancing diagnostic accuracy, efficiency, and personalized patient care. However, current AI applications are limited to only specialized taskArtificial intelligence (AI) holds immense potential for revolutionizing radiology by enhancing diagnostic accuracy, efficiency, and personalized patient care. However, current AI applications are limited to only specialized tasks, thus failing to capture the complexity ",{"id":804,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":805,"piName":14,"institution":806,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":807},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221868","Dissecting Microglia vulnerability to STress response  in Multiple Sclerosis through human iPSC modelling","UNIVERSITA HUMANITAS","Shifting from the traditional focus on central nervous system-targeting lymphocytes, MiST-MS posits that glial responses, particularly cellular senescence, are required to compartmentalized self-sustaining chronic inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) and related long-term clinical outcomes, including disability. MiST-MS is specifically designed to address the urgent need to identify new therapeutic targets to halt MS clinical progression through two interconnected research lines.The project w",{"id":809,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":810,"piName":14,"institution":811,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":812,"abstract":813},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219635","Mathematical Insights into Dynamics of Incompressible Turbulence","UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI","€1,497,540","The unifying goal of the MIND project is to enhance the mathematical understanding of turbulence in incompressible fluid mechanics. Turbulence represents one of the most profound unsolved problems in classical physics, giving rise to numerous deep mathematical challenges. The research is structured around two major interconnected objectives. The first focuses on linear advection-diffusion equations with singular velocity fields, exploring key quantitative aspects such as mixing, enhanced dissipa",{"id":815,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":816,"piName":14,"institution":817,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":818,"abstract":819},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219853","Reconstructing Scribal Vernacular Practices. Coptic Correspondence and Vernacular Scribal Practices in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt.","RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG","€1,499,945","RSVP aims at reassembling the rich world of scribal practices in Coptic letter writing between the 4th and 11th centuries CE. It offers an ambitious reconstruction of epistolographers’ habits, networks, and cultural identities when Coptic was the vernacular Egyptian language employed alongside official idioms (Greek and Arabic).Using a multidisciplinary approach combining paleography, digital humanities, and sociolinguistic analysis, RSVP will analyze for the first time a corpus of over 5000 Cop",{"id":821,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":822,"piName":14,"institution":823,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":824,"abstract":825},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219579","Greek in the West: language communities, migration and the transformation of society in western Europe, 300–700 CE","THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL","€1,440,137","This project reconstructs the place of Greek in the sociolinguistic landscape of western Europe during Late Antiquity (300–700 CE). Integrating textual and epigraphic evidence, it will trace the evolving use and knowledge of Greek in literary and political culture, religion, and daily life. This period witnessed transformations that would change the shape of European history: the rise of Christianity, the fragmentation of the western Roman empire, the introduction of new political and economic i",{"id":827,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":828,"piName":14,"institution":790,"country":791,"year":13,"amount":829,"abstract":830},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220268","Lex Imperfecta: Leveraging (Un)supervised Machine-Learning Tools for Optimizing Digital Markets Regulations","€1,499,792","Research in the emerging field of law and computer science is challenging our understanding of how firms comply with laws in the digital economy and whether the traditional deterrence-based approach to regulation is still effective. Studies using computational tools have shown that regulations, such as the EU GDPR, are often ignored by online firms, with high levels of non-compliance with EU privacy regulations. Additionally, there is increasing evidence of low compliance by online firms with co",{"id":832,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":833,"piName":14,"institution":834,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":835,"abstract":836},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221044","The right to give rights. Welfare professionals as guardians of undocumented migrants’ human rights.","MALMO UNIVERSITET","€1,499,837","Undocumented migrants’ rights are under pressure in Europe today and migration control is increasingly deputized across different societal actors. Several decades ago, Hannah Arendt pointed out that universalistic understandings of human rights have little to offer noncitizens. Inspired by her, researchers have suggested that the foundation for undocumented migrants’ human rights instead can be found in the right-claims and contestations of migrants themselves. However, little attention has been",{"id":838,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":839,"piName":14,"institution":641,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":840,"abstract":841},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219609","Medieval French Lyric Across Linguistic Borders: Music, Imitation, and Intertextuality","€1,497,467","MUSICA FRANCA will investigate the role music played as a shared medium of communication across medieval Europe, enabling texts and ideas to travel across linguistic and political borders. Indeed, medieval poets and performers thought of melodic borrowing and re-use as constitutive to the process of creation. By investigating melodic imitation, intended as a range of techniques (from borrowing stylistic features to the reuse of entire melodies) in French, Galician-Portuguese, German, and Occitan",{"id":843,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":844,"piName":14,"institution":845,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":846,"abstract":847},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219410","Centrosome Reduction: The elusive culprit behind unexplained male infertility?","VIB VZW","€2,000,000","Worldwide, 17% of couples are affected by infertility, with studies showing a steady decline in sperm quality over recent decades. One in three cases remain unexplained, often marked by a sudden loss of the early embryo due to erroneous cell division, and are therefore hard to treat. Case studies link early embryonic loss to defects in the sperm centrosome, a paternally inherited organelle essential for the embryo's first cell division. Unfortunately, a mechanistic understanding of sperm centros",{"id":849,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":850,"piName":14,"institution":851,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":852,"abstract":853},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219744","The Ethics of Synthetic Data in the Age of Machine Learning and AI","UNIVERSITY OF YORK","€1,248,460","SYNDATA develops a novel approach to understanding the ethical consequences of synthetic data for contemporary societies. Machine learning algorithms and AI models such as Gemini and GPT-4 are increasingly used to generate data (called ‘synthetic data’), which is in turn used to train other algorithmic models. This is leading to transformations in social and political life, because synthetic data embody a promise to address an array of ethical challenges associated with AI, such as the lack of e",{"id":855,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":856,"piName":14,"institution":857,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":858,"abstract":859},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220791","Neuronal dynamics of learning and memory in the mammillary body","UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN GOETTINGEN - GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN - STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS","€1,492,673","At the heart of our individual personalities lie our memories – be it our first time riding a bike, the school graduation ceremony, or yesterday’s football match. Yet, it is estimated that in the coming decades up to 150 million people worldwide will suffer from dementia. To tackle this surge and identify therapeutic interventions, a thorough understanding of the neuronal mechanisms underlying long-term memory storage is necessary. Research in humans and rodents has identified the hippocampus as",{"id":861,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":862,"piName":14,"institution":863,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":864,"abstract":865},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219110","Leaky-wave focused Ultrasound through Metamaterial ENgineering (LUMEN)","POLITECNICO DI MILANO","€1,499,967","Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a promising non-invasive technology capable of targeting specific brain regions to treat, among others, movement disorders such as essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease tremor. Yet, its effectiveness is currently limited by the excitation of leaky Lamb waves, which radiate energy at arbitrary angles in the brain, causing undesired aberrations. To mitigate these effects, the state-of-the-art technology for tFUS relies on patient-tailored aberration com",{"id":867,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":868,"piName":14,"institution":869,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":870,"abstract":871},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220249","Atomically thin semiconductors for complementary field effect transistors","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€1,936,780","Atomically thin body (ATB) semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold tremendous promise for scaling modern electronics because their ultra-thin channel provides excellent gate electrostatics. Major semiconductor companies and international roadmaps for devices and systems have cited ATB TMDs for sub-1-nm semiconductor technologies beyond 2030. ATOMS will focus on developing ultra-scaled complementary field effect transistors (CFETs) based on ATB semiconductors, offering",{"id":873,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":874,"piName":14,"institution":875,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":876,"abstract":877},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220121","Nonuniform Ellipticity Widespread","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA","€1,495,931","Project NEW tackles key challenges in nonlinear elliptic and parabolic regularity theory. The outcome answers to fundamental open questions. Achievements include sharp analysis data-solutions in nonuniformly elliptic or parabolic PDEs, singular set estimates in vectorial problems, and maximal regularity in degenerate (possibly nonlocal) monotone operators lacking strong monotonicity properties. These results are supported by innovative hybrid techniques, combining deep insights from harmonic ana",{"id":879,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":880,"piName":14,"institution":875,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":881,"abstract":882},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221131","Fictional and Impossible objects, Counterpossible reasoning and Thought experiments. A study of medieval theories of impossibility and their contemporary relevance.","€1,481,523","Medieval philosophical and scientific language, for many centuries and across different traditions, has been overcrowded with entities and scenarios that are – or were thought to be – fictitious or utterly impossible. These are entities like chimeras, flying men, golden mountains, but also atoms, infinite lines, bodies moving in a void space or at an infinite speed. Incorporating these impossibilities in standard theories of inference, showing how impossible statements can be manageable through ",{"id":884,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":885,"piName":14,"institution":704,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":886},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219552","Astrochemistry and chemistry emulation to simulate dust formation and growth around evolved stars","The chemical evolution of galaxies is driven by mass loss from stars at the end of their lives. The majority of stars will go through an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase, losing their outer layers by means of a stellar outflow and enriching the interstellar medium with the building blocks for the next generation of stars and planets. The outflow is triggered by stellar pulsations that aid dust formation, which then launches a dust-driven wind. Large-scale structures, like spirals and disks, a",{"id":888,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":889,"piName":14,"institution":817,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":890,"abstract":891},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220639","Towards a Sociology of Debt Stratification and its Moral Foundations Across Countries","€1,485,917","The financialization of households in the 21st century has made credit and debt central to economic disparity, reshaping financial burdens and opportunities. Debt shackles the poor, limiting mobility, yet also offers leverage for the wealthy, enabling further investment, accumulation, and opportunity.This paradox of debt lies at the heart of SOCDEBT, which is built around four key goals: (1) SOCDEBT will examine debt stratification across 35 countries over three decades, identifying the social g",{"id":893,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":894,"piName":14,"institution":895,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":896,"abstract":897},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221279","Informed ecological rewiring of gut microbiome for dysbiosis-associated disorders","UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE","€1,499,557","Gut microbiome disruption contributes to the so-called “dysbiosis-associated disorders”. Although the interindividual variability and plasticity of microbiome support its precise modulation, to date only untargeted treatments are available, mostly with inconsistent results. My preliminary data hint that tailored microbial therapy, guided by microbiome profiling, may improve post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS), a common but understudied dysbiosis-associated disease. MicroRestore aim",{"id":899,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":900,"piName":14,"institution":901,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":902},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220355","New Paradigms for Deep Generative Modeling of Polymers","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB","Polymers are the most ubiquitous materials class in modern society. Most of us spend a significant part of our lives in buildings made of polymers, using electronics manufactured with special polymers, and taking medicines encapsulated in carefully-optimized polymer formulations. In many cases, the design of new polymers is key to addressing global challenges in sustainability, health, and security. However, current polymer design methods rely heavily on trial-and-error experimentation and are g",{"id":904,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":905,"piName":14,"institution":901,"country":99,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":906},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220577","Design of Electro-Thermocatalytic Reactors for Controlled Regeneration of Atom-Efficient Catalysts","To address today’s environmental challenges, the production of energy and chemicals must rapidly change. The chemical industry currently relies on catalysts, materials that speed up reactions, in 90% of its processes. Catalysis will thus play a pivotal role in transitioning from our fossil fuel-based society to a more sustainable and renewable society. However, most catalyst materials rely on expensive and scarce metals. Even more strikingly, these metal-based catalysts can present very low atom",{"id":908,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":909,"piName":14,"institution":910,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":911},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221278","Observing Unique sTars and gaLactic chemIcal Evidence of the fiRst relicS","INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE CANARIAS","The number of identified primitive low-metallicity stars has steadily grown. Today, we know of stars with less than one ten-millionth of the solar iron content, but no stars completely devoid of metals —known as Population III (Pop III)— have been identified so far. It was commonly accepted that only massive, short-lived Pop III stars formed from metal-free clouds, but recent simulations suggest that their low-mass counterparts (\u003C1M☉) could also form and may still survive today. However, the mas",{"id":913,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":914,"piName":14,"institution":915,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":916},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219239","Helical Out-of-Equilibrium Systems: Exploring Light-Induced Structural Distortions","THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS","Helical architectures are prevalent in natural and artificial settings due to their mechanical robustness, chiroptical properties, and ability to assemble compactly through intra- and intermolecular interactions. We propose that reversible distortions to these structures can unlock new behaviors. Inspired by recent advancements in supramolecular chemistry and light-responsive molecules, we aim to couple light-responsive units (LRUs) to helical structures to drive them out-of-equilibrium (OOE), t",{"id":918,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":919,"piName":14,"institution":920,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":921},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222259","The Narrative Foundations of Tibetan Buddhist Culture","OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN","Between the 11th and 14th centuries, Buddhist communities on the Tibetan Plateau crafted a national charter myth that was to have immense cultural staying power. The narrative literature that successfully promoted this myth would inflect the cultural, religious, and political landscape of Tibet even into the 21st century, and greatly impact Mongolia, the Himalayas, and other Asian Buddhist communities as well. Yet the genesis and even original content of this literature has now turned out, thank",{"id":923,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":924,"piName":14,"institution":515,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":925,"abstract":926},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219486","Overcoming criticality for PDEs with randomness","€1,496,455","This proposal is concerned with the study of the dynamics of partial differential equations (PDEs), broadly interpreted, in the presence of randomness, with a particular focus on dispersive equations. This is a young but promising emerging field, and it has deep connections with the more established field of constructive quantum field theory. In recent years, we have witnessed outstanding advances in the theory of singular stochastic parabolic PDEs, and while several breakthroughs have been obta",{"id":928,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":929,"piName":14,"institution":930,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":931,"abstract":932},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222577","Shifting perspectives on environmental change: A History of the Earth Sciences in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 1880-2000","UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2","€1,377,190","This project investigates the history of Earth sciences in the mountainous regions of Central Asia and the Caucasus, addressing the underexplored contributions of non-Western perspectives to environmental change discourses. By focusing on geologists, glaciologists, and seismologists in these areas during the Tsarist and Soviet periods, the research aims to shift attention from dominant Euro-American narratives to the unique experiences and contributions of local scientists.The study explores fou",{"id":934,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":935,"piName":14,"institution":936,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":937},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220228","A Quantum Chemical Approach to Spins on Surfaces","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","Molecules and atoms with unpaired electrons exhibit a net magnetic moment and serve as the building blocks of molecular quantum devices for next-generation technologies. As the design principles for long-lived molecular magnets become clearer, the next challenge is assembling these units into spin lattices via surface deposition and addressing their magnetic behavior at the single-molecule level. Advancing molecular quantum technologies requires understanding the electronic structure and magneti",{"id":939,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":940,"piName":14,"institution":936,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":941,"abstract":942},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220380","Cell-inspired high-performance membranes","€2,344,875","Membranes are applied in many industrial processes and their performance has significant energetic and economic impact. Improving this performance is therefore crucial to meet sustainability goals.  Traditional synthetic membranes face a critical trade-off between permeability (speed of separation) and selectivity (precision of separation) which limits their capabilities. Biological membranes, instead, achieve both high selectivity and permeability through the combination of a molecularly thin b",{"id":944,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":945,"piName":14,"institution":946,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":947,"abstract":948},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219759","Lost in the Green Transition: Local Collective Greenloss Identity, Anti-Climate Attitudes and Radical Right Support","FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES","€1,495,953","Tackling climate change and the rise of radical right support are two of today's biggest political challenges, often treated separately but deeply interconnected. Stringent climate policies face resistance from carbon-intensive communities, while the radical right performs well among these groups. Yet, the link between climate policy opposition and radical right support remains underexplored. Why do climate policy losers turn to the radical right? GREENLOSS bridges the gap between climate policy",{"id":950,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":951,"piName":14,"institution":491,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":952,"abstract":953},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222672","Drivers and consequences of host microbiome control","€1,499,751","The epithelial surfaces of animals harbour symbiont communities that influence the health of their hosts, including defending against pathogens. Whilst microbiome effects on host biology have been extensively studied, much less is known about how hosts regulate their microbiomes to ensure that they are pThe epithelial surfaces of animals harbour symbiont communities that influence the health of their hosts, including defending against pathogens. Whilst microbiome effects on host biology have bee",{"id":955,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":956,"piName":14,"institution":936,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":957,"abstract":958},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221381","New markets: Structural analysis and Mechanism design, with applications to airport capacity problems","€1,494,008","Our economy relies on auctions to efficiently allocate scarce resources, and we use auction models to understand competition in bidding markets. However, traditional auction analysis is limited to existing mechanisms as it relies on bid data to estimate firms' latent values. Instead, APCAP proposes to study the welfare effects of implementing auctions in new markets. Auction values are characterized based on the profits generated from auctioned items and can be estimated using appropriate demand",{"id":960,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":961,"piName":14,"institution":936,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":962},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221224","Data-driven Simulations for Understanding Reconnection and GEomagnetism","Understanding and predicting energization of particles in space plasmas, e.g. during sub-storms in magnetosphere, is a profound scientific challenge which is hampered by the complex multi-scale interactions in plasma. At present there is no global model which reliably captures the microscopic effects of energetic electrons which participate in matter and energy transfer in the Earth's space environment. These electrons may precipitate and present hazard for our space born assets such as satellit",{"id":964,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":965,"piName":14,"institution":966,"country":28,"year":13,"amount":967,"abstract":968},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220729","StAtistical PHYsics and glassy facets of micRobial communities","UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE","€1,234,032","The study of ecological systems is at the forefront of modern scientific research, fueled by the vast availability of empirical data and advanced bioengineering techniques. Unraveling the dynamical and thermodynamical properties of these complex systems, especially in light of the current biodiversity crisis, represents a major challenge. SAPHYR aims to decode the complexity of large microbial communities and characterize their alternative dynamical states, with a particular focus on the gut mic",{"id":970,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":971,"piName":14,"institution":972,"country":124,"year":13,"amount":973,"abstract":974},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221434","Key transitions in the evolution of endosymbioses","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","€1,714,200","Endosymbiosis merges organisms and leads to evolutionary innovation. Hence endosymbiotic interactions play key roles in ecosystems and have shaped eukaryotic evolution, e.g., the formation of mitochondria and chloroplast organelles. The evolution of endosymbioses entails two key transitions: the transition from free-living to endosymbiont and from endosymbiont to organelle. These critical phases are difficult to study because extant relationships are often highly derived, and thus substantial kn",{"id":976,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":977,"piName":14,"institution":978,"country":211,"year":13,"amount":979,"abstract":980},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219066","Smart Nanoreactors for Enhanced Electrochemiluminescent Biosensing","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA","€1,498,842","Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is luminescence driven by electrochemical reactions, offering unparalleled spatiotemporal control and exceptionally low background noise compared to other optical methods. Over the past two decades, ECL has become a powerful analytical tool, revolutionizing areas ranging from fundamental research to clinical diagnostics, biosensing, and biological applications. Despite these significant advancements, understanding the fundamental mechanisms behind ECL remains a com",{"id":982,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":983,"piName":14,"institution":984,"country":311,"year":13,"amount":985,"abstract":986},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101218842","Limits and Efficiency of Coding Against Synchronization Errors","INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES","€1,497,145","Understanding the limits of reliable information transmission over noisy communication channels and designing efficient codes for such channels are major cornerstones of information and coding theory. Most techniques developed in this area in the last 75 years have been targeted at discrete memoryless channels, which have the property that the i-th received symbol is an independent noisy function of the i-th transmitted symbol only. As a result, sender and receiver are synchronized, greatly simp",{"id":988,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":989,"piName":14,"institution":990,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":991,"abstract":992},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220354","Kinetic Pathways to Control Nanocrystal Shapes","FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG","€1,492,415","The shape of nanocrystals is crucial in determining surface area, reactivity, optical properties, mechanical strength, and self-assembly behavior. The current theory on shape formation is based on thermodynamic equilibrium and predicts that each crystal structure should enforce a unique shape, with few morphological variations depending on solution chemistry. Whereas this theory succeeded in explaining crystal habits in mineralogy, it mispredicts many nanocrystals, pointing out the necessity of ",{"id":994,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":995,"piName":14,"institution":936,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":996,"abstract":997},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221907","Spatial heterogeneity of tumor and CD8+ T cell metabolism in liver metastasis","€1,762,562","While immune-based therapies targeting CD8+ T cells have transformed melanoma treatment, many patients still show inconsistent responses between primary tumors and metastases, particularly in the liver. CD8+ T cells face unique barriers in liver metastases, hindering their infiltration and suppressing their function. Recent studies show that CD8+ T cells adapt their metabolism based on the nutrients available in the tumor environment, and this metabolic adjustment plays a key role in their abili",{"id":999,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1000,"piName":14,"institution":1001,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":1002},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221828","The Mechanisms of neuronal silencing in Alzheimer’s Disease – investigation of cellular and network mechanisms in mouse models of β-amyloidosis","KLINIKUM DER TECHNISCHEN UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN (TUM KLINIKUM)","Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is defined by pathological brain changes, including the accumulation of β-amyloid and tau deposits over decades. In addition, data in human patients and rodent models indicate that neuronal dysfunctions, i.e., altered action potential firing rates, are further hallmarks of AD. Two forms of neuronal dysfunctions exist - neuronal hyperactivity at early stages, followed later by neuronal silencing. The causes of neuronal hyperactivity have been widely studied. However, the ",{"id":1004,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1005,"piName":14,"institution":990,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":1006,"abstract":1007},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221348","Social Well-Being from Hybrid Interactions in Hybrid Work","€1,498,940","The HYIHY project investigates how HYbrid Interactions—blending face-to-face, digital, and human-AI communication—reshape social well-being in HYbrid work. To answer this, I propose communication episodes, their quality, and technological context as a unified lens. Through this lens, we can understand how complex sequences of face-to-face, digital, and AI interactions impact our sense of loneliness, connectedness, and community (i.e., social well-being). Ultimately aimed at formulating a Hybrid ",{"id":1009,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1010,"piName":14,"institution":869,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1011},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101162349","Unique Research Asset for Nuclear Innovative Applications","Materials response to harsh irradiation, temperature and corrosive media is preventing the successful exploitation of innovative nuclear fusion, advanced fission technologies for sustainable energy production and human exploration of faraway planets. Specifically, materials degradation and early failures hinder these scientific longstanding endeavours. The current paradigm to tackle these issues is to implement mitigating solutions or to characterise the surrounding environment to understand fai",{"id":1013,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1014,"piName":14,"institution":936,"country":131,"year":13,"amount":1015,"abstract":1016},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101217515","A Biocentric Ethic of Sustainable Agriculture","€1,499,830","BIOTA will develop a biocentric ethic of sustainable agriculture to address the lack of biocentric theorising in agricultural ethics and thereby promises to create a new sub-field in environmental philosophy. This necessary theoretical innovation will provide appropriate normative guidance for agricultural practices by reflecting on the plurality of different nonhuman lifeforms that are either the objects – like plants – or enablers – like soil microbes – of agricultural activities. Therefore, B",{"id":1018,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1019,"piName":14,"institution":1020,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1021},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220363","Learning Visual Foundation Models for Perceiving 3D Humans","EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH","The world is entering the age of autonomy, where systems like self-driving cars and assistive robots face the challenge of perceiving and understanding human behavior in complex, dynamic environments through sensory inputs like images. While human motion and behavior have been studied extensively using visual data, existing methods often struggle in open-world settings due to their inability to generalize beyond domain-specific training data. The goal of this project is to learn generalizable vi",{"id":1023,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1024,"piName":14,"institution":1025,"country":750,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1026},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221993","Existentialism Retold: Women and Existential Philosophy of Religion in Nineteenth Century Scandinavia","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","The project will address a significant gap in nineteenth-century Scandinavian intellectual history by exploring for the first time the connection between two influential moments: an existential movement in Scandinavian philosophy of religion and the first women’s movements. Even though many key women writers and reformers were early readers of existential philosophy of religion, like that of Søren Kierkegaard, no study has reconstructed this relation. This oversight reflects historical and conce",{"id":1028,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1029,"piName":14,"institution":1020,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":1030,"abstract":1031},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219583","The Politicization of Low-Carbon Technologies","€1,746,875","Achieving climate change targets requires the rapid adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs). Many LCTs, such as solar PV and wind turbines, have experienced major cost reductions. However, their adoption is impeded by high politicization: meaning their salience and polarization in political and public debates is strong. Interestingly, while the climate issue is divided along ideologically lines, it is puzzling that this is not the case for LCTs. To date, the drivers and impacts of LCT politic",{"id":1033,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1034,"piName":14,"institution":1035,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":1036,"abstract":1037},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222520","Harnessing Ostwald Ripening for Dynamic Emulsions","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","€1,891,138","Controlling the exchange of material between organs, cells and organelles is essential for all of the processes essential to life, such as signalling, metabolism and reproduction. Chemicals pass between compartments by diffusion, which is often assisted or rectified by biological machinery. A central goal of Systems Chemistry is to produce networks of discrete synthetic compartments that interact with the same complexity seen in life. Key to achieving this is the ability to control and regulate ",{"id":1039,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1040,"piName":14,"institution":1020,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":1041,"abstract":1042},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222026","Distributed Addressable Robotic Material via Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing","€1,499,987","Artificial intelligence has revolutionized today’s society by expanding machines’ intellectual ability to approach humans through the creation of advanced algorithms. The physical capability of machines, however, remains basic compared to the evolved algorithms. Natural organisms have soft distributed musculatures actively coordinated in various ways to achieve different physical functions; machines are assembled from passive and rigid components with limited functions. The field of soft robotic",{"id":1044,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1045,"piName":14,"institution":1046,"country":73,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1047},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220382","The genomic consequences of domestication for ruminant pathogen evolution and herd diversity across ten millennia","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","Palaeogenomics has transformed our understanding of the genetic consequences of domestication, particularly for livestock species, first brought into the anthropological sphere ~10,000 years ago in Southwest Asia. However, we know little of how domestication shaped the evolution and frequency of pathogens affecting livestock. Moreover, the evolution and occurrence of zoonoses - pathogens infecting both animals and humans - in Neolithic and later societies has been debated, but studies have focus",{"id":1049,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1050,"piName":14,"institution":1046,"country":73,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1051},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219032","Surfing on Free Surfaces by Undulating Propulsion","Wave-driven propulsion (WDP) is a little-known type of locomotion in which a floating body generates surface waves to push itself forwards. Some animals have evolved to use WDP when moving on the water surface, such as water striders and water snakes. Meanwhile, WDP technologies have the potential to revolutionise engineering applications, such as the cleanup oil spills, the automation of hydroponic agriculture, and the reduction of fuel consumption of ships. Despite the great potential of WDP, ",{"id":1053,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1054,"piName":14,"institution":1020,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":1055,"abstract":1056},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221649","Cavitation-based bio-ablation and drug delivery","€2,069,415","The proposed research will critically advance the medical use of high-intensity focused sound waves, namely ultrasound and shock waves. In particular, the project aims to break grounds by elucidating the physics behind ultrasound and microbubble-mediated targeted drug delivery and non-thermal, cavitation-based ablation of biological tissues and stones, relevant in the treatments of neurological diseases, tumours, blood clots, bacterial infections and kidney stones. Through carefully designed in-",{"id":1058,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1059,"piName":14,"institution":600,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":1060,"abstract":1061},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221236","Reconnecting underground networks to maximise the flow and storage of carbon in forest soils","€2,494,350","In order to maximise the potential for habitat restoration initiatives to mitigate our grandest environmental challenges, we urgently need to understand how differing approaches to forest creation affect the recovery of belowground foodwebs and the carbon cycling processes they underpin. This is a formidable challenge: we know startlingly little about how natural climate solutions, such as large-scale reforestation, influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the soil, the place where mo",{"id":1063,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1064,"piName":14,"institution":1065,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":1066,"abstract":1067},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222417","Decoupled Covalent Dynamic Exchange Reactions for Closed-Loop Photo-3D-printing","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","€1,499,901","As global dependence on synthetic materials is intensifying, waste-accumulation of end-of-life products has become a major concern. Specifically fast-growing 3D photo-printing technologies present a major challenge as a liquid ink is transformed into a permanently hardened crosslinked photo-polymer that can no longer be recycled. Current photochemical processes that underpin light-based 3D printing processes, however, fail to address the urgently needed closed loop recycling of the resulting 3D ",{"id":1069,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1070,"piName":14,"institution":1071,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":1072,"abstract":1073},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220945","Gravity Beyond Einstein: Gravitational-Wave Signatures of New Physics","UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA","€1,501,250","The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes (BBHs) allows us to test the predictions of General Relativity (GR) in a highly-warped regime for the first time in history. Input from fundamental physics indicates that GR is not a complete theory, and therefore it must undergo modifications that would become relevant in extremely powerful gravitational fields. The next generation of GW observatories will probe extreme gravitational phenomena with a new level of precision, and ",{"id":1075,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1076,"piName":14,"institution":1077,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1078},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221061","Electrons to Iron: green iron powder production via low-temperature electrolysis","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN","We are on the eve of a worldwide ironmaking transition. Low-temperature electrolysis (\u002Felectrodeposition) for ironmaking has recently received increasing attention as it makes direct usage of (renewable) electricity. One problem, fundamental understanding of metal electrodeposition is largely lacking. Nobody truly understands the process. With EcoIron I want to devote my knowledge in experimental and numerical chemical engineering process to the challenge of leveraging the state-of-the-art metal",{"id":1080,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1081,"piName":14,"institution":1077,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1082},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220528","Scalable AI-driven Framework for Comprehensive Gameplay Characterization","GAMECHAR addresses a critical gap in gameplay characterization of video games by developing scalable, data-driven methods that link gameplay mechanics to player experiences. Current methodologies face limitations due to fragmented approaches, small datasets, and challenges in comparing human-generated and AI-generated gameplay data. Existing tools struggle to standardize the characterization of gameplay, making it difficult to extract meaningful insights from diverse games. Additionally, the eme",{"id":1084,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1085,"piName":14,"institution":1086,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":1087,"abstract":1088},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221041","Quantitative reflection holographic tomography for in-vivo analysis of biological specimens.","POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA","€1,499,775","Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a widely adopted non-invasive imaging technique that allows visualizing cross-sectional images of a human eye. Enabling OCT to recover the refractive index (RI) distribution is the holy grail of imaging. It would revolutionize current OCT procedures, offering a quantitative diagnosis for the first time. This, in turn, would open doors to new, unique applications, like highly anticipated next-generation laser vision correction procedures, which today have no ",{"id":1090,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1091,"piName":14,"institution":1092,"country":223,"year":13,"amount":1093,"abstract":1094},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101219676","Reconstructing the ecologies of Earth’s earliest arthropods","UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE","€1,499,990","A major goal of palaeontology is having accurate and well-informed reconstructions of the ecology of ancient animals. This is key to our understanding of the broad-scale development of life on Earth and global ecosystems. Arthropods are the most abundant and diverse group of animals throughout Earth’s history, comprising >80% of described species, living across the globe, and displaying a broad range of morphologies that may represent the earliest adaptations to key ecological niches. The RECO-E",{"id":1096,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1097,"piName":14,"institution":1098,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":1099,"abstract":1100},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222089","BIOinspired photocatalytic POLymersomes for compartmentalized solar Energy conversion","UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI","€1,499,998","The transition to sustainable fuel and chemical production using renewable energy sources is paramount to curb CO2 emissions and decrease reliance on fossil fuels. In this context, artificial photosynthesis (AP) offers a promising approach to mimic natural photosynthesis (NP) to store solar energy into chemical bonds, driving the conversion of water and CO2 into renewable products. However, current photocatalytic AP systems are constrained by low efficiency, limited product selectivity, speciall",{"id":1102,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1103,"piName":14,"institution":1104,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":1105,"abstract":1106},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101220444","Entry-Level Hiring in Tightening Labor Markets: Frictions, Firm Heterogeneity and Public Policy","RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN","€1,490,620","Firms’ hiring of labor market entrants is crucial for individual access to opportunity and the economy’s skill level. However, it involves a complex search and screening process that is prone to frictions. While macroeconomic research has shown that the efficiency of labor market matching depends on recruitment intensity, micro-level evidence on firms’ underlying behavior remains limited, mainly due to a lack of suitable data. Yet, such evidence is essential for understanding and improving labor",{"id":1108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1109,"piName":14,"institution":1104,"country":21,"year":13,"amount":1110,"abstract":1111},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222766","Understanding the Interplay of Human Modeling and Social Intelligence via LLM Simulations","€1,486,073","This research project aims to advance the field of social intelligence in Large Language Models (LLMs) by investigating the interplay between human modeling and social behavior. I challenge the current unsystematic approach to social intelligence benchmarking in LLMs and propose a novel framework incorporating personalized mental models and contextual understanding to determine the components with the biggest influence on the discourse. Through a combination of longitudinal psychometric studies,",{"id":1113,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1114,"piName":14,"institution":1077,"country":34,"year":13,"amount":451,"abstract":1115},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101221731","Predicting the Regeneration of an Infarct by leveraging the Mechanobiology of Angiogenesis","Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a significant global health issue. Current therapies cannot regenerate the hearts of survivors, leading to frequent AMI recurrence and premature death. Crucially, these therapies fail to induce sufficient blood vessel formation, i.e. angiogenesis, which is essential to regenerate the cardiac microvasculature. Without this vasculature, cells repopulating the infarcted tissue cannot survive. A deeper understanding and better control of post-AMI angiogenesis wou",{"id":1117,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1118,"piName":14,"institution":1035,"country":479,"year":13,"amount":1119,"abstract":1120},"cordis-european-research-council-award-101222176","Ionospheric Climate: development of the Global Reference Ionosphere","€1,499,256","The ionosphere, a layer of plasma in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, has traditionally been modelled by the International Standards Organization (ISO)-recognized International Reference Ionosphere (IRI); however, this model is made up of several sub-models, many of which have not been updated since the 50s and 70s. 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