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"Experienced Researcher Fellowship Programme at the ""Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)""" (EPFL Fellows)

Date du début: 1 mai 2013, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2018,

The “École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne” (EPFL) is one of the two Écoles Polytechniques Fédérales in Switzerland. The School is ranked as one of Europe’s top research institutions with respect to education, research and training-through-research, and offers young researcher several mobility programmes to encourage them to exert the researcher profession, to guide them in their career develop...
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Experienced Researchers Incoming Fellowship Programme at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Fellows)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2015, Date de fin: 30 juin 2020,

EPFL Fellows aims to attract experienced researchers of any nationality to EPFL - one of the leading European institutions of science and technology - to provide them with state-of-the art conditions for research in a top-class academic environment, to develop their leadership potential and to position them for success as future research leaders through an intensive training. EPFL Fellows is a rel...
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Three-dimensional structure of stratified turbulence (3DZZI)

Date du début: 1 juin 2009, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2010,

"A new flow instability, known as zig-zag instability, has been revealed to be at the origin of the spontaneous formation of decoupled horizontal layers in stably stratified fluids (density decreasing along the vertical). Such layered structure is widely observed in the atmosphere and oceans. It governs the vertical transport of pollutants and chemical components and the dissipation of momentum. A...
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Lax Algebras in Homotopy Theory (LAXALGHOMOTOP)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,

"The researcher Dr. Gavin J. Seal will investigate the theory of lax algebras in the context of homotopy theory. His work will be conducted at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland, in collaboration with Prof. Kathryn Hess Bellwald and her research group. Based on the most recent developments in category theory, lax algebras allow a unified approach to the main fundamental s...
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Symmetries and the constitution of objectivity in quantum physics: A study on the non-representationalist theories of knowledge (SYMOB)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2009, Date de fin: 12 juil. 2012,

"Recent years have seen a surge of research in the philosophy of physics. In particular, the conceptual and epistemological problems related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics have been reformulated within the framework of the current debate on structural realism. The proposed project presents an original approach, bordering between epistemology and theoretical physics, to address those ph...
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Geometric control methods for heat and Schroedinger equations (GeCoMethods)

Date du début: 1 mai 2010, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2016,

"The aim of this project of 5 years is to create a research group on geometric control methods in PDEs with the arrival of the PI at the CNRS Laboratoire CMAP (Centre de Mathematiques Appliquees) of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (in January 09). With the ERC-Starting Grant, the PI plans to hire 4 post-doc fellows, 2 PhD students and also to organize advanced research schools and workshops. One ...
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Retailer Market Power and Competition Policy (RETAIL)

Date du début: 1 juin 2010, Date de fin: 31 mai 2012,

"The expanse of large retailers in recent decades leads to the high concentration in retail market, and the ever-growing market power of large retailers has caused serious concerns on detrimental impacts against small retailers. However, competition authorities face a dilemma in identifying market conditions under which the increase of retailer market power could impair competition. This research ...
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Molecular mechanisms of the formation and early function of calyx of Held synapses in the auditory brainstem (CALYX MMFF)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 août 2011,

"My long-term goal for an independent research career is to carry forward the understanding of the central auditory system physiology and the molecular mechanisms that underlie its plasticity. Defects in this system may cause several diseases such as auditory neuropathies, tinnitus or impairments in language understanding. For this long-term purpose, I will do my post-doctoral experience in the la...
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Flow energy harvesting in assemblies of vibrating solids: stability analysis and non-linear coupled dynamics (FLOWENERGY)

Date du début: 1 juin 2011, Date de fin: 31 mai 2014,

"The development of new energy harvesting technologies from renewable sources is essential for the European Union not only to prove its leadership in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but also to achieve a greater energetic independence from limited fossil fuels. To assess the performance and identify the potential of particular technological designs to harvest energy from geophysical flows, a fu...
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Thermal Management of High Power Microsystems Using Multiphase Flows (ThermaPower)

Date du début: 2 avr. 2012, Date de fin: 1 avr. 2016,

Increased functionality and power consumption of microdevices and high power electronics has come at a cost: power dissipation and heating. This heat must be dissipated to ensure reliable operation of such devices in both earthly and reduced gravity environments (eg space industry), without adversely affecting their performance. With a highly competitive world market, worth tens of billions of Eur...
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Interplay of anisotropy and interactions in charged colloidal systems (CHARGEDANISOTROPY)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2011, Date de fin: 31 août 2012,

"In this proposal we present a program of research and training in the area of soft condensed matter and statistical physics, focusing on understanding the role of long ranged interactions on phase behavior of anisotropic colloids. The Interesting interplay between anisotropic shape, long range interactions and its consequences on the phase behavior ofnanoparticles is a challenging problem...
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"Contrasting adaptive and non-adaptive radiations in Indo-Pacific ""rats"": testing alternative evolutionary models for a hyperdiverse region" (CANARIP-RAT)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 31 août 2016,

"Over the last 25 million years, the Indo-Pacific ""rats"" have undergone an explosive radiation. Their diversification has resulted in taxa with (i) a wide (putatively adaptive) and (ii) narrow (putatively non-adaptive) range of morphological disparity with or without clear ecological divergence. Adaptive and non-adaptive radiations have been replicated in three Indo-Pacific archipelagos (Philipp...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 31 mai 2016,

The internationalization of École Polytechnique, an important institution of higher scientific education, is a key to its development. École Polytechnique’s Erasmus+ project 2014-2016 was focused, as in previous years, on the outgoing student mobility, in particular of Ingénieur Polytechnicien students of the 3rd and 4th years, and on the incoming student mobility coming from partner universities ...
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Economie Européenne. Intégration Economique

Date du début: 1 sept. 2010,

La raison du projetLe projet se propose de promouvoir l'enseignement des disciplines à caractère européen, à travers les disciplines Intégration Européenne (cours obligatoire, master) et Les Institutions et l'Economie de l'Union Européenne (cours optionnel, licence)Les principaux objectifs à atteindre sont :- Une étude approfondie de la notion et des théories de l'intégration, des étapes de l'int...
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INNOVATIVE TRAINING AND EDUCATION FOR LARGE LASER INFRASTRUCTURES

Date du début: 1 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 31 août 2018,

The present project takes place in the context of large laser infrastructures, some under developments and some already operational at several sites across Europe. The Extreme Light Infrastructures (ELI) all rely on state of the art ultra-high intensity laser technologies. Three locations, namely Prague in the Czech republic (ELI-Beamlines), Szeged in Hungary (ELI-Alps) and Bucarest in Romania (E...
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DELTA Phase III: Environmental upgrading of enterprises in Maghreb and Mashrek countries

Date du début: 1 janv. 2002, Date de fin: 30 juin 2004,

Background Chapter 30 of Agenda 21 stressed the key role of businesses and industries in sustainable development. With the adoption of the Barcelona Convention in 1995 and the establishment of the Euro-Mediterranean free trade zone by 2010, the Maghreb and Mashrek enterprises have to improve their competitiveness. The DELTA programme was launched to rai...
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Computational Design of Novel Functional Proteins for Immunoengineering (DeNovoImmunoDesign)

Date du début: 1 mars 2017, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2022,

Finely orchestrated protein activities are at the heart of the most fundamental cellular processes. The rational and structure-based design of novel functional proteins holds the promise to revolutionize many important aspects in biology, medicine and biotechnology. Computational protein design has led the way on rational protein engineering, however many of these designed proteins were solely foc...
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Connecting Statistical Mechanics and Conformal Field Theory: an Ising Model Perspective (CONSTAMIS)

Date du début: 1 mars 2017, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2022,

The developments of Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory are among the major achievements of the 20th century's science. During the second half of the century, these two subjects started to converge. In two dimensions, this resulted in a most remarkable chapter of mathematical physics: Conformal Field Theory (CFT) reveals deep structures allowing for extremely precise investigations, mak...
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MicroRobotic toolkit to deliver spatiotemporally resolved physicochemical signals and control cell sociology (ROBOCHIP)

Date du début: 1 mars 2017, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2022,

Biological organisms have spectacular three-dimensional morphologies in which correct multiscale organization and physicochemical regulation are essential for proper function. Understanding the dynamic interactions among cells connected through a structurally complex three-dimensional (3D) fibre network requires a rigorous system identification effort and engineering analysis. To develop accurate ...
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Devices, engines and circuits: quantum engineering with cold atoms (DECCA)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2017, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2022,

Over the last decade, cold atomic gases have become one of the best controlled quantum system. This novel, synthetic material can be shaped at the microscopic level to mimic a wide range of models, and simulate the universal physics that these models describe. This project pioneers a new approach to quantum simulations, jumping from cold atoms materials into the realm of devices: systems carved ou...
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Miniature beam-driven Plasma ACcelerators (M-PAC)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2021,

As we push the frontier of particle physics to higher particle energies, conventional accelerator techniques are attaining their limits and new concepts are emerging. The use of an ionized gas —or plasma— circumvents the most significant barrier of conventional techniques by increasing the energy gained per unit length by several orders of magnitude. One class of plasma accelerators, relevant for ...
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Transposable elements, their controllers and the genesis of human-specific transcriptional networks (TRANSPOS-X)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2021,

Transposable elements (TEs) account for more than two thirds of the human genome. They can inactivate genes, provide novel coding functions, sprinkle chromosomes with recombination-prone repetitive sequences, and modulate cellular gene expression through a wide variety of transcriptional and posttranscriptional influences. As a consequence, TEs are considered as essential motors of evolution yet t...
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High-throughput vibrational fingerprinting by nanoplasmonics for disease biology (VIBRANT-BIO)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2021,

Devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and various cancers are still without cures, continue to undermine the quality of life for millions of people and impose significant economic burdens. Misfolded toxic proteins constitute the microscopic basis of these diseases, but little is understood about their structure and biological function. This is due the fact that current technologies...
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Multifunctional Hybrid Platforms based on Colloidal Nanocrystals to Advance CO2 Conversion Studies (HY-CAT)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2017, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2021,

In reimagining the world’s energy future, while researchers are seeking alternative ways to produce energy, our current dependence on fossil fuels requires us to capture and store the CO2 to prevent reaching unacceptable CO2 levels in the atmosphere. In this scenario, recycling CO2 by converting it into useful chemicals, such as fuels for transportation, represents an important research area as it...
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From Fermi to Planck : a bottom up approach (NuBSM)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2021,

The Standard Model of particle physics is a hugely successful theory that has been tested in experiments at ever increasing energies, culminating in the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Nevertheless, some major riddles cannot be addressed by the Standard Model, such as neutrino oscillations, the existence of Dark Matter, the absence of antimatter in the Universe. New fundamental principles, in...
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Global integrative framework for Computational Bio-Imaging (GlobalBioIm)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2021,

A powerful strategy for increasing the quality and resolution of medical and biological images is to acquire larger quantities of data (Fourier samples for MRI, projections for X-ray imaging) and to jointly reconstruct the complete signal by correctly reallocating the measurements in 3D space/time and integrating all the information available. The underlying image sequence is reconstructed globall...
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Charge carrier dynamics in metal oxides (DYNAMOX)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2021,

Transition metal (TM) oxides (TiO2, ZnO, NiO) are large gap insulators that have emerged as highly attractive materials over the past two decades for applications in photocatalysis, solar energy conversion, etc., all of which rely on the generation of charge carriers, their evolution and their eventual trapping at defects or a self-trapped excitons. Despite the huge interest for such materials, th...
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New CHallenges for (adaptive) PDE solvers: the interplay of ANalysis and GEometry (CHANGE)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2021,

The simulation of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is an indispensable tool for innovation in science and technology.Computer-based simulation of PDEs approximates unknowns defined on a geometrical entity such as the computational domain with all of its properties. Mainly due to historical reasons, geometric design and numerical methods for PDEs have been developed independently, resulting i...
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Building tomorrow’s nanofactory (NANOFACTORY)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2021,

The aim of this project is to translate the concept of production line to the nanoworld to develop what could become tomorrow’s nanofactory. So far, nanostructures are either chemically synthesized or produced using top-down approaches such as nanolithography, but no processes exist to take a few nanostructures and perform the basic operations required to assemble them into a more complex system. ...
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Unraveling molecular quantum dynamics with accelerated ab initio algorithms (MOLEQULE)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2021,

Many physical and chemical processes in nature as well as an increasing number of man-made devices exploit the quantum properties of electrons, nuclei, and the quantum signatures of the coupling between nuclear and electronic motions. To optimize the design of novel devices and to correctly interpret physical processes studied, e.g., by experiments probing the molecular dynamics induced by interac...
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Hybrid Aircraft; academic reSearch on Thermal and Electrical Components and Systems (HASTECS)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2021,

The HASTECS project aims at supporting the demonstration of radical aircraft configurations (CS-2/WP1.6) by means of models and tools development that can help the designers in assessing main benefits of architectures and power management of hybrid electric propulsion. The proposed consortium involves all competences to face the huge complexity of this process. All academic researchers will gather...
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Targeting common oncogenes with intracellular monobodies (ONCOINTRABODY)

Date du début: 1 août 2016, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2021,

Oncogenic signalling networks display a remarkable degree of plasticity. Despite only a limited number of alterations in oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes in most tumours, the majority of targeted therapeutics (monoclonal antibodies and small-molecule kinase inhibitors) does not strongly improve the survival of cancer patients and suffers from the rapid development of resistance. The rising nu...
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Valley and spin devices based on two-dimensional semiconductors (Valleys)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2016, Date de fin: 30 juin 2021,

The main objective of this research proposal is to realize new types of electronic devices based on the valley/spin degree of freedom in two-dimensional semiconductors from the transition metal dichalcogenide family. These materials are analogous to graphene but have a direct band gap. Together with the unique band structure, this allows manipulating the spin and valley degrees of freedom intercha...
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Fundamentals and Applications of Inorganic Oxygen Evolution Catalysts (FANOEC)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2016, Date de fin: 30 juin 2021,

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the key reaction to enable the storage of solar energy in the form of hydrogen fuel through water splitting. Efficient, Earth-abundant, and robust OER catalysts are required for a large-scale and cost-effective production of solar hydrogen. While OER catalysts based on metal oxides exhibit promising activity and stability, their rational design and developmen...
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Mechanisms of recovery after severe spinal cord injury (HOW2WALKAGAIN)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2016, Date de fin: 30 juin 2021,

Severe spinal cord injury leads to a range of disabilities, including permanent motor impairments that seriously diminish the patients’ quality of life. In the framework of an ERC Starting Grant, my team and I developed a pragmatic therapy that restored supraspinal control of leg movement after complete paralysis in rats. However, the mechanisms underlying the effects of this intervention remain u...
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Milli-Volt Switch Technologies for Energy Efficient Computation and Sensing (Milli-Tech)

Date du début: 1 juin 2016, Date de fin: 31 mai 2021,

The Milli-Tech proposal aims at a novel technology platform serving both computation and sensing: electronic switch architectures, called steep slope switches, exploiting new device physics and concepts in emerging 2D materials to achieve operation at voltages below 100 millivolts. Such switches will have a subthreshold slope below 10mV/decade, significantly more abrupt than MOSFET thermal limit o...
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms of remote fear attenuation (Remote memory traces)

Date du début: 1 mai 2016, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2021,

Traumatic events generate some of the most enduring forms of memories. Despite an elevated lifetime prevalence of related fear and anxiety disorders, effective treatments for traumatic memories are scarce and the mechanisms behind successful memory attenuation poorly understood. This discrepancy is particularly pronounced for remote traumata, when the original insult occurred in the distant past.H...
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Decoding, Mapping and Designing the Structural Complexity of Hydrogen-Bond Networks: from Water to Proteins to Polymers (HBMAP)

Date du début: 1 mai 2016, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2021,

Hydrogen bonds are ubiquitous and fundamental in nature, underpinning the behavior of systems as different as water, proteins and polymers. Much of this flexibility derives from their propensity to form complex topological networks, which can be strong enough to hold Kevlar together, or sufficiently labile to enable reversible structural transitions in allosteric proteins. Simulations must treat t...
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