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Showing 24 of 789 projects

HE2025–20272 countries

DISCOVER · Dynamic response of cells to viscoelastic forces

Mechanobiology explores how physical forces affect cellular processes, providing insights into areas like embryogenesis and tumor growth. Cells exert forces onto their environment; the tissue in which they live. These tissues are not purely elastic.

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HE2025–20272 countries

DIANA · Disk Instabilities in Highly Accreting Neutron Stars

Accretion disks are found throughout the Universe and power a large fraction of high-energy astrophysical sources, from neutron stars in our Galaxy to supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies. These disks not only generate intense radiation, but also launch powerful outflows that strongly influence both thei…

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HE2024–20262 countries

MOSAIC · Mode-selective ab-initio photoinduced dynamics in conjugated polymers

Sunlight is abundant, but figuring out how to efficiently grab that energy and convert it into something useful, like electricity for our homes, is a big puzzle. This research project dives into the world of a special type of molecules called "π-conjugated polymers." We can think of them as microscopic antennas that ar…

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HE2024–20262 countries

SUPERSET · Semiconductor free biophotoelectrodes for solar fuel production

The soaring demand for energy and use of fossil fuels has resulted in the release of vast amount of greenhouse gases and climate change. Developing photoelectrochemical devices for solar fuel production is one of the strategies to address these issues. The use of photosynthetic proteins as photoactive components could…

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HE2024–20262 countries

RAPID-AFM · Real Time 2D Polymerization studied using Atomic Force Microscopy

We are studying how tiny molecules join together directly on a surface to form sheets just a single layer thick, called two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) or 2D covalent organic frameworks (2D-COFs). Instead of making these materials separately and analysing them later, we watch them grow in real-time, in the liquid-solid…

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HE2024–20272 countries

PROGRAM · PROgramming Gauge-invariant Rydberg AtoM arrays

The simulation of quantum systems is one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum technologies. In particular, lattice gauge theories (LGTs), which underpin the Standard Model of particle physics, describe a vast range of strongly interacting phenomena, from the behaviour of quarks and gluons in high-ene…

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HE2024–20262 countries

EQC · Energetics of quantum correlations

Quantum technologies promise faster computing, ultra-precise sensing and secure communications. Their real-world value, however, also depends on how efficiently they use and manage energy at small scales. EQC studies how distinctively quantum features—entanglement, steering and Bell non-locality—shape work, heat and pr…

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HE2024–20262 countries

Q-LAMP · Quantum lock-in amplifier phonon detectors

Phonons, the quantum excitations of atomic vibrations, are central to heat transport, superconductivity, and many quantum technologies [Phys. Rev. B, 109, 144303, (2024)].

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HE2024–20262 countries

OptoEpiC · Optogenetic control of collective dynamics in Epithelial Cells

Collective cell motility states, such as multicellular flocking and jamming, play important roles in development and disease. However, much of the physical force dynamics of these collective states remains to be discovered. A key advance in understanding the dynamics of collective systems would be to control collective…

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HE2024–20262 countries

IONIC · In-Operando characterizatioN of anti-ambipolar mIxed Conductors

Conjugated organic polymers can be made conductive through charge introduction (doping), enabling flexible organic electronics. A special class of conducting polymers is organic mixed ion–electron conductors (OMIECs), which combine electronic conductivity with the ability to support ionic conduction. OMIECs are finding…

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HE2024–20276 countries

ZooCELL · Tracing the evolution of sensory cell types in animal diversity: multidisciplinary training in 3D cellular reconstruction, multimodal data analysis and science outreach.

Sensory cells in marine invertebrates play a fundamental role in detecting environmental cues and translating them into biological responses that enable survival, feeding, reproduction, and interaction with the environment. These cells detect chemical and mechanical stimuli, gravity, temperature, and salinity, guiding…

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HE2024–20278 countries

ENRICH · Molecular receptors enrich methylated and acetylated peptides for ultra-sensitive proteomics to explore the hidden modified proteome in disease

ENRICH is a Horizon Europe – MSCA Staff Exchanges project built around a practical need in protein analysis: post-translational modifications (PTMs) on histone proteins are biologically important, but they are often difficult to detect and study because of their low concentration and complex matrices. Enrichment steps…

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HE2024–20262 countries

IQARO · Integrated Quantum Repeater Nodes

Recent breakthroughs in the field of quantum technologies combining academic and R&D efforts have demonstrated the potential of quantum networks for major applications such as long-distance secure communication or quantum cloud computing. One current challenge is to deploy quantum networks out of the lab for realizing…

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HE2024–20278 countries

EDUCADO · Exploring the Deep Universe by Computational Analysis of Data from Observations

The formation and evolution of massive galaxies is reasonably well understood in the context of the successful standard ΛCDM formalism. Such simulations of cosmic evolution, however, lead to serious challenges in the regime of very faint galaxies, including the problems referred to as missing satellites, too big to fai…

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HE2024–20278 countries

SEASOUNDS · Innovative marine soundscape characterization to effectively mitigate ocean and sea noise pollution

SEASOUNDS aims to better characterize and predict marine soundscapes in various European eco-regions (e.g., parts of the Mediterranean and the Baltic Seas, the Venice Lagoon, the Norwegian fjords) where the scarcity of scientific data, upon which decisions are based, as well as the difficulties associated with sound fi…

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HE2024–20288 countries

TIMES · Time-resolved sImulations of ultrafast phenoMena in quantum matErialS

TIMES (Time-resolved sImulations of ultrafast phenoMena in quantum matErialS) addresses a key challenge in modern materials science: understanding, predicting, and controlling quantum materials under nonequilibrium conditions. Many emerging technologies, including quantum computing, ultrafast electronics, photonics, an…

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HE2024–20272 countries

NEOSC · Post Born-Oppenheimer Approximation for Semiclassical Spectroscopy Investigation of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes

The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (BOA) has determined how chemists describe molecules since 1927. BOA separates electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom, considering that the electron timescale is much shorter than the nuclear one. This project develops an accurate molecular dynamics method implemented as open-sourc…

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HE2024–20262 countries

MULTI-SOFT · Multi-scale and Multi-physics Modelling of Soft Tissues

Soft biological tissues—such as skin, vessels, and tumors—exhibit highly complex mechanical behavior driven by nonlinear, time-dependent, and multiphysical interactions. Traditional models often treat these effects in isolation, failing to explain critical phenomena like growth-induced instability, delayed buckling, or…

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HE2024–20288 countries

RESCUER · Resilient Solutions for Coastal, Urban, Estuarine and Riverine Environments

Historically, major storms, the associated storm surges and rainfall have posed the biggest threat to life and property around coastlines and along rivers. However, in the age of global warming and accompanying sea level rise the confluence of several risk factors creates a new set of hazards, and a different overall a…

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HE2024–20262 countries

MDS-APP-UAF · The Mosaic Design Strategy: Application to Underwater Acoustic Functionalities

Acoustic and elastic wave manipulation plays a central role in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications, including underwater sensing, noise mitigation, and vibration control. However, effective control of low-frequency waves remains particularly challenging due to their long wavelengths and strong fluid…

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HE2024–20252 countries

CHEERS · Chirality controlled spin to charge interconversion in Tellurium

CHEERS (Chirality controlled spin to charge interconversion in Tellurium) investigated how low-symmetry van der Waals and telluride materials can generate and convert spin information for future low-power spintronic devices. The project focused on understanding spin-charge interconversion (SCI) in chiral tellurium and…

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HE2024–20263 countries

ThorGW · Testing the horizon of black holes with gravitational waves

Black holes are, in many ways, the simplest objects in the Universe. According to general relativity, black holes are described by only two parameters: their mass and their spin. Yet this apparent simplicity hides a profound mystery.

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HE2024–20253 countries

PRISM · Probing the visible- light-driven photocatalytic mechanism to improve the photocatalytic performance of carbon nanodots (CNDs)

The PRISM project vision encompasses the Global warming and energy crisis from fossil fuels demand sustainable solar-to-fuel conversion via photocatalysis for H2 production and CO2 reduction. PRISM addresses limitations of conventional UV-absorbing carbon nanodots (CNDs) by developing visible-light-active, low-cost, me…

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HE2024–20286 countries

MetacMed · Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for biomedical and energy harvesting applications

MetacMed addresses a major gap in Europe’s innovation ecosystem: the translation of advanced acoustic and mechanical metamaterials (MMs) from laboratory research into practical solutions for healthcare, energy harvesting and noise reduction. The project combines metamaterial design, numerical modelling, artificial inte…

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