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COVID19 & Lockdown: a Longitudinal Survey.
Analyses of the health crises which have occurred in recent decades showed that they were also social, economic and political crises which were notably fed by uncertainties about actual severity of th
Indirect excitons for emerging quantum states
This research proposal explores nanostructures based on GaN and Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMD) that host indirect excitons (IXs) and emerging collective states that they may form. IX with tunable dipole moments, adjustable light-matter coupling and transport properties are designed, fabricated, and studied in order to uncover collective phases by controlling novel IXs species.
High field Enhancement of nucLear Polarisation In Noble Gases
Hyperpolarisation of noble gases yields nuclear polarisation enhancement factors that can reach several orders of magnitude. This has allowed a strong boost in sensitivity and paved the way to advances in science and applications, notably in nuclear magnetic resonance. Scarcely explored up to now, hyperpolarisation in a high magnetic field is of fundamental interest (towards a deeper insight in build-up and decay processes) and potential benefit (improved global efficiency).
Getting the record from the disc: A study of the Milky Way disc with WEAVE and Gaia
The Milky Way is a test-bed to study in details the mechanisms that shape galaxies. The synergy between Gaia and WEAVE gives access, for the 1st time, to more than 30 tracers of the past of our Galaxy for a 10^6 stars of the Solar neighborhood, and to a dozen of tracers for another 2 million stars outside of it. Our project concerns the study of the Galactic disc, a structure that encodes both internal and external mechanisms that come into play in the chemo-dynamical evolution of our Galaxy.
Leveraging Interpretable Machines for Performance Improvement and Decision
Huge increase of collected data, storage capacity and computing power promote the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the status of panacea to all problems. Indeed, neural networks improved the r
The role of intergroup contact in political reactions to immigration: Quantitative analyses from across Europe
Immigration has become a central and persistent issue in the political discourse and public debate of many European societies. Some evidence suggests that the popularity of anti-immigrant parties has been partly driven by recent waves of immigrant arrivals. Other evidence, however, suggests that in areas where natives are more likely to come into contact with immigrants, greater immigration has reduced support for the far-right.
Assessing Resilience of DEep COrals
Like tropical coral reefs, cold-water coral (CWC) reefs form complex habitats providing important ecosystem services. But Cold Water Corals also have to cope with ocean warming and acidification, which could significantly reduce their fundamental niche if they are unable to adapt.
Study of immune crosstalk in COVID-19
We hypothesize that antigen presenting cells determine, based on human leucocyte antigens (HLAs) and viral antigens to activate T cell response, whether infection leads to disease pathogenesis or a protective immune response resulting in milder disease and/or long-term protection to SARS-CoV-2.
MOBILITY AND CULTURAL CONTACT IN THE SHAPING OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES
MeSCALwill examinethe role that past cultural interactions and human mobility played in the configuration of Southern California landscapes during the last 4000 years.
Photodesorption induced by UV, X-rays and Electrons on Surfaces
The PIXyES project proposes to synergize different experimental and theoretical approaches to unveil the phenomenon of photodesorption, a mechanism poorly understood from a fundamental point of view, but whose importance is crucial for understanding and exploiting the observations of molecules in the coldest regions of the interstellar medium, namely the regions of stars and planets formation.
