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Capturing the evolution of a transformative cognitive capacity: the case of vocal learning in dogs
Modifying the vocal repertoire using an external auditory model is a prerequisite for speech production. But how full-fledged vocal learning evolved in humans, uniquely among prima...
Infrastructural Imperialism: Global 'Big Brothers' and Geopolitical Futures
In early European imperialism, trade and resource exploitation financed lavish building projects in metropolitan centers and fueled further colonial expansion.Today, rising economi...
Fighting Pandemics from Below. Global North-South Public Health Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942
This project will recapture the lost archives and historical knowledge of international public health cooperation between the global north and the global south by analysing its fir...
Ecologies of Violence: Crimes against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination
The ongoing destruction of the natural world raises critical questions about responsibility. How do we remember the victims, both human and non-human? And who is to blame? Contempo...
Creating Knowledge
In this project I want to unravel how we build-up and update our knowledge networks depending on the amount of previous experience we have by testing my new theory on experience de...
Management at a distance
Multinationals (MNCs) are key drivers of economic growth, accounting for 33% of global output (OECD 2018).However, within MNCs, the economic performance of foreign affiliates decli...
TIMELAPSE. A VR application for speeding up time passage during chemotherapy
Chemotherapy can involve lengthy treatment sessions, lasting up to several hours.Such a duration, spent in an overly medicalized setting, can induce in the patients a monopolizing...
In-situ fetoscopic 3D bioprinting for spina bifida treatment
Currently available pre-birth surgical treatments for Spina Bifida Aperta (SBA) still do not provide a complete recovery in babies and would potentially benefit from a tissue engin...
Fundamental Limits of Sensing Systems
This project derives information-theoretic fundamental limits and tradeoffs of classical and quantum distributed sensing (detection and estimation) systems, which are key in the In...
Liquid Dosimetry via Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
The problem: Lack of water-equivalent dosimeters for radiotherapyCancer is a global public health problem. Radiotherapy is generally used as an essential method of cancer treatment...
The Cultural History of the Black African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
What were the cultural creations of black women and men in early modern Spain? How did blaWhat were the cultural creations of black women and men in early modern Spain? How did bla...
Generalised Time-Separated Stochastic Mechanics
As a physical fact, randomness is an inherent and ineliminable aspect in all physical measurements and engineering production. Hence, all material parameters are subject to stochas...
Epicuticular electrification: spontaneous charging of materials at the world's largest bio-air interface
The materials on the outer plant surface create the world's largest bio-air interface. Invisibly, this surface spontaneously charges when hit by raindrops and solid materials....
Trajectories of taste: An analytical framework of culinary change after migration
How and why do cuisines change after migration?The TASTE Project offers a novel approach to study the global spread of cooking techniques, products, dishes, recipes, food practices...
Control of body weight by specialized brain-adipose loop neurons
Disruption of energy homeostasis can lead to obesity, a major health issue worldwide. Therapeutic efforts to reduce adiposity are nullified by metabolic adaptations. The mechanisms...
Hyperspectral Fiber Photometry for Flexible, Multiplexed Optical Measurements of Brain Function
Fiber photometry allows the activity of molecularly defined neuronal populations to be measured in freely behaving animals.The method is based on an implanted optical fiber through...
Building Virtual Worlds that Follow Universal Laws of Physics
Planetary climate models are essential to understanding the climate on Earth while also being windows into the many climates that may exist throughout the Universe.However, current...
SINGLE-GRAIN RE-ENGINEERED ND-FE-B PERMANENT MAGNETS
GREENE addresses one of the Europes Grand Societal Challenges, aligned with the European Green Deal and the recently released Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, which...
INNOVATIVE DECISION-MAKING TOOL FOR DEFINING THE MOST SUITABLE MANURE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE A SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK FARMING SYSTEM DURING THE WHOLE VALUE CHAIN
Livestock farming is a key sector that involves 40 % of the total agricultural activity in Europe. representing a total value for products equal to € 170 billion.However, there is...
Universal interoperative sustainable agri-water management platform
Water quality and quantity are under arising pressure from agricultural activities that may cause overexploitation of natural waters and pollutants runoffs (e.g., nutrients, pestic...