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Highly Energy-Efficient Resistive Switching in Defect- and Strain- Engineered Mott Insulators for Neuromorphic Computing Applications
The pressing need for beyond-von-Neumann computing paradigms has triggered intensive efforts into understanding and controlling various resistive switching (RS) mechanisms.This swi...
Polyphonic Philosophy: Logic in the Long Twelfth Century (c. 1070-1220) for a New Horizon in the History of Philosophy
This project aims at an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to Latin logical commentaries from the Long Twelfth-Century (c. 1070-1220).My contention is that this little-explored...
Chemical biology of intracellular cholesterol transport
Cholesterol transport proteins (CTPs) regulate cellular metabolism, hormone biosynthesis, and organelle contacts, with profound consequences for human health and disease.Despite th...
Scalable Learning for Reproducibility in High-Dimensional Biomedical Signal Processing: A Robust Data Science Framework
Data science has quickly expanded the boundaries of signal processing and statistical learning beyond their accustomed domains.Powerful and complex machine learning architectures h...
Before Copyright: Printing Privileges and the Politics of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
BE4COPY examines the long-term history of printing privileges from a cross-disciplinary and European perspective.These privileges provided exclusive rights for the production of bo...
Controlled Local Heating to Crystallize Solution-based Semiconductors for Next-Generation Solar Cells and Optoelectronics
Solution-processed semiconductor thin-films have recently emerged as promising candidates for optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), sensors and solar cells.O...
Welfare, redistribution and financial stability in housing and mortgage markets
Worldwide, housing wealth represents the most important asset in households' balance sheet, and mortgage debt is the most important liability.In the past two decades, several...
quantum electro-optic amplifiers for the next generation quantum and supercomputers
Quantum computers face many bottlenecks towards upscaling the number of qubits and increasing their computational power.One of them is the radio frequency (RF) -bottleneck between...
Education, Diversity, Innovation, and Politics
The introduction of free and universal education, accessible to diverse religious and cultural groups, has been a major achievement worldwide and a crucial factor for economic deve...
The subsequent lives of Arab revolutionaries
What are the biographical consequences and the social outcomes of revolutionary activism when the revolutionary moment turns into a civil war, an authoritarian restoration, a fragi...
Watching Excitons in Photoactive Organic Frameworks
One of the most urgent challenges our society is facing nowadays is the development of an energy economy based on renewable resources.A fascinating approach is artificial photosynt...
Digitalized Ports, Racialized Labor: Shifting Infrastructures for Work in Container Shipping
Container shipping has implications for everyone who has ever shopped in a store or online. Shipping is the backbone of the global economy. 90% of the world's goods travel by...
The Benefits of Conflict: How Factions Can Enhance Political Parties' Electoral Performance
Political parties and voters form important relationships in a democracy. The conventional wisdom is that divided parties lose elections.Yet the empirical evidence for this is ad h...
The Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Tax Reforms
Taxes paid by companies are a key source of government revenue.Among OECD countries, corporate taxes in 2018 accounted for an average of 10% of total tax revenue, 3.1% of GDP, and...
PalaeoEcology and OPen-LandscapE adaptations of Pleistocene humans in South Africa
Homo sapiens emerged in Africa in the Middle Pleistocene, and their appearance broadly overlaps with the onset of the Middle Stone Age (MSA).This period saw a persistent population...
Networks of Practice in New Music Theatre
From the 1960s to the 1980s, numerous younger European composers were drawn to theatrical projects that overturned the established conventions of the opera house.These projects wer...
Dissecting the mechanism of the regulation of γTuRC-mediated microtubule nucleation
Cells regulate the nucleation of microtubule polymerization locally and temporally, which is translated into accurate organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton, crucial for prop...
Measuring and Understanding Mortality, its Exposures, and its Determinants in developing countries
Records of births, deaths, and people alive are some of the most important statistics that are collected and analysed by states and societies. In many developing countries, however...
REACT - Reintegration from Armed Conflict: A Comparative Study of Youth Reintegration from Armed Conflict in Iraq and Gaza
To what extent can female and male youth engaged in armed conflict be reintegrated into their communities?My project REACT (Reintegration from Armed Conflict) seeks to answer this...
Depicting the impact of an invasive alien crop pest on local ecological networks
Invasive alien herbivore species are a major threat to agriculture because they directly damage crops and induce severe yield losses, but also because they indirectly impact the st...