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Global Air TEMPerature ESTimation on high mountain glaciers
Glaciers provide a crucial water storage in high mountain environments and contribute to the seasonal freshwater availability for billions of people worldwide.Predicting the curren...
Re-making the World: Women, Humanitarian Agencies and Handicrafts Programmes
The First World War threatened to extinguish the renowned Belgian lace industry, cut off from both markets and raw materials. Thousands of female lacemakers would be left without a...
Comprehensive Climate Modeling of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
The recent geological past is characterized by the cyclic growth and decay of large continental ice-sheets in the northern hemisphere driven by changes in incoming solar radiation...
'Vetulae'. Depicting women's ageing bodies in 15th century Florence
This project aims to provide a holistic and comparative view of ideas and materializations regarding women’s ageing bodies in 15th c. Florence at the intersection of art, art theor...
Capture and Rendering of Volumetric High Dynamic Range Video
Markets for Immersive Visual Technologies (IVT) such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality have been growing fast in recent years. Most of the current applications are based on...
Understanding the relationship between mother-tongue and father-land among German-Jewish thinkers of the XX century
National identities are, broadly speaking, built on the historical correspondence between homeland and language.Still, this combination does not apply to Diaspora communities and n...
A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. The ‘Archaeology of Gesture’: Apprenticeship, Tools, Hands, Organization, Collaborations, Learning Experience and Social Network Analysis
A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. is an innovative approach that allow us to switch our perspective from an archaeology of production towards an A.(rchaeology) of G.(esture): A.(pprenticeship),...
Integrated Photonic Neural Networks with Arbitrary Capabilities
As data generation and transfer rates have grown rapidly over the last decades, integrated photonic systems have become the key technology enabling modern communication systems.In...
Developing an Adverse Outcome Pathway for metabolic Nuclear Receptor-binding compounds in Atlantic cod
Environmental contaminants are accumulating in oceans and marine food webs and thereby pose a risk for both ecosystem and human health.In my MSCA-project, I aspire to bring the fie...
THE UNCHARTED BRAIN TERRITORY - The (pre)Supplementary Motor Area and its role in language cognitive control in health and neurodegeneration
The function of white matter networks of the human brain is a key inquiry of contemporary neuroscience.Initial observations suggest that damage to the white matter system connectin...
Women’s Economic and Psychological Empowerment
Women’s Economic Empowerment has become a mainstream gender and development policy and practice.UN Women states that “investing in women’s economic empowerment sets a direct path t...
Disconnected research and development: The (temporary) spatial patterns of innovation
Scholars recently observe an increasing spatial disconnect between research and development (R&D) activities within global firms, in particular from emerging markets.These firm...
Development of an Auxetic, antiMicrobial, suPramolecular coordination poLymer as a meta-materIal For bIomedical applications
AMPLIFI aims to develop an innovative auxetic, antimicrobial meta-material based on a supramolecular coordination polymer for the design of biomedical devices.Auxetics are unique d...
Genotoxicity prediction by means of QSAR methods for regulatory purposes
The concern to protect human health and the environment has prompted significant changes in EU regulation on chemicalsubstances.The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) plays the role...
Feasibility of ULtrafiLtration membranes for REMOVAL of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes from secondary effluents from wastewater treatment plants
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) guarantee that contaminated water is released back to the environment in safe conditions.However, due to the rise in antibiotic consumption all o...
Sunlight Active Mesoporous Black TiO2 Micro/Nanomotors
Photocatalytic Micro and nanomotors (MNMs) are artificial machines that convert light energy to propulsion and these light-powered machines have garnered considerable attention due...
Social (im)possibilities of the formation of ethical consumption: A comparative study of Sweden and Iran
Ethical consumerism as a way of protecting society, civil and citizen rights, labour rights, as well as the environment and animal welfare is considered a civil response of consume...
Practical and Catalytic Stereoselective Synthesis of Versatile Tetrasubstituted Alkenes
Alkene-containing molecules and their derivatives play a major role in medicine, food and energy production, as well as materials research and polymer science. In most applications...
The Cinematic Battle for the Adriatic: Films, Frontiers, and the Trieste Crisis
The project will analyse cinematic practices related to the Trieste Crisis (1945-54), a diplomatic struggle over the Italo-Yugoslav border at the outset of the Cold War, which rema...
Populist nationalism in 'global' western India, 1920-1939
GLOB-POP-NAT proposes a new study of the transnational links between emerging Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) andcontemporary European fascism in the 1920s-30s.Comprehending Hindutva...