2017 Projects

In 2017, a total of 13 projets were selected, with 15 Fellows coming from Strasbourg and the rest of the world. The projects cover a large spectrum of disciplines and research topics, opening up exciting new perspectives and approaches. Projects have been chosen for their originality and excellence and will contribute to the vibrant and rich scientific community at the University of Strasbourg.

• Structural Music Information Research (SMIR): introducing algebra, topology and category theory into computational musicology
  Moreno Andreatta 
  
  
• Biographical achievements and negotiations of belongings among the descendants of immigrant families. A qualitative comparative study on the impact of policies in two generations in the metropolitan areas of Strasbourg and Frankfurt am Main
  Ursula Apitzsch 
  
  
• Ultrafast Transformations of Composite Nanoparticles
  Florian Banhart & Thomas LaGrange
  
  
• PARP3 in continuous and stress-induced neurogenesis
  Françoise Dantzer 
  
  
• Hybrid Materials for Fighting Obesity
  Luisa De Cola & Silvana Perretta
  
  
• Molecular mechanism of endocardial mechanotransduction during valvulogenesis
  Hajime Fukui 
  
  
• Strange primordial matter
  Boris Hippolyte
  
  
• The Complex Origins of our Economic and Social Problems
  Alan Kirman
  
  
• Narrating African Futures
  Anthony Mangeon
  
  
• Democracy and War in Ancient Athens
  David Pritchard 
  
  
• Structural mechanisms of NLRP3 inflammasome assembly in vivo
  Roméo Ricci 
  
  
• Elucidating how traits are heritable through functional and population genomics across a whole subphylum
  Joseph Schacherer 
  
  
• Enhancing quantum transport by correlated disorder
  Shannon Whitlock