2021 Projects

The 14 projects selected in the 2021 call cover a broad range of topics, including the role of poetry in medieval China, new ways of studying ice sheets with seismological technology, the role of immune cells in metabolic activity, breaking the barriers of studying super heavy elements, and the role of neural plasticity in the emergence of new species.

• The role played by poetry in the economy of knowledge in medieval China
  Dr. Marie Bizais-Lillig, Research Group on Oriental, Slavonic and Modern Greek Studies (GEO), University of Strasbourg, France  
  
  
• Homotopy invariants of wonderful compactifications
  Professor Vladimir Dotsenko, Institute for Advanced Mathematical Research (IRMA), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France   
  
  
• Characterising ice-sheet properties and processes with novel seismic monitoring technology
  Professor Olaf Eisen, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research and University of Bremen, Germany
  
  
• Developing innovative materials for extreme beams and rare targets
  Professor Benoît Gall, Hubert Curien Pluridisciplinary Institute (IPHC), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France  
  
  
• Changes in short-term neuronal plasticity as a process by which populations evolve to become distinct species
  Dr. Sylvain Hugel, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
   
  
• Beyond city and nature : architecture, city and nature in the Anthropocene
  Dr. Mickaël Labbé, Research Centre for Contemporary German Philosophy (CREPHAC), University of Strasbourg, France
    
• Pop divas: popular music, representation and gender in the digital era in France
  Dr. Isabelle Marc, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

• Stabilization of nickel nanoparticles with olefinic N-heterocyclic carbene ligands for catalytic applications in hydrogenation and reductive amination using induction heating
  Dr. Christophe Michon, Laboratory of Molecular Innovation and Applications (LIMA) &
  Dr. Cuong Pham-Huu, Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
  
  
• Modelling gene regulation dynamics across the cell-cycle in single embryonic stem cells
  Dr. Nacho Molina, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), University of Strasbourg, CNRS and Inserm, France  
  
  
• Immune cells: metabolic sensors in coupling animal growth with nutrient availability
  Dr. Tina Mukherjee, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore, India & Professor Angela Giangrande, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), University of Strasbourg, CNRS and Inserm, France
  
  
• Applications of Poincaré duality in symplectic topology
  Professor Alexandru Oancea, Sorbonne University, Paris, France  
  
  
• Transgender France: universalism and sexual subjectivity
  Professor Todd Reeser, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  
  
• Towards real time imaging of biocatalysis using novel X-ray sources
  Dr. Claude Sauter, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), RNA Structure and Reactivity (ARN), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France  
  
  
• Structure of human transcription co-activators
  Dr. Patrick Schultz, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), University of Strasbourg, CNRS and Inserm, France   

^{CNRS: French National Centre for Scientific Research
Inserm: French National Institute of Health and Medical Research}