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Steve Fleming is a professor in psychology at University College London. I invited Steve to talk about his work on meta-cognition, but we ended up spending the entire episode talking about lab culture, starting a lab, applying for funding, Steve's background in music, and what drew him to do cognitive neuroscience. There's even a tiny discussion about consciousness research at the end.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Steve ran his lab in London from Croatia for a few years 0:23:57: Lessons as a PI: students and postdocs are adults and will figure it out0:28:45: Learning more skills as a postdoc vs. starting a lab0:41:13: Contacting departments to apply for grants0:52:19: Steve's background in music1:07:13: What drew Steve to cognitive science? A brief discussion of the future of consciousness research1:27:23: A book or paper more people should read1:33:02: Something Steve wishes he'd learnt sooner1:38:16: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podBlueSky: https://geni.us/pod-bskySteve's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/sfleming-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/fleming-scholarBlueSky: https://geni.us/fleming-bskyBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarBlueSky: https://geni.us/bjks-bskyReferences and linksFIL at UCL: https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/ERC Starting Grant: https://erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/starting-grantWellcome Trust Early-Career Award (without strict time restrictions): https://wellcome.org/research-funding/schemes/wellcome-early-career-awardsExample paper by Josh Mcdermott on music: McDermott, Schultz, Undurraga & Godoy (2016). Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception. Nature.Carter (2002). Consciousness.Chalmers (1995). Facing up to the problem of consciousness. Journal of consciousness studies.Dehaene, Al Roumi, Lakretz, Planton & Sablé-Meyer (2022). Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.Isaacson (2021). The code breaker.Marr (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information.Pinker (1997). How the mind works.Tononi (2004). An information integration theory of consciousness. BMC neuroscience.

Wykład prof. Eweliny Knapskiej zorganizowany w ramach Kawiarni Naukowej Festiwalu Nauki [17 marca 2025 r.]Z naszą prelegentką porozmawiamy o neurobiologicznych mechanizmach zachowań społecznych i emocjonalnych, w tym empatii. Jej badania mają istotne znaczenie dla zrozumienia podstawowych procesów regulujących interakcje społeczne oraz mogą przyczynić się do opracowania nowych strategii terapeutycznych w leczeniu zaburzeń emocjonalnych.Prof. Ewelina Knapska – neurobiolożka, kieruje Pracownią Neurobiologii Emocji w Instytucie Biologii Doświadczalnej im. M. Nenckiego PAN. Jej badania koncentrują się na neurobiologicznych mechanizmach zachowań społecznych i emocjonalnych, w tym empatii. Prace te mają istotneznaczenie dla zrozumienia podstawowych procesów regulujących interakcje społeczne oraz mogą przyczynić się do opracowania nowych strategii terapeutycznych w leczeniu zaburzeń emocjonalnych. Prof. Knapska jest laureatką prestiżowych grantów, w tym ERC Starting Grant, a także pełni funkcję prezeski European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS). Aktywnie popularyzuje naukę oraz wspiera rozwój młodych naukowców.Jeśli chcesz wspierać Wszechnicę w dalszym tworzeniu treści, organizowaniu kolejnych #rozmówWszechnicy, możesz:1. Zostać Patronem Wszechnicy FWW w serwisie https://patronite.pl/wszechnicafwwPrzez portal Patronite możesz wesprzeć tworzenie cyklu #rozmowyWszechnicy nie tylko dobrym słowem, ale i finansowo. Będąc Patronką/Patronem wpłacasz regularne, comiesięczne kwoty na konto Wszechnicy, a my dzięki Twojemu wsparciu możemy dalej rozwijać naszą działalność. W ramach podziękowania mamy dla Was drobne nagrody.2. Możesz wspierać nas, robiąc zakupy za pomocą serwisu Fanimani.pl - https://tiny.pl/wkwpkJeżeli robisz zakupy w internecie, możesz nas bezpłatnie wspierać. Z każdego Twojego zakupu średnio 2,5% jego wartości trafi do Wszechnicy, jeśli zaczniesz korzystać z serwisu FaniMani.pl Ty nic nie dopłacasz!3. Możesz przekazać nam darowiznę na cele statutowe tradycyjnym przelewemDarowizny dla Fundacji Wspomagania Wsi można przekazywać na konto nr:33 1600 1462 1808 7033 4000 0001Fundacja Wspomagania WsiZnajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historiahttps://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-naukahttps://wszechnica.org.pl/#kawiarnianaukowa #biologia #emocje #psychologia #mózg #neurobiologia #empatia

È quanto cercherà di elaborare l'ospite di questa puntata Aronne dell’Oca, giovane ricercatore del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale del Politecnico di Milano, che si è aggiudicato un ERC Starting Grant con il progetto HYPOR, sulle dinamiche di trasporto e trasformazione di nutrienti e inquinanti disciolti all’interno dei corsi fluviali. Il nome HYPOR deriva dalla cosiddetta “zona iporeica”, cioè gli strati più vicini al letto del fiume, dove l’acqua e il substrato su cui scorre si toccano e interagiscono, e dove si concentra gran parte delle trasformazioni bio-chimiche dei nutrienti e inquinanti disciolti in acqua. Da qui la definizione di “fegato” dei fiumi.

Alejandra Consejo, investigadora del Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A) y profesora en la Universidad de Zaragoza, protagoniza Ágora. Consejo ha sido galardonada con una prestigiosa ERC Starting Grant, una ayuda otorgada por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) que financiará su proyecto VISIONSAFE con 1,5 millones de euros. La investigadora explica cómo llevará a cabo el proyecto, que tiene como objetivo desarrollar tecnologías avanzadas para la detección temprana de enfermedades oculares (degeneración macular, el glaucoma o cataratas) utilizando biomarcadores macro y microestructurales a partir de imágenes clínicas oculares.

Alejandra Consejo, investigadora del Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A) y profesora en la Universidad de Zaragoza, protagoniza Ágora. Consejo ha sido galardonada con una prestigiosa ERC Starting Grant, una ayuda otorgada por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) que financiará su proyecto VISIONSAFE con 1,5 millones de euros. La investigadora explica cómo llevará a cabo el proyecto, que tiene como objetivo desarrollar tecnologías avanzadas para la detección temprana de enfermedades oculares (degeneración macular, el glaucoma o cataratas) utilizando biomarcadores macro y microestructurales a partir de imágenes clínicas oculares.

Diesen Sommer haben wir uns aus der vertrauten Umgebung der CISPA-Büros herausgewagt und unsere Forscher zu ihren wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltungen begleitet: Konferenzen! Ende Juli fuhren wir nach Wien, um an der International Conference on Machine Learning teilzunehmen. Und da der Flur und die Gespräche dort ohnehin das Wichtigste an einer Konferenz sind, haben wir uns dort in einer Kaffeepause mit unseren Forscher:innen zusammengesetzt, um über ihre Forschung und das Neueste im Bereich des maschinellen Lernens zu sprechen. Unsere Gästin: Rebekka Burkholz, die 2021 zum CISPA kam und seitdem mit einem ERC-Starting Grant ausgezeichnet wurde, um mit ihrer Forschung neuronale Netzwerke effizienter zu machen. Im Podcast sprechen wir darüber, wie sie ihren wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund aus der Physik im Bereich KI anwendet und wie KI in Zukunft die Gesellschaft beeinflussen kann.

Każdy z nas kojarzy mikrofale, wiemy też, czym jest światło widzialne i podczerwień. Na pograniczu podczerwieni i mikrofal leży tzw. region terahercowy. Fale terahercowe to strefa tajemnicza, temat na tyle mało opracowany naukowo, że jeszcze do niedawna region nazywano przerwą ("gap") technologiczną. Moim gościem w tym odcinku jest dr inż. Łukasz Sterczewski, naukowiec z Politechniki Wrocławskiej, który zajmuje się właśnie falami terahercowymi. Na zbudowanie spektrometru terahercowego pracującego w temperaturze pokojowej (to ważne, bo pozwalałoby na używanie niemal na co dzień) dr inż. Sterczewski otrzymał prestiżowy ERC Starting Grant – grant Europejskiej Rady ds. Badań Naukowych na pionierskie działania z możliwością dokonania przełomu w nauce, czyli naprawdę gruby kaliber finansowania naukowego.Możliwości zastosowań są przeróżne. Fale terahercowe dzięki swojej długości potrafią przenikać przez wiele materiałów: papier, plastik, tkaniny, nie radzą sobie natomiast z metalem i dość słabo z płynami. Ważna informacja jest taka, że są niejonizacyjne. Co to znaczy? – Nie powodują szkody dla ludzkiego organizmu, co wynika z faktu, że ich energia jest bardzo niewielka, to są milielektronowolty – wyjaśnia mój gość.Po takim wyjaśnieniu pierwsze możliwe wykorzystanie nasuwa się samo: w pewnych przypadkach (ale nie wszystkich) można je stosować zamiast bardziej inwazyjnego rentgena. Najlepiej sprawdzą się w prześwietlaniu tkanek, które nie zawierają za dużo wody, a więc np. w prześwietleniach stomatologicznych. Inne zastosowanie to kontrola leków: przepuszczamy fale terahercowe przez zamknięte opakowanie medykamentu, sprawdzamy, czy emitowane przez lek widmo jest zgodne z widmem próbki wzorcowej. I już wiemy, czy lek w środku opakowania nie jest sfałszowany, przeterminowany, czy prawidłowy. Do tego jeszcze komunikacja, badania kosmiczne, analiza dzieł sztuki… Zastosowań jest mnóstwo. Niektóre lotniska stosują już skanery terahercowe: bez trudu pokażą, co ukrywamy w kieszeniach lub pod ubraniem (co jest przy okazji dużym wyzwaniem etycznym).Dr inż. Sterczewski chciałby, żeby technologia mogła być wykorzystywana szeroko (ale nie do podglądania), w podręcznych urządzeniach i właśnie w temperaturze pokojowej. - Ideałem byłaby demokratyzacja teraherców - mówi.Rozmawiamy też o tym, jakie kryteria trzeba spełnić, żeby dostać taki grant (ważne jest doświadczenie, ale też stojąca za badaniami historia, znaczenie dla społeczeństwa), jak się pracuje w USA (mój gość pracował m.in. dla NASA), do czego przydaje się w amerykańskim laboratorium polskie myślenie, z jakimi trudnościami borykają się naukowcy i dlaczego zdobywcy Nobla sprzed lat nie spełnialiby współczesnych kryteriów badań naukowych. Dużo naukowego „falafelka”, bardzo polecam!

Wyobraźcie sobie badanie komórek pod mikroskopem: macie do dyspozycji tysiące wyhodowanych komórek, ale żeby coś zobaczyć, trzeba je oczywiście odpowiednio powiększyć. Pole widoczne w odpowiednio mocnym mikroskopie mierzy zaledwie 80x80 mikrometrów, a więc mieści się w nim dosłownie kilka komórek. – Trzeba mieć dużo szczęścia, żeby trafić akurat na takie komórki, które zachowują się w sposób ciekawy dla nas – mówi prof. Maciej Trusiak z Instytutu Mikromechaniki i Fotoniki na Wydziale Mechatroniki Politechniki Warszawskiej, laureat ERC Starting Grant, czyli prestiżowego europejskiego „grantu na przełom” – służy poszukiwaniu nowych rozwiązań i pól nauki. Prof. Trusiak otrzymał taki właśnie grant na projekt NaNoLens: nanoskopii bezsoczewkowej i bezznacznikowej. Nowe narzędzie badawcze ma pozwolić na o wiele szersze pole widzenia i obserwację wielu komórek jednocześnie.NaNoLens ma odpowiedzieć na jeszcze jeden problem. Żywe komórki są przezroczyste, żeby móc im się przyglądać korzysta się z mikroskopii fluorescencyjnej: przed pomiarem wybarwia się próbkę (można nawet osobno wybarwić poszczególne elementy komórki), następnie mocno się ją naświetla, by wzbudzić fluorofory, które zaczynają świecić na dany kolor i pod mikroskopem wszystko pięknie widać. Ten system ma jednak poważne wady: zajmuje dużo czasu, jest dość kosztowny i obciąża komórkę – nie do końca wiemy, czy bez kolorowania i naświetlania zachowywałaby się tak samo.Projekt NaNoLens zakłada rezygnację ze znaczników. Ale jak coś bez nich zobaczyć? Potrzebne są światło i… algorytm. – Mikroskopia obliczeniowa składa się z dwóch etapów: najpierw rejestrujemy dane, potem je rekonstruujemy – opowiada prof. Trusiak. Przez badaną komórkę przepuszczamy światło, nagrywamy efekt, a potem odpowiedni algorytm dokonuje wstecznych obliczeń, jak musiała wyglądać komórka w tym procesie. Dzięki zastosowaniu techniki bezsoczewkowej można natomiast obserwować całą kolonię komórek naraz, a więc wyłapać interesujące nas zjawisko dużo szybciej i z mniejszą szansą, że coś przeoczymy lub pomylimy.Fascynujące, co? Rozmawiamy też o tym, do czego można byłoby wykorzystywać w przyszłości technologię NaNoLens, co trzeba zrobić, żeby dostać grant ERC, jak ważne są pieniądze w nauce (bardzo!) i w jakich dziedzinach „Polak potrafi” w światowej nauce (jesteśmy mocni w fotonice i optyce). Bardzo polecam ten odcinek, to konkretne zajrzenie za kulisy nauki!

Søren Thorgaard Skou (PT, MSc, PhD) has vast experience within the field of osteoarthritis and other chronic conditions and has been the principal investigator of several high-quality randomized controlled trials on surgical and non-surgical treatment, one of which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor of 79.26), the highest ranked of all general medical journals. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a randomized, controlled trial of meniscal surgery vs. exercise therapy and education for young people with a meniscal tear (DREAM) and a 5-year EU-funded project (MOBILIZE, grant agreement No 801790) with the overall aim of improving health in people with more than one chronic condition (i.e. multimorbidity) through personalized exercise therapy and education. Furthermore, he is the co-lead of Exercise First, a research program funded by Region Zealand aimed at developing, testing and implementing initaitives that support that the individual patient received the right prevention and treatment at the right time and to increase self-management using e-health.  He is one of the main architects and leader of the implementation of the highly successful treatment program Good Life With osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) for patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis. Furthermore, he is a recipient of a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council, and a postdoc grant and a Sapere Aude Research Talent Award from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.  --- Follow Professor Søren Skou on Twitter https://twitter.com/STSkou He is affiliated with both University of Southern Denmark and the research unit PROgrez at Slagelse Hospital, Denmark (@PROgrezDK) _____________________ This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | Better Sleep, Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Research with Less Hassle --- Collect, store and manage SB and PA data easily and remotely - Discover ground-breaking Fibion SENS --- SB and PA measurements, analysis, and feedback made easy.  Learn more about Fibion Research --- Learn more about Fibion Sleep and Fibion Circadian Rhythm Solutions. --- Fibion Kids - Activity tracking designed for children. --- Collect self-report physical activity data easily and cost-effectively with Mimove. --- Explore our Wearables,  Experience sampling method (ESM), Sleep,  Heart rate variability (HRV), Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity article collections for insights on related articles. --- Refer to our article "Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Measurements" for an exploration of active and sedentary lifestyle assessment methods. --- Learn about actigraphy in our guide: Exploring Actigraphy in Scientific Research: A Comprehensive Guide. --- Gain foundational ESM insights with "Introduction to Experience Sampling Method (ESM)" for a comprehensive overview. --- Explore accelerometer use in health research with our article "Measuring Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior with Accelerometers ". --- For an introduction to the fundamental aspects of HRV, consider revisiting our Ultimate Guide to Heart Rate Variability. --- Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/PA_Researcher Follow host Dr Olli Tikkanen on Twitter https://twitter.com/ollitikkanen Follow Fibion on Twitter https://twitter.com/fibion https://www.youtube.com/@PA_Researcher    

Dr Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor at TU Wien, a recent ERC Starting Grant recipient, and a good colleague of mine. In part two of our conversation, Katta discusses being neurodivergent, and experiences with ADHD, and being an activist for change with an example of how gender is dealt with in research, and about 'epistemic plurality and the importance of making space for different ways of being and knowing. They conclude by advocating for respectful curiosity about individual experiences and allowing others space to perform their best work. They also argue for a lab culture where personal needs can be discussed and respected, suggesting this encourages more open dialogue and a supportive environment.This conversation picks up from Part one where Katta shared their experiences on topics like career uncertainty, proposal rejections, coming out as queer, chronic health issues, being successful, and notions of normativity. Overview:[00:00:00] Introduction[00:01:56] Personal Journey with Neurodivergence[00:06:42] Strategies for Navigating Neurodivergence[00:10:05] Dealing with a world not made for Neurodivergence[00:15:39] Creating a Supportive Environment for Neurodivergence[00:20:12] The Intersection of Neurodivergence and Activism[00:26:19] Embracing different ways of being and knowing[00:33:27] Final Thoughts on Neurodivergence and Inclusivity[00:35:44] My final reflections[00:38:06] EndRelated links:Katta's personal web page, TU Wien web page, LinkedIn page, and announcement about their ERC Starting GrantGender paper: Katta Spiel, Oliver L. Haimson, and Danielle Lottridge. 2019. How to do better with gender on surveys: a guide for HCI researchers. interactions 26, 4 (July-August 2019), 62–65. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338283Hanne de Jaegher https://hannedejaegher.netThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Dr Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor at TU Wien, a recent ERC Starting Grant recipient, and a good colleague of mine. In the first part of this two-part conversation Katta shares their experiences on a range of topics like career uncertainty, rejection of proposals, coming out as queer, having a formal gender change, dealing with chronic health issues, and being successful in receiving a prestigious research council grant. Dr. Spiel's struggles and successes reflect their unyielding effort to change academic life for the better. An emphasis is also placed on the importance of authenticity and uncompromised approach when applying for grants. Part two of the conversation with Katta will delve deeper into the topic of neurodivergence and their ADHD experiences.Overview:0:00 Introduction02:42 Navigating Identity and Academia07:06 Exploring Alternative Career Paths09:37 The Journey to Recognition and Success10:34 Challenges and Triumphs in Grant Applications23:07 Understanding the Difference Between Access and Accessibility25:48 Personal Journey of Gender Identity and Health33:58 Experiences with Chronic Health Issues38:10 The Impact of Body Shape on Medical Treatment40:16 The Role of Technology in Access and Inclusion43:23 EndRelated Links:Katta's personal web page, TU Wien web page, LinkedIn page, and announcement about their ERC Starting GrantPeople: Raja Kushalnager, Christian Vogler , Abraham GlasserThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

In this episode Chris talks to Julian Schmitt, leader of the junior research group “Quantum fluids of light” at the University of Bonn. Julian recently received an ERC Starting Grant, the ML4Q Independence Grant and in 2022 he was awarded the ML4Q Young Investigator Award honoring his contribution to the cluster's program which particularly requires the collaboration between different sites. They talk about Bose-Einstein condensates and the differences between the atomic and the photonic sort. They recap how Julian got into the atomic molecular and optical physics AMO research community where major breakthroughs often seem to be possible already with relatively small teams. They also chat about how optical quantum gases can shed new light on exciting open questions in physics, such as grand canonical condensates or the interplay between quantum physics and thermodynamics.

Nonostante la profilazione degli utenti sia un'attività core per realtà quali social, motori di ricerca e altri applicativi internet, questi sistemi non tengono conto di diverse sottigliezze come la sensibilità di un individuo a un determinato contenuto, o i suoi specifici interessi. In realtà, come utenti, siamo ben poco consapevoli dei criteri con cui vengono offerti contenuti sulla rete. Rendere più trasparente il rapporto tra chi offre e riceve contenuti, sono obiettivi del progetto PERSONAE, ideato da Debora Nozza - assistant professor presso il Dipartimento di Computing Sciences dell’Università Bocconi - e finanziato dall’Unione Europea con un ERC Starting Grant da 1,5 Milioni di Euro. A parlarne è proprio l'ideatrice del progetto.

Slovenija je na področju raziskav, razvoja in tudi uporabe elektroporacije med vodilnimi v svetu in vse kaže, da bo tako tudi v prihodnje. S sredstvi Evropskega raziskovalnega sveta (ERC Starting Grant) bo doc. dr. Lea Rems iz Laboratorija za biokibernetiko na Fakulteti za elektrotehniko Univerze v Ljubljani raziskovala različne vidike uporabe elektroporacije za zdravljenje srčnih bolezni. Vsako živo celico ščiti membrana in prek membrane poteka ves transport snovi v celico in iz nje. Kar precej pa je tudi snovi, ki v celico ne pridejo zlahka ali pa sploh ne. Elektroporacija je metoda, ki z uporabo kratkih, visokonapetostnih pulzov začasno poveča prepustnost membrane ali pa jo povsem uniči. Elektroporacija se že nekaj časa uporablja pri zdravljenju določenih oblik raka, uspehi se kažejo pri zdravljenju srčnih aritmij, veliko obeta tudi na področju genskih terapij.

Innovation technologique Liliane Bettencourt (2022-2023) - Lydéric BocquetCollège de FranceAnnée 2022-2023Colloque - La nanofluidique à la croisée des chemins : Interfacial Water Dissociation through Proton Permeable ElectrodesGraphene is completely impermeable in the perpendicular direction to its basal plane to all gases – even for helium, the smallest – at ambient conditions. In this context, it was expected that graphene would be impermeable even to protons, nuclei of hydrogen atoms. Nevertheless, we demonstrated that the transport of thermal protons through defect-free graphene is fast and can be measured experimentally. Graphene is also an excellent in-plane electron conductor. These properties allow using it as a proton permeable electrode. This talk will outline our work investigating its proton permeability and impermeability to all other ions, including recent work in which we demonstrate that defects are not necessary for its proton permeability. The talk will then cover the use of graphene as a proton permeable electrode to study proton transport, including the observation of a giant sensitivity to light. Using this well characterised system, we then explore the interfacial dissociation reaction (H2O = H+ + OH-) and discuss the observation of the Wien effect in this reaction in dark conditions and under illumination.Marcelo Lozada-HidalgoMarcelo Lozada-Hidalgo is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at The University of Manchester. His research interests include ion transport in 2D systems, interfacial dissociation reactions and photo-accelerated ion transport. He has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2021), a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society (2020), a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Research Fellowship by the University of Manchester (2019), an Early Career Fellowship by The Leverhulme Trust (2016) and the Andre Geim scholarship for PhD studies' after winning a national competition in Mexico in 2012.

Alessandro (Ale) Rippa joins Juliet and Erik on the podcast to talk about how he uses China's borderlands as a starting point to understand the Chinese state, global engagements like the Belt and Road Initiative, and Chinese development. They discuss Ale's experiences working in China's border regions in Xinjiang and Yunnan, how borders are zones of connection and disconnection, China's historical support for the Communist Party of Burma, and much more. Alessandro Rippa is associate professor at the University of Oslo's Department of Social Anthropology. His research centers on China's borderlands as lenses for studying infrastructure, global circulations, and the environment. He is PI of a new ERC Starting Grant project entitled, "Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene". Featured work: "Imagined borderlands: Terrain, technology and trade in the making and managing of the China-Myanmar border." 2022. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography ."Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China." Recommendations:Ale:Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia edited by Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky (2023)Keep an eye out for the upcoming special issue of The China Quarterly on Chinese infrastructureErik:Scribd.com for eBooks and audiobooksWordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell (2020)Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell (2021)Juliet:Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China's Rise by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri (2021)Sinica Podcast: Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews

Søren Thorgaard Skou (PT, MSc, PhD) has vast experience within the field of osteoarthritis and other chronic conditions and has been the principal investigator of several high-quality randomized controlled trials on surgical and non-surgical treatment, one of which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor of 79.26), the highest ranked of all general medical journals. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a randomized, controlled trial of meniscal surgery vs. exercise therapy and education for young people with a meniscal tear (DREAM) and a 5-year EU-funded project (MOBILIZE, grant agreement No 801790) with the overall aim of improving health in people with more than one chronic condition (i.e. multimorbidity) through personalized exercise therapy and education. Furthermore, he is the co-lead of Exercise First, a research program funded by Region Zealand aimed at developing, testing and implementing initaitives that support that the individual patient received the right prevention and treatment at the right time and to increase self-management using e-health.  He is one of the main architects and leader of the implementation of the highly successful treatment program Good Life With osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) for patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis. Furthermore, he is a recipient of a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council, and a postdoc grant and a Sapere Aude Research Talent Award from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.  --- Follow Professor Søren Skou on Twitter https://twitter.com/STSkou He is affiliated with both University of Southern Denmark and the research unit PROgrez at Slagelse Hospital, Denmark (@PROgrezDK) _____________________ This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | Better Sleep, Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Research with Less Hassle --- Learn more about Fibion Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Solutions: https://sleepmeasurements.fibion.com/ --- Collect, store and manage SB and PA data easily and remotely - Discover ground-breaking Fibion SENS: https://sens.fibion.com/ --- SB and PA measurements, analysis, and feedback made easy.  Learn more about Fibion Research : fibion.com/research --- Fibion Kids - Activity tracking designed for children. https://fibionkids.fibion.com/ --- Collect self-report physical activity data easily and cost-effectively https://mimove.fibion.com/ --- Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/PA_Researcher Follow host Dr Olli Tikkanen on Twitter https://twitter.com/ollitikkanen Follow Fibion on Twitter https://twitter.com/fibion https://www.youtube.com/@PA_Researcher

Søren Thorgaard Skou (PT, MSc, PhD) has vast experience within the field of osteoarthritis and other chronic conditions and has been the principal investigator of several high-quality randomized controlled trials on surgical and non-surgical treatment, one of which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor of 79.26), the highest ranked of all general medical journals. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a randomized, controlled trial of meniscal surgery vs. exercise therapy and education for young people with a meniscal tear (DREAM) and a 5-year EU-funded project (MOBILIZE, grant agreement No 801790) with the overall aim of improving health in people with more than one chronic condition (i.e. multimorbidity) through personalized exercise therapy and education. Furthermore, he is the co-lead of Exercise First, a research program funded by Region Zealand aimed at developing, testing and implementing initaitives that support that the individual patient received the right prevention and treatment at the right time and to increase self-management using e-health.  He is one of the main architects and leader of the implementation of the highly successful treatment program Good Life With osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) for patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis. Furthermore, he is a recipient of a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council, and a postdoc grant and a Sapere Aude Research Talent Award from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.  --- Follow Professor Søren Skou on Twitter https://twitter.com/STSkou He is affiliated with both University of Southern Denmark and the research unit PROgrez at Slagelse Hospital, Denmark (@PROgrezDK) _____________________ This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | Better Sleep, Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Research with Less Hassle --- Learn more about Fibion Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Solutions: https://sleepmeasurements.fibion.com/ --- Collect, store and manage SB and PA data easily and remotely - Discover ground-breaking Fibion SENS: https://sens.fibion.com/ --- SB and PA measurements, analysis, and feedback made easy.  Learn more about Fibion Research : fibion.com/research --- Fibion Kids - Activity tracking designed for children. https://fibionkids.fibion.com/ --- Collect self-report physical activity data easily and cost-effectively https://mimove.fibion.com/ --- Follow the podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/PA_Researcher Follow host Dr Olli Tikkanen on Twitter https://twitter.com/ollitikkanen Follow Fibion on Twitter https://twitter.com/fibion https://www.youtube.com/@PA_Researcher

Per la prima volta è stato mostrato come sia possibile, partendo dagli stessi ingredienti iniziali, ottenere composti chimici diversi solo cambiato il colore della luce utilizzata per attivare la reazione. Il lavoro, svolto da ricercatori dell'Università di Padova, è legato a un ERC Starting Grant recentemente assegnato dall'Unione Europea.Ospite Luca Dell'Amico, Prof. Università di Padova.

Our guest this episode is dr. Robert Prey, Assistant Professor of Media Studies. Last month, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Wim and Tina interview him on what the ERC grant means for him and the research it will allow him to conduct on the influence of streaming and social media platforms on musicians, the music industry specifically and our culture in general. Guest: Robert Prey Hosts: Wim Brons and Tina Kretschmer "Language Buddies" project  Team Science Award for research group Katja Loos  HyBRit research group Contact us at podcast@rug.nl

Wednesday's show is dedicated to women in science. Two interesting women in particular. Last week, the European Research Council published the names of successful applicants for the prestigious scientific grant within the ERC Starting Grant scheme. One of the awarded scientists comes from the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The social anthropologist Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, who studies conspiracy theories. On the show today, we will speak to her about conspiracy theories linked to vaccination. But before that, we will hear from Prof. Ružena Bajcsy, an engineer and computer scientist who specializes in robotics. Recently, she was awarded the highest state decoration, the Order of the White Double Cross, Second Class, for extraordinary spreading of the good name of the Slovak Republic abroad.

Wednesday's show is dedicated to women in science. Two interesting women in particular. Last week, the European Research Council published the names of successful applicants for the prestigious scientific grant within the ERC Starting Grant scheme. One of the awarded scientists comes from the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The social anthropologist Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, who studies conspiracy theories. On the show today, we will speak to her about conspiracy theories linked to vaccination. But before that, we will hear from Prof. Ružena Bajcsy, an engineer and computer scientist who specializes in robotics. Recently, she was awarded the highest state decoration, the Order of the White Double Cross, Second Class, for extraordinary spreading of the good name of the Slovak Republic abroad.

Slovenska raziskovalka prejela sredstva Evropskega raziskovalnega sklada, da nenavadne simetrije iz področja čiste teorije pripelje v domet praktične zaznave. Kaj ima skupnega topla greda z eksotičnimi pojavi kvantnega sveta? Na prvi pogled prav nič. A morda ponuja priročna vrtna konstrukcija za gojenje zelenjave odlično analogijo, ključ do rešitve nekaterih osupljivih ugank, ki jih pred znanost postavljajo neravnovesni kvantni sistemi s simetrijami.Nenavadne simetrije so namreč danes stvar čiste teorije, abstraktnih matematičnih modelov, v naravi pa jih ne moremo zaznati, prav tako tudi ne z eksperimenti v laboratoriju. A če bi našli način, kako bi lahko to, kar predpostavlja teorija, zaznali v realnosti, bi to prineslo revolucionarne spremembe na številnih področjih; od superprevodnikov do kvantnih simulatorjev. Z inovativnim načrtom, kako bi se tega problema lotili, je dr. Zala Lenarčič prepričala Evropski raziskovalni svet in pridobila sredstva za raziskovalce na začetku raziskovalne kariere, t. i. ERC Starting Grant v višini 1,5 milijona evrov za petletni projekt z naslovom Šibko vzbujane kvantne simetrije. Dr. Zala Lenarčič z Odseka za teoretično fiziko Instituta Jožef Stefan in vodja skupine za Kvantne sisteme izven ravnovesja je bila tudi gostja oddaje Podobe znanja.

Dans ce seizième épisode, mon invitée est Professeure Sophie Opfergelt. Elle m'a emmené dans le grand nord à la découverte du permafrost. Nous avons parlé de notre budget CO2 et de l'impact du permafrost sur celui-ci. Pas de bonnes nouvelles en perspective. Sophie Opfergelt a une license en géologie de la faculté des sciences à l'UCLouvain. Elle a ensuite travaillé en exploitation minière et a enchainé avec une thèse de doctorat en tant qu'aspirante du FNRS mais cette fois en faculté de bioingéniérie. Elle a fait un postdoc à oxford en science de la terre. Depuis 2014, elle est chercheure qualifiée du FNRS et elle a récemment obtenu un financement prestigieux: une ERC Starting Grant pour le projet WeThaw dont on parle dans le podcast. URL vers les notes: https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/prof-sophie-opfergelt-138736/   Inscrivez-vous pour les dernières updates du podcast exergie: http://eepurl.com/hVeLPz This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

- To projekt typu high-risk/high-gain – podkreśla dr Dorota Skowron z Obserwatorium Astronomicznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Mowa o pomyśle, na który otrzymała prestiżowy ERC Starting Grant. To grant przyznawany właśnie na projekty wysokiego ryzyka, a jednocześnie szalenie obiecujące. – Jeśli się uda, uzyskamy nowe narzędzie do odkrywania planet i to będzie rewolucja. Ale jest też duża szansa, że obserwacje bądź obliczenia wykażą, że nie mamy racji – wyjaśnia dr Skowron. Hipoteza zakłada, że gwiazdy zwane LSP (ang. long secondary periods) to w istocie układy podwójne. Jednym obiektem miałaby być zawansowana ewolucyjnie gwiazda, już „puchnąca” i w związku ze zmniejszoną grawitacją na powierzchni, emitująca dużo wiatru gwiazdowego. Drugim obiektem byłby brązowy karzeł – dawna planeta, która urosła zbierając na siebie materię „wywiewaną” z gwiazdy. Jeśli założenia się potwierdzą, astronomowie zyskaliby nowe informacje uzupełniające naszą wiedzę o formowaniu się planet. I znacząco powiększyłby się obszar odkrywania egzoplanet. Jak mówi dr Skowron, obecne metody pozwalają na poszukiwania wyłącznie we względnym pobliżu Ziemi.Bo trzeba wiedzieć, że wykrycie planety pozasłonecznej jest bardzo trudne i w zasadzie nie obserwuje się ich bezpośrednio. - Zazwyczaj planetę obserwujemy jako jakieś odstępstwo od światła, które do nas dochodzi od gwiazdy – wyjaśnia astronomka.W podcaście rozmawiamy o wielu sprawach. O rozmiarach i wieku Drogi Mlecznej, o tym, jak mierzy się odległości we Wszechświecie (kluczowa sprawa!), o tym, że astronomowie planety odkrywają patrząc nie w niebo, tylko na ekrany komputerów oraz o tym, czy dr Skowron wierzy w istnienie życia pozaziemskiego.

01 December 2021 This lecture revisits the notion of “unfree labour” through the study of refugee workers in Middle Eastern agriculture. It presents findings from the Refugee Labour under Lockdown project, drawing on interviews with 80 Syrian agricultural workers, 20 intermediaries, and 20 employers in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The International Labour Organisation's definition of “forced labour” does not capture Syrians' experience of “unfreedom” - born out of the interplay of neoliberal businesses, with their need for cheap, mobile labour, and restrictive asylum policies in Middle Eastern host countries - which produce these workers. Through an anthropological lens, we see that refugees are recruited into global supply chains through kinship networks. This lecture will be given by Ann-Christin Zuntz (University of Edinburgh) followed by discussion with Neil Howard (University of Bath) who will contribute a comparative perspective on the role of refugee and migrant labour in increasingly globalised agricultural production. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ About the speakers: Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz is a lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. She is an economic anthropologist, with a focus on the intersections of labour and forced migrations, and gender, in the Mediterranean. Since 2015, Ann has conducted fieldwork with displaced Syrians in Jordan, Turkey, Tunisia, and Bulgaria, and, remotely, in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. She does collaborative research with Syrian academics within the One Health FIELD Network. Ann is currently a visiting fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) in Tunis, researching displacement trajectories and social networks of Syrian refugees in North Africa. Dr Neil Howard is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath. His research focuses on the governance of exploitative and so-called 'unfree' labour and in particular the various forms of it targeted for eradication by the Sustainable Development Goals. He conducts ethnographic and participatory action research with people defined as victims of trafficking, slavery, child labour and forced labour, and political anthropological research on the institutions that seek to protect them. He currently leads an ERC Starting Grant that aims to trial both action research and unconditional cash transfers as potential policy responses to indecent or exploitative work in Hyderabad, India. Neil founded and is one of the editors of the Beyond Trafficking and Slavery section at openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery), which aims to put radical and grassroots commentary on ‘unfree' or exploitative work and movement into the public domain.

En las células, la transmisión de la información genética no se da de manera continua, sino de manera “estocástica” o aleatoria, por intermitencias. Este fenómeno, conocido como "ruido celular o de expresión", desempeña un papel fundamental en muchos procesos biológicos. Investigadores del IGMM, el Instituto de Genética Molecular de Montpellier, al sur de Francia, buscaron conocer mejor este mecanismo gracias al estudio de embriones de la mosca Drosophila. Las imágenes obtenidas son fascinantes. El ruido celular está implicado en muchos procesos biológicos, por ejemplo, en el rebote de la carga viral al interrumpirse la triterapia contra el VIH, pero también en el desarrollo embrionario. Un equipo de investigadores del Instituto de Genética Molecular de Montpellier, el IGMM, al sur de Francia, quiso comprender mejor algunos aspectos de este ruido celular. Los resultados fueron publicados en dos artículos, uno más centrado en la biología y el otro en modelos matemáticos, en la revista Nature Communications. Las investigaciones fueron hechas por un equipo transversal, entre biólogos, matemáticos y físicos. El italiano Antonio Trullo es analista de imágenes y forma parte del equipo del laboratorio dirigido por la bióloga Mounia Lagha del IGMM. Antonio Trullo conversó con RFI sobre estas investigaciones. Escuche aquí la entrevista en su formato largo:     Los investigadores observaron al microscopio y captaron en imágenes las primeras horas del desarrollo de un embrión de la mosca Drosophila Melanogaster (embriogénesis). Las imágenes son muy gráficas y parecieran muchos puntos que se mueven y se dividen a su ritmo, casi como un ballet. Los pequeños puntos amarillos son los genes al activarse. Dos modelos para un mecanismo Lo novedoso de esta investigación es que, para comprender mejor este fenómeno aleatorio de expresión genética, se basaron en dos modelos, uno usando un etiquetado fluorescente del ARN mensajero implementado por la bióloga Virginia Pimmet y otro basándose en modelos matemáticos, gracias a la colaboración del equipo del matemático Ovidiu Radulescu de la Universidad de Montpellier. En particular, los científicos se interesaron por el proceso de "pausa" de la transcripción genética, que corresponde a una pausa temporal del ARN polimerasa II, mejor conocido como ARN Pol II, una enzima que asegura la transcripción de los genes, y en particular estudiaron el llamado promotor, una parte del ARN responsable de iniciar o “empujar” la transcripción de un gen. Los investigadores demostraron que "la modulación del ruido de expresión en las células infectados por el VIH y en los embriones de Drosophila utiliza un mecanismo común la llamada “pausa proximal” en el promotor del ARN Pol II." Sobre el laboratorio de Mounia Lagha En este laboratorio dirigido por la bióloga Mounia Lagha (medalla de bronce CNRS 2017), se estudian los mecanismos que regulan la expresión de los genes implicados en el desarrollo embrionario, en concreto, el desarrollo temprano de la mosca Drosophila, en las primeras 4 horas de embriogénesis. Mounia Lagha, ingeniera agrónoma y formada en biología del desarrollo, realizó su doctorado sobre la formación del tejido muscular en el embrión de ratón en el Instituto Pasteur. Para desarrollar enfoques mecanicistas, la joven bióloga cambió de organismo modelo durante su formación posdoctoral: se incorporó a la Universidad de Berkeley en 2010 para trabajar en el embrión de la mosca de la fruta Drosophila, interesándose en el proceso de "pausa" de la transcripción, que corresponde a una detención temporal de la polimerasa, la enzima que asegura la transcripción de los genes. Desde su contratación en el CNRS en 2014, año en que recibió el Premio Paoletti, ha continuado su trabajo en el Instituto de Genética Molecular de Montpellier. Un ambicioso proyecto de investigación, apoyado por una beca del ERC Starting Grant del Consejo Europeo de Investigación y llevado a cabo por jóvenes científicos de diferentes disciplinas. Entrevistado: el físico Antonio Trullo, analista de imágenes del laboratorio de Mounia Lagha, del Institute de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM) del CNRS. Otros temas que le pueden interesar: Descubren nuevo componente de la sangre: las mitocondrias Científicos descubren nuevo hallazgo sobre cómo se afianzan nuestros recuerdos

Season five of our podcast continues with another presentation from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology' Online. This episode features Juan Toro, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. Toro's co-authors are Erik Rietveld, Amsterdam University Medical Center; Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede; Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam; and Julian Kiverstein, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition; Amsterdam University Medical Center.   ABSTRACT: In the last 50 years, discussions of how to understand disability have been dominated by the medical and social models. According to the medical model, disability can be understood in terms of functional limitations of a disabled person's body caused by a pathological condition, to be treated and cured through rehabilitation or normalization. In contrast, the social model claims that disability is not an individual physical condition, but is rather the outcome of oppressive conditions imposed by society on physically impaired people. Paradoxically, both models overlook the disabled person's experience of the lived body, thus reducing the body of the disabled person to a physiological body. Based on a co-authored paper (by Juan Toro, Julian Kiverstein, and Erik Rietveld [‘The Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability: Why Disability Does Not Entail Pathological Embodiment']) I introduce the Ecological-Enactive (EE) model of disability. The EE-model combines ideas from phenomenology, enactive cognitive science and ecological psychology with the aim of doing justice simultaneously to the lived experience of being disabled, and the physiological dimensions of disability. More specifically, we put the EE model to work to disentangle the concepts of disability and pathology. From an ecological-enactive perspective, we locate the difference between pathological and normal forms of embodiment in the person's capacity to adapt to changes in the environment by establishing and following new norms. From a phenomenological perspective, we distinguish normal and pathological embodiment of disabled people in terms of the structure of the experience of I-can and I cannot. The I-cannot experienced by the non-pathologically disabled person can be understood as a local I-cannot, with a background of I-can: I-can do it in a different way, I-can ask for help, etc. This contrasts with the experience of I-cannot of the pathologically embodied person, which deeply pervades their being-in-the-world. To ensure that the discussion remains in contact with lived experience, we draw upon phenomenological interviews we have carried out with people with Cerebral Palsy. BIOS:    Juan Toro: I'm a PhD student at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, and a researcher at the Enactlab – an interdisciplinary team of researchers, artists, journalists and practitioners working on solutions for complex problems faced by minorities in society. In my research, I combine an empirical approach to physical disabilities – focusing on cerebral palsy – with insights from phenomenology, 4E cognition and ecological psychology.   Prof. dr. Erik Rietveld is Socrates Professor, Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam (AMC/Department of Philosophy/ILLC/Brain & Cognition) and a Founding Partner of RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances]. In 2013 his research project on skilled action titled “The Landscape of Affordances: Situating the Embodied Mind” was awarded with a NWO VIDI-grant for the development of his research group on skilled intentionality & situated expertise. Recently he received an ERC Starting Grant for a new philosophical project titled “Skilled Intentionality for ‘Higher' Embodied Cognition: Joining Forces with a Field of Affordances in Flux”. His work as a Socrates Professor at the University of Twente focuses on humane technology: the philosophy of making and societal embedding of technology in the humanist tradition.   Julian Kiverstein is Assistant Professor of Neurophilosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently writing a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan entitled The Significance of Phenomenology. He edited a comprehensive handbook for Routledge Taylor Francis on the philosophy of the social mind. He is associate editor of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and was until recently Book Review Editor for the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Before his appointment at Amsterdam in 2011, Kiverstein was teaching fellow at Edinburgh University, where he played a lead role in developing and designing the Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition Masters Programme, of which he also became director.   This recording is taken from the BSP Annual Conference 2020 Online: 'Engaged Phenomenology'. Organised with the University of Exeter and sponsored by Egenis and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. BSP2020AC was held online this year due to global concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic. For the conference our speakers recorded videos, our keynotes presented live over Zoom, and we also recorded some interviews online as well. Podcast episodes from BSP2020AC are soundtracks of those videos where we and the presenters feel the audio works as a standalone: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-annual-conference-2020/   You can check out our forthcoming events here: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/events/   The British Society for Phenomenology is a not-for-profit organisation set up with the intention of promoting research and awareness in the field of Phenomenology and other cognate arms of philosophical thought. Currently, the society accomplishes these aims through its journal, events, and podcast. Why not find out more, join the society, and subscribe to our journal the JBSP? https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/  

Milan is a city that is synonymous with industry, as well as with style. In this episode, moderated by Dean Vuletic (RECET), we take a tour of Milan with Prof. Anne-Marie Jeannet as we discuss her research on de-industrializing societies and the political consequences. From the glamorous square of the city centre to the industrial chic of other neighbourhoods, Prof. Jeannet explains how Milan has been transformed by de-industrialization, while still remaining an industrial powerhouse. Anne-Marie Jeannet is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan. She studies how changes in the social structure, such as deindustrialization or immigration, alter political life. She is the principal investigator of "Deindustrializing Societies and the Political Consequences" (DESPO), a project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2020-2025).

Enrica De Cian è professoressa associata in economia ambientale presso l'università Ca' Foscari di Venezia e senior scientist presso la Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), e ha collaborato con diversi centri di ricerca in Europa (CEPS, ZEW) e negli Stati Uniti (Joint Program at MIT, Boston University). E' principal investigator di un progetto ERC Starting Grant, ENERGYA – Energy use for Adaptation, che studia l'adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici attraverso l'utilizzo dell'energia. Attualmente a Ca' Foscari coordina il Master e il Dottorato in Science and Management of Climate Change.

Stefano Bonetti è professore associato di fisica della materia sperimentale presso l'università Ca' Foscari di Venezia e presso la Stockholm University (Svezia). È stato postdoctoral fellow alla Stanford University dove ha partecipato a tavole rotonde sulla Green Technology con Prof. Steven Chu, premio Nobel e segretario all'energia della prima amministrazione Obama. È principal investigator di un progetto ERC Starting Grant, MAGNETIC-SPEED-LIMIT, con lo scopo di investigare materiali magnetici per l'informazione digitale ad altissima densità e velocità, e a basso consumo energetico. È inoltre Wallenberg Academy Fellow dell'Accademia Reale Svedese delle Scienze, con un progetto sui materiali quantistici. A Ca' Foscari coordina la Laurea Triennale in Ingegneria Fisica.

Valentina Bosetti è professoressa ordinaria di Economia Ambientale e Economia dei Cambiamenti Climatici, presso il dipartimento di Economia della Università Bocconi. È' senior scientist presso Resources for the Future CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. E' stata Lead Author del Quinto Rapporto del Gruppo intergovernativo sul cambiamento climatico (2014) e lo sarà anche del Sesto Rapporto ora in corso di definizione.E' stata principal investigator di un ERC Starting Grant su Innovazione e tecnologie pulite (ICARUS) e un secondo ERC Starting Grant su Incertezza e Cambiamenti Climatici (RISICO).È attualmente Presidente di Terna S.p.A.

Intriguing discussion with Christos Bergeles, the head of Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab. It was enjoyable to discuss diverse thoughts, challenges, and limitations of Image-guided micro-surgical. I hope you find the episode informative. The Bio: Christos Bergeles received the Ph.D. degree in Robotics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, and the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College, United Kingdom. He was an Assistant Professor at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (which he co-founded) at University College London. He is now a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at King's College London, leading the Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab. Dr. Bergeles received the Fight for Sight Award in 2014, and the ERC Starting Grant in 2016. His main research area is image-guided micro-surgical robotics.

Enrica De Cian è professoressa associata in economia ambientale presso l'università Ca' Foscari di Venezia e senior scientist presso la Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), e ha collaborato con diversi centri di ricerca in Europa (CEPS, ZEW) e negli Stati Uniti (Joint Program at MIT, Boston University) . E' principal investigator di un progetto ERC Starting Grant, ENERGYA – Energy use for Adaptation, che studia l'adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici attraverso l'utilizzo dell'energia. Attualmente a Ca' Foscari coordina il Master in Science and Management of Climate Change.

Sončne energije je v izobilju, potrebno jo je le učinkovito shraniti. Vodikove tehnologije tu ponujajo prepričljiv odgovor in nekega dne si bomo morda namesto bencina v avto natočili vodik. Toda pred tem bodo seveda potrebna vlaganja v ustrezno infrastrukturo. In medtem ko čakamo na zeleni preobrat, znanstveniki raziskujejo naprej. Dr. Nejc Hodnik s Kemijskega inštituta je s svojim projektom 123stable prepričal Evropski raziskovalni svet in pridobil sredstva (t. i. ERC Starting Grant), s katerimi bo iskal načine, kako stabilizirati nanodelce elektrokatalizatorjev in tako zmanjšati porabo ključnih plemenitih kovin, platine in iridija. O zelenih tehnologijah je pač potrebno razmišljati celostno in poskrbeti, da je celoten krog kar najbolj trajnostno zastavljen. Na tem področju je dr. Hodniku že pred nekaj leti uspel pomemben preboj, ko je odkril način, kako je mogoče plementite kovine reciklirati z mnogo manj škode za okolje. Trenutno uveljavljeni postopki namreč zahtevajo veliko porabo energije in vrsto agresivnih snovi.

Danes 20 odstotkov proizvedene elektrike porabimo za hlajenje in že čez dve desetletji bo hlajenje v porabi energije prehitelo ogrevanje. Pri tem pa je hladilna tehnologija, ki hladi naša stanovanja in hrano, stara že več kot stoletje in temelji na hladilnih sredstvih, ki imajo več tisočkrat močnejši toplogredni učinek kot ogljikov dioksid. Iskanje alternativ je zato postalo prioriteta tega področja. Izreden potencial kaže t.i. elastokalorična tehnologija hlajenja, kjer izredne rezultate dosega dr. Jaka Tušek, docent na Fakulteti za strojništvo Univerze v Ljubljani, v Laboratoriju za hlajenje in daljinsko energetiko. S svojim projektom Supercool je prepričal tudi Evropski raziskovalni svet in prejel ERC Starting Grant, 1,4 milijona evrov sredstev za razvoj hladilne tehnologije, ki temelji na posebnih materialih z oblikovnim spominom. Oddajo je pripravila Nina Slaček.

This is one of two conversations which Gudrun Thäter recorded alongside the conference Women in PDEs which took place at our faculty in Karlsruhe on 27-28 April 2017. Marie Elisabeth Rognes was one of the seven invited speakers. Marie is Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian research laboratory Simula near Oslo. She is Head of department for Biomedical Computing there. Marie got her university education with a focus on Applied Mathematics, Mechanics and Numerical Physics as well as her PhD in Applied mathematics at the Centre for Mathematics for Applications in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo. Her work is devoted to providing robust methods to solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) for diverse applications. On the one hand this means that from the mathematical side she works on numerical analysis, optimal control, robust Finite Element software as well as Uncertainty quantification while on the other hand she is very much interested in the modeling with the help of PDEs and in particular Mathematical models of physiological processes. These models are useful to answer What if type-questions much more easily than with the help of laboratory experiments. In our conversation we discussed one of the many applications - Cerebral fluid flow, i.e. fluid flow in the context of the human brain. Medical doctors and biologists know that the soft matter cells of the human brain are filled with fluid. Also the space between the cells contains the water-like cerebrospinal fluid. It provides a bath for human brain. The brain expands and contracts with each heartbeat and appoximately 1 ml of fluid is interchanged between brain and spinal area. What the specialists do not know is: Is there a circulation of fluid? This is especially interesting since there is no traditional lymphatic system to transport away the biological waste of the brain (this process is at work everywhere else in our body). So how does the brain get rid of its litter? There are several hyotheses: Diffusion processes, Fast flow (and transport) along the space near blood vessel, Convection. The aim of Marie's work is to numerically test these (and other) hypotheses. Basic testing starts on very idalised geometries. For the overall picture one useful simplified geometry is the annulus i.e. a region bounded by two concentric circles. For the microlevel-look a small cube can be the chosen geometry. As material law the flow in a porous medium which is based on Darcy flow is the starting point - maybe taking into account the coupling with an elastic behaviour on the boundary. The difficult non-mathematical questions which have to be answered are: How to use clinical data for estabilishing and testing models How to prescribe the forces In the near future she hopes to better understand the multiscale character of the processes. Here especially for embedding 1d- into 3d-geometry there is almost no theory available. For the project Marie has been awarded a FRIPRO Young Research Talents Grant of the Research Council of Norway (3 years - starting April 2016) and the very prestegious ERC Starting Grant (5 years starting - 2017). References M.E. Rognes: Mathematics that cures us.TEDxOslo 3 May 2017 Young academy of Norway ERC Starting Grant: Mathematical and computational foundations for modeling cerebral fluid flow 5 years P.E. Farrell e.a.: Dolfin adjoint (Open source software project) FEniCS computing platform for PDEs (Open source software project) Wikipedia on FEniCS Collection of relevant literature implemented in FEniCS

This is one of two conversations which Gudrun Thäter recorded alongside the conference Women in PDEs which took place at our faculty in Karlsruhe on 27-28 April 2017. Marie Elisabeth Rognes was one of the seven invited speakers. Marie is Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian research laboratory Simula near Oslo. She is Head of department for Biomedical Computing there. Marie got her university education with a focus on Applied Mathematics, Mechanics and Numerical Physics as well as her PhD in Applied mathematics at the Centre for Mathematics for Applications in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo. Her work is devoted to providing robust methods to solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) for diverse applications. On the one hand this means that from the mathematical side she works on numerical analysis, optimal control, robust Finite Element software as well as Uncertainty quantification while on the other hand she is very much interested in the modeling with the help of PDEs and in particular Mathematical models of physiological processes. These models are useful to answer What if type-questions much more easily than with the help of laboratory experiments. In our conversation we discussed one of the many applications - Cerebral fluid flow, i.e. fluid flow in the context of the human brain. Medical doctors and biologists know that the soft matter cells of the human brain are filled with fluid. Also the space between the cells contains the water-like cerebrospinal fluid. It provides a bath for human brain. The brain expands and contracts with each heartbeat and appoximately 1 ml of fluid is interchanged between brain and spinal area. What the specialists do not know is: Is there a circulation of fluid? This is especially interesting since there is no traditional lymphatic system to transport away the biological waste of the brain (this process is at work everywhere else in our body). So how does the brain get rid of its litter? There are several hyotheses: Diffusion processes, Fast flow (and transport) along the space near blood vessel, Convection. The aim of Marie's work is to numerically test these (and other) hypotheses. Basic testing starts on very idalised geometries. For the overall picture one useful simplified geometry is the annulus i.e. a region bounded by two concentric circles. For the microlevel-look a small cube can be the chosen geometry. As material law the flow in a porous medium which is based on Darcy flow is the starting point - maybe taking into account the coupling with an elastic behaviour on the boundary. The difficult non-mathematical questions which have to be answered are: How to use clinical data for estabilishing and testing models How to prescribe the forces In the near future she hopes to better understand the multiscale character of the processes. Here especially for embedding 1d- into 3d-geometry there is almost no theory available. For the project Marie has been awarded a FRIPRO Young Research Talents Grant of the Research Council of Norway (3 years - starting April 2016) and the very prestegious ERC Starting Grant (5 years starting - 2017). References M.E. Rognes: Mathematics that cures us.TEDxOslo 3 May 2017 Young academy of Norway ERC Starting Grant: Mathematical and computational foundations for modeling cerebral fluid flow 5 years P.E. Farrell e.a.: Dolfin adjoint (Open source software project) FEniCS computing platform for PDEs (Open source software project) Wikipedia on FEniCS Collection of relevant literature implemented in FEniCS