SNSF Project Funding: Grant recipients announced

The SNSF awarded 30’633’920 francs to the EPFL projects. 24 of the approved projects are in mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences (MINT), 10 in the life sciences and 1 in the social sciences and humanities. The share of the EPFL awarded grant per discipline is the following:

The SNSF provides project funding to enable qualified researchers to conduct research projects on self-chosen topics and with self-chosen goals independently and under their own responsibility. Through project funding, it aims to award researchers a basic grant that is appropriate for the planned research. In particular, researchers can apply for coverage of research costs and staff salaries as well as for the funding of scientific cooperation, networking and communication.

The SNSF Scientific Board approved the following EPFL affiliated projects:

• Physics of point defects in III-nitride semiconductors: single photon emitters and nonradiative centers

Responsible applicant: Prof. Nicolas Grandjean (LASPE)

• Molecular mechanisms of persistence, lineage plasticity and AR-dependence in prostate cancer

Responsible applicant: Prof. Wouter Richard Karthaus (UPKARTHAUS)

• Layers of immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response

Responsible applicant: Prof. Bruno Lemaitre (Lemaitre Lab)

• Mechanisms through which noninvasive spinal cord stimulation improves walking and reaching after spinal cord injury

Responsible applicant: Prof. Grégoire Courtine (UPCOURTINE)

• Broker-accelerated Cryptocurrencies

Responsible applicant: Prof. Rachid Guerraoui (LPD)

• Dissipative state engineering and critical phenomena for quantum technologies

Responsible applicant: Prof. Vincenzo Savona (LTPN)

• Regulation of telomere structure and function by TERRA long noncoding RNAs

Responsible applicant: Prof. Joachim Lingner (UPLIN)

• High Precision Flavour Physics at LHCb

Responsible applicant: Prof. Olivier Schneider (LPHE-OS)

• Lipidomics:the new tool in understanding the response of airborne biological particles in a changing atmosphere (LIPIC-AIR)

Responsible applicant: Dr. Kalliopi Violaki (LAPI)

• Strategies to find the optimal sorbent material and process conditions for direct air capture

Responsible applicant: Prof. Berend Smit (LSMO)

• Distant listening: Transitions of Tonality

Responsible applicant: Prof. Martin Rohrmeier (DCML)

• Interfacing Neural and Symbolic Knowledge in Natural Language Systems

Responsible applicant: Prof. Antoine Bosselut (NLP)

• Sphere packing, Energy minimization and Fourier interpolation

Responsible applicant: Prof. Maryna Viazovska (TN)

• Inductive Low-Power Transfer with High Insulation Capabilities

Responsible applicant: Prof. Drazen Dujic (PEL)

• FLASh: Fast simulation tools for LAttice Structures

Responsible applicant: Dr. Pablo Antolin Sanchez (MNS)

• Fungal Factories for Next-Gen Sustainable Packaging Materials

Responsible applicant: Prof. Tiffany Abitbol (SML)

• Frequency conversion in engineered and optically controllable nonlinear Si-photonics microresonators

Responsible applicant: Prof. Camille-Sophie Brès (PHOSL)

• Building the foundations for synthetic cell engineering

Responsible applicant: Prof. Sebastian Josef Maerkl (LBNC)

• Machine Learning-Enhanced Strategic Synthesis Planning

Responsible applicant: Prof. Philippe Schwaller (LIAC)

• Spatial organization of the mitochondrial life cycle

Responsible applicant: Prof. Suliana Manley (LEB)

• Turbulence in wind farms: Towards improved understanding and modelling

Responsible applicant: Prof. Fernando Porté-Agel (WIRE)

• Trustworthy and Interpretable Atomistic Machine Learning

Responsible applicant: Prof. Michele Ceriotti (COSMO)

• Organic carbon metabolism in high-mountain stream networks C-NET_2

Responsible applicant: Prof. Tom Battin (SBER)

• Microbial diversity effects on environmental virus persistence

Responsible applicant: Prof. Tamar Kohn (LCE)

• First-principles models of precipitation in metallic alloys

Responsible applicant: Prof. Anirudh Raju Natarajan (MADES)

• Uncovering the mechanisms of pattern formation and collective dynamics in cilia arrays

Responsible applicant: Prof. Guillermina Ramirez-San-Juan (LPL)

• Large-Scale Influence of Small-Scale Snow Processes

Responsible applicant: Prof. Michael Lehning (CRYOS)

• Structure and Micromechanics of Oxide Inclusions in Ferrous Alloys

Responsible applicant: Prof. Andreas Mortensen (LMM)

• Understanding molecular principles of cGAS/STING regulation

Responsible applicant: Prof. Andrea Ablasser (Ablasser Lab – Innate Immunity)

• PDE tools for analysis-aware geometry processing in simulation science

Responsible applicant: Prof. Annalisa Buffa (MNS)

• Exciton transport and manipulation in 2D materials and heterostructures

Responsible applicant: Prof. Andras Kis (LANES)

• Molecular Optomechanical Transduction in Nanogaps

Responsible applicant: Prof. Christophe Galland (LQNO)

• Attacking Deep Networks to Better Understand Them

Responsible applicant: Dr. Mathieu Salzmann (CVLAB)

• Anthrax toxin receptors and related rare diseases: a study across scales

Responsible applicant: Prof. Gisou van der Goot (VDG)

• Genetic control of the NAFLD/NASH transition

Responsible applicant: Prof. Johan Auwerx (LISP)

Congratualtions to all the grant recipients.