SNSF Project Funding: Spring 2023 grant recipients announced

SNSF Project Funding

The SNSF awarded CHF 25’015’330 to the EPFL projects submitted under the SNSF Project Funding Spring 2023 call for proposals. 21 of the approved projects are in mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences (MINT) and 10 in life sciences (LS). 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:

• The mechanobiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infections

Responsible applicant: Alexandre Persat (PERSATLAB)

• Engineering cell permeability using a virus-like model system

Responsible applicant: Angela Steinauer (LIBN)

• Behaviour of multi-leaf stone masonry walls under in-plane shear-compression loading

Responsible applicant: Katrin Beyer (EESD)

• Design strategies for stable catalysts in CO2 electroreduction

Responsible applicant: Raffaella Buonsanti (LNCE)

• 4-arms manipulation through supernumerary robotic manipulation: a study of multi-limb coordination

Responsible applicants: Aude Billard (LASA) & Bouri Mohamed (BIOROB)

• Molecular and functional characterization of anti-adipogenic stromal cell populations in mammalian adipose tissues

Responsible applicant: Bart Deplancke (UPDEPLA)

• Breaking of the vicious circle in cartilage degeneration as a new target to treat knee osteoarthritis

Responsible applicant: Dominique Pioletti (LBO)

• Probing and Understanding Nanobubbles on Nanostructures: Toward Systematic Nanoengineering of Boiling and Electrolysis Systems

Responsible applicant: Zhengmao Lu (ETA LAB)

• In vitro soft bioelectronics

Responsible applicant: Stéphanie P. Lacour (LSBI)

• Microfluidic silicon print head for multimaterial melt electro writing

Responsible applicant: Jürgen Brugger (LMIS)

• Neural network control with dissipativity and performance guarantees (NeCon)

Responsible applicant: Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate (IGM)

• Spline methods for the continuous/discrete processing of images

Responsible applicant: Michaël Unser (LIB)

• Uncover molecular mechanisms of Notch1-driven progressive and acute phase T-ALL

Responsible applicant: Freddy Radtke (UPGRA)

• Water-Ions-Macromolecules (W-I-M): Disentangling molecular interactions on multiple length scales to understand aqueous electrolyte solutions and how they interact with macromolecules

Responsible applicant: Sylvie Roke (LBP)

• Structural characterization of serum and mucosal antibody responses induced by enteroviruses

Responsible applicant: Aleksandar Antanasijevic (Antanasijevic Lab – Virology and Structural Immunology)

• Uncovering peptide-mediated chemokine receptor signal transduction mechanisms through deep-learning

Responsible applicant: Patrick Barth (BARTH LAB)

• Ynimines and Isocyanides: From Methodology Development to Natural Product Synthesis

Responsible applicant: Jieping Zhu (LSPN)

• A Hybrid Brain-Computer Interface for Restoring Communication in Paralyzed Patients

Responsible applicant: Mahsa Shoaran (INL)

• Advancing First-Principles Based Molecular Dynamics To the Next Level

Responsible applicant: Ursula Roethlisberger (BCH)

• Investigating the Role of Lipid Metabolism in Tissue Patterning

Responsible applicant: Giovanni D'Angelo (UPDANGELO)

• Cortical circuits for context-dependent sensorimotor transformation

Responsible applicants : Carl Petersen (LSENS) & Sylvain Crochet (LSENS)

• Fast forward and rewind: Identifying epigenetic clocks and reprogramming strategies in Alzheimer’s disease

Responsible applicant: Johannes Gräff (UPGRAEFF)

• Quantum machine learning for quantum process learning and dynamical simulation

Responsible applicant: Zoe Holmes (QIC)

• Reconfigurable Computing Devices for Task Level Parallelism

Responsible applicant: Paolo Ienne (LAP)

• 3D printable granular double network elastomers

Responsible applicant: Esther Amstad (SMAL)

• Traffic assignment problem in the era of service-based urban mobility

Responsible applicant: Kenan Zhang (HOMES)

• From the physiology of methanogens to a robust biological methanation process

Responsible applicant: Wenyu Gu (MICROBE)

• The dynamics of cavitation bubbles and their interaction with a tissue mimicking material

Responsible applicant: Mohamed Farhat (LMH)

• Kaon physics and DAQ with NA62

Responsible applicant: Radoslav Marchevski (LPHE)

• Algebraic Reasoning in Adaptive Verifiers

Responsible applicant: Viktor Kuncak (LARA)

• KRAB zinc finger proteins as cancer facilitators and therapeutic targets

Responsible applicant: Didier Trono (LVG)

The detailed list of EPFL grant recipients is available here. Congratulations to all the grantees.

Grants from the new SNSF / NSF Lead Agency program

We also want to extend a warm congratulations to the two EPFL applicants whose proposals to the new SNSF / NSF Lead Agency program were accepted for funding, namely:

• Crack path prediction and control in viscoelastic materials: in-silico to experiments with viscoelastic and tough hydrogels

EPFL applicant: John Kolinski (EMSI)

Partner applicant: Lihua Jin (UCLA)

• Lithium niobate based terahertz systems: fundamentals and applications

EPFL applicant: Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus (HYLAB)

Partner applicant: Marko Loncar (Harvard)