The first Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships call published within the new Horizon Europe framework programme will fund 9 Sapienza projects, 3 in the Global category and 6 in the European category.

The total funding of €1,705,104.96 will enable the implementation of projects of excellence, the recruitment of talented researchers and the consolidation of important national and international partnerships.

The winning projects are:

• BEAMLOCKER - Beam self-cleaning for spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers

Yifan Sun

The BEAMLOCKER project, presented by Yfan Sun in collaboration with Stefan Wabnitz of the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, aims to study the dynamics of spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers with high-quality output beams through appropriate physical modelling.

• EpiPolyPharma - Development of dual-targeting epigenetic modulators for polypharmacology-based cancer therapy

Francesco Fiorentino

EpiPolyPharma, presented by Francesco Fiorentino in collaboration with Antonello Mai of the Department of Chemistry and Technology of Drugs, aims to develop innovative cancer therapies capable of targeting the epigenetic methylation and acetylation of machinery whose dysregulation is linked to tumorigenesis.

• LATILMA - Latin American Testimonies in Italy: A Living Library Between the Mediterranean and the Andes

Elena Ritondale

The LATILMA project, presented by Elena Ritondale together with Stefano Tedeschi of the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies and in collaboration with the Riva Aguero Institute in Peru, aims to study Latin American migration to Italy in the last thirty years from a gender perspective, focusing on women and LGBTQ people experiences.

• OPANDA - Opera Fandom in the Digital Age

Nicolò Palazzetti

Today, interactions between audiences and cinema take place significantly through online platforms and digital media. The OPANDA project, presented by Nicolò Palazzetti in collaboration with Emanuele Senici of the Department of History Anthropology Religions Arts and Performing Arts, studies the impact of these transformative technologies on opera fandom.

• P4SPACE – Development of Perovskite Photovoltaics for Space Environment

Narges Yaghoobi Nia

Le celle solari in perovskite (PSC) come una nota tecnologia emergente fotovoltaica a film sottile (PV) si stanno sviluppando rapidamente grazie alle loro versatili proprietà optoelettroniche.

• P4SPACE - Development of Perovskite Photovoltaics for Space Environment

Narges Yaghoobi Nia

Perovskite solar cells (PSC), a well-known emerging thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technology, are developing rapidly due to their versatile optoelectronic properties. The P4SPACE project aims to provide a sustainable photovoltaic technology for any present and future space environment application by developing and extending PSCs with high performance and durability in space environments.

• POSTURE - Posture and bodily movements in the Bible and biblical religions

Paola Mollo

POSTURE, presented by Paola Mollo together with Alberto Camplani of the Department of History Anthropology Religions Arts and Performing Arts and in collaboration with the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Vatican City, investigates, both from a linguistic and socio-anthropological point of view, the theme of attitudes, postures and body movements within one of the most important elements of cultural heritage, the Hebrew Bible.

• ROMAVANTGARDE - The Musical Avant-garde in Rome in the 1960s: Actors and Networks in Music History

Christophe Levaux

ROMAVANTGARDE, presented by Christophe Levaux in collaboration with Emanuele Senici of the Department of History Anthropology Religions Arts and Performing Arts, aims to unveil a particular phenomenon in the history of music: the energy of the avant-garde networks in Rome in the 1960s.

• SHEAR - the role of Stress History on the EARthquake potential of faults

Carolina Giorgetti

The SHEAR project, presented by Carolina Giorgetti under the supervision of Cristiano Collettini of the Department of Earth Sciences, aims to investigate the role of fault history on earthquake potential. The project will focus on laboratory experiments performed using a world-class deformation apparatus.

• VarCrysDef - Variational coarse-graining of lattice energies for crystal defects: Applications to partial dislocations and stacking faults

Annika Bach

The behaviour of liquid or plastic crystals is strongly influenced by the presence and interaction of material defects, which are a sort of local deviation from their typical crystalline order. VarCrysDef, presented by Annika Bach together with Adriana Garroni from the Department of Mathematics, aims to move rigorously and mathematically from the atomistic model to a continuum model capable of capturing the emergence of defects of different co-dimensions, such as partial dislocations and stacking faults in close crystal structures.

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