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The Excellent Science pillar aims to increase the EU’s global scientific competitiveness. It supports frontier research projects defined and driven by top researchers themselves through the European Research Council, funds fellowships for experienced researchers, doctoral training networks and exchanges for researchers through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and invests in world-class research infrastructures

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The translational roadmap of the gut models, focusing on gut-on-chip

Authors: Giulia Malaguarnera, Miriam Graute, Antoni Homs Corbera

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: James Hickman, Rosalba Parenti

Published: January 18, 2023
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KSEMAW: an open source software for the analysis of spectrophotometric, ellipsometric and photothermal deflection spectroscopy measurements

Authors: Marco Montecchi, Alberto Mittiga, Claudia Malerba, Francesca Menchini

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges

Peer reviewers: Lars Korte, Simone Zanotto

Published: January 4, 2023
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Investigating syntactic priming cumulative effects in MT-human interaction

Authors: Natália Resende

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Cândido Oliveira, Michael Carl

Published: December 13, 2023
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Affordable and effective optokinetic response methods to assess visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in larval to juvenile zebrafish

Authors: Alicia Gómez Sánchez, Yolanda Álvarez, Basilio Colligris, Breandán N. Kennedy

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Logan Ganzen, Ralph Nelson

Published: January 6, 2022
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Digital twins for managing railway maintenance and resilience

Authors: Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Jessada Sresakoolchai, Yi-hsuan Lin

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Yunlong Guo

Published: November 1, 2021
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Conditions of life and death at Panama Viejo: a bioarchaeological study of human skeletal remains (1519-1671)

Authors: Javier Rivera-Sandoval

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Carlos Serrano Sánchez, Valentina Giuffra

Published: August 4, 2021
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‘Care literacy’ in super aging Japan

Authors: Hiroko Costantini, Misato Nihei, Tomoyuki Ueno

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Iza Kavedzija, Leng Leng Thang

Published: July 27, 2021
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Automated identification of borrowings in multilingual wordlists

Authors: Johann-Mattis List, Robert Forkel

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Georgiy Starostin, John Nerbonne, Kenichi Okamoto, Pui Yiu Szeto

Published: March 23, 2022
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Safeguarding COVID-19 and cancer management: drug design and therapeutic approach

Authors: Nanasaheb Thorat, Sabrina Pricl, Abdul K. Parchur, Sandeep B. Somvanshi, Qifei Li, Sachin Umrao, Helen Townley

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), COST Actions

Peer reviewers: Nitesh Kumar, Takuro Niidome

Published: July 5, 2021
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Micromegas with GEM preamplification for enhanced energy threshold in low-background gaseous time projection chambers

Authors: Juan Francisco Castel Pablo, Susana Cebrián Guajardo, Theopisti Dafni, David Díez Ibáñez, Javier Galán Lacarra, Juan Antonio García Pascual, Álvaro Ezquerro Sastre, Igor García Irastorza, Gloria Luzón Marco, Cristina Margalejo Blasco, Héctor Mirallas Sánchez, Luis Obis Aparicio, Alfonso Ortiz de Solórzano, Óscar Pérez Lázaro, Jorge Porrón Lafuente, María Jiménez Puyuelo

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: David Attié, Ignacio Lázaro Roche, Ludovic MATHIEU

Published: March 18, 2025
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Gender discrimination in the Tarim Basin: A preliminary examination of the Kharoṣṭhī documents from the Niya site

Authors: Raminder Kaur

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Rachel Pope, Tomas Larsen Høisæter

Published: February 13, 2025
Research Article

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Methods of terms formation in nuclear medicine

Authors: Nigar Sadigova, Salmi Aliyeva

Funders: Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Azer SADIGOV, Dorina Macovei

Published: February 10, 2025
Open Letter
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Freshwater monitoring across the globe: the role of citizen science within the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and opportunities to incentivize the collaboration with environmental regulators

Authors: Bruna Gumiero, Leonardo Veronesi, Luisa Galgani, Riccardo Gaetano Cirrone, Alessio Corsi, Andrea Tafi, Steven Arthur Loiselle

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe

Peer reviewers: Ahmet Erkan KIDEYS, Laura Verbrugge, Rajaram Prajapati

Published: August 20, 2025
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Pre-protocol of the Virtual Spatial Configuration Task (VSCT): A Novel Virtual Reality-Based Tool for Assessing Cognitive Map Formation Abilities

Authors: Alberto Massimiliano Umiltà, Giorgio Li Pira, Ford Burles, Giovanni Ottoboni, Alessia Tessari

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Alastair Smith, David Uttal, Jozsef Katona, Julian Keil, Laura Miola, Marta Matamala Gomez, Meytal Wilf, Simon Lhuillier

Published: October 31, 2025
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Higher-Order Logical Reasoning in Preschool Children: Evidence from Intonation and Quantifier Scope

Authors: Uli Sauerland, Ayaka Sugawara, Kazuko Yatsushiro

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Daniele Panizza, Myrto Grigoroglou, Nopita Trihastutie

Published: February 3, 2025
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Global truffle market: Theoretical aspects and empirical evidence

Authors: PABLO PODADERA-RIVERA, FRANCISCO J. CALDERÓN-VÁZQUEZ

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Jesus Perez Moreno, Patrick Hatzenbuehler, Sakhr Alhuthali

Published: April 17, 2025
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Enacting semi-periphery: conditions of post-accession migration from Poland to the UK

Authors: Viktoryia Vaitovich

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Shaddin Almasri, Tomasz Komornicki, kate golebiowska

Published: June 25, 2025
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Asking the experts: A focus group and review on eyewitness memory in the multicultural context of South Africa

Authors: Laura Anne Weiss, Eva A. J. van Rosmalen, Annelies Vredeveldt

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Alyssa Jones, Nkansah Anakwah, Richard Kemp

Published: February 24, 2025
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Manipulating and measuring single atoms in the Maltese cross geometry

Authors: Lorena C. Bianchet, Natalia Alves, Laura Zarraoa, Natalia Bruno, Morgan W. Mitchell

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Daniel Barredo, chihuan nguyen

Published: March 3, 2022
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The ecomorphology of Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus): a geometric morphometric study.

Authors: Ana Belén GALÁN LÓPEZ, Ariane Burke, Sandrine Costamagno

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Andrew Orkney, Ivan Rey Rodriguez, María Isabel Borao Álvarez, Pamela Groves

Published: April 15, 2025
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A new nomenclature for the livestock-associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on phylogenomics

Authors: Michaela Zwyer, Cengiz Çavusoglu, Giovanni Ghielmetti, Maria Lodovica Pacciarini, Erika Scaltriti, Dick Van Soolingen, Anna Dötsch, Miriam Reinhard, Sebastien Gagneux, Daniela Brites

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Liliana Salvador, Lorraine Michelet

Published: December 1, 2021
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Fiber-coupled light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as safe and convenient light sources for the characterization of optoelectronic devices

Authors: Jorge Quereda, Quinghua Zhao, Enrique Diez, Riccardo Frisenda, Andrés Castellanos-Gomez

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Antonio Rossi, Marcel Claro

Published: July 13, 2022
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Direct oligonucleotide sequencing with nanopores

Authors: Sachin Chalapati, Conor A Crosbie, Dixita Limbachiya, Nimesh Pinnamaneni

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Fumihito Miura, Jeff Nivala

Published: August 24, 2021
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Data Management Plans in Horizon 2020: what beneficiaries think and what we can learn from their experience

Authors: Daniel Spichtinger

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Daniel Mietchen, Daniela Hausen, Ron Dekker

Published: February 21, 2022
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Presence, flow, and narrative absorption: an interdisciplinary theoretical exploration with a new spatiotemporal integrated model based on predictive processing

Authors: Federico Pianzola, Giuseppe Riva, Karin Kukkonen, Fabrizia Mantovani

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Peer reviewers: Julian Kiverstein, Karl Friston

Published: July 23, 2021