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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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Researching and practicing ARTIVISM through field-crossing: an innovative method for collaborative research

Authors: Monika Salzbrunn

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

Peer reviewers: Carolyne Ali-Khan, Daniel Bertaux, Paula Serafini

Published: September 13, 2021
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A GC-IRMS method for measuring sulfur isotope ratios of carbonyl sulfide from small air samples

Authors: Sophie L. Baartman, Maarten C. Krol, Thomas Röckmann, Shohei Hattori, Kazuki Kamezaki, Naohiro Yoshida, Maria Elena Popa

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

Peer reviewers: Ralph Keeling, Sinikka Lennartz

Published: March 8, 2022
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Identifying knowledge gaps for successful restorative aquaculture of Ostrea edulis: a bibliometric analysis

Authors: Camilla Bertolini, Roberto Pastres

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

Peer reviewers: Andrew Jeffs, Nadescha Zwerschke

Published: June 30, 2022
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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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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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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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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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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
Essay

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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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Genomic evidence for the parallel regression of melatonin synthesis and signaling pathways in placental mammals

Authors: Christopher A. Emerling, Mark S. Springer, John Gatesy, Zachary Jones, Deana Hamilton, David Xia-Zhu, Matt Collin, Frédéric Delsuc

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

Peer reviewers: Mareike Janiak, Ryan Schott

Published: December 13, 2021
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Superradiant lasing in inhomogeneously broadened ensembles with spatially varying coupling

Authors: Anna Bychek, Christoph Hotter, David Plankensteiner, Helmut Ritsch

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

Peer reviewers: David PETROSYAN, Kamanasish Debnath

Published: September 22, 2021
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Application of solar-based oxidation to the management of empty pesticide container rinse water in Bolivia

Authors: Raquel Mencia Torrico, María del Mar Micó Reche, Alberto Cruz Alcalde, Rossmary Violette Romero Olarte, Henry Antezana Fernández, María Mercedes Álvarez Caero, Carmen Sans Mazón

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

Peer reviewers: Rui Martins, Xiangjuan Yuan

Published: June 18, 2021
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Radical collaboration during a global health emergency: development of the RDA COVID-19 data sharing recommendations and guidelines

Authors: Brian Pickering, Timea Biro, Claire C. Austin, Alexander Bernier, Louise Bezuidenhout, Carlos Casorrán, Francis P. Crawley, Romain David, Claudia Engelhardt, Geta Mitrea, Ingvill Constanze Mochmann, Rajini Nagrani, Mary O'Brien-Uhlmansiek, Simon Parker, Minglu Wang, Leyla Jael Castro, Zoe Cournia, Kheeran Dharmawardena, Gayo Diallo, Ingrid Dillo, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Anupama Gururaj, Sridhar Gutam, Natalie Harrower, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Katherine McNeill, Daniel Mietchen, Amy Pienta, Panayiota Polydoratou, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020

Peer reviewers: Irene Pasquetto, James Scheibner, Nancy McGovern

Published: June 16, 2021
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Knowledge sharing and discovery across heterogeneous research infrastructures

Authors: Siamak Farshidi, Xiaofeng Liao, Na Li, Doron Goldfarb, Barbara Magagna, Markus Stocker, Keith Jeffery, Peter Thijsse, Christian Pichot, Andreas Petzold, Zhiming Zhao

Funders: Excellent Science, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Industrial Leadership

Peer reviewers: Giacomo Marzi, Rebecca Koskela, Robert HUBER

Published: June 6, 2023
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A summer of phobias: media discourses on ‘radical’ acts of dissent against ‘mass tourism’ in Barcelona

Authors: Alexander Araya López

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

Peer reviewers: Alice MATTONI, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Neil Hughes

Published: June 10, 2021
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A philosophy of birth: if you want to change the world, change the conversation

Authors: Stella Villarmea

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

Peer reviewers: Sarah LaChance Adams, Sonya Charles, Tanja Staehler

Published: June 10, 2021
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Assessing the generalisability of a multicentre qualitative dementia research: the experience and challenges faced by the MinD project in Europe

Authors: Jennifer N.W. Lim, Kristina Niedderer, Isabelle Tournier, Rosa Almeida, Dew Harrison, Vjera Holthoff-Detto, Geke Ludden, Thomas van Rompay, Mascha van der Voort, Aleksandra Galansinska, Tina Smith, Raquel L. Lasada, Yolanda A. Bueno, Diana Druschke, Berit Ziebuhr, Michele Zanasi

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

Peer reviewers: Jihui Lyu, Maznah Dahlui

Published: November 10, 2021
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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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In poetry, if meter has to help memory, it takes its time

Authors: Sara Andreetta, Oleksandra Soldatkina, Vezha Boboeva, Alessandro Treves

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

Peer reviewers: Johann-Mattis List, Lev Blumenfeld, Mara Breen, Stefan Blohm

Published: February 23, 2023