Fellows-in-Residence: Current year

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Aurica Farcas received her BA and a master degree (Summa Cum Laude) from "Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in organic chemistry. In 1998, she obtained a PhD in the field of Polymer Chemistry (with honors). Then, A. Farcas received a postdoctoral positions at Fraunhofer Institute for Angewandte Polymerforschung, Golm-Germany (2001), the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg-USA (2002-2003) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany (2004).

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Marta Giuca is currently a fellow researcher for the EUTOPIA -SIF Program at the University Cergy Paris, LEJEP Laboratory. 
Since 2018, she has been a Ph.D. student in Criminal Law at the University of Catania, where she earned her Ph.D. (Doctor Europaeus Program) in October 2022, with a thesis on Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Liability. She was visiting researcher at the Max Plank Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law of Freiburg and at the University Paris-1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (2021).
She graduated in 2014 from the University of Pavia with an interdisciplinary thesis on Administrative and Criminal Law (the powers of the criminal judge in administrative actions).  The following year she also obtained a diploma from the Institute for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia after completing her studies in social sciences and law.
In the years 2015-2016, she served an internship at the Court of Milan and since 2017 she is a lawyer.
Her research interests mainly involve how new technology impacts on criminal law. She studied how cryptocurrencies affect and transform economic crime, particularly money laundering, then she focused her investigation on liability concerning the production and usage of AI systems, seeking to identify areas of legislative intervention, balancing the need for the safeguards of legal goods, on the one hand, and the respect of the principles of individual responsibility and legality under criminal law, on the other hand. Since September 2023 she is involved in her research project: Crim-AI.

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AI systems bring fundamental changes to our environments, some of which have an impact on criminal liability, due to the shift from the classic notion of “product”. Existing criminal liability rules may not always protect the legal goods, which may lead to a “responsibility gap”.
The research project aims to answer the fundamental question concerning the relationship between law and technological progress in order to guarantee the safeguarding of fundamental rights and values under criminal law in the light of the European principles for a trustworthy AI. Therefore, the research intends to highlight promising and challenging aspects of EU rules on AI, also in comparison with extra-EU legislative efforts to regulate AI, and aims at complementing them in the specific sector of criminal law.
The field of investigation is the negligence of AI systems’ manufacturer and user in case of an algorithmic error, defined as “artificial negligence”. In such a context, the project seeks to identify areas of legislative intervention, balancing the need for the safeguards of legal goods, on the one hand, and the respect of the principles of individual responsibility and legality under criminal law, on the other hand. 
These reflections are then tailored into two specific contexts of the use of AI systems: that of automated vehicles and AI in healthcare. 

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John-Erik Hansson is lecturer in British history at Université Paris Cité, researcher at the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA – UMR 8225), reviews editor of the Anarchist Studies journal, and co-editor of the Ideology, Theory, Practice blog. He specializes in the history of radical thought, cultures and movements in Britain from the 18th century to today, with a particular interest in anarchism. His PhD, which he defended in 2018 at the European University Institute (Florence), focused on the educational thought and children’s books of radical polymath William Godwin (1756-1836). Since then, he has turned to the history of anarchism in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has embarked on two new research projects. The first, entitled “Anarchist Histories in the UK (c. 1886-2000)”, is the project he will pursue at CY Advanced Studies. It seeks to examine the different ways in which British anarchists have constructed and reconstructed their own histories over the course of the 20th century. The second is a collaborative project on the global and connected history of anarchist intellectuals, which he co-leads with Matthew S. Adams (Loughborough University) and Sophie Scott-Brown (University of St Andrews).

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Dr. Cristian Jimenez Romero (CJR) will be joining the ETIS Laboratory at CYU Cergy Paris University in September 2023 as a Post-Doctoral
research fellow funded by the EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellowship Programme. Under the supervision of Professor Thanos Manos, CJR will be conducting research on "Hybrid Neural Networks".
CJR has a diverse background in computer science, neuroscience, and robotics, with several years of experience. From July 2020 to September 2023, he worked as a scientific software developer and postdoctoral researcher at the SimDataLab in the Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in Germany. His research focused on neurorobotics, swarm intelligence, and the simulation of spiking neural networks (SNNs) on high-performance computing infrastructure. This research was supported by funding from the Human Brain Project. Additionally, CJR worked as a co-supervisor for students at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
From 2017 to early 2020, he worked as an academic assistant at the Centre for Complexity and Design in the Open University (OU), United Kingdom. Before that, he pursued his PhD at the OU from 2013 to 2017, focusing on developing a learning model to enhance the control of autonomous agents and robots through the utilization of SNNs.
Before embarking on his academic pursuits, CJR had a successful industry career as a software engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks. This experience equipped him with a solid foundation in software development and project management, further enhancing his skill set.

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Hybrid Neural Networks: combining Artificial and Spiking Neural networks to enhance life-long continuous learning in autonomous agents and robots

Generalized continual learning in AI, which involves the ability to learn multiple different tasks, remains a challenge. Despite significant progress in solving specific problems, AI systems still struggle with transferring learned features to new tasks. As a result, these systems often excel in specific tasks but face difficulties in multi-task scenarios. This research project aims to enhance the continuous learning and adaptability of artificial autonomous systems in dynamic environments.

It combines artificial neural networks (ANNs) and spiking neural networks (SNNs) to create hybrid neural networks (HNNs). This integration enables the implementation of learning mechanisms in HNNs that closely resemble biological systems. Led by Dr. Cristian Jimenez Romero under the supervision of Professor Thanos Manos, the project incorporates current trends in AI, neuroscience, robotics, and complex dynamical systems. The host group, ETIS lab at CY Cergy Paris University, offers multidisciplinary expertise and infrastructure, including a computer cluster and robotic hardware. The co-host group, AI Systems Lab at the University of Warwick, contributes expertise in deep neural architectures, robotics, computer science, and mathematical modeling.

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Paul Hardin Kapp is Associate Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in historic  preservation and historic building conservation. Prior to his tenure at Notre Dame, he was Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Director of the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the past chair of the National Council for Preservation Education. He is a 2005 Charles E. Peterson Fellow; a 2014 and a 2023 Fulbright Scholar; a 2017 James Marston Fitch Midcareer Fellow; a 2020 Franklin Fellow, U.S. Department of State; and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. His research focuses on how the built patrimony is conserved and restored. During his tenure at CY Advanced Studies, he will examine how Victor Hugo championed the conservation of important historic monuments in France. He has published three books; his latest book, “Heritage and Hoop Skirts: How Natchez Created the Old South,” (University Press of Mississippi) won the 2023 J.B. Jackson Book Prize; the 2023 University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize; the 2023 Fred B. Kniffen Award from the International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture; and the 2023 Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical Association.Projet de recherche

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Katarína Karľová was PhD student (2015-2019) and then Junior Researcher (2019-2023) at the Faculty of Science of Pavol Jozef Šafárik
University in Košice. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at CY Cergy Paris Université within the EUTOPIA-SIF project TANGENTE - Theoretical modeling of advanced quantum materials.  Her research interests are focused on quantum magnetic materials with the particular emphasis laid on highly frustrated Heisenberg spin systems. In spite of her relatively young age she is already a recognized researcher in this field of study as evidenced by her impressive list of publications involving 30 Current-Contents publications, to which more than 160 SCI citations were already recorded when excluding selfcitations. The quality of her scientific work is proven by numerous awards: 1st place (2020), 2nd place (2018) and 3rd place (2017, 2016) in the competition of young physicists (Slovak Physical Society), the best poster award at the StatPhys conference (Lviv, Ukraine, 2019), Rector's prize for outstanding research-scientific results (UPJŠ, 2019) and the honourable mention in Václav Votruba prize for the best dissertation thesis in theoretical physics (2021).

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The project TANGENTE  (Theoretical modeling of advanced quantum materials) deals with unconventional quantum properties of frustrated Heisenberg spin systems, which are inspired by an intriguing class of novel quantum materials. The theoretical modeling of frustrated quantum materials will exploit the state-of-the-art analytical and numerical methods including among other matters the rigorous mapping transformations, the full exact diagonalization and the finite-temperature Lanczos method. The first part of the project is devoted to an investigation of a robustness of the quantum entanglement of the mixed-spin Heisenberg extended delta chain against rising temperature and magnetic field as indispensable requirement for quantum computing and processing of information. The model is inspired by the quantum spin-chain material [{CuMnL}{(NC)3W(bipy)(CN)3}]+, whereby our aim is to provide clarification of its static and dynamic properties along with theoretical interpretation of available magnetic data. In the second part of the project we will characterize in detail long-range entanglement of paradigmatic frustrated Heisenberg spin system with a quantum spin-liquid ground state, which provides promising platform for quantum computation and quantum information processing. This latter stage will be done in close collaboration with the experimental groups searching for advanced quantum spin-liquid materials.

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Salma Lahbabi is an Associate Professor at ENSEM, Université Hassan II de Casablanca, and has recently been a visiting professor at CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cy Cergy Paris University, with research focused on quantum models for random materials. Her academic career includes positions at the Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Ecole Centrale Casablanca, University Mohamed VI Polytechnique, as well as a Post-doc at the University of Bath. Prof. Lahbabi has been a principal investigator for several high-profile research projects, including a multi-disciplinary program on phosphorene materials and devices funded by OCP group. Her work has also been supported by CNRS, with collaborations is France and Morocco. Her research interests cover mathematical physics themes, with a focus on electronic structure models and materials with defects and reduced symmetries. She has contributed to her field through publications in prestigious journals and has participated in organizing international workshops on electronic structure modeling.

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The microscopic description of materials at a quantum level is of great importance in material sciences. Anderson localisation predicts absence of electronic transport in systems with disorder. It has been proved for linear random Schrödinger operators (1-particle) in different regimes: large disorder, low energy, 1D Anderson model and singular potentials. One objective of this project concerns localization properties of non-linear continuous models. Building on recent advances, the project will link discrete and continuous models to establish Anderson localization in continuous systems. Additionally, it will examine how magnetic fields affect localization in non-linear models. Another subject of interest concerns the study of transport properties in the linear model. We want to understand how the different definitions of transport coefficients relate to each other and ultimately exhibit a model that would explain macroscopic transport laws.

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Aniket Mitra, a student of Geology has carried out his doctoral research-work in the field of palaeontology under the supervision of Prof. Kalyan
Halder in Presidency University of Kolkata, India. Systematic palaeontology of bivalves and palaeobiogeographic studies are his forte. He is interested in paleo-climate reconstruction and studies the effects of climatic perturbations on the migration and morphological adjustments of mollusca. Multi-proxy approach involving stable isotope geochemistry and biomarkers have been utilised by him for palaeoclimate reconstruction. He is a member of the Geological Society of America and The Malacological Society of London. He has received international travel grant awards from GSA, International Geological Congress and the Malacological Society for presenting his research in respective conferences. He has also worked as a research associate in IISER Mohali, India (December 2022- July 2023).

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The present day atmosphere is under a serious threat due to unbridled usage of fossil fuels, CO2 emission and global warming. Studying similar climatic conditions from the past is one of the best way to mitigate the situation in future. An abrupt warming of Bartonian ( i.e.~ 40 Ma ago from now) age within a major cooling phase is comparable to the present situation. The effects of warming on the morphology and diversification of Bartonian  bivalves will be studied to parameterise the climate model.

The calcium carbonate shells of bivalves are excellent recorders of the palaeoclimatic conditions at very high resolution down to seasonal variability. Oysters, a cementing bivalve family spendtheir whole life in a fixed substratum. Thus, they can experience all the seasonality, temperature and environmental variation of a specific location throughout their life. Kutch, a paleoequatorial basin of western coast, India hosts a huge abundance of oysters from Bartonian age of late Eocene epoch. Stable isotope analysis will be adopted for identification of hyperthermal event(s). Cathodoluminescence, Raman Spectroscopy, micro X-rays fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy will be used for identification of seasonal growth pattern within the shells and (if) any morphological adjustment, associated with the global warming.

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Mantra Mukim is Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF) at CY Cergy Paris University. His research interests include global
modernism, critical theory, twentieth century Hindi literature, decolonial studies, continental philosophy, and the lyric. As an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced, University of Warwick (2022-23), he researched the Hindi poet Muktibodh, the long poem form, and the modernist archives in the Indian subcontinent, something he will build on during his time in CY Cergy. 

With Derek Attridge, he edited the book ‘Literature and Event: 21st Century Reformulations’ (New York: Routledge, 2021), and his research articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Journal of Modern Literature, Textual Practice, Interventions, Samuel Beckett Today, and Irish Studies Review. Funded by Chancellor’s scholarship, he completed his PhD in English & Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick in 2022, focusing on Samuel Beckett’s poetry and the aesthetics of failure. He is currently preparing his first monograph based on this research.

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Precarious Form: Life, Voice, and Work in Global Modernist Poetry (1945-2000)

This project focuses on Anglophone, Francophone, and Hindi modernist poetries that respond to questions of precarity and precariousness in the late twentieth century. It sets up a relationship between precarious living and writing, arguing that the historical changes, instabilities, and uncertainties that lead to global precariousness also shape modernist poetics. In studying issues of subjectivity, literary form, and poetic voice in a comparative framework, the project aims to illustrate the role of literature in not just representing or expressing precariousness but performing it and imagining a way beyond it. To this end, the project uses the term ‘Precarious Form’ to think of a multilingual modernist tradition that formally and thematically responds to the failures of a capitalist and Cartesian modernity.

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