Objective
In the ASPIRE project, whose academic and industrial beneficiaries are world leading in their complementary fields of expertise, the overarching research goal is the measurement of photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) in the “molecular frame” (MF) of systems of biological relevance. These MF-PADs can be interpreted as electron diffraction patterns, achieved by “illuminating the molecule from within”, and enable the shapes and motions of individual molecules to be interrogated. Such knowledge is needed for the development of new medicines (the shapes of drug molecules dictate their function) and new materials (efficient solar cells can be constructed if energy dissipation processes in molecules are understood). Progress in this area is highly technologically driven, requiring high repetition rate, short wavelength light sources and fast detectors. The input of private sector beneficiaries is therefore critical to the scientific objectives, as well as to the enhanced training environment. Work packages on advanced light source and detector developments will feed into the overall goal through secondments, regular virtual meetings and face-to-face network meetings. The symbiosis of the developments that will take place in ASPIRE will create a research and training environment that is world-leading and optimally tailored to capitalise, for example, on the investment that has been made in the European XFEL facility. The ESRs will be trained in world-leading laboratories and will benefit from the exchange of best practice among beneficiaries and partners, and from unique training events. ASPIRE will therefore ensure that European research remains competitive in the global market, and that the trained researchers will be uniquely well-placed to contribute to the development of novel instrumentation in the future.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrynoble gases
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological behavioural sciencesethologybiological interactions
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryamines
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinator
NG7 2RD Nottingham
United Kingdom
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Participants (8)
65779 Kelkheim Taunus
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60323 Frankfurt Am Main
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TN38 9NS East Sussex
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75794 Paris
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8000 Aarhus C
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00185 Roma
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12489 Berlin
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91190 Saint Aubin
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Partners (6)
60318 Frankfurt Am Main
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91090 Lisses
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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22607 Hamburg
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34125 Kassel
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CB7 4EA Ely
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