THOTroV — Optical Setting of Virus in Frequency Range Terahertz

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Nord-Pas de Calais - ERDF/ESF/YEI (2014FR16M0OP012), managing authority: Conseil régional Nord Pas de Calais. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Nord (NUTS FRE11); France. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 432,939; EU co-financing EUR 199,737 (co-financing rate 46.14%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-10-17 to 2020-04-16. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): The THOTroV project for “terrahertz Optical trapping Of Virus” is supported by the CNRS delegation to welcome Romain PERETTI, a young researcher with high potential in the TeraHertz Photonics team of IEMN UMR 8520 under the scientific responsibility of Jean-François LAMPIN. Romain PERETTI graduated with a doctorate in photonics at the University of Lyon with 10 years of experience in nanospectroscopy and several successful postdoctoral experiments, including in the quantum optoelectronics group at the University of Zurich. The project focuses on the coupling of terahertz technology and optical trapping. The capture of a single virus trapped on a chip (lab-on-chip) will allow terahertz spectroscopy using gold metasurface on silicon substrate, all integrated into a microfluidic circuit. Because this project will solve some fundamental issues in virology, it will be done in collaboration with the team of Professor Hober of the CHRU virology laboratory in Lille, in particular on the understanding of the role of enteroviruses in type 1 diabetes.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The THOTroV project, co-funded by the EU, focuses on terahertz optical trapping of viruses and runs from October 2016 to April 2020 in Nord, France. It is led by researcher Romain Peretti under the scientific guidance of Jean-François Lampin. Suggested technology pillar: sensing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.