11 April 2024 | The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the names of 255 outstanding research leaders in Europe set to be awarded ERC Advanced Grants. Nine of the grants will go to researchers affiliated with a EuroTech University. The funding is amongst the EU’s most prestigious and competitive, providing leading senior researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The new grants, worth in total nearly €652 million, are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.
Due to the non-association of Switzerland to Horizon Europe, EPFL-affiliated researchers were not eligible for funding.
We wholeheartedly congratulate all laureates, especially:
- Thorsten Bach, TUM (CALIDE: Catalytic Light-induced Deracemization; PE5)
- Charles Baroud, IP Paris (MELCART: Engineering soft microdevices for the mechanical characterization and stimulation of microtissues; PE11)
- Nora Brambilla, TUM (EFT-XYZ: Effective Field Theories to understand and predict the Nature of the XYZ Exotic Hadrons; PE2)
- Michael Glickman, Technion (Ubi-Wan: The origin and impact of impaired ubiquitin signaling in the degeneration of neurons; LS1)
- Olivier Gossner, IP Paris (SInfoNiA: Strategic Information: New Directions and Applications; SH1)
- Alessandra Moretti, TUM (EPICURE: Programming the EPIcardium to CURE broken hearts; LS4)
- Jackie Schiller, Technion (DendAssembly: Dendrite assemblies as the core cortical computation module for continual motor learning; LS5)
- Joris van der Hoeven, IP Paris (ODELIX: Solving differential equations fast, precisely, and reliably; PE6)
- Jan van Hest, TU/e (PRO-ARTIS: Protein-regulated artificial cell populations and tissues; PE5)
