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ERC Grants

The European Commission promotes excellent top-level research within the framework of the European Research Council, which awards grants to researchers at various career stages and to European research consortia.

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ERC funding for different career stages

With the ERC Starting Grant, innovative researchers at early career stages can set up a research group for five years. As a rule, up to 1.5 million euros are available for this purpose.

With the ERC Consolidator Grant, researchers who have already achieved their first excellent research results are generally funded for five years with up to 2 million euros.

With the Advanced Grant, the ERC funds experienced top researchers with more than 10 years of research experience for five years, usually with 2.5 million euros.

 

ERC grants since 2008

 

2023 Dr. Torben Ott, TIMEVALUE: Neural and serotonergic mechanisms underlying time valuation in rats, Department of Biology  
2022 Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka, GraWFTy: High-Precision Gravitational Wave Physics from a Worldline Quantum Field Theory, Department of Physics  
2022 Prof. Dr. Arno Rauschenbeutel, SuperWave: Superatom Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics, Department of Physics
  
2022 Prof. Dr. Roland Strausz, PRIVDIMA: Data Privacy in Digital Markets, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration  
2021 Dr. Benjamin Kiesewetter, REASONS F1RST: The structure of Normativity. Department of Philosophy  
2021 Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani, TODO: Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives. Department of English and American Studies  
2021 Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum, Cortical Coupling: Dendro-somatic Coupling and global neuronal signaling. Department of Biology  
2020 Prof. Dr. Bernd Schipper, DEMBIB: From Texts to Literature: Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible. Faculty of Theology, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Religion  
2020 Prof. Dr. Bruno Klingler, TameHodge: Tame geometry and transcendence in Hodge theory. Department of Mathematics, Algebra  
2020 Prof. Dr. Tobias Kümmerle, SystemShift: Shifting to a Land Systems Paradigm in Conservation. Department of Geography, Biogeography  
2020 Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías, WAVEMATTERS: Urban vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism. Department of European Ethnology  
2020 Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, SOL: Switchable rhodOpsins in Life Sciences. Department of Biologie, Experimental Biophysics  
2020 Dr. Michael Bojdys, LiAnMAT: Ultra-high energy storage Li-anode materials (PoC). Department of Chemistry, Functional Nanomaterials.  
2020 Prof. Dr. Dora Vargha, SOCMED: Socialist Medicine: An Alternative Global Health History. Department of History, History of Science.  
2019 Prof. Dr. Gavril Farkas, SYZYGY: Syzygies, moduli and topological
invariants of groups. Department of Mathematics, special field algebraic geometry.		  
2019 Prof. Dr. Cigdem Issever, HiggsSelfCoupling: Uncovering the Origins
of Mass: Discovery of the di-Higgs Process and Constraints on the Higgs
Self-Coupling. Department of Physics, Experimental Particle Physics.		  
2019 Dr. Tim Schröder, QUREP: Repeater Architectures Based on Quantum Memories and Photonic Encoding. Department of Physics, Group Leader Integrated Quantum Photonics  
2019 Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm, SEED - Solvated Ions in Solid
Electrodes: Alternative routes toward rechargeable batteries based on
abundant elements, Department of Chemistry, Physikalische Chemie der
Materialien - Elektrochemie		  
2019 Prof. Dr. Martin Rolfs, VIS-A-VIS - How visual action shapes active
vision, Department of Psychology, Allgemeine Psychologie - Wahrnehmung
und Kognition		  
2019 Prof. Dr. Susanne Schreiber, ANewSpike - A new type of spike:
Homoclinic spike generation in cells and networks, Department of
Biology, Computational Neurophysiology		  
2019 Prof. Dr. Marc Erhardt, BacNanoMachine: Reconstructing the coordinated self-assembly of a bacterial nanomachine, Department of Biology, Bakterienphysiologie  
2019 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou, LeibnizDream - Realizing Leibniz´s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind, Department of English and American Studies, Englische Sprachwissenschaft  
2018 Dr. Michael Bojdys, BEGMAT:Layered functional materials – beyond ‘graphene, eingeworben mit Univerzita Kalova Prag, Wechsel an
die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zum 01.04.2018, Department of Chemistry,
fachgebiet Functional Nanomaterials		  
2018 Dr. David Garfield, evolSingleCellGRN: Constraint, Adaptation, and
Heterogeneity: Genomic and single-cell approaches to understanding the
evolution of developmental gene regulatory networks. IRI Life Sciences, until December 31st, 2019		  
2018 Dr. Annette Schmiedchen, ERC Synergy Grant DHARMA - The
Domestication of 'Hindu' Asceticism and the religious Making of South
and Southeast Asia, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Asian and
African Studies.		  
2018 Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht, ERC Synergy Grant BrainPlay - The self
teaching Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Biology,
Collaborative Research Centre for Theoretical Biology.		  
2018 Dr. Olaf Hohm, Duality Symmetries: Higher Derivatives, and their Applications in Cosmology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Physics.  
2018 Prof. Dr. Christian Volk, ERC: Protest and Order. Democratic Theory, Contentious Politics, and the Changing Shape of Western Democracies (POWDER), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Social Sciences.  
2017 Prof. Dr. Chris Wendl, TRANSHOLOMORPHIC:Neue Transversalitätsmethoden in der Theorie holomorpher Kurven, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of
Mathematics, Fachgebiet Differentialgeometrie		  
2015 Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, MERA:Mechanismus der Enzymrhodopsin-Aktivierung, Berlin - Humboldt-Universität, Department of Biology,
Fachgebiet Experimentelle Biophysik.		  
2015 Prof. Dr. Katharina Spalek, FAHMRRR:Focus alternatives in the human mind: Retrieval, representation, and recall, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Germanic Studies and Linguistics, Fachgebiet Psycholinguistik  
2014 Prof. Dr. Oliver Seitz, TRIGGDRUG:Reactions that translate mRNA into dug-like molecules - TRIGGDRUG, Berlin - Humboldt-Universität, Institut für Chemie, Fachgebiet Organische und Bioorganische Chemie III.  
2014

Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum, ActiveCortex:Active dendrites and cortical associations, Berlin - Humboldt-Universität, Department of Biology, Fachgebiet Neuronale Plastizität.

  
2014 Prof. Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein, Berlin - Humboldt-Universität, Institut für Psychologie, Fachgebiet Kognitive und klinische Neurowissenschaften, bis zum 31.12.2015.  
2013 Dr. Magdalena NOWICKA, TRANSFORmIG:Transforming Migration: Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus, eingeworben mit: Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zum 01.03.2013, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Bereich Soziologie, Fachgebiet: Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie.  
2012 Prof. Dr. Hans BÖRNER, SIP:SPECIFICALLY INTERACTING POLYMERS – From Selective Adhesion toward Specific Recognition, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Fachgebiet Organische Synthese funktionaler Systeme.  
2012 Prof. Dr. Stefan HECHT, Light4Function:Light-controlled and Light-driven Molecular Action, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Fachgebiet Organische Chemie und Funktionale Materialien.  
2011 Prof. Dr. Michael BORGOLTE, FOUNDMED:Stiftungen in mittelalterlichen Gesellschaften. Interkulturelle Vergleiche, Berlin - Humboldt-Universität, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Fachgebiet Mittelalterliche Geschichte.  
2011 Prof. Georg WEIZSÄCKER, Ph.D., InvExpectations:Investors' Expectations: Measuring their Nature and Effect, eingeworben mit: University College London, Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zum 01.10.2012, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Fachgebiet: Mikroökonomische Theorie und Ihre Anwendungen.  
2010 Prof. Dr. Janina KNEIPP, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Fachgebiet Physikalische Chemie  
2010 Dr. Alexander KEESE, ForcedLabourAfrica:Forced labour: an Afro-European heritage in sub-Saharan Africa (1930-1975)?, eingeworben mit: Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto, Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zum 1.09.2011, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Fachgebiet: Geschichte Afrikas  
2009 Prof. Dr. Thomas ELSÄSSER, Berlin - Direktor am Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. und S-Professor am Institut für Physik der Humboldt-Universität  

2009

Prof. Dr. Regine HENGGE, SecMessBiofilm:New Concepts in Second Messenger Signaling and Bacterial Biofilm Formation, Berlin - Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Mikrobiologie, Signaltransduktion und Regulatorische Netzwerke in Bakterien, Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zum 01.09.2013.

  
2008 Prof. Dr. Michael BRECHT, Neuro-behavior:From Neuron to Behavior, Berlin - Humboldt-Universität, Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Tierphysiologie und systemische Neurobiologie