The ERC Synergy Grants (funding up to a maximum of 14 million euros) are the largest and most competitive grants of the European Research Council. Scientific excellence is the criterium.
2024
- Paula Fikkert - Phonological cognisance and allied linguistic representations: acquisition, bilingualism, change and script (PAAL), on the relationship between sound, script, and knowledge of language
2023
- Richard Bartfai - Malaria-causing parasites that may be in a dormant state in the liver, which can act as a drug against malaria
2022
- Heino Falcke, Sera Markoff and Rob Fender - Colour movies of black holes and building a new telescope in Africa
2020
- Willem Halffman, Raphaël Lévy, Cyrus Mody and Cyril Labbé - The NanoBubbles project
- Arno Kentgens, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Benno Meier and Jan Korvin - The research team will focus on developing NMR methods whereby medicines can be screened at a high processing speed.
2019
- Mike Jetten and Caroline Slomp - Microbial removal of methane and ammonium from the environment.
- Mikhail Katsnelson, Olle Eriksson and Alexander Lichtenstein - Theoretical tools for ultrafast dynamics of correlated electrons in solids.
- Theo Rasing, Stefan Blügel, Rafal Dunin-Borkowski and Mathias Kläui - From two-dimensional to three-dimensional magnetization textures.
