List of European Research Council grants awarded to Austrian institutions
Researchers in Austria have been quite successful in winning grants of the European Research Council (ERC). These recently established grants have immediately gained high recognition due to their competitive nature. There are two types of grants, the ERC Advanced Grant for established researchers with a typical funding of 2,5 Mio. EUR and the ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers with a typical funding of 1,5 Mio. EUR. At the moment 47 researchers in Austria have received one of the two types of grants. Besides of nine grants to universities in Innsbruck and one grant to both Graz and Klagenfurt, all grants have been awarded to researchers in Vienna (or close by such as IST Austria and IIASA). The current ERC President Helga Nowotny is from Austria.
ERC Advanced Grants
Advanced Grants 2011
- Siegfried Bauer, University of Linz, "Stretching soft matter performance: From conformable electronics and soft machines to renewable energy"
other names not yet published
Advanced Grants 2010[1]
Advanced Grants 2009[2]
- Nick Barton, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, "Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation"
- Georg Gottlob, Oxford University & Vienna University of Technology, "Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology"
- Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "A Systems Level Approach to Proliferation and Differentiation Control in Neural Stem Cell Lineages"
- Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of Vienna, "Transformations of normative orders"
- Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University Innsbruck, "Coherently advanced tissue and cell holographic imaging and trapping"
- Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna, "Risk and Valuation of Financial Assets: A Robust Approach"
- Siegfried Selberherr, Vienna University of Technology, "Modeling Silicon Spintronics"
- Giulio Superti-Furga, Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)
Advanced Grants 2008[3]
- Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck, "Cryogenic Traps for Entanglement Research with Ions"
- Silke Bühler-Paschen, Vienna University of Technology, "Quantum Criticality - The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales"
- Barry Dickson, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Neural basis of Drosophila mating behaviours"
- W. Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna, "The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach"
- Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Vienna, "Generalized Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications"
- Wolfgang Lutz, Vienna University of Economics and Business, "Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change"
- Falko Netzer, University of Graz, "Search for emergent phenomena in oxide nanostructures"
- Josef Penninger, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "From flies to humans combining whole genome screens and tissue specific gene targeting to identify novel pathways involved in cancer and metastases"
- Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, "Photonic Quantum Information Technology and the Foundations of Quantum Physics in Higher Dimensions"
ERC Starting Grants
Starting Grants 2011[4]
- Andrius Baltuska, Vienna University of Technology, “Cycle-Sculpted Strong Field Optics”
- Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications”
- Jozsef Csicsvari, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Memory-Related Information Processing in Neuronal Circuits of the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex”
- Markus Hennrich, University of Innsbruck, “Quantum simulations with trapped Rydberg ions”
- Matthias Horn, University of Vienna, Department of Microbial Ecology, “The Evolution of the Chlamydiae - an Experimental Approach”
- Alwin Köhler, Medical University of Vienna, “The nuclear pore connection: adaptor complexes bridging genome regulation and nuclear transport”
- Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, University of Innsbruck, “Microscopy of Tunable Many-Body Quantum Systems”
- Michael Sixt, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Cytoskeletal force generation and force transduction of migrating leukocytes”
- Tomas Sobotka, Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Fertility, reproduction and population change in 21st Century Europe”
- Andrew Straw, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, “Linking neural circuits to visual guidance in flying flies” (IMP)
- Roland Wester, University of Innsbruck, “Molecular Networks with precision Terahertz Spectroscopy”
- Bojan Zagrovic, University of Vienna, “Towards a quantitative framework for understanding proteinprotein interactions: from specific effects to protein ecology”
- Manuel Zimmer, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, “Neuromodulation of Oxygen Chemosensory Circuits in Caenorhabditis elegans” (IMP)
Starting Grants 2010[5]
- Goulnara Arzhantseva, moved to University of Vienna in 2010, "Analytic properties of infinite groups: limits, curvature, and randomness"
- Julius Brennecke, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "The piRNA pathway in the Drosophila germline - a small RNA based genome immune system"
- Karlheinz Erb, Univ. Klagenfurt, "An integrated socioecological approach to land-use intensity: Analyzing and mapping biophysical stocks/flows and their socioeconomic drivers"
- Francesca Ferlaino, University of Innsbruck, "Ultracold Erbium: Exploring Exotic Quantum Gases"
- Christian Hellmich, Vienna University of Technology, "Poro-Micromechanics of Bone Materials, with Links to Biology and Medicine"
- Barbara Horejs, Austrian Archaeological Institute, "From Sedentism to Proto-Urban Societies in Western Anatolia"
- Arthur Kaser, Medical University Innsbruck, "XBP1 and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Mucosal Homeostasis"
- Marc Luy, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), "The male-female health-mortality paradox"
- Sascha Martens, University of Vienna (MFPL), "Molecular mechanisms of autophagosome formation"
- Bernard Christiaan Oostenbrink, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, "Efficient and accurate simulation techniques for free energies, enthalpies and entropies"
- Krzysztof Pietrzak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Provable Security for Physical Cryptography”
- Florian Raible, University of Vienna, "Moonlight-dependent Hormones Orchestrating Lunar Reproductive Periodicity and Regeneration"
- Thorsten Schumm, Vienna University of Technology, "Nuclear Atomic Clock"
- Gregor Weihs University of Innsbruck, "Entanglement from Semiconductor Nanostructures"
Starting Grants 2009[6]
- Markus Aspelmeyer, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) and University of Vienna, "Quantum Optomechanics: quantum foundations and quantum information on the micro- and nanoscale"
- Sylvia Cremer, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Social Vaccination in Ant Colonies: from Individual Mechanisms to Society Effects"
- Thomas Klausberger, Medical University of Vienna, "The chronocircuitry of the hippocampus during cognitive behaviour"
- Alistair McGregor, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, "Evolution of sensory organ morphology: genetic analysis of eye size evolution in Drosophila"
- Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Regulatory Genomics in Drosophila"
- Stefan Szeider, Vienna University of Technology, "The Parameterized Complexity of Reasoning Problems"
- Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna, "Quantum entanglement and the renormalization group"
Starting Grants 2007[7]
Number of ERC Grants to Austrian Institutions
An overview on Austrian universities may be found at List of universities in Austria.
ERC Grants to Austrian Researchers working abroad (incomplete)
- Reinhard Kienberger, Max Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching (Deutschland)
- Stefan Leutgeb, Centre for the Biology of Memory an der Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (Norway)
- Benjamin Schuler, Biochemisches Institut der Universität Zürich (Schweiz)
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