Helmholtz successful to win ERC Consolidator Grants
In the latest round of ERC Consolidator Grants Helmholtz researchers were awarded a total of nine grants directly at the Helmholtz Centres. This time, the ERC awarded 328 grants, 67 of which went to Germany.
The ‘Consolidator Grants’ funding line is aimed at researchers who completed their PhD between seven and 12 years ago. The researchers receive up to two million euros over a period of five years.
An overview of the successful applicants and their projects (source: official ERC results lists - Helmholtz as “host institution”):
- Ana Banito, German Cancer Research Center (FusionTRACE: Deciphering context-dependent roles of oncogenic gene fusions in vivo)
- Aurelie Ernst, German Cancer Research Center (Unstable Genome: The Tipping Point from Genome Instability to Cancer)
- Christoph Heyl, DESY (GASONIC: Gas-Phase Sono-Photonics)
- Sabine Krabbe, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DecodeNP: Decoding neuropeptide function in inhibitory amygdala microcircuits)
- Gerhard Neumann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (SMARTI3: Scalable Manipulation Learning through AR-enhanced Teleoperation enabling Intuitive Interactive Instructions)
- Sanja Panovska, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (EXCURSION: Geomagnetic field excursions: understanding the extreme states of Earth's outer core)
- Marco Sagliano, German Aerospace Center (STARGATE: STochastic Algorithm for Robust Guidance Analysis and Trajectory Estimation)
- Kurt Schmoller, Helmholtz Munich (MITOSIZE: Mitochondrial DNA homeostasis in growing cells)
- Sebastian Stich, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CollectiveMinds: Collaborative Machine Intelligence)
