European Research Council.
Forty-one UK researchers have won European Research Council "starting independent research grants". Below we publish details of 23 winners; we will print the remainder next week. The grants provide between EUR500,000 (£357,000) and EUR2 million over five years for the researchers to study at an institution of their choice. The highest number of grants went to German researchers, followed by Italian, French and British researchers. The ERC expects about 300 proposals across the European Union to be funded overall. List is in alphabetic order by institution.
Award winner: Ingrid van Biezen
Institution: University of Birmingham
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs
Award winner: Nicole Boivin
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: The study of the past and of cultural artefacts
Award winner: Mihalis Dafermos
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Mathematical foundations
Award winner: Arwen Deuss
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Earth system science
Award winner: Andrea Ferrari
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Engineering sciences
Award winner: Florian Hollfelder
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Material and chemical sciences
Award winner: Gregory Jefferis
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Neurosciences
Award winner: Ivan Smith
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Mathematical foundations
Award winner: Vincenzo Costanzo
Institution: Cancer Research UK
Category: Molecular, cellular and developmental biology
Award winner: Adrian Martin
Institution: University of East Anglia
Category: Individuals and organisations
Award winner: James Brockmole
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Category: The human mind and its complexity
Award winner: Frank Keller
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Category: The human mind and its complexity
Award winner: Maja Pantic
Institution: Imperial College London
Category: Information and communication
Award winner: Molly Stevens
Institution: Imperial College London
Category: Engineering sciences
Award winner: Andrew Davison
Institution: Imperial College London
Category: Information and communication
Award winner: Sebastian Uchitel
Institution: Imperial College London
Category: Information and communication
Award winner: Giles Oldroyd
Institution: John Innes Centre
Category: Applied life sciences, biotechnology and bioengineering
Award winner: Christoph Meyer
Institution: King's College London
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs (Social Sciences and Humanities)
Award winner: Helene Rey
Institution: London Business School
Category: Individuals and organisations
Award winner: Gilat Levy
Institution: London School of Economics
Category: Individuals and organisations
Award winner: Konstantin Novoselov
Institution: University of Manchester
Category: Condensed matter in physics and chemistry
Award winner: Jason Chin
Institution: Medical Research Council
Category: Applied life sciences, biotechnology and bioengineering
Award winner: Alan Lauder
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Mathematical foundations.
European Research Council – UK reserve list
Forty-one UK researchers have won European Research Council “starting independent research grants”. Below is the reserve list of 36 UK young researchers by rank order. In view of the high demand for the research grants, additional funding is being made available, which should allow a substantial number of proposals from this list to be funded. These proposals will be funded in rank order until the available budget (still to be determined by the European Research Council) is exhausted.
Alcaide Aragon
Institution: Medical Research Council
Category: Molecular, cellular and developmental biology
Guillaume Thierry
Institution: Bangor University
Category: The human mind and its complexity
Neil Hunt
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Category: Material and chemical sciences
Jernej Ule
Institution: Medical Research Council
Category: Molecular, cellular and developmental biology:
Alice Jenkins
Institution: University of Glasgow
Category: Cultures and cultural diversity
Lourdes Agapito
Institution: Queen Mary
Category: Information and communication
Michaelides Angelos
Institution: University College London
Category: Material and chemical sciences
Guillaume Masse
Institution: University of Plymouth
Category: Earth system science
Caroline Dessent
Institution: University of York
Category: Material and chemical science
David Turk
Institution: The University of Aberdeen
Category: The human mind and its complexity
Denis Burdakov
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Neurosciences
Name withheld
Institution: University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Category: Molecular, cellular and developmental biology
Kazuya Koyama
Institution: University of Portsmouth
Category: Universe science
Duncan Odom
Institution: Cancer Research UK
Category: Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology
Name withheld
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Condensed matter in physics and chemistry
Jasper van Thor
Institution: Imperial College
Category: Material and chemical sciences
Name withheld
Institution: Medical Research Council
Category: Neurosciences
Philip Wigge
Institution: John Innes Centre
Category: Applied life sciences, biotechnology and bioengineering
Name withheld
Institution: University of East Anglia
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs
Miranda Lubbers
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs
Mary Palmer
Institution: University of Keele
Category: Neurosciences
Juan Burrone
Institution: King's College London
Category: Neurosciences
Zoran Hadzibabic
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Fundamental constituents of matter
Amin Hajitou
Institution: Imperial College London
Category: Medical and health science research
Petros Ligoxygakis
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Organismic physiology, including infection and immunity
Name withheld
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Evolutionary, population and environmental biology
David Selby
Institution: University Durham
Category: Earth system science
Bernd Kulessa
Institution: Swansea University
Category: Earth system science
Giacomo Macola
Institution: University of Sheffield
Category: The study of the past and of cultural artefacts
Simone Turchetti
Institution: University of Manchester
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs
Name withheld
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Category: Medical and health science research
Peter Keevash
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Mathematical foundations
Name withheld
Institution: Imperial College
Category: Engineering sciences
Esther Rodriguez-Villegas
Institution: Imperial College
Category: Engineering sciences
Name withheld
Institution: University of Cambridge
Category: Engineering sciences
Angelique Corthals
Institution: University of Manchester
Category: The study of the past and of cultural artefacts
