EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
About EUR325 million (£296 million) has been awarded by the ERC to the winners of its second Starting Grant competition. The awards, worth up to EUR2 million each, will be provided to early-career researchers over five years to aid their studies. UK-based researchers in the life sciences, social sciences and humanities are listed below: the winners in other disciplines will be published in future weeks.
Life sciences
Award winner: Colin Akerman
Institution: University of Oxford
Activity dependent signalling in radial glial cells and their neuronal progeny
Award winner: Jason Scott Carroll
Institution: Cancer Research UK
Chromatin mediators of oestrogen-receptor biology
Award winner: QueeLim Ch'ng
Institution: King's College London
From environment to physiology: neuroendocrine circuits and genetic mechanisms that modulate ageing and development
Award winner: David Choi
Institution: University College London
Source and efficacy of human olfactory ensheathing cells in the repair of brachial plexus avulsion
Award winner: Daniel Stuart Elson
Institution: Imperial College London
Optical platform for therapy and diagnostic imaging in minimally invasive surgical endoscopy
Award winner: Kevin Richard Foster
Institution: University of Oxford
Social interactions in microbes
Award winner: Thimo Kasimir Kurz
Institution: University of Dundee
Regulation and function of Cullin-Ring E3 ubiquitin ligases and the Nedd8 ubiquitin-like protein-modification system
Award winner: Bing Song
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Repair spinal cord injury by controlling migration of neural stem cells: multidisciplinary approaches of electric stimulation and nanotechnology
Award winner: Philip Anthony Wigge
Institution: John Innes Centre
Temperature perception and signal transduction in plants
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Award winner: Andrew Bremner
Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Human embodied multisensory development: an investigation of the construction of embodied multisensory experience in human infancy and early childhood
Award winner: Michael Bruter
Institution: London School of Economics
Inside the mind of a voter: memory, identity and electoral psychology
Award winner: Giovanna Colombetti
Institution: University of Exeter
Emoting the embodied mind
Award winner: Hein Gysbert de Haas
Institution: University of Oxford
The determinants of international migration: a theoretical and empirical assessment of policy, origin and destination effects
Award winner: Guido Giglioni
Institution: University of London
The medicine of the mind and natural philosophy in early modern England: a new interpretation of Francis Bacon
Award winner: Sokbae Lee
Institution: University College London
Research on microeconometrics: econometric theory and applications
Award winner: ystein Linnebo
Institution: University of Bristol
Plurals, predicates and paradox: towards a type-free account
Award winner: Phanish Puranam
Institution: London Business School
Foundation of organisation design
Award winner: Balazs Szentes
Institution: University College London
Evolutionary approaches towards preferences
Award winner: Silvana Tenreyro
Institution: London School of Economics
Research on economic fluctuations and globalisation
Award winner: Simone Turchetti
Institution: University of Manchester
The Earth under surveillance: climate change, geophysics and the Cold War legacy
Award winner: Sari Wastell
Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Bosnian bones, Spanish ghosts: “Transitional Justice” and the legal shaping of memory after two modern conflicts
IN DETAIL
ERC Advanced Investigator Award
Award winner: Gill Valentine
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: EUR2.2 million (£1.9 million)
Living with difference in Europe: making communities out of strangers in an era of super mobility and super diversity
Addressing the rising levels of insecurity generated by post-9/11 terrorism and the current global financial crisis, Professor Valentine will research how communities can develop the capacity to live with difference in an era of unprecedented mobility and population change. The Advanced Investigator Award will also create a four-year fixed-term lectureship, and bring six postdoctoral researchers and two doctoral studentships to the institution.