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Results - ERC Starting Grant call 2021

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The ERCEA has announced the results of the Starting Grant call 2021. Out of 4066 submitted proposals, 397 early-career researchers have been selected. The success rate for this call was 9.8%. The selected researchers will receive €1.5 million per grant on average, with a total of €619 million granted.

Amongst the 397 Principle Investigators are 7 PIs affiliated with a Flemish host institution:

  • Lorenz Demey, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Towards a Systematic Theory of Aristotelian Diagrams in Logical Geometry’, panel SH4
  • Sander Govers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Deep single-cell phenotyping to identify governing principles and mechanisms of the subcellular organization of bacterial replication’, LS3
  • Christian Haffner, Interuniversitair MicroElectronica Centrum Vzw, ‘quantum electro-optic amplifiers for the next generation quantum and supercomputers’, PE7
  • Paul Michael Kurtz, Universiteit Gent, ‘Philology as Science in 19th-Century Europe’, SH5
  • Alexandra Simonenko, Universiteit Gent, ‘Modeling causes of language change and conservatism’, SH4
  • Joris Van den Driessche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Scientific societies and the globalization of science (1930-1990)’, SH7
  • Alex Vorsters, Universiteit Antwerpen, ‘Disease and vaccine monitoring based on noninvasive genital tract liquid biopsy sampling’, LS7

 

The press release can be found here. News | ERC: European Research Council (europa.eu)

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