ERC ADVANCED GRANTS: 253 TOP RESEARCHERS AWARDED OVER €624M
The European Research Council today announced the winners of its 2021 Advanced Grants competition. The funding, worth in total€624 million, will go to 253 leading researchers across Europe. Their work is set to provide new insights into many subjects, such as using mathematics to find better ways to use antibiotics and chemotherapy, how to protect the biodiversity of islands, exploring the Cosmic Dawn, and understanding how language sounds change over time.
ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent scientists and scholars in any field at the career stage when they are already established research leaders, with a recognised track record of research achievements.
The future grantees will carry out their projects at universities and research centres across 21 EU Member States and associated countries.
ERC competitions are open to researchers of any nationality and, in this round, 28 different nationalities won funding.
Lists of researchers selected for funding
As the only Hungarian this year, Gábor Tardos won a 5-year-long research grant with a budget of 2.017 million euros.
The aim of his project is to exploit the new understanding behind an algorithmic technique he has developed earlier and to apply it various, seemingly unrelated combinatorial problems.
The Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics will provide the institutional background for the project.
This is the 11th prestigious reserch project at the Rényi Institute that gets funded by the European Research Council.
Congratulations and good luck with your project!