ERC Grants
The funding of pioneering basic research is one of the priorities of the European Union. To this end, the European Research Council (ERC) has been established. To receive support, research projects must have a high potential for innovation. 14 ERC grants have already been awarded to researchers from the Faculty of Life Sciences since 2009.
ERC Advanced Grants
- ElegansBrainBodyEnvi - Mechanisms and Functions of Brain- Body- Environment Interactions in C. elegans
PI: Manuel Zimmer (Dep. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) | press release
- MICROCLIM - A micro-scale perspective on alpine floras under climate change. Linking observations and models to improve our understanding of the future of European high mountain plants (2020-2025)
PI: Stefan Dullinger (Dep. of Botany and Biodiversity Research) | press release
- TACK - Superphylum and Lokiarchaeota Evolution – Dissecting the Ecology and Evolution of Archaea to Elucidate the Prokaryote to Eukaryote Transition (2016-2021)
PI: Christa Schleper (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release
- MEDEA - Microbial Ecology of the Deep Atlantic pelagic realm (2011-2016)
PI: Gerhard Herndl (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release
- SOMACCA - The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach (2009-2014)
PI: Tecumseh Fitch (Dep. of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology)
ERC Consolidator Grants
- CLAR - A calorimeter at atomic resolution
PI: Julien Orts (Dep. of Pharmaceutical Sciences) | press release
- RESERVOIR - Revealing evolutionary systems behind the endemic reservoirs of infectious, re-emerging diseases
PI: Verena Schünemann (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology) | press release
ERC Starting Grants
- MicroStratDNA - Reconstructing Paleolithic Population Dynamics Using Microstratified Paleogenomics (2022 - 2027)
PI: Mareike Stahlschmidt (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology) | press release
- METASCALE - Modes of genome evolution during major metazoan transitions (2020 - 2025)
PI: Oleg Simakov (Dep. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) | press release
- Evolution of physiology: the link between Earth and Life (2018 - 2023)
PI: Filipa Sousa (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release
- FINDER - Fossil Fingerprinting and Identification of New Denisovan remains from Pleistocene Asia (2017 – 2023)
PI: Katerina Douka (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology)
- GLYCONOISE - Emergent properties of cell surface glycosylation in cell-cell communication (2017 – 2023)
PI: Christoph Rademacher (Dep. of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- UNICODE - Evolution and Impact of Heterochromatin on a Young Drosophila Y chromosome ( 2016-2021)
PI: Qi Zhou (Dep. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) | press release
- ADNABIOARC - From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history (2010-2015)
PI: Ron Pinhasi (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology)