ERC Grants
The European Commission promotes excellent top-level research as part of the European Research Council (ERC) program. With the Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant and Advanced Grant, it awards highly endowed funding for researchers at various career stages. With the Synergy Grants, the ERC funds consortia of two to four leading scientists. The various funding lines are announced annually.
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ERC funding for different career stages
The ERC funds excellent researchers at various career stages. The date of the PhD defense is decisive for eligibility in the funding programs.
ERC Starting Grants
With the Starting Grant, the ERC supports innovative researchers at early career stages (2-7 years after PhD). In general, up to 1.5 million Euros are available for this purpose. Funding period: 5 years
| 2024 | Dr. Nina Hanning, FREE-VIEW: Unleashing gaze: Neuro-cognitive processes underlying gaze control and perception across free-viewing eye movements. Department of Psychology. Funding period: 06/2025 - 05/2030 |
| 2023 | Dr. Torben Ott, TIMEVALUE: Neural and serotonergic mechanisms underlying time valuation in rats. Department of Biology. Funding period 01/2024 - 12/2028 |
| 2021 | Dr. Benjamin Kiesewetter, REASONS F1RST: The structure of Normativity. Department of Philosophy, Funding period 10/2022 - 02/2023. Transfer to the Universit?t Bielefeld. |
| 2020 | Prof. Dr. Dora Vargha, SOCMED: Socialist Medicine: An Alternative Global Health History. Department of History, subject area History of Science. Funding period: 09/2021 - 08/2026 |
| 2019 | Dr. Tim Schr?der, QUREP: Repeater Architectures Based on Quantum Memories and Photonic Encoding. Department of Physics, Group Leader Integrated Quantum Photonics, Funding period: 12/2020 - 11/2025 |
| 2018 | Dr. Michael Bojdys, BEGMAT: Layered functional materials – beyond ‘graphene, eingeworben mit Univerzita Kalova Prag, Change to Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin 01.04.2018, Department of Chemistry, subject area Functional Nanomaterials. Funding period: 04/2018 - 07/2021 |
| 2018 | Dr. David Garfield, evolSingleCellGRN: Constraint, Adaptation, and Heterogeneity: Genomic and single-cell approaches to understanding the evolution of developmental gene regulatory networks. IRI Life Sciences, until 31.12.2019. Funding period: 02/2019 - 04/2021 |
| 2018 | Prof. Dr. Christian Volk, Protest und Ordnung. Demokratietheorie, umk?mpfte Politik und der Formwandel westlicher Demokratien (POWDER), Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Department of Social Sciences. Funding period: 04/2018 - 03/2023 |
| 2015 | Prof. Dr. Katharina Spalek, FAHMRRR: Focus alternatives in the human mind: Retrieval, representation, and recall, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Department of German Studies and Linguistics, subject area Psycho Linguistics. Funding period: 06/2016 - 05/2021 |
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ERC Consolidator Grants
With the Consolidator Grant (7-12 years after PhD), the ERC funds researchers who have already achieved their first excellent research results. The funding period is usually five years and the funding amount is up to 2 million euros.
| 2023 |
Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton: TECHtonics: Power, Politics and Contestation in Global Technical Standard Setting. Department of Asian and African Studies. |
| 2023 |
Dr. Magdalena Waligorska-Huhle: PLUNDERED LIVES: Intimate Dispossession: The Afterlives of Plundered Jewish Personal Possessions in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Department of European Ethnology. |
| 2021 |
Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani, TODO: Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives. Department of English and American Studies. |
| 2020 | Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías, WAVEMATTERS: Urban vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism. Department of European Ethnology. Funding period: 01/2022 - 12/2026 |
| 2020 | Prof. Dr. Tobias Kümmerle, SystemShift: Shifting to a Land Systems Paradigm in Conservation. Department of Geography, Biogeographie. Funding period: 01/2022 - 12/2026 |
| 2019 | Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm, SEED - Solvated Ions in Solid Electrodes: Alternative routes toward rechargeable batteries based on abundant elements, Department of Chemistry, special area physical chemistry of Materials - Electrochemistry. Funding period: 06/2020 - 05/2025 |
| 2019 | Prof. Dr. Martin Rolfs, VIS-A-VIS - How visual action shapes active vision, Department of Psychology, special area general psychologie - percetion and cognition. Funding period: 01/2021 - 12/2025 |
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Prof. Dr. Susanne Schreiber, ANewSpike - A new type of spike: |
| 2019 | Prof. Dr. Marc Erhardt, BacNanoMachine: Reconstructing the coordinated self-assembly of a bacterial nanomachine, Department of Biology, special area bacterial physiology. Funding period: 10/2020 - 09/2025 |
| 2018 | Dr. Olaf Hohm, Duality Symmetries: Higher Derivatives, and their Applications in Cosmology, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Department of Physics. Funding period: 09/2018 - 08/2023 |
| 2017 | Prof. Dr. Chris Wendl, TRANSHOLOMORPHIC:Neue Transversalit?tsmethoden in der Theorie holomorpher Kurven, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Department of Mathematics, special area differential geometry. Funding period: 09/2018 - 08/2023 |
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ERC Advanced Grants
With the Advanced Grant, the ERC funds experienced top researchers with more than 10 years of research experience. The funding period is five years and the funding amount is usually 2.5 million euros.
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| 2022 | Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka, GraWFTy: High-Precision Gravitational Wave Physics from a Worldline Quantum Field Theory, Department of Physics. Funding period: 10/2023 - 09/2028 |
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| 2022 | Prof. Dr. Roland Strausz, PRIVDIMA: Data Privacy in Digital Markets, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Funding period: 10/2023 - 09/2028 |
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| 2021 | Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum, Cortical Coupling: Dendro-somatic Coupling and global neuronal signaling. Department of Biology. Funding period: 01/2023 - 12/2027 |
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| 2020 | Prof. Dr. Bernd Schipper, DEMBIB: From Texts to Literature: Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible. Institut für altorientalische und hellenistische Religionsgeschichte (IAHGR). F?rderdauer: 01/2022 - 12/2026 |
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| 2020 | Prof. Dr. Bruno Klingler, TameHodge: Tame geometry and transcendence in Hodge theory. Department of Mathematic, special area algebra. Funding period: 10/2021 - 09/2026 |
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| 2019 |
Prof. Dr. Gavril Farkas, SYZYGY: Syzygies, moduli and topological |
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| 2019 | Prof. Dr. Cigdem Issever, HiggsSelfCoupling: Uncovering the Origins of Mass: Discovery of the di-Higgs Process and Constraints on the Higgs Self-Coupling. Department of Physics, special area Experimental elementary particle physics. Funding period: 06/2019 - 05/2024 |
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| 2015 | Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, MERA: Mechanismus der Enzymrhodopsin-Aktivierung, Berlin - Humboldt-Universit?t, Department of Biology, special area experimental biophysis. Funding period: 10/2016 - 12/2020 |
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| 2014 | Prof. Dr. Oliver Seitz, TRIGGDRUG:Reactions that translate mRNA into dug-like molecules - TRIGGDRUG, Berlin - Humboldt-Universit?t, Department of Chemistry, special area prganic and bioorganic chemistry III. Funding period: 01/2016 - 12/2020 |
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ERC Synergy Grants
An ERC Synergy Grant supports interdisciplinary research teams that work together to advance particularly innovative projects. Funding amount: 10 million euros, funding period: 6 years
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| 2022 | Prof. Dr. Arno Rauschenbeutel, SuperWave: Superatom Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics, Department of Physics. Funding period: 11/2023 - 10/2029 |
| 2020 | Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, SOL: Switchable rhodOpsins in Life Sciences. Department of Biology, special area experimental biophysics. F?rderdauer: 09/2022 - 08/2028 |
| 2019 | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou, LeibnizDream - Realizing Leibniz?s Dream: Child Languages as a Mirror of the Mind, Department of English and American Studies, special area Englisch language studies. Funding period: 01/2021 - 12/2026 |
| 2018 | Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht, ERC Synergy Grant BrainPlay - The self teaching Brain, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Department of Biology, Collaborative Research Centre for Theoretical Biology. Funding period: 08/2019 - 01/2026 |
| 2018 | Dr. Annette Schmiedchen, ERC Synergy Grant DHARMA - The Domestication of 'Hindu' Asceticism and the religious Making of South and Southeast Asia, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Department of Asian and African Studies. Funding period: 05/2019 - 10/2025 |
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ERC Grantees before 2015
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| 2014 | Prof. Dr. Oliver Seitz, TRIGGDRUG:Reactions that translate mRNA into dug-like molecules - TRIGGDRUG, Berlin - Humboldt-Universit?t, Institut für Chemie, Fachgebiet Organische und Bioorganische Chemie III. | ? |
| 2014 |
Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum, ActiveCortex:Active dendrites and cortical associations, Berlin - Humboldt-Universit?t, Department of Biology, Fachgebiet Neuronale Plastizit?t. |
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| 2014 | Prof. Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein, Berlin - Humboldt-Universit?t, Institut für Psychologie, Fachgebiet Kognitive und klinische Neurowissenschaften, bis zum 31.12.2015. | ? |
| 2013 | Dr. Magdalena NOWICKA, TRANSFORmIG:Transforming Migration: Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus, eingeworben mit: Max Planck Gesellschaft zur F?rderung der Wissenschaften e.V., Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin zum 01.03.2013, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Bereich Soziologie, Fachgebiet: Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie. | ? |
| 2012 | Prof. Dr. Hans B?RNER, SIP:SPECIFICALLY INTERACTING POLYMERS – From Selective Adhesion toward Specific Recognition, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Fachgebiet Organische Synthese funktionaler Systeme. | ? |
| 2012 | Prof. Dr. Stefan HECHT, Light4Function:Light-controlled and Light-driven Molecular Action, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Fachgebiet Organische Chemie und Funktionale Materialien. | ? |
| 2011 | Prof. Dr. Michael BORGOLTE, FOUNDMED:Stiftungen in mittelalterlichen Gesellschaften. Interkulturelle Vergleiche, Berlin - Humboldt-Universit?t, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Fachgebiet Mittelalterliche Geschichte. | ? |
| 2011 | Prof. Georg WEIZS?CKER, Ph.D., InvExpectations:Investors' Expectations: Measuring their Nature and Effect, eingeworben mit: University College London, Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin zum 01.10.2012, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakult?t, Fachgebiet: Mikro?konomische Theorie und Ihre Anwendungen. | ? |
| 2010 | Prof. Dr. Janina KNEIPP, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Fachgebiet Physikalische Chemie | ? |
| 2010 | Dr. Alexander KEESE, ForcedLabourAfrica:Forced labour: an Afro-European heritage in sub-Saharan Africa (1930-1975)?, eingeworben mit: Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto, Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin zum 1.09.2011, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Fachgebiet: Geschichte Afrikas | ? |
| 2009 | Prof. Dr. Thomas ELS?SSER, Berlin - Direktor am Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. und S-Professor am Institut für Physik der Humboldt-Universit?t | ? |
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2009 |
Prof. Dr. Regine HENGGE, SecMessBiofilm:New Concepts in Second Messenger Signaling and Bacterial Biofilm Formation, Berlin - Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Mikrobiologie, Signaltransduktion und Regulatorische Netzwerke in Bakterien, Wechsel an die Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin zum 01.09.2013. |
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| 2008 | Prof. Dr. Michael BRECHT, Neuro-behavior:From Neuron to Behavior, Berlin - Humboldt-Universit?t, Institut für Biologie, Fachgebiet Tierphysiologie und systemische Neurobiologie | ? |
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