ERC Advanced Grant 2008

Funded projects

• Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam

  FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · DE · €1,864,760

• Mechanics of Energy Dissipation in Dense Granular Materials

  ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION · EL · €981,600

• Soil Foundation Structure Systems Beyond Conventional Seismic Failure Thresholds: Application to New or Existing Structures and Monuments

  ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION · EL · €2,399,992

• Self-Managing Situated Computing

  POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €2,544,156

• Search Computing

  POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €2,500,000

• Cold Rydbergs: photoionization, electronic spectroscopy and electrostatic trapping

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €1,192,395

• Mathematical Methods for Financial Risk Management

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €880,560

• Development of multi-scale molecular models, force fields and computer software for biomolecular simulation

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €1,320,000

• Quantum optics using nanostructures: from many-body physics to quantum information processing

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,300,000

• Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like materials: new synthetic strategies lead to new materials

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €1,618,238

• Scanning Nano-SQUID on a Tip

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €2,000,000

• Video-rate Scanning Probe Microscopy Imaging of Nanostructures on Surfaces

  AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €1,324,983

• Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,096,703

• An Intense Summer Monsoon in a Cool World, Climate and East Asian Monsoon during Interglacials with a special emphasis on the Interglacials 500,000 years ago and before

  UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · BE · €893,880

• Detailed chemical kinetic models for cleaner internal combustion engines

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €1,869,450

• Research on Really Reliable and Secure Systems Software

  STICHTING VU · NL · €2,448,420

• Search for emergent phenomena in oxide nanostructures

  UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · AT · €2,026,800

• Preparation of polyfunctional organometallics: new key intermediates for synthetic organic chemistry

  LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €2,061,000

• Equidistribution in number theory

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €866,000

• Mass hierarchy and particle physics at the TeV scale

  ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH · €1,999,992

• Thermal, optical and redox processes in molecular conduction junctions

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €842,420

• Discrete Mathematics: methods, challenges and applications

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €1,061,300

• Bounded Rationality in Industrial Organization

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

• Quantum Gauge Theories and Ultracold Atoms

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · ES · €1,400,000

• Cryogenic Traps for Entanglement Research with Ions

  UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK · AT · €2,200,000

• Adaptive Schemes for Deterministic and Stochastic Flow Problems

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE · FR · €1,432,769

• Foundations of Web Data Management

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE · FR · €2,415,620

• Robust Sensor Array Processing

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE · €1,531,628

• Problems at the Applied Mathematics-Statistics Interface

  UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK · UK · €1,693,501

• eLab4Life: Electr(ochem)ical Labs-on-a-Chip for Life Sciences

  UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL · €2,382,442

• New Opportunities in Terahertz Engineering and Science

  UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · UK · €1,542,600

• Numerical Design of Self Assembly of Complex Colloidal Structures

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €1,863,234

• New Directions in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €2,018,579

• Hydrothermal and Ionothermal Chemistry For Sustainable Materials (HYDRA-CHEM)

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,461,600

• Islam in the Making of a European Public Sphere

  ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES · FR · €1,414,645

• A Comparative History of the State Building process in Latin America (1820-1870)

  UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA · ES · €1,580,000

• Chemistry of Coordination Space: Extraction, Storage, Activation and Catalysis

  THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · UK

• Expander Graphs in Pure and Applied Mathematics

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €1,082,504

• Visualizing Molecular Change

  MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University · SE · €2,056,000

• How do values influence the functioning of institutions and the effects of policies?

  UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI · IT · €1,068,000

• Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA · IT · €1,044,750

• Self-Organized Nanostructuring in Functional Thin Film Materials

  Linköping University · SE · €2,292,000

• Attosecond Control of Light and Matter

  MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University · SE · €2,250,000

• Open intelligent systems for Future Autonomous Vehicles

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA · IT

• Nonlinear Micro- and Nano-Photonics: nonlinear optics at the micrometer scale and below

  TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €2,100,000

• Failure and Fluid Flow in Porous Quasibrittle Materials

  UNIVERSITE DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR · FR · €1,490,200

• Gaps between primes and almost primes. Patterns in primes and almost primes. Approximations to the twin prime and Goldbach conjectures

  HUN-REN RENYI ALFRED MATEMATIKAI KUTATOINTEZET · HU · €1,376,400