ERC Advanced Grant 2015

Funded projects

• Functional Role of the HLA-DR15 Haplotype in Multiple Sclerosis

  University of Zurich · CH · €2,368,068

• Blood regeneration: de novo development of human hematopoietic stem cells

  THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH · UK · €2,500,000

• Institutions and Morality

  BEHAVIOR AND INEQUALITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE GGMBH · DE · €1,696,470

• Organizational Industrial Organization

  UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE · €1,382,264

• Better MPC Protocols in Theory and in Practice

  AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,421,995

• Exploring the outer solar system beyond Neptune using stellar occultations

  SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €2,423,750

• Manufacturing Shock Interactions for Innovative Nanoscale Processes

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €2,353,438

• Entanglement and Quantum Engineering with optical Microcavities

  SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €2,422,750

• Phosphorene functionalization: a new platform for advanced multifunctional materials

  CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €1,995,554

• Understanding the mass scales in nature

  UNIVERSITA DI PISA · IT

• Knowledge For Use [K4U]: Making the Most of Social Science to Build Better Policies

  UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · UK · €2,092,125

• dUTPase Signalling: from Phage to Eukaryotes

  IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €2,246,192

• Synthetic Cell Biology: Designing organelle transport mechanisms

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €3,000,000

• Exploring the Terascale at LHC with Novel Highly Granular Calorimeters

  IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €3,034,107

• Information services: competition and externalities

  FONDATION JEAN JACQUES LAFFONT,TOULOUSE SCIENCES ECONOMIQUES · FR · €1,815,938

• Exoribonuclease-mediated degradation of nascent RNA in Malaria Parasites: A Novel Mechanism in Virulence Gene Silencing

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,499,761

• Duality in Formal Languages and Logic - a unifying approach to complexity and semantics

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,348,938

• CMOS/magnetoelectronic Integrated Circuits wil Multifunctional Capabilities

  COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR · €2,500,000

• BIOdiversity, STAbility and sustainability in Spatial Ecological and social-ecological Systems

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,092,644

• Brain-viscera interactions underlie subjectivity

  ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE · FR · €2,080,000

• Disequilibirum metamorphism of stressed lithosphere

  UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €2,900,000

• A nanophysics approach to synthetic cell division

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €2,500,000

• The Hall Plateau Transition and non-unitary Quantum Field Theory

  COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR

• DNA strand break repair and links to human disease

  THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED · UK · €2,203,153

• Molecular imaging and targeted therapy of the aggressive phenotype: development of uPAR theranostics for cancer patients

  REGION HOVEDSTADEN · DK · €2,072,000

• Molecular mechanisms of acute oxygen sensing.

  UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA · ES · €2,843,750

• Marine phytoplankton as biogeochemical drivers: Scaling from membranes and single cells to populations

  MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM · UK · €2,704,190

• New Frontiers in Cellular Reprogramming: Exploiting Cellular Plasticity

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES · €2,488,850

• Collider Phenomenology and Event Generators

  LUNDS UNIVERSITET · SE · €1,990,895

• An alternative development of analytic number theory and applications

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €2,011,742

• Characterising protein oligomers and their role in neurodegenerative disease in humans

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €2,499,551

• Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City

  THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX · UK

• Deciphering the greenhouse gas record in deepest ice using continuous sublimation extraction / laser spectrometry

  UNIVERSITAET BERN · CH · €2,255,788

• Role of Apolipoproteins L in immunity and disease

  UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE · €2,250,000

• Establishment of Sister Chromatid Cohesion

  THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED · UK

• Film Colors. An Interdisciplinary Approach.

  UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH

• Microbial life in oil

  UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN · DE · €2,549,250

• Bioengineered autonomous cell-biomaterials devices for generating humanised micro-tissues for regenerative medicine

  UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO · PT

• The ABC of Cell Volume Regulation

  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

• Integrable Random Structures

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE

• Nodding Syndrome: a trans-disciplinary approach to identify the cause and decrease the incidence of river epilepsy

  UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE · €2,417,000

• Integrating Genomics and Avatar Mouse Models to Personalize Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

  HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE FUENLABRADA · ES

• Algebraic and Kähler geometry

  UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · FR · €1,809,345

• Self-sustaining vibration and mechanical resonance effects in stimuli responsive liquid crystal polymer coatings and membranes (Vibrate)

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

• Structure function relationships of the phyllosphere microbiota

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,499,980

• Presynaptic Regulatory Principles in Synaptic Plasticity, Neuronal Network Function, and Behaviour

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE

• The interpretation of retinal activity by the visual thalamus.

  INSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE UND KLINISCHE OPHTHALMOLOGIE BASEL · CH · €2,500,000

• Immunological synapse derived ectosomes in T cell effector function

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,212,114

• Uncertainty and Precaution: Environmental Decisions Involving Catastrophic Threats

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,066,976

• Productivity and Development: The Ready-made Garment Productivity Project

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €1,983,400

• ULTRAfast growth of ultrahigh performance SUPERconducting TAPEs

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €2,496,652

• MATching zeolite SYNthesis with CATalytic activity

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €2,470,519

• Chemical communication in the rhizosphere of plants

  UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · NL

• Anionic redox processes: A transformational approach for advanced energy materials

  COLLEGE DE FRANCE · FR

• Getting back to Growth through Technological and Managerial Innovation

  LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE · UK · €1,957,592

• Computational Microscopy of Crowded Membranes

  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

• Molecular strategies to treat inherited arrhythmias

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA · IT · €2,314,029

• Probing Physics beyond the Standard Model from Molecules

  STICHTING VU · NL · €2,500,000

• Early Microbial Evolution

  HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF · DE

• K-theory, L^2-invariants, manifolds, groups and their interactions

  RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · DE · €1,719,583

• Language dynamics: a neurocognitive approach to incremental interpretation

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €2,185,856

• Form-frequency correspondences in grammar

  UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG · DE · €1,772,625

• Individual decisions and macroeconomic robustness

  UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI · IT · €1,394,716

• Multi-dimensional interferometric amplification of ultrashort laser pulses

  FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITÄT JENA · DE · €2,373,750

• Vascular Engineering on chip using differentiated Stem Cells

  UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL · €2,250,000

• Function and malfunction of the prion protein

  UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH · €2,500,000

• Europe’s Lost Frontiers: exploring climate change, settlement and colonisation of the submerged landscapes of the North Sea basin using ancient DNA, seismic mapping and complex systems modelling

  UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD · UK · €2,497,843

• Cochlear Optogenetics for Auditory Research and Prosthetics

  UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN GOETTINGEN - GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN - STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS · DE · €2,496,405

• Structural, genetic and functional analyses of broadly neutralizing antibodies against human pathogens

  FONDAZIONE PER L'ISTITUTO DI RICERCA IN BIOMEDICINA · CH · €1,867,500

• Looking West: the European Socialist regimes facing pan-European cooperation and the European Community

  EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE · IT · €1,811,200

• Scalable Quantum Photonic Networks

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,499,981

• Quantum Algebraic Structures and Models

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA · IT · €1,587,500

• Proteomics 4D: The proteome in context

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,208,150

• Social Chemosignaling as a Factor in Human Behavior in both Health and Disease

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €2,074,206

• hybridFRET - deciphering biomolecular structure and dynamics

  HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF · DE

• Read the fine print: Zooming into paleoenvironmental and biogeochemical processes through molecular imaging of biomarker distributions in sediments

  UNIVERSITAET BREMEN · DE · €3,000,000

• Engineering of a minimal bacterial therapeutic chassis

  FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA · ES · €2,454,522

• Resource Bounded Graph Query Answering

  THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH · UK · €2,171,524

• Learning, Analysis, SynthesiS and Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems

  AALBORG UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,493,750

• Novel Cells for Organ Repair

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,500,000

• Rotation and Nutation of a wobbly Earth

  KONINKLIJKE STERRENWACHT VAN BELGIE · BE · €2,500,000

• The Making of the Earth – Reading the Geochemical Code from Meteorites and the Earth’s Oldest Rocks

  UNIVERSITAT ZU KOLN · DE · €2,499,735

• Mechanisms of alternative pre-mRNA splicing regulation in cancer and pluripotent cells

  FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA · ES · €2,159,574

• R-loops as a major modulator of transcription-associated recombination and chromatin dynamics

  UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA · ES · €2,312,500

• Recombination in large genome crop plants

  THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE · UK · €2,499,980

• Camera Observation and Modelling of 4D Tracer Dispersion in the Atmosphere

  STIFTELSEN NILU · NO · €2,800,000

• Insomnia’s Negative Sequelae On Mood: from Neuroscience to Intervention in the Aged

  KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW · NL

• N-Myc and Aurora A: From Protein Stability to Chromosome Topology N-Myc and Aurora A: From Protein Stability to Chromosome Topology Myc and Aurora A: From Protein Stability to Chromosome Topology

  JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG · DE · €2,455,180

• Polymeric Analogs to Biolubrication Systems

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,456,570

• Plasmonic-Silicon-Organic Hybrid – a Universal Platform for THz Communications

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,487,475

• Efficient, Flexible Synthesis of Molecules with Tailored Shapes: from Photo-switchable Helices to anti-Cancer Compounds

  UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL · UK · €2,436,379

• Excited electronic states in extended molecular systems

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €2,499,836

• Harmonic Analysis and Differential Equations: New Challenges

  UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA · ES · €1,672,103

• The values of French language and literature in the European Middle Ages

  KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €2,274,225

• Novel Gene Therapy Based on the Activation of Endogenous Genes for the Treatment of Ischemia - Concepts of endogenetherapy, release of promoter pausing, promoter-targeted ncRNAs and nuclear RNAi

  ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO · FI · €2,437,500

• Novel materials to improve magnetic resonance imaging

  ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN · NL · €2,263,692

• Intergenerational Reproduction and Solidarity in an Era of Family Complexity

  KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW · NL · €2,499,533

• The Materials Genome in Action

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €2,486,720

• HIV-1 sensing and signaling in dendritic cells

  ACADEMISCH MEDISCH CENTRUM BIJ DE UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · NL · €2,499,156

• Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors: Enabling Discoveries

  ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE · IT

• Controlling Electric Signals with Insulating Antiferromagnets and Insulating Ferromagnets

  NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO

• Reshuffling genes and genomes: from experimental evolution to synthetic biology in plants

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,500,000

• Scriptores Iuris Romani. Texts and Thought.

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · IT · €2,025,000

• Dissecting microbiome and immune interactions in human intestinal (cancer) organoids

  KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW · NL · €3,062,438

• PTX3 in Humoral Innate Immunity

  HUMANITAS MIRASOLE SPA · IT · €2,497,081

• Stability conditions, Donaldson-Thomas invariants and cluster varieties

  THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · UK · €1,556,550

• Origins of a new Economic Union (7th to 12th centuries): resources, landscapes and political strategies in a Mediterranean region

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA · IT · €2,500,000

• Understanding Cytokinetic Actomyosin Ring Assembly Through Genetic Code Expansion, Click Chemistry, DNA origami, and in vitro Reconstitution

  UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK · UK · €2,863,705

• Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Water in its Various States

  STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · SE · €2,486,951

• Cosmological Structure Formation in the Multiverse

  THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH · UK · €2,191,778

• Effects of maternal gestational adiposity on fetal development and perinatal, postnatal and next generation health.

  UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL · UK · €1,863,321

• Design and redesign of a plant immune receptor complex

  THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY · UK · €2,499,978

• Reconstitution of Chromosome Replication and Epigenetic Inheritance

  THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED · UK · €1,983,019

• Interacting polaritons in two-dimensional electron systems

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,482,250

• Spin Orbitronics for Electronic Technologies

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,750,000

• Fulfilling Paul Ehrlich’s Dream: therapeutics with activity on demand

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

• FLow of Ancient Metals across Eurasia (FLAME): New frameworks for interpreting human interaction in Later Prehistory

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,447,052

• Development of Molecular-defined Non-noble Metal Complexes and Nano-structured Materials for Sustainable Redox Reactions Development of Molecular-defined Non-noble Metal Complexes and Nano-structured

  LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUER KATALYSE EV · DE · €2,499,375

• A data-driven multiscale simulation of organogenesis

  EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · DE

• Bacterial, cellular and epigenetic factors that control enteropathogenicity

  INSTITUT PASTEUR · FR · €1,147,500

• Molecular reconstitution of epigenetic centromere inheritance

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,064,583

• Topological organization of vertebrate regulatory landscapes: The Hox genes paradigm

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €2,499,628

• Pathways to Intrinsically Icephobic Surfaces

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,498,043

• Laying the Biological, Computational and Architectural Foundations for Human Cell Lineage Discovery

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €2,250,000

• Exploring mechanisms of gene repression and escape during X-chromosome inactivation

  EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · DE · €2,312,500

• Virtual Design, Virtual Processing and Virtual Testing of Metallic Materials

  FUNDACION IMDEA MATERIALES · ES · €2,466,250

• Photo Induced Collective Properties of Hybrid Halide Perovskites

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €2,495,712

• Ecological determinants of tropical-temperate trends in insect diversity

  BIOLOGICKE CENTRUM AKADEMIE VID CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYZKUMNA INSTITUCE · CZ · €3,349,618

• The effects of early-life adversity on cognition: A comparative approach.

  UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · UK · €2,080,040

• DE NOVO GENERATION OF SOMATIC STEM CELLS: REGULATION AND MECHANISMS OF CELL PLASTICITY

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €2,498,934

• Smart Device Communication: A paradigm for high PERformance FUture Mobile nEtworking

  EURECOM GIE · FR

• A multi-resolution theory for systems and control across scales

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK

• unrAvelLing sLow modE travelinG and tRaffic: with innOvative data to a new transportation and traffic theory for pedestrians and bicycles

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL

• Taming non convexity?

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €1,450,625

• Artificial-Intelligence Driven Discovery and Synthesis of Polyoxometalate Clusters

  UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW · UK · €2,464,532

• L-form bacteria, biotechnology and disease

  UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · UK · €2,428,621

• Harmonic Analysis and l-adic sheaves

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €1,569,488

• Early Star-Forming Galaxies and Cosmic Reionisation

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €2,458,405