ERC Advanced Grant 2020

Funded projects

• The Future of Prediction: The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing

  UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD · DE · €2,084,429

• Graphical Models for Complex Multivariate Data

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €1,971,296

• Flavour Anomalies with advanced particle Identification MEthods

  INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN · SI

• Deconstructing the role of SUMO on chromatin in cell identity and tissue repair

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €2,499,995

• Unravelling the secretion machinery for virulence factors in apicomplexan parasites

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €2,496,210

• Chloroplast and Mitochondria interactions for microalgal acclimation

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,498,207

• Astronomical Solutions over Geological Time

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,498,956

• TRansfers at tiny scales in tUrbulent multiphase FLOW

  SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €2,490,585

• Cognition in an Insect Brain

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,145,339

• From Data-based to Model-based AI: Representation Learning for Planning

  RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN · DE · €2,498,625

• The advent of the Iron Age in cell death

  HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH · DE · €2,499,835

• Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis- from centrosome to engineering migration

  HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH · DE · €2,256,834

• Lattices in a Parallel and Quantum World

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE · FR · €2,473,790

• Quantum Feedback Engineering

  ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS · FR · €2,440,125

• FeRroElectric control of Spin-charge interCOnversion

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

• Targeting Shelterin Proteins in Cancer

  FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III · ES · €2,495,466

• Large Deviations in Random Matrix Theory

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

• SpectroPhotometric Imaging in Astronomy with Kinetic Inductance Detectors

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,109,215

• Investors and Climate Change

  IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €1,738,670

• p-adic Langlands and the Emerton-Gee stack

  IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · UK · €2,195,110

• Revealing 1D ballistic charge and spin currents in second order topological insulators

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,432,676

• Neural origins of mind reading

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,377,325

• Identifying the steps required for meiotic DNA double-strand break formation

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,170,000

• COupling data and techniques for BReakthroughs in EXoplanetary systems exploration

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,495,266

• Micro-scale dependent, time- and space-evolving rheologies: the key for generating strain localization in the Earth

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,500,000

• Survival of Hadean REmnants in a Dynamic mantle

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,468,768

• Holographic control of visual circuits

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €2,500,000

• 1,000 ancient genomes: gene-economy innovation in cattle, sheep and goat

  THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE

• Bottom up biophysics approach to resolve the looping structure of chromosomes

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

• Impulsive Flows - beyond velocity and acceleration

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL

• Climatic Controls on Erosion Rates and Relief of Mountain Belts

  UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM · DE · €2,730,184

• Making Ancestors: The Politics of Death in Prehistoric Europe

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €1,943,548

• Probing the history of matter in deep time

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,495,496

• Escaping from Flatland by “de novo” Catalytic Decarboxylation Techniques

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €2,500,000

• Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalization

  EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE · IT · €2,342,600

• Convergence of positive and negative reinforcement in fentanyl addiction

  UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · CH · €2,499,748

• European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €2,498,126

• The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk

  EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE · IT · €2,354,381

• The human retina at single cell resolution: functional architecture, disease mechanism and therapy development

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

• Replaying the ‘genome duplication’ tape of life: the importance of polyploidy for adaptation in a changing environment

  VIB VZW · BE · €2,500,000

• Quantum Dot Fermi-Hubbard Emulators

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €3,449,720

• The Formation of the First Galaxies and Reionization with the James Webb Space Telescope

  THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · UK · €1,951,138

• DISSECT: Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication

  UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE

• The Final 21-cm Cosmology Frontier

  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €3,499,965

• Deciphering the Role of Huntingtin in Energy Supply for Axonal Transport in Health and Huntington’s Disease

  UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · FR · €2,369,941

• Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,484,953

• Nonlocal PDEs for Complex Particle Dynamics: Phase Transitions, Patterns and Synchronization

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,478,560

• Division of Labour and the Evolution of Complexity

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,491,766

• A structure-function analysis to discover how receptor conformations and interactions determine semaphorin-neuropilin-plexin signalling outputs.

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,083,825

• Finding the most distant galaxies with NIRSpec guaranteed time on the James Webb Space Telescope

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,049,961

• Nanoscale Aromaticity and Supramolecular Electronic Materials

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €2,491,625

• Silk-based ocular implants: treating eye conditions at the interface of photonics and biology

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €2,499,610

• Engineering Scalable Algorithms for the Basic Toolbox ScAlBox

  KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · DE · €2,498,785

• The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €2,499,750

• Rheology of yield stress fluids: a multiscale approach

  UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · UK

• MOlecules as Probes of the Physics of EXternal galaxies

  UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €2,461,503

• Molecular Bose Einstein Condensate

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DORTMUND · DE · €2,499,990

• African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €2,499,951

• Algorithmic Societies: Ethical Life in the Machine Learning Age

  UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · UK · €2,150,686

• Biomedical Applications of Radioactive ion Beams

  GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FUR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH · DE · €2,500,000

• Interglacial Collapse of Ice Sheets revealed by Subglacial Drilling of Bedrock

  UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · UK · €3,430,317

• The Political Economy of Distraction in Digitized Denmark

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,499,315

• Designer enzymes featuring unnatural amino acids as catalytic residue

  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €2,499,996

• Finding the Origin of Gas in Galaxies with MeerKAT

  STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN · NL · €2,498,811

• STARs at the EXtreme

  UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · CH · €2,500,000

• Material Constraints Enabling Human Cognition

  FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · DE · €2,499,580

• Social politics in European borderlands: A comparative and transnational study, 1870s-1990s

  EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE · IT · €2,499,682

• ExoMolHD: Precision spectroscopic data for studies of exoplanets and other hot atmospheres

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €2,486,340

• Linking within-host and between-host evolution of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  SCHWEIZERISCHES TROPEN UND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUT · CH · €2,500,000

• Tracking and Targeting Tumor States at single-cell resolution in real time in vivo

  UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE · €2,500,000

• Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century

  CEU GMBH · AT · €2,499,947

• Becoming a mother: An integrative model of adaptations for motherhood during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

  UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · ES · €2,465,131

• Enhancing Global Clean Energy Services Using Orbiting Solar Reflectors

  UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW · UK · €2,496,392

• Certification of quantum technologies

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · ES

• Explaining the winds of cool giant and supergiant stars with global 3D models

  UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · SE · €2,456,383

• The Physics of Metal Plasticity

  DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,496,793

• Imaging, characterizing and targeting metastatic niches in melanoma

  FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III · ES · €2,497,945

• Targeting cancer vulnerabilities in acute leukemia

  THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €3,200,000

• SYNergistic SORBents

  UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK · IE · €2,497,298

• Nano-Ridge Engineering for Densely Integrated III-V Lasers Directly Grown on Silicon

  UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €2,482,750

• Plasticity of the Pluripotency Network

  THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER · UK · €2,499,970

• Photon-photon and spin-spin Entanglement using Diamond-based impurity Elements: Silicon, Tin And Lead

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €2,478,734

• Structural biology of chromatin transcription

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,017,500

• MEtabolic Cell Reprogramming for the Recovery of Lost INsulin-Producing Cells

  UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · CH

• Syzygies, moduli and topological invariants of groups

  HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN · DE · €2,147,202

• Coenzyme- and metabolite-linked RNAs as a new paradigm in epitranscriptomics

  RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG · DE · €2,500,000

• Deciphering the unconventional receptor binding and modulation activity of bat influenza A viruses

  UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG · DE

• Structural Biology of Human Ribosome Biogenesis

  LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE

• Multivalent interactions driving RNP dynamics in development and disease

  KEMIJSKI INSTITUT · SI

• Historical Migrations, Trade, and Growth

  FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES · FR · €1,414,829

• Re-orienting development: the dynamics and effects of Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe

  THE OPEN UNIVERSITY · UK · €2,497,726

• Systemic Induced Root Exudation of Metabolites: A Multimodal Approach to Uncover Root Signaling Mechanisms and the Chemical Language used by Plants to Shape the Rhizosphere Microbiome

  WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €2,500,000

• From Geometry to Combinatorics and Back: Escaping the Curse of Dimensionality

  HUN-REN RENYI ALFRED MATEMATIKAI KUTATOINTEZET · HU

• Ocean deoxygenation effects on threatened top predators: New understanding and predictions from novel bio-logging instruments and data

  MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM · UK · €3,110,111

• QUantum advantage via non-linear BOSon Sampling

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · IT · €2,875,000

• Reverse Scale-Crossing Effects In Biology

  UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH · €2,411,075

• MECHANISMS BEHIND RESIDUAL DISEASE IN COLORECTAL CANCER and MODELLING OF THERAPIES THAT PREVENT RELAPSE

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES · €2,500,000

• Shaping Democratic Spaces: Security and TV Series

  UNIVERSITE PARIS I PANTHEON-SORBONNE · FR · €2,216,375

• Redesigning brain circuits in development

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,493,750

• Bimanual Manipulation of Rigid and Deformable Objects

  KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €2,424,186

• Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as Gateways to Minority Inclusion

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €2,499,579

• Who are we? Self-identity, Social Cognition, and Collective Intentionality

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,495,406

• Antibody engineering by natural selection and by design

  FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GENETICA MOLECOLARE INGM · IT · €2,478,125

• The physics of Earthquake faulting: learning from laboratory earthquake prediCTiON to Improve forecasts of the spectrum of tectoniC failure modes: TECTONIC

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · IT · €3,459,750

• Rethinking China’s Model of Urban Governance

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €2,492,786

• Tissue repair functions of MAIT cells: integrating thymic pre-commitment and peripheral signals

  INSTITUT CURIE · FR · €2,499,500

• Computational Learning Theory: compact representation, efficient computation, and societal challenges in learning MDPs

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €1,878,125

• What to expect when you are not expecting it: How implicit regularities drive attentional selection

  STICHTING VU · NL · €2,499,875

• From microns to reefs: mechanistic insights into coral biomineralisation and the fate of coral reefs

  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · UK · €3,492,322

• The Structure and Impact of Trans-Pacific Trade, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Manila Galleon Trade Beyond Silver and Silks

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €2,437,372

• Industrial Structure and the European Productivity Growth Divergence

  LUISS LIBERA UNIVERSITA INTERNAZIONALE DEGLI STUDI SOCIALI GUIDO CARLI · IT · €1,944,581

• Sex-specific demography and the evolution of gender-biased harmful cultural practices

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK

• Attosecond physics, free electron quantum optics, photon generation and radiation biology with the accelerator on a photonic chip

  FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG · DE

• Welfare, Incentives, Dynamics, and Equilibrium

  ETABLISSEMENT D'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR CONSULAIRE HAUTES ETUDES COMMERCIALES DE PARIS · FR · €1,240,922

• Sleep balancing abstraction and forgetting of memory

  EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE

• Heterogeneity, Monetary Policy and Economic Fluctuations

  Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) · ES · €923,750

• Nucleolar regulation of longevity

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

• Wellbeing Returns on Social Investment Recalibration

  EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE · IT · €1,872,200

• Monolithic Multi-Junction Picosecond Avalanche Detector for future physics experiments and applications

  UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · CH · €2,500,000

• Towards a full multi-scale understanding of zero-carbon metal fuel combustion

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €2,492,992

• Regulation of NK cell function

  LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR VIROLOGIE · DE · €2,497,500

• An object-oriented approach to color

  JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITAET GIESSEN · DE

• Artificial Translation with Dynamic Foldamers: Relaying Encoded Messages into Chemical Function

  UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL · UK · €2,499,805

• Inhibiting BAF to Improve Gene Delivery

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,390,625

• Searching and Characterizing Extraterrestrial Subsurface Oceans

  UNIVERSITAT ZU KOLN · DE · €2,116,582

• Global views of cell type specification and differentiation

  UNIVERSITAT BASEL · CH · €2,411,440

• Disruption of systemic and microenvironmental barriers to immunotherapy of antigenic tumors

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €2,500,000

• Polarization and its discontents: does rising economic inequality undermine the foundations of liberal societies?

  JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · DE · €2,494,665

• An algorithmic framework for reducing bias and polarization in online media

  KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €2,490,087

• Digital Campaigning and Electoral Democracy

  THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · UK · €2,499,394

• Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of neuronal identity

  UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · CH · €2,499,936

• A regenerative medicine approach in diabetes.

  KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET · SE · €2,500,000

• Spontaneous T cell responses against cancer neoantigens

  MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC) · DE

• Persistent bullying cases: towards tailored intervention approaches to maximize efficiency

  TURUN YLIOPISTO · FI · €2,424,001

• Co-Evolving City Life

  EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,499,500

• Market Power and Secular Macroeconomic Trends

  UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA · ES · €1,564,000

• How God Became a Lawgiver: The Place of the Torah in Ancient Near Eastern Legal History

  UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH · €2,500,000