ERC Starting Grant 2026

Funded projects

• Charting Cosmic Dawn: The impact of primordial matter on galaxy assembly and reionization

  DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €1,364,518

• Beyond the Hydrogen Leak: Advancing Understanding of Ignition and Flame Propagation to Inform Mitigation Strategies

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE · €1,498,627

• Molecular sociology and functional compartmentalization of the archaeal relatives of eukaryotes

  EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · DE · €2,046,786

• Soficity, Undecidability and Quantum Information Theory

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €1,500,000

• Breaking Barriers in Code-Based Cryptography: Cryptanalysis of Decoding, Equivalence and Algebraic Structure

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €1,455,856

• Understanding how the host immunity, the microbiome and environmental stressors shape the ecology and evolution of horizontal transmissible cancers in marine bivalves.

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €2,006,562

• Transducer Antenna for a Noiseless Gravitational Observatory

  UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT · €1,499,312

• Robust and reliable low-rank approximation and dimension reduction with COlumn subset SElection

  UNIVERSITA DI PISA · IT · €1,362,108

• Immune cell states as building blocks of the plant immune system

  THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY · GB · €1,499,992

• 4D Heart-on-a-chip: Modeling circadian rhythms in the human heart to study cardiac (patho)physiology and advance therapy

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €2,880,000

• Electroactive organic cations for chiral hybrid perovskites: combining efficient charge carrier transport with strong chiroptical activity

  UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT · BE · €1,724,803

• Interfacial flow tracing for gas-liquid mass transfer processes

  HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV · DE · €2,148,250

• Functional Regulation Of membrane proteiNs Through Enzymatic cleavAge

  LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR PFLANZENBIOCHEMIE · DE · €1,482,876

• Geometry in mixed chromatic characteristic

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €1,499,655

• Decoding the genomic basis of the first fungus farmers: the attine ants

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €1,499,952

• NEutrino flavor Plasma: TUrbuleNt evolution in astrophysical Explosions

  GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE · IT · €1,495,750

• Deciphering Biomacromolecular Heterogeneity by Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,343,073

• Energy-based Learning of Complex Dynamical Systems

  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €1,499,620

• The Geometric Nature of Deformable Object Manipulation

  KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €1,500,000

• On-chip quadratic soliton mode-locking in the ultraviolet, visible, and mid-infrared

  UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €2,124,625

• DARK-PEP: Mapping the Human Peptidome: Genetic Variability and GPCR Signaling

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €1,500,000

• Moduli of v-vector bundles

  GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER · DE · €1,499,950

• Polarity-Inverted Nitrogen: Construction of Reactive Multiply-Bonded Functional Groups and Their Utilization

  LUNDS UNIVERSITET · SE · €1,500,000

• Development of an untargeted spatial omics approach with molecular spatial resolution

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €1,846,805

• Astrocytic exhaustion underlies chronic progression in autoimmune inflammation of the central nervous system

  KLINIKUM DER TECHNISCHEN UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN (TUM KLINIKUM) · DE · €1,638,843

• New Users of Minoritised Languages as Writers and Cultural Agents

  UNIVERZITA KARLOVA · CZ · €1,499,950

• Decoding Antiviral Restriction, Immune Modulation, and Risk Assessment of Influenza A Viruses.

  UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG · DE · €1,457,575

• Customizing Metal Component Properties by Predictive Hybrid Processing

  RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN · DE · €1,499,845

• Regulatory Attenuation: Local Non-Application Erodes EU Environmental Objectives

  UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA · ES · €1,499,687

• Labor Market Structure and the Foundations of Productivity

  NORGES HANDELSHOYSKOLE · NO · €1,500,000

• Symbiont Induced Mechanisms of Speciation

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €1,500,000

• Lasso Peptides as Versatile Scaffolds for Peptide Engineering

  UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH · €1,720,443

• From Algorithms to Cells: The Neurophysiology of Emotional States

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €2,498,812

• Forests’ Response to Prolonged Droughts

  AALBORG UNIVERSITET · DK · €1,499,790

• DIgital Supramolecular Chemistry (DISC): Enabling the design of functional dynamic covalent libraries through chemistry automation and machine learning

  UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · GB · €2,109,332

• 3D imaging of information processing in live tissues

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €1,600,833

• Corporate Science Communication (COSCOM): Risks, Opportunities, Interventions

  LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €1,499,250

• AI-Powered Causal Analysis of Scientific Experiments

  INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA · AT · €1,499,077

• Reaching AI Projections Trustworthy for Unseen Rainfall Extremes

  UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN · NO · €1,500,000

• Synthesizing Traditional and Reuse Approaches to Space

  UNIVERZITA KARLOVA · CZ · €1,465,625

• Advancing Polynomial and Logical Approaches for Trusted Automated Reasoning over Integrated Systems

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT · €1,499,436

• Rethinking Drug Response in Leishmania: Identifying the Genomic Determinants of Persistence

  JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG · DE · €1,499,936

• Exact Aspects of Complexity Theory

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €1,500,000

• Nanoscale Mapping of Structure and Chemistry at Electrified Solid-Liquid Interfaces

  UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK · AT · €1,455,458

• The Tropics on the Window Sill: Domesticating the Global Environment (1850s to 1930)

  BERGISCHE UNIVERSITAET WUPPERTAL · DE · €1,484,553

• Fields of Education as New Drivers of Health Inequalities

  OTTO-FRIEDRICH-UNIVERSITAET BAMBERG · DE · €1,498,715

• Luminophores Containing Carbon in Place of Metal

  USTAV ANORGANICKE CHEMIE AV CR VVI · CZ · €1,498,722

• Floris Sebastiaan Rogier S.R Teuling

  Challenges in upscaling process-based groundwater quality models to the global domain scale

  Wageningen University & Research · NL

• Pascal Gehring

  Synthesis and Fingerprint of a Fully Coalescent, High-Quality Epitaxial Co ₉ S ₈ –CoS ₂ Thin Film

  Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine · UA

• Maialen Ortego Larrazabal

  Cryogenic amplifier with high sensitivity and stability for noise-STM

  Leiden University · NL

• Valentina Di Stasio

  Discrimination attributions in the workplace: A scoping review of experimental studies

  Utrecht University · NL