ERC Synergy Grant 2025

Funded projects

• Florian Luca

  On Erdős’ last equation

  Stellenbosch University · ZA

• Mathematicae Lingua Franca: Bridging the Linguistic Gap Between the Mathematician and the Machine

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE · FR · €9,981,317

• Natural Auditory SCEnes in Humans and Machines: Establishing the Neural Computations of Everyday Hearing

  UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL · €8,622,811

• Atypical Liquid Crystal Elastomers: from Materials Innovation to Scalable processing and Transformative applications

  UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG · LU · €8,477,534

• Advancing Digital Democratic Innovation

  UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE CAPITOLE · FR

• Smart Detectors for Darkfield X-ray Imaging

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €10,840,961

• SKIN-like TWO-Dimensional materials-based elecTRONICS conformable to rough surfaces

  UNIVERSITA DI PISA · IT · €9,896,897

• Central roles of mycobacterial type VII secretion systems in intra- and inter-kingdom warfare

  STICHTING VU · NL · €10,837,150

• Open 2D Quantum Simulator

  EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE · €9,981,952

• Store-And-Forward Energy Grid

  RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN · DE · €11,169,627

• Targeting the vascular-immune interface to induce anti-tumor immunity

  UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · SE · €9,453,750

• DIscovering Flow control in TRANSonic difFUsing paSsagEs

  UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES · €9,823,000

• Unravelling Spatio-temporal Auxin Intracellular Redistribution for Morphogenesis (STARMORPH)

  SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET · SE · €10,000,000

• The Medieval Book and Networks of Northern Europe c. 1000-1500: Texts, Crafts, Fragments

  UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN · NO · €13,069,110

• Recycling versus loss in the marine nitrogen cycle: controls, feedbacks, and the impact of expanding low oxygen regions

  GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET · SE · €9,905,916

• Exploring the chemical foundations for rocky exoplanets around Sun-like stars

  UNIVERSITAT BAYREUTH · DE · €10,076,633

• The evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic

  UNIVERSITY OF SURREY · UK · €9,876,341

• Dynamical and Arithmetical Model Checking

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €7,451,252

• The geometry of temporal cognitive maps CHRONOLOGY

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

• The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages

  NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO · €10,459,256

• Logic in Reverse Redux. Illegitimate Argumentative Moves in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Medieval Traditions

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

• Re-engineering symmetry breaking in development and evolution

  HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN · DE · €10,569,181

• Phase-space-inspired numerical methods for high-frequency wave scattering: from semiclassical analysis through numerical analysis to open-source software

  UNIVERSITY OF BATH · UK · €8,725,537

• A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe (1300-1800): Combining History, Machine Learning and Natural Sciences

  UNIWERSYTET MIKOLAJA KOPERNIKA · PL · €9,999,375

• Learning in single cells through dynamical internal representations

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €11,133,873

• Nanoscale X-ray tissue imaging: understanding the pathophysiology of hepatitis E infection

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €6,073,099

• Phonological cognisance and allied linguistic representations: acquisition, bilingualism, change and script

  STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NL · €10,090,148

• Rise of the Structure-encoded UNC5 interactome in aggressive behaviours of Neuro-developmental tumours

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €8,050,793

• Mathematics of Scattering Amplitudes

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €9,986,500

• Molecular Ecology of Medieval European Landscapes

  UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET · NO · €13,537,645

• Metamaterial Interfaces for Quantum Electronics

  DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €13,296,909

• Mapping Occult Sciences Across Islamicate Cultures

  UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · BE · €8,954,000

• Deep learning analysis of imaging and metabolomic data to accelerate antibiotic discovery against antimicrobial resistance

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €10,968,734

• Reconstructing Embodied Musical knowledge At the Keyboard

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA · IT · €8,031,361

• Light Emitting Silicon Germanium

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €13,999,317

• MOLECULAR QUANTUM DYNAMICS IN LOW TEMPERATURE CONDENSED PHASE ASTROCHEMISTRY

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €12,085,363

• Engineering an integrated platform for generation of human blood stem cells from pluripotent sources

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT HOSPITAL DEL MAR D INVESTIGACIONS MEDIQUES · ES · €9,919,393

• Unraveling the Mysteries of Vibrational Strong Coupling

  TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €9,967,125

• CUSTOM-MADE NEURONS FOR CELL THERAPY IN PARKINSON’S AND HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO · IT · €10,000,000

• Comparative Connectomics: Revealing change and conservation in whole brain circuits across evolution

  UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION · UK · €11,927,316

• The Bacillus subtilis circadian clock: from molecules to mutualism

  LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €8,301,946

• Neuronal implementation of cognitive maps for navigation

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €9,992,890

• Geomagnetic Excursions and Reversals: Establishing their Atmospheric and Climatic Effects

  GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE · €9,997,634

• Metabolism-driven division of minimal cell-like systems

  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €5,000,000

• Handshake Complexes of Chiral Nanoparticles and Proteins

  ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN BIOMATERIALES- CIC biomaGUNE · ES · €9,272,460

• Tracing the origin of clonal pathogenesis

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €9,936,185

• Mutations in healthy tissues: a double-edged sword for tissues homeostasis

  THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED · UK · €9,808,142

• Decoding endothelial cell BEhavioral MOSAICism within single vessels

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA CONTRA LA LEUCEMIA JOSEP CARRERAS · ES · €10,624,448

• From RNA-peptide coevolution to cellular life at heated air bubbles

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DORTMUND · DE · €5,972,920

• Concrete matrices for high-cycle-fatigue resistant, eco-efficient infrastructure

  VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE · CZ · €9,993,698

• The Hidden Weapon. Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars

  NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO · €9,881,766

• Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Polymer Heterostructure Membranes Enabling Unidirectional Ion Transport

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,000,000

• Unravelling the complexity of the reionization history though simulations and multi-wavelength observations

  ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA · IT · €9,765,000

• A Global Network for the Search for High Frequency Gravitational Waves

  RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · DE · €9,875,391

• Making Sense of the Unexpected in the Gravitational-Wave Sky

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €11,982,258

• The first comprehensive Atlas of the Milky Way

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €9,957,560

• Mechanical characterization of soft tissue in vivo by microstructural imaging and physics-informed neural networks: bridging the gap between biomechanics and clinical practice

  HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM HEREON GMBH · DE · €9,991,449

• Active Hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuits for Ultra-Efficient Electro-Optic Conversion and Signal Processing

  KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · DE · €13,999,999