ERC Synergy Grant 2026

Funded projects

• Mostafa Ashraf

  Myosin II–independent contraction of actin filaments in membrane nanotubes

  Raman Research Institute · IN

• Ismael González‐García

  POMC AMPKα1 deletion drives male-specific BAT thermogenesis and obesity resistance

  Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · ES

• Citlali Trigos-Raczkowski

  Age at First Marriage or Cohabitation Among First-, Second-, and 2.5-Generation Immigrant Women, Finland 1987–2020

  University of Helsinki · FI

• Gustau Camps‐Valls

  Video compression for spatiotemporal Earth system data

• Francisco Munguia-Galeano

  Chemist Eye: a visual language model-powered system for safety monitoring and robot decision-making in self-driving laboratories

  University of Liverpool · GB

• the ethics of AI enabled synthetic DNA

  UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €5,859,854

• Land and life in the Anthropocene: Landscape reform

  ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM · NL · €8,333,333

• The role of Turbulence in the Physics of Clouds

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €13,685,754

• Party Systems and Social Cleavages in the Post-Ottoman Space of the MENA Region

  USTAV MEZINARODNICH VZTAHU V.V.I. · CZ · €9,846,714

• Mitochondrial Contact Site Functional Diversity Revealed by Molecular Memory, Smart Microscopy, and Correlative Cryo-EM Tomography

  ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €12,278,709

• Fire safety in space exploration

  CENTRALE LILLE INSTITUT · FR · €13,774,718

• Genome control by DNA-looping motors: from folding to function

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €10,000,000

• Innovative New Strategies in Generating High-impact Chemical Transformations

  UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG · DE · €9,984,944

• Verification of Probabilistic Security Systems

  THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK · €7,944,004

• Northern Peatlands in the face of climate warming and abrupt changes

  STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · SE · €12,562,113

• Digital RF Power - Time-Domain-RF-Power Signal Generation

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €9,993,525

• Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics

  UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €12,089,947

• Real-time endoscopic diagnosis and therapy of gastrointestinal tumors through multimode nonlinear fibers

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · IT · €6,396,343

• Co-evolutionary dynamics of viral pathogens and human antibody response

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,999,997

• Beyond Modification: Defining Hidden Roles of snoRNPs in Ribosome Assembly

  UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · AT · €9,993,362

• Zee-Zoom-Zap: a new paradigm for cancer theranostics

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €10,000,000

• Laboratory Underground for Nuclear Astrophysics New Observatory for Solar Neutrino Reactions

  HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV · DE · €13,989,810

• Red teaming the H0 Tension

  UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · ES · €12,041,153

• Hydrothermal iron from the earth’s interior as fertiliser of photosynthesis in the ocean

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €13,567,192

• THREE STOP CODONS TO GET OVER TO FLOURISH

  MIKROBIOLOGICKY USTAV AV CR V.V.I · CZ · €9,755,098

• Unlocking the neurovascular interface of peripheral nerves in homeostasis, disease and repair

  OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL · IT · €10,000,000

• Capturing and cONtrolling coniCal intErsections in Real Time

  POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €9,998,941

• Accelerating SUStainable TECHnological trajectories with computational chemistry and machine learning

  UNIVERSITA DI PISA · IT · €9,761,394

• Translational Control by Molecular Chaperones: The Unexplored Mechanisms Coordinating Protein Synthesis and Proteostasis in Health and Genetic Reprogramming

  MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €10,828,378

• Magnetically enhanced electrocatalysis

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €12,417,798

• Uncovering Lost Knowledge from the Ancient Library of Herculaneum: Overcoming Damage and Reviving the Human Experience using Physical Evidence, AI, and the Structuring of Diverse Data

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT

• When and where do we reach the limits of adaptation to riverine flood risk?

  GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE · €9,997,114

• Modulation of Liver Metabolism/Inflammation at Different Disease Stages by Leveraging ADAR-based RNA Editing

  EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE · €9,969,748

• AdaptAIR: Climate Adaptation through Artificial Ice Reservoirs (AIRs) in the Himalayas

  KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €9,999,443

• Fostering Learning and Adaptation through Predictability

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €3,977,438

• DNA for Reconfigurable Nano-Opto-Mechanical Systems

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €9,033,975

• Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery (CARAMEL)

  UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA · ES · €9,949,929

• On the Degradability of Protein Aggregates by Autophagy

  UNIVERSITAT WIEN · AT · €9,980,111

• GENomes Evolve in a Landscape of TEs

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €9,998,525

• Harmonic Analysis with Lean Formalization

  RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · DE · €6,443,439

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe

  UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER · UK

• Popular Government in Global Perspective: History, Principles, Institutions, and Experimentations

  UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · BE · €9,258,028

• CenAGE, a 'Centromeric' view on AGEing: unveiling centromere instability in ageing

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €9,968,201

• Sebastian Kazmarek Præsius

  Real-Time Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging using the Erythrocytes

  Technical University of Denmark · DK

• Niels van Helmond

  Strongly reducing sediments hinder restoration of a eutrophic coastal marine ecosystem

  Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

• Tatiana Bebchuk

  An absolutely dated mid-Holocene English yew chronology offers new opportunities for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research

  University of Cambridge · GB

• Michele Bavaro

  Falling behind unequally: labour market outcomes of Italian couples after childbirth*

  Scuola Normale Superiore · IT

• Brian Nolan

  The gender wealth gap and the role of private pension wealth in Great Britain

  University of Oxford · GB

• Waves, Physics, Information, and Computation

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN · DE · €9,864,001

• Spatially patterned organoids: regionalization, cell fate and lamination in cortical development and neuronal migration disorders

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,202,804

• Greenland’s Melting Firn and Ice Sheet Response

  Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland · DK · €13,007,197

• Cell-mediated sculptable living platforms as highly efficient hybrid units to bioengineer human microtissues

  UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO · PT · €9,999,343

• Probe of the first microseconds of the Universe with cosmological magnetic fields

  UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE · FR

• LUMES LUng cancer Metastasis Evolutionary Studies

  KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €11,542,341

• Universal Equation for Non Equilibrium Correlations in Interacting Particle Systems

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €8,062,008

• Deciphering the role of adipose tissue in cardiac health and disease: ADIPOhealth

  FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III · ES · €10,176,526

• Connected Communities in early medieval Europe

  UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €11,194,464

• Tracing and harnessing the ancestry of RNA-guided nucleases

  FOUNDATION IMMUNE ENGINEERING FOR GLOBAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH · CH · €10,717,446

• Photon-based scalable quantum information science

  KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €11,490,257

• The biology of innate behaviour

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €9,983,139

• Politcal Parties in Africa and Democracy

  UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · UK · €9,957,415

• Integrating the physics and social-psychology of crowd movement

  FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH · DE

• Imaging the Dynamics of Electrons with Attosecond and Angstrom resolution

  DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY · DE · €13,975,000

• Generative machine learning for combined process control and materials design

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €9,314,934

• Ultimative Photovoltaics

  ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG · DE · €9,985,893

• Thomas O. Hancock

  Coordination behaviour in travel mode choice: An experiment on autonomous vehicle services

  University of Leeds · GB

• Rebuilding interphase nuclei into mitotic chromosomes

  UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH · €10,137,286

• The Causes of the Global Increase in Early Onset Colorectal Cancer

  CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LE CANCER · FR · €10,396,565

• The Life Cycle of a Memory Trace: a New Understanding of Learning and Memory from Circuits to Synapses and Molecules

  HUN-REN Kiserleti Orvostudomanyi Kutatointezet · HU · €9,782,317

• East African Mountain social ecological dynamics (AFRI-CAN)

  UNIVERSITY OF YORK · UK · €9,988,220

• Probing the non-perturbative regime of Quantum Electrodynamics with extreme light

  COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR · €13,937,624.75

• Robustness and plasticity of epithelial architectures

  THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK · €8,480,623

• Investigating alternative trajectories for human demographic growth in temperate northern Holocene societies

  UNIVERSITY OF YORK · UK · €10,496,252

• Current and future shifts of snow regimes in extreme environments

  UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €9,999,956