This puts the MPG at the top of the European ranking
In this year's round of ERC Starting Grants, the Max Planck Society secured 17 awards. With 56 applications submitted, this corresponds to a success rate of 30 percent. This result continues the Society's strong track record from previous years and once again confirms its leading position in the European competition.
The European Research Council (ERC) supports outstanding early-career researchers with its Starting Grants.
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In the European comparison, the Max Planck Society is right at the top: with 17 grants, it shares first place with the French CNRS. They are followed by the University of Oxford (12 grants), the University of Amsterdam (10 grants), ETH Zurich (9 grants), and the Helmholtz Association (8 grants). Altogether, the ERC received 3,928 applications, of which 478 were approved (12 percent). Germany leads the European ranking with 99 grants, followed by the United Kingdom (60), the Netherlands (44), and France (41).
Within the Max Planck Society, the Humanities and Social Sciences Section (GSHS) stood out with particularly high numbers: 6 out of 13 applications were successful - a peak rate of 46 percent. In the Biology and Medicine Section (BMS), 4 out of 15 applications were approved (27 percent), and in the Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section (CPTS), 7 out of 28 (25 percent).
This year's ERC Starting Grants for Max Planck researchers go to:
Chemistry, Physics & Technology
Anna De Graaff - Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Christian Renggli - Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
Mariya Toneva - Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Rahul Trivedi - Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Alexander Wietek - Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Alexander Winkler - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Humanities and Social Sciences
Ugofilippo Basellini - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Arthur Kocher - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Marília Nepomuceno - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Hannah Sarvasy - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Oleg Sobchuk - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Sofie Valk - Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Biology & Medicine
Valentin Flury - Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Juliane Glaser - Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Martina Preiner - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
The ERC Starting Grants provide an average of 1.5 million euros over five years. They enable early-career researchers to build their own teams and pursue new ideas independently.
