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Eight EPFL researchers were selected by the European Research Council (ERC) as part of the 2024 call for proposals for the Advanced Grant competition.
The ERC announced today the next round of researchers selected for its Advanced Grant program, carried out as part of the European Union's Horizon Europe key funding program. A total of €721 million in Advanced Grants will be awarded to 281 researchers across Europe, including eight from EPFL.
This was the first time the call for proposals was open to researchers at Swiss host institutions since Switzerland was classified as a non-associated third country for Horizon Europe. Because these proposals were submitted in 2024, the research will be funded by Switzerland's State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.
"Our participation in the Advanced Grant competition was a first step towards the full reintegration of the Swiss scientific community into Horizon Europe," says Ambrogio Fasoli, EPFL's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. "We're very happy about the selection of eight proposals submitted by EPFL researchers. The ERC is a barometer of researchers' competitiveness at the European and global level."
Eight EPFL research projects
The research projects that will be funded under the program span a broad range of topics: neural networks, IT security, protein-interaction engineering, next-generation semiconductors, centriole biogenesis and more.
Congratulations to Anastasia Ailamaki, Camille-Sophie Brès, Pierre Gönczy, Elison Matioli, Kirsten Moselund, Mathias Payer, Francesco Stellacci and Lenka Zdeborová.
The following EPFL researchers were selected for the 2024 ERC Advanced Grant program:
Anastasia Ailamaki at the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Lab (IC) for the project "A principled approach to resource optimization through declarative data systems."
Camille-Sophie Brès at the Photonic Systems Laboratory (STI) for the project "Chip-scale harmonic-generation based narrow-linewidth accordable visible light sources."
Pierre Gönczy at the Cell and Developmental Biology Laboratory (SV) for the project "Building an organelle from scratch: deciphering de novo centriole biogenesis."
Elison Matioli at the POWERlab@EPFL (STI) for the project "Polarization-engineered wide-band-gap electronic devices - a ground-breaking semiconductor platform for efficient electronics."
Kirsten Moselund at the Integrated Nanoscale Photonics and Optoelectronics Laboratory (EPFL, STI) and the Laboratory for Nano and Quantum Technologies (Paul Scherrer Institute) for the project "Neuromorphic photonics and III-V electro-optic modulators for random lasing networks."
Mathias Payer at the HexHive Laboratory (IC) for the project "LEAst Privilege compartmentS."
Francesco Stellacci at the Supramolecular Nano-Materials and Interfaces Laboratory (STI) for the project "Engineering protein interactions using small molecules."
Lenka Zdeborová at the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory (IC/SB) for the project "Statistical physics of attention and sequence modelling with neural networks."
