ERC grants

Starting Grant

The ERC Starting Grant is a lucrative award (worth up to two million euros for a five-year period) for which thousands of European candidates apply each year. In the last call for proposals, held in 2012, 11,5% of applicants were successful. The European Research Council is always on the lookout for new, pioneering and even high-risk ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. So far, nine UCL researchers have obtained funding from this source.

2012		Tom Claeys (mathematics) Critical phenomena in random matrix theory and integrable systems (CraMIS)
2011		Tom Dedeurwaerdere (philosophy of law) Institutionalizing global genetic-resource commons. Global Strategies for accessing and using essential public knowledge assets in the life sciences (GENCOMMONS)
2011		Bruno Rossion (neuropsychology) Understanding the nature of face perception: new insights from steady-state visual evoked potentials (facessvep)
2011		Jean-François Collet (microbiology) Unraveling the cellular sulfenome: a search for new redox-regulated pathways (SULFENIC)
2011		François-Xavier Standaert (electrical engineering) CRyptographic Algorithms and Secure Hardware (CRASH)
2011		Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (mathematics) Simple locally compact groups: exploring the boundaries of the linear world (SIMPLELCGPS)
2009		Pierre SONVEAUX (pharmacy) Glycolytic contribution to cancer growth and metastasis (TUMETABO)
2009		Michel CRUCIFIX (climatology) Integrated Theory and Observations of the Pleistocene (ITOP)
2007		Ingrid VAN KEILEGOM (statistics) M- and Z-estimation in semi-parametric statistics : applications in various fields (MAZEST)

Advanced Grant

The ERC Advanced Investigator Grant funds the best well-established researchers, internationally recognized as being outstanding leaders in their field thanks to the originality and significance of their pioneering research work. UCL is proud to have two recipients among its members:

2010		François MANIQUET (economics) Poverty, Resource Equality, and Social Policies (PORESP)
2008		André BERGER (climatology) An intense summer monsoon in a cool world, climate and East Asian monsoon during interglacials with a special emphasis on the interglacials 500,000 years ago and before (EMIS)