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Researchers at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø have been awarded a total of 17 Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC), the highest number awarded at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø under a single funding call to date.

These grants have a total value of €21.6 million.Ìý

The ERC Starting Grants scheme aims to support new European researchers to establish research teams and develop their skills as independent research leaders. Applicants who can demonstrate their potential, both in developing groundbreaking research and leading projects, can benefit from long-term funding and support to help them develop their career.

An ERC Proof of Concept grant was also won in this funding call. The total value of ERC funding allocated to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø currently stands at €94.5 million.

Professor David Price, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Vice-Provost (Research) said: "I'd like to extend my congratulations to the successful applicants on their extraordinary achievement. These grants recognise the importance of investing in the next generation of research leadership, and enabling early career researchers to take the next steps in their career path. Cultivating strong leadership and nurturing research excellence underpin research at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø, and we will endeavour to build on this accomplishment in coming years."

Michael Browne, Head of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø European Research & Development, said: "For Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø to be awarded this number of ERC Grants is an outstanding achievement. The awards will enable recipients to grow and develop as research leaders, and reaffirm Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø's position among the very top recipients of ERC funding in Europe."

The successful applicants are:

• Dr Jens Groth (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Computer Sciences) "Efficient cryptographic arguments and proofs"

• Dr Andrei Yafaev (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Mathematics) "Some problems in geometry of Shimura varieties"
• Dr Adrien DesJardins (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Medical Physics & Bioengineering) "Molecular photoacoustic imaging during ultrasound-guided interventions"
• Dr Annie Britton (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Epidemiology & Public Health) "Alcohol consumption across the life-course: determinants and consequences"
• Dr Bahador Bahrami (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) "Neurobiological basis of collective decision making in the human brain"
• Dr Ivana Bjedov (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Genetics, Evolution & Environment) "Autophagy as a cancer treatment"
• Dr Richard Jenner (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Cancer Institute) "The role of CpG island RNAs and Polycomb-RNA interactions in developmental gene regulation"
• Dr Sam Schwarzkopf (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø) "What makes our subjective perception of the world unique?"
• Prof Sougato Bose (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Physics & Astronomy) "Partially coherent many-body nonequilibrium dynamics for information applications"
• Dr Hiranya Peiris (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Physics & Astronomy) "Understanding the origin of cosmic structure"
• Dr Uta Schoenberg (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Economics) "Identifying spillovers in the labour market"
• Dr Dennis Kristensen (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Economics) "Identification, estimation and implementation of structural economic models"
• Dr Imran Rasul (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Economics) "The economics of mass migration: Theory and evidence"
• Dr Margarita Gleba (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Archaeology) "Production and consumption: Textile economy and urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE"
• Dr Ralph Wilde (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Laws) "Human Rights Beyond Borders: The extraterritorial application of international human rights law - Comparative legal, historical and theoretical approaches"
• Dr Marc Vander Linden (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Archaeology) "Transmission of innovations: Comparison and modelling of early farming and associated technologies in Europe"
• Prof Ewa Paluch (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Molecular Biology) "The inherent morphological potential of the actin cortex and the mechanics of shape control during cell division"

In addition to the Starting Grants, Dr Kyle Jamieson (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Computer Science) has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant, designed to help grant holders to prepare their project results for commercialisation, for his project "Tapping 802.11 Access Point Infrastructure for Fine-Grained Indoor Location".

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