Five research projects with Swedish participation receive the ERC Synergy Grant 2023

In this call applicants submitted 395 proposals. The 37 winning projects involve 135
researchers who will carry out their projects at 114 universities and research centres in 19 countries.

WHIRLS: The impacts of ocean finescale whirls on climate and ecosystems

Sebastiaan Swart, University of Gothenburg. Other participants: Arne Biast (Germany), Sabrina Speich (Frankrike) och Sarah Fawcett (South Africa)

CartoHostBug: Funtional cartography of intestinal host-microbiome interactions

Eduardo Villablanca, Karolinska Institutet och Stefania Giacomello, Royal Institute of Technology. Other participants: Julio Saez-Rodriguez (Germany), Georg Zeller, (Germany)

EPIC: Unravelling the eukaryotic post-transcriptional regulatory code

Vicente Pelechano, Karolinska Institutet. Other participants: Kevin Verstrepen (Belgium) och Julien Gagneur (Germany)

ROTTnROCK: Assessing the role of hydrothermal alteration on volcano morphology, instability, and unpredictable volcanic

Valentin Troll, Uppsala University. Other participants: Thomas Walter (Germany), Michael Heap (France) och Claire Harnett (Ireland)

D2Smell: Digitising Smell:From Natural Statistics of Olfactoctory Perceptual Space to Digital

Johan Lundström, Karolinska institutet. Danica Kragic Jensfelt, Royal Institute of Technology, is a team member. Other participants: Noam Sobel (Israel), Jonathan Williams (Germany)

The ERC website has further figures and a list of all the grant recipients. External link.

The next ERC Synergy Grant call has an application deadline of 15 November 2023. External link.