22 researchers in Sweden to receive an ERC Starting Grant 2024

The ERC starting grant is awarded to promising early-career researchers and has scientific excellence as the only selection criteria. The ERC starting grant recipients and their research proposal undergo a stringent and competitive peer-review process. This year 3474 researchers applied for an ERC starting grant.

In total, 494 researchers in Europe will share more than 780 million euro, with a success rate of about 14,2 per cent.

Among the 22 researchers in Sweden receiving ERC Starting Grants, ten are active in life sciences, six in social sciences and humanities and six in physical and engineering sciences.

Approved research projects 2024

Chalmers University of Technology

• Julia Wiktor: POLARISE: Harnessing Localized Charges for Advancing Polar Materials Engineering

University of Gothenburg

• Lina Bergman: INCENTIVE: Identification of persistent neurological complications after eclampsia and discovery of novel neuroprotective treatments to improve maternal outcomes

Karolinska Institutet

• Elif Eroglu: Tightly Controlled: Tight junctions and mechanics as sensors and executers of heart regeneration
• Leo Hanke: VaxVision: Structure and Function-based Design of Vaccine Antigens and Antiviral Immunotherapies
• Alastair Kerr: LNC-LIPID: Understanding how long non-coding RNAs adapt the adipocyte for specialised lipid storage and breakdown.
• Donghao Lu: MoodMAP: Unveiling the Molecular Secrets of Reproductive Mood Disorders: a Multi-Omics Approach Project
• William Nyberg: NVIVO-CAR-T: Improving CAR-T cell therapies through AAV-mediated genetic engineering
• Charlotte Thålin: D-MAP: Dissecting the Functional Role of Mucosal IgA Clonal and Glycoprofiles for Effective Humoral Mucosal Protection

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

• Tobias Benselfelt: DynanoNet: Adaptive Separation using Dynamic Nanofibril Networks
• Helena Lundberg: ECOT; Electrochemically Driven Organocatalytic Transformations of Alcohols, Thiols and Disulfides

Lund University

• Lisa Flower: VIRTUTRIALS: The elusive role of physicality in virtual trials: Towards a new understanding of legal participation
• Karolin Obert: Walk and Talk: Walking while Talking: A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Moving Speech Situation among Mobile Foragers
• Ingrid Van Dijk: Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations
• Øystein Opedal: POLLCLIM: Plant adaptation in a changing pollination climate

The Swedish Museum of Natural History

• Tom Van der Valk: GENOMICIDE: The genomic impact of ancient structural variants on species extinction

Stockholm University

• Cassandra Engeman: MakingTime; Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave
• Per Engzell: MaMo; Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity
• Szucs Ferenc: ALTREALITY: The Economics and Politics of Alternative Realities
• Mariana Pires Braga: SPECTRO: Causes and consequences of higher host specialisation in the tropics – the role of ecological and evolutionary processes, and of data bias

Umeå University

• Gerhard Rocher Ros: ARIMETH: A mechanistic understanding of Arctic River Methane Emissions

Uppsala University

• Eva Bruggisser: HORNET: Holistic Rigorous Numerical Verification
• Chia-Hsien: AmpEFT: Scattering Amplitudes for Effective Field Theory: Simplicity and Structures from Classical to Quantum

The ERC website has more statistics and a list of all the grant External link.

The next call for ERC Starting Grant has application deadline 15 October 2024.