13 researchers in Sweden to receive an ERC Advanced Grant 2024

ERC Advanced Grant is intended for active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last ten years, and the average grant is 2,5 million EUR.

Under the call 2024, 281 researchers from 23 countries will share 721 million EUR. Among the 13 researchers in Sweden receiving ERC Advanced Grant, 7 are active within life sciences an 6 within within physical sciences and engineering.

ERC recieved 2524 applications. The approval rate was 11 percent.

Approved research projects

Chalmers University of Technology

• Timur Shegai with the project CASAlibra: Casimir Self-Assembly out of Equilibrium
• Victor Torres Company with the project ProSync: Precise optical synchronization of high-speed electronics with microcombs

University of Gothenburg

• Andrew Ewing with the project ComOrganellesAnalyt: Nanoscale Analysis of Inter-Organelle Interactions and their Role in Neuronal Plasticity

Karolinska Institutet

• Pete Williams with the project TARGET-NMNAT2: Pharmacological and gene therapy targeting of NMNAT2 for neuroprotection in glaucoma

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

• Oscar Tjernberg with the project COPS: Cooper-pair spectroscopy: A new window into the world of superconductivity

Lund University

• Johan Malmström with the project NANOBAC: Antibody-guided design of multivalent nanoparticle vaccines against bacterial pathogens
• Eric Warrant with the project IncredibleJourneys: Incredible journeys: How do multiple sensory cues allow animal migrants to precisely navigate to a distant goal?
• Anders Rantzerwith the project DualControl: Dual Control at Scale: Learning-based control for systems with millions of states.

Stockholm University

• David Drew with the project MEMSUGAR: Mechanism of Sugar Transporters involved in Human Health and Disease
• Hanna Johannesson with the project FunGerm: The early sequestered germline of fungi - spatial distribution, mechanism and generality across the kingdom
• Martin Jastrich with the project EVOTHERM: Reconstructing the Molecular Evolution of Non-Shivering Thermogenesis

Uppsala University

• Christer Betsholtz with the project Arrachnobarrier2.0: Elucidating structures and functions in the arachnoid barrier
• Joseph Minahan with the project IGTaFT: Integrable gauge theories at finite temperature

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

Deadline for next call of ERC Advanced Grant is 28 August 2025.