Five research projects with Swedish participation receive the ERC Synergy Grant 2025

The grant is aimed at research teams with two to four researchers who work in synergy to jointly solve a research question.

In this call applicants submitted 712 proposals. The 66 winning projects involve 239
researchers who will carry out their projects at universities and research centres in 26 countries.

Gustaf Hugelius, Stockholm University

Project: CLIMPEAT – Northern Peatlands in the face of climate warming and abrupt changes. Other participants: Philippe Ciais (FR), Pierre Friedlingstein (UK) and Christina Biasi (AT).

Axel Brandenburg, Stockholm University

Project: COSMOMAG – Probe of the first microseconds of the Universe with cosmological magnetic fields. Other participants: Andrii Neronov (FR), Chiara Caprini (CH) and Franco Vazza (IT)

Peter Jordan, Lund University

Project: FORAGER – Investigating alternative trajectories for human demographic growth in temperate northern Holocene societies. Other participants: Oliver Craig (UK), Anna Prentiss (USA) and Enrico Crema (UK)

Jens Lagergren, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH

Project: LUMES – LUng cancer Metastasis Evolutionary Studies. Other participants: Mariam Jamal-Hanjani and Nicholas McGranahan (UK), and Andrew Roth (Kanada)

Bernhard Mehlig, University of Gothenburg

Project: TurPhyCloud – The role of Turbulence in the Physics of Clouds. Other participants: Eberhard Bodenschatz and Fabian Hoffman (TY), and Anne Pier Siebesma (NL)

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

Read more about ERC Synergy Grants. External link.