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13 researchers in Sweden to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant 2025

The ERC has published the result of the call for ERC Consolidator grants. 13 of the researchers have a Swedish host institution.

The ERC Consolidator Grant are intended for researchers who have a research group and want to strengthen their role as a research leader, 7–12 years after completing their PhD. The grant is an average of two million euros over five years.

In total, 349 researchers from 25 countries in Europe will share more than 728 million euro to conduct leading-edge research. Among the 13 researchers in Sweden receiving ERC Consolidation Grants, eight are active in life science, one in social sciences and humanities and four in physical and engineering sciences. The success rate of the call is about 11,2 percent.

Approved research projects

Chalmers University of Tecnhology

  • Simon Olsson med projektet: SPETITO, Simulation-based Protein Engineering with Transferable Implicit Transfer Operators

Karolinska institutet

  • Carolina Hagberg med projektet: WATs-UP, Mapping White Adipose Tissue lipid UPtake to cardiovascular disease initiation
  • Jenny Mjösberg med projektet: TARGET-AIR-LAB, Targeting airway lymphocytes in asthma and biologics treatment

Lund University

  • Paul Bourgine med projektet: ImmunhOss, Decoding the immuno-regulatory functions of the human bone marrow niche upon cancer cellular therapy
  • Michael Bok med projektet: LegoEYES, Assembling the building blocks of advanced color and polarization vision
  • Cecilia Nilsson med projektet: MigDisrupt, Large-scale disruptions to animal migration

Stockholm University

  • Evan O´Connor med projektet: COMPACTARS, High compactness progenitors and the formation of collapsars and magnetars
  • Lisa Dellmuth med projektet: PROTECT, Protectionism in Place: Explaining How Subnational Change Affects Public Support for Protectionism

Umeå University

  • Barbara Sixt med projektet: INCLUSION-INTEGRITY, Breaking the membranous refuge of intracellular bacteria

Uppsala University

  • Thomas Dorlo med projektet: TRANSPHORM, Eliminating Leishmaniasis: Novel Strategies to Prevent Leishmania Transmission and Control Sand Flies through Pharmacological Treatment
  • Xingqi Chen med projektet: ScaleMAP, Scalable Mapping of Tumor Microenvironment Inspired by Geographic Information System
  • Gabriele Messori med projektet: DYCLEX, DYnamical drivers, predictability and trends of compound CLimate EXtremes
  • Qinghua Lei med projektet: FORECAST, Unified framework for modelling progressive to catastrophic failure in fractured media

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

Deadline for the ERC Consolidator Grant 2026 is 13 January 2026. External link.


The Swedish Research Council works to encourage more Swedish researchers to apply for ERC grants.

The Swedish Research Council supports researchers in applying for ERC grants in various ways. We arrange webinars to prepare researchers at Swedish universities for interviews with the ERC panel as well as webinars with information about upcoming ERC calls.

If you have questions, please contact Anethe Mansén, national contact point (NCP) for ERC: anethe.mansen@vr.se

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Anethe Mansén

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