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Researchers at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº have been awarded a total of 17 Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC), the highest number awarded at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº under a single funding call to date.

These grants have a total value of €21.6 million.Ìý

The ERC Starting Grants scheme aims to support new European researchers to establish research teams and develop their skills as independent research leaders. Applicants who can demonstrate their potential, both in developing groundbreaking research and leading projects, can benefit from long-term funding and support to help them develop their career.

An ERC Proof of Concept grant was also won in this funding call. The total value of ERC funding allocated to ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº currently stands at €94.5 million.

Professor David Price, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Vice-Provost (Research) said: "I'd like to extend my congratulations to the successful applicants on their extraordinary achievement. These grants recognise the importance of investing in the next generation of research leadership, and enabling early career researchers to take the next steps in their career path. Cultivating strong leadership and nurturing research excellence underpin research at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, and we will endeavour to build on this accomplishment in coming years."

Michael Browne, Head of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº European Research & Development, said: "For ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº to be awarded this number of ERC Grants is an outstanding achievement. The awards will enable recipients to grow and develop as research leaders, and reaffirm ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's position among the very top recipients of ERC funding in Europe."

The successful applicants are:

• Dr Jens Groth (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Computer Sciences) "Efficient cryptographic arguments and proofs"

• Dr Andrei Yafaev (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Mathematics) "Some problems in geometry of Shimura varieties"
• Dr Adrien DesJardins (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Medical Physics & Bioengineering) "Molecular photoacoustic imaging during ultrasound-guided interventions"
• Dr Annie Britton (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Epidemiology & Public Health) "Alcohol consumption across the life-course: determinants and consequences"
• Dr Bahador Bahrami (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) "Neurobiological basis of collective decision making in the human brain"
• Dr Ivana Bjedov (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Genetics, Evolution & Environment) "Autophagy as a cancer treatment"
• Dr Richard Jenner (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Cancer Institute) "The role of CpG island RNAs and Polycomb-RNA interactions in developmental gene regulation"
• Dr Sam Schwarzkopf (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº) "What makes our subjective perception of the world unique?"
• Prof Sougato Bose (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Physics & Astronomy) "Partially coherent many-body nonequilibrium dynamics for information applications"
• Dr Hiranya Peiris (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Physics & Astronomy) "Understanding the origin of cosmic structure"
• Dr Uta Schoenberg (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Economics) "Identifying spillovers in the labour market"
• Dr Dennis Kristensen (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Economics) "Identification, estimation and implementation of structural economic models"
• Dr Imran Rasul (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Economics) "The economics of mass migration: Theory and evidence"
• Dr Margarita Gleba (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Archaeology) "Production and consumption: Textile economy and urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE"
• Dr Ralph Wilde (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Laws) "Human Rights Beyond Borders: The extraterritorial application of international human rights law - Comparative legal, historical and theoretical approaches"
• Dr Marc Vander Linden (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Archaeology) "Transmission of innovations: Comparison and modelling of early farming and associated technologies in Europe"
• Prof Ewa Paluch (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Molecular Biology) "The inherent morphological potential of the actin cortex and the mechanics of shape control during cell division"

In addition to the Starting Grants, Dr Kyle Jamieson (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Computer Science) has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant, designed to help grant holders to prepare their project results for commercialisation, for his project "Tapping 802.11 Access Point Infrastructure for Fine-Grained Indoor Location".

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