ERC Grants Austria
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Researchers in Austria
have been quite successful in winning grants of the European Research Council
(ERC). These recently established grants have immediately gained high recognition due to their competitive nature. There are two types of grants, the ERC Advanced Grant for established researchers with a typical funding of 2,5 Mio. EUR and the ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers with a typical funding of 1,5 Mio. EUR. At the moment 47 researchers in Austria have received one of the two types of grants. Besides of nine grants to universities in Innsbruck
and one grant to both Graz
and Klagenfurt
, all grants have been awarded to researchers in Vienna
(or close by such as IST Austria and IIASA
). The current ERC President Helga Nowotny
is from Austria.
other names not yet published
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
have been quite successful in winning grants of the European Research Council
European Research Council
The European Research Council is the independent body that funds investigator-driven frontier research in the European Union . It is part of the Seventh Research Framework Programme ....
(ERC). These recently established grants have immediately gained high recognition due to their competitive nature. There are two types of grants, the ERC Advanced Grant for established researchers with a typical funding of 2,5 Mio. EUR and the ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers with a typical funding of 1,5 Mio. EUR. At the moment 47 researchers in Austria have received one of the two types of grants. Besides of nine grants to universities in Innsbruck
Innsbruck
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and one grant to both Graz
Graz
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and Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt
-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...
, all grants have been awarded to researchers in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
(or close by such as IST Austria and IIASA
IIASA
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis is an international research organization located in Laxenburg, near Vienna, in Austria. IIASA conducts interdisciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of...
). The current ERC President Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny is President of the European Research CouncilERC and Professor emeritus of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich. From 1998 on she was also Director of its Collegium Helveticum...
is from Austria.
Advanced Grants 2011
- Meinrad Busslinger, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Transcriptional networks controlling lymphocyte development"
other names not yet published
Advanced Grants 2010
- Adrian Constantin, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
- Thomas Henzinger, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria), “Quantitative Reactive Modeling” - Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria), “Nanophysiology of fast-spiking, parvalbumin-expressing GABAergic interneurons” - Gerhard Herndl, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
- Walter PohlWalter PohlWalter Pohl is an Austrian historian. His area of expertise is the history of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages....
, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
Advanced Grants 2009
- Nick Barton, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
, "Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation" - Georg GottlobGeorg GottlobGeorg Gottlob FRS is an Oxford-based Austrian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence.Gottlob obtained his PhD in computer science at Vienna University of Technology in 1981...
, Oxford University & Vienna University of TechnologyVienna University of TechnologyVienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
, "Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology" - Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular BiotechnologyInstitute of Molecular BiotechnologyThe Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is an independent research organisation founded as a joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the company Boehringer Ingelheim an international pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Germany...
(IMBA) Wien, "A Systems Level Approach to Proliferation and Differentiation Control in Neural Stem Cell Lineages" - Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "Transformations of normative orders" - Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University Innsbruck, "Coherently advanced tissue and cell holographic imaging and trapping"
- Walter Schachermayer, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "Risk and Valuation of Financial Assets: A Robust Approach" - Siegfried SelberherrSiegfried Selberherrthumb|Siegfried SelberherrSiegfried Selberherr is an Austrian scientist in the field of microelectronics.He is a professor at the Institute for Microelectronics of the Technische Universität Wien ....
, Vienna University of TechnologyVienna University of TechnologyVienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
, "Modeling Silicon Spintronics" - Giulio Superti-FurgaGiulio Superti-FurgaGiulio Superti-Furga, PhD is an Italian molecular and systems biologist based in Vienna, Austria.Giulio Superti-Furga is the Scientific Director of CeMM; the of the Austrian Academy of Sciences....
, Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)
Advanced Grants 2008
- Rainer BlattRainer BlattRainer Blatt is a German-Austrian experimental physicist. His research centres on the areas of quantum optics and quantum information. He and his team were the first to teleport atoms.-Biography:...
, University of Innsbruck, "Cryogenic Traps for Entanglement Research with Ions" - Silke Bühler-Paschen, Vienna University of TechnologyVienna University of TechnologyVienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
, "Quantum Criticality - The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales" - Barry Dickson, Research Institute of Molecular PathologyResearch Institute of Molecular PathologyThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology is a basic biomedical research center sponsored largely by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and located in the Campus Vienna Biocenter ....
(IMP), "Neural basis of Drosophila mating behaviours" - W. Tecumseh FitchW. Tecumseh FitchWilliam Tecumseh Sherman Fitch III is an American evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist, and at the University of Vienna , where he is co-founder of the...
, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach" - Ludmil Katzarkov, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "Generalized Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications" - Wolfgang Lutz, Vienna University of Economics and BusinessVienna University of Economics and BusinessWirtschaftsuniversität Wien or Vienna University of Economics and Business is the largest University focusing on business and economics in Europe and, in terms of student body, one of the largest universities in Austria...
, "Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change" - Falko Netzer, University of GrazUniversity of GrazThe University of Graz , a university located in Graz, Austria, is the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria....
, "Search for emergent phenomena in oxide nanostructures" - Josef Penninger, Institute of Molecular BiotechnologyInstitute of Molecular BiotechnologyThe Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is an independent research organisation founded as a joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the company Boehringer Ingelheim an international pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Germany...
(IMBA) Wien, "From flies to humans combining whole genome screens and tissue specific gene targeting to identify novel pathways involved in cancer and metastases" - Anton ZeilingerAnton ZeilingerAnton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist. He is currently professor of physics at the University of Vienna, previously University of Innsbruck. He is also the director of the Vienna branch of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences...
, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "Photonic Quantum Information Technology and the Foundations of Quantum Physics in Higher Dimensions"
Starting Grants 2011
- Andrius Baltuska, Vienna University of TechnologyVienna University of TechnologyVienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
, “Cycle-Sculpted Strong Field Optics” - Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria), “Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications” - Jozsef Csicsvari, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria), “Memory-Related Information Processing in Neuronal Circuits of the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex” - Markus Hennrich, University of Innsbruck, “Quantum simulations with trapped Rydberg ions”
- Matthias Horn, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, “The Evolution of the Chlamydiae - an Experimental Approach” - Alwin Köhler, Medical University of ViennaMedical University of ViennaThe Medical University of Vienna is a medical university in Vienna, Austria.Formerly the faculty of medicine of the University of Vienna, became an independent university on January 1, 2004...
, “The nuclear pore connection: adaptor complexes bridging genome regulation and nuclear transport” - Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, University of Innsbruck, “Microscopy of Tunable Many-Body Quantum Systems”
- Michael Sixt, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria), “Cytoskeletal force generation and force transduction of migrating leukocytes” - Tomas Sobotka, Austrian Academy of SciencesAustrian Academy of SciencesThe Austrian Academy of Sciences is a legal entity under the special protection of the Federal Republic of Austria. According to the statutes of the Academy its mission is to promote the sciences and humanities in every respect and in every field, particularly in fundamental research...
, “Fertility, reproduction and population change in 21st Century Europe” - Andrew Straw, Research Institute of Molecular PathologyResearch Institute of Molecular PathologyThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology is a basic biomedical research center sponsored largely by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and located in the Campus Vienna Biocenter ....
, “Linking neural circuits to visual guidance in flying flies” (IMP) - Roland Wester, University of Innsbruck, “Molecular Networks with precision Terahertz Spectroscopy”
- Bojan Zagrovic, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, “Towards a quantitative framework for understanding proteinprotein interactions: from specific effects to protein ecology” - Manuel Zimmer, Research Institute of Molecular PathologyResearch Institute of Molecular PathologyThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology is a basic biomedical research center sponsored largely by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and located in the Campus Vienna Biocenter ....
, “Neuromodulation of Oxygen Chemosensory Circuits in Caenorhabditis elegans” (IMP)
Starting Grants 2010
- Goulnara Arzhantseva, moved to University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
in 2010, "Analytic properties of infinite groups: limits, curvature, and randomness" - Julius Brennecke, Institute of Molecular BiotechnologyInstitute of Molecular BiotechnologyThe Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is an independent research organisation founded as a joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the company Boehringer Ingelheim an international pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Germany...
(IMBA) Wien, "The piRNA pathway in the Drosophila germline - a small RNA based genome immune system" - Karlheinz Erb, Univ. Klagenfurt, "An integrated socioecological approach to land-use intensity: Analyzing and mapping biophysical stocks/flows and their socioeconomic drivers"
- Francesca Ferlaino, University of Innsbruck, "Ultracold Erbium: Exploring Exotic Quantum Gases"
- Christian Hellmich, Vienna University of TechnologyVienna University of TechnologyVienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
, "Poro-Micromechanics of Bone Materials, with Links to Biology and Medicine" - Barbara Horejs, Austrian Archaeological Institute, "From Sedentism to Proto-Urban Societies in Western Anatolia"
- Arthur Kaser, Medical University Innsbruck, "XBP1 and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Mucosal Homeostasis"
- Marc Luy, Austrian Academy of SciencesAustrian Academy of SciencesThe Austrian Academy of Sciences is a legal entity under the special protection of the Federal Republic of Austria. According to the statutes of the Academy its mission is to promote the sciences and humanities in every respect and in every field, particularly in fundamental research...
(ÖAW), "The male-female health-mortality paradox" - Sascha Martens, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
(MFPL), "Molecular mechanisms of autophagosome formation" - Bernard Christiaan Oostenbrink, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, "Efficient and accurate simulation techniques for free energies, enthalpies and entropies"
- Krzysztof Pietrzak, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria), “Provable Security for Physical Cryptography” - Florian Raible, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "Moonlight-dependent Hormones Orchestrating Lunar Reproductive Periodicity and Regeneration" - Thorsten Schumm, Vienna University of Technology, "Nuclear Atomic Clock"
- Gregor Weihs University of Innsbruck, "Entanglement from Semiconductor Nanostructures"
Starting Grants 2009
- Markus AspelmeyerMarkus AspelmeyerMarkus Aspelmeyer is a German quantum physicist.Aspelmeyer was born 1974 in the Bavarian town Schongau. He also attended the local school, where he received his abitur in 1993....
, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum InformationInstitute for Quantum Optics and Quantum InformationThe Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information is an child institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was founded in November 2003...
(IQOQI) and University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "Quantum Optomechanics: quantum foundations and quantum information on the micro- and nanoscale" - Sylvia Cremer, Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria), "Social Vaccination in Ant Colonies: from Individual Mechanisms to Society Effects" - Thomas Klausberger, Medical University of ViennaMedical University of ViennaThe Medical University of Vienna is a medical university in Vienna, Austria.Formerly the faculty of medicine of the University of Vienna, became an independent university on January 1, 2004...
, "The chronocircuitry of the hippocampus during cognitive behaviour" - Alistair McGregor, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, "Evolution of sensory organ morphology: genetic analysis of eye size evolution in Drosophila"
- Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular PathologyResearch Institute of Molecular PathologyThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology is a basic biomedical research center sponsored largely by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and located in the Campus Vienna Biocenter ....
(IMP), "Regulatory Genomics in Drosophila" - Stefan Szeider, Vienna University of TechnologyVienna University of TechnologyVienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
, "The Parameterized Complexity of Reasoning Problems" - Frank VerstraeteFrank VerstraeteFrank Verstraete is a Belgian quantum physicist who is working on the interface between quantum information theory and quantum many-body physics. He is full professor at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna. He was awarded the Lieben Prize in 2009.-References:...
, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "Quantum entanglement and the renormalization group"
Starting Grants 2007
- Thomas Loerting, University of Innsbruck
- Kazufumi Mochizuki, Institute of Molecular BiotechnologyInstitute of Molecular BiotechnologyThe Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is an independent research organisation founded as a joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the company Boehringer Ingelheim an international pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Germany...
(IMBA) Wien - Sigrid Wadauer, University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
- Stefan Westermann, Research Institute of Molecular PathologyResearch Institute of Molecular PathologyThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology is a basic biomedical research center sponsored largely by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and located in the Campus Vienna Biocenter ....
(IMP)
Number of ERC Grants to Austrian Institutions
An overview on Austrian universities may be found at List of universities in Austria.- University of ViennaUniversity of ViennaThe University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
: 16 - Institute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaThe Institute of Science and Technology Austria is an institute of basic research located in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna . The draft concept was developed by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger in 2002. Preparation work started in 2007...
(IST Austria): 8 - University of Innsbruck: 7
- Vienna University of TechnologyVienna University of TechnologyVienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
: 6 - Research Institute of Molecular PathologyResearch Institute of Molecular PathologyThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology is a basic biomedical research center sponsored largely by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and located in the Campus Vienna Biocenter ....
(IMP): 6 - Institute of Molecular BiotechnologyInstitute of Molecular BiotechnologyThe Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is an independent research organisation founded as a joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the company Boehringer Ingelheim an international pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Germany...
(IMBA-ÖAW): 4 - Medical University Innsbruck: 2
- Medical University Vienna: 1
- Austrian Academy of SciencesAustrian Academy of SciencesThe Austrian Academy of Sciences is a legal entity under the special protection of the Federal Republic of Austria. According to the statutes of the Academy its mission is to promote the sciences and humanities in every respect and in every field, particularly in fundamental research...
(ÖAW): 1 - Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI): 1
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum InformationInstitute for Quantum Optics and Quantum InformationThe Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information is an child institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was founded in November 2003...
(IQOQI-ÖAW): 1 - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): 1
- Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM): 1
- University of GrazUniversity of GrazThe University of Graz , a university located in Graz, Austria, is the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria....
: 1 - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna: 1
- University of Klagenfurt: 1
- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna: 1
- Vienna University of Economics and BusinessVienna University of Economics and BusinessWirtschaftsuniversität Wien or Vienna University of Economics and Business is the largest University focusing on business and economics in Europe and, in terms of student body, one of the largest universities in Austria...
: 1
ERC Grants to Austrian Researchers working abroad (incomplete)
- Reinhard Kienberger, Max Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching (Deutschland)
- Stefan Leutgeb, Centre for the Biology of Memory an der Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (Norway)
- Benjamin Schuler, Biochemisches Institut der Universität Zürich (Schweiz)