9 ERC Starting Grants awarded to researchers of the DRESDEN-concept Science and Innovation Campus

This week, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the award of 400 Starting Grants to early-stage researchers from across Europe. The awardees will each receive funding of €1.5 million for their innovative research from 2024 to 2028.

Among them are 9 researchers from the DRESDEN-concept Science and Innovation Campus:

• Ricard Alert (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems) “The Spectrum of Fluctuations in Living Matter”
• Marin Bukov (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems ) “Nonequilibrium Many Body Control of Quantum Simulators”
• Claire Donnelly (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids ) “Three Dimensional Quantum Nanomaterials”
• Ran He (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden) “Tellurium-free Thermoelectric Technology for Near-roomtemperature Applications”
• Jakob Nikolas Kather (TUD Dresden University of Technology) “New directions for deep learning in cancer research through concept explainability and virtual experimentation.”
• Alejandro Tabas (TUD Dresden University of Technology) “Empirical and mechanistic foundations for synergistic predictive processing in the sensory brain”
• Agnes Toth-Petroczy (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics) “Evolution of Biomolecular Condensates“
• Alexander von Appen (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics) “Mechanisms of nuclear self-assembly“
• Minghao Yu (TUD Dresden University of Technology) “Practical magnesium batteries enabled by 2D crystalline polymer-based artificial electrode skins