Eight ERC Starting Grants for Helmholtz
In the current round of ERC Starting Grants, Helmholtz was able to secure a total of eight grants.
The ‘Starting Grants’ funding line is aimed at researchers at the beginning of their careers and is funded with up to 1.5 million euros over a period of five years.
An overview of the successful applicants and their projects:
- Sören Häfker, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, (Biological clocks in pelagic systems)
- Franziska Boenisch, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, (Privacy Protection and Auditing for Foundation Models)
- Vincent Wanie, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, (Key Exploration of intermolecular Bonding in chiral recognition using Advanced laser light Beams)
- Daniel Reznik, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), (The organizational principles of human entorhinal cortex and their contributions to episodic memory)
- Niki Kilbertus, Helmholtz Munich, (Bioengineered Integration and Organization of Cellular Archives into Confined Historical Entities)
- Jens Hör, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, (Elucidating molecular principles of RNA phage-host interaction)
- Manuel Krannich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, (Manifolds and functor calculus)
- Markus Mittnenzweig, Max Delbrück Center, (Spatiotemporal models of tissue patterning and cellular commitment during embryonic development)
