Eleven ERC Starting Grants for Helmholtz
In the current round of ERC Starting Grants, Helmholtz was able to secure a total of 11 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:
- Reid Alderson, Helmholtz Munich (Protein-DANCE: Protein Dynamic Atlas from NMR-based measurements of Conformational Exchange)
- Marcel Binz, Helmholtz Munich (MIDAS: Modeling the Integrated minD At Scale)
- Casey Huysegmos (Paquola), Forschungszentrum Jülich (NEUROCAST: Neurodevelopmental forecasting of mental illness in adolescence)
- Daniel Kirschenbaum, DKFZ (VideoTranscriptomics: Spatiotemporal Mapping of Immune Cell Behavior in Glioblastoma)
- Lena Kutscher, DKFZ (MB-squared: Male bias in medulloblastoma)
- Viviana Rincon Montes, Forschungszentrum Jülich (CoalescentBrain: camouflaged Neural Implants for Coalescent Brain Integration)
- Maryia Rusak, KIT (DATAARK: Designing United Europe: Data-Driven Architectural Networks)
- Michael Scherer, DKFZ (EPI-SENSOR: Integrating DNA Methylation and Drug Abundance at Single-Cell Resolution to Predict Cancer Drug Sensitivity)
- Karin Schwarzenberger, HZDR (InterTrace: Interfacial flow tracing for gas-liquid mass transfer processes)
- Larisa Tarasova, UFZ (earth.zip: Hidden multi-scale geometry of landscapes: uncovering functional similarity in the Earth’s fluvial water systems)
- Jingyuan Xu, KIT (COOLWEAVE: Elastocaloric Cooling with Porous Woven Regenerator)