Six ERC Synergy Grants for Helmholtz
A total of six of the prestigious and highly endowed ERC Synergy Grants have been awarded to research teams at the Helmholtz Association. In contrast to the ERC individual grants, two to four partners work together on groundbreaking issues, new methods and techniques in the Synergy Grants. The funding amounts to up to 10 million euros for a period of up to six years. The ERC awarded a total of 66 grants.
The successful applicants and their projects at a glance
- Angelika Humpert, Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung: "Greenland’s Melting Firn and Ice Sheet Response" Partner: The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, University of Fribourg, Utrecht University.
- Francesca Calegari, Sasa Bajt, Henry Chapman, Nina Rohringer, DESY: "Imaging the Dynamics of Electrons with Attosecond and Angstrom resolution."
- Jenny List, Andreas Maier, DESY: "Probing the nonperturbative regime of Quantum Electrodynamics with extreme light", Partner: French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), University of Rochester.
- Anna Sieben, Forschungszentrumm Jülich: "Integrating the physics and social-psychology of crowd movement", Partner: University of Groningen.
- Heidi Kreibich, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung: "When and where do we reach the limits of adaptation to riverine flood risk?", Partner: Princeton University, University of Bristol, VU Amsterdam.
- Daniel Bemmerer, Helmhotz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR): "Laboratory Underground for Nuclear Astrophysics New Observatory for Solar Neutrino Reactions", Partner: National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC),University of Naples Federico II.
List of all selected researchers
06.11.2025
