List of European Research Council grants awarded to Austrian institutions

Researchers in Austria have been quite successful in winning grants of the European Research Council (ERC). These grants have immediately gained high recognition due to their highly competitive nature. There are two major 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. Additionally, the ERC Proof of Concept and ERC Synergy grants have been introduced in 2011 and the ERC Consolidator Grant in 2013. About 100 researchers in Austria have received ERC grants until fall 2013. The previous ERC President Helga Nowotny is from Austria.

ERC Advanced Grants

Advanced Grants 2017

• Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Interaction and feedback between cell mechanics and fate specification in vertebrate gastrulation"
• Jiri Friml, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Tracing Evolution of Auxin Transport and Polarity"

Advanced Grants 2016

• Helmut Haberl, University of Klagenfurt, "Understanding the role of material stock patterns for the transformation to a sustainable society"
• Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Biophysics and circuit function of a giant cortical glumatergic synapse"
• Martin Korenjak, University of Innsbruck, "Nova scientia: Early modern scientific literature and Latin"
• Wolfgang Lutz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), "The demography of sustainable human wellbeing"
• Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of Vienna, "The normative and moral foundations of group agency"
• Robert Seiringer, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Analysis of quantum many-body systems"
• Ryuichi Shigemoto, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "In situ analysis of single channel subunit composition in neurons: physiological implication in synaptic plasticity and behaviour"
• Elly Tanaka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Understanding the evolution of regeneration-permissive gene expression and positional memory in Axolotl limb regeneration"
• Meinrad Busslinger, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Transcriptional control of plasma cell development and function"

Advanced Grants 2015

• Tim Clausen, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "No stress with pArg: Mechanisms of a distinct phospho-mark to coordinate stress response and protein quality control"
• Jan-Michael Peters, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Molecular mechanisms of cohesin-mediated sister chromatid cohesion and chromatin organization"

Advanced Grants 2013

• Laszlo Erdös, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Random matrices, universality and disordered quantum systems"
• Tamas Hausel, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Arithmetic and physics of Higgs moduli spaces"
• Monika Henzinger, University of Vienna, ""
• Martin Kusch, University of Vienna,
• Josef Penninger, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, ""

Advanced Grants 2012

• Markus Arndt, University of Vienna, "Processing biomolecular targets for interferometric quantum experiments"

Advanced Grants 2011

• Siegfried Bauer, University of Linz, "Stretching soft matter performance: From conformable electronics and soft machines to renewable energy"
• Guenter Bloeschl, Vienna University of Technology, "Deciphering River Flood Change"
• Meinrad Busslinger, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Transcriptional networks controlling lymphocyte development"
• Ulrike Diebold, Vienna University of Technology, "Microscopic Processes and Phenomena at Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces"
• Christian Schlötterer, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, "The architecture of adaptation to novel environments"
• Michael Wagner, University of Vienna, Department of Microbial Ecology, "Nitrification Reloaded – a Single Cell Approach (NITRICARE)"
• Eberhard Widmann, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, "Hyperfine Structure of Antihydrogen HBAR-HFS"
• Elly Tanaka, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "A Cross Species Approach to Understand the Mechanism and Evolution of Limb Regeneration Capacity"

Advanced Grants 2010

• Adrian Constantin, University of Vienna
• Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Nanophysiology of fast-spiking, parvalbumin-expressing GABAergic interneurons”
• Thomas Henzinger, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Quantitative Reactive Modeling”
• Gerhard Herndl, University of Vienna
• Magnus Nordborg, Gregor Mendel Institute
• Walter Pohl, University of Vienna

Advanced Grants 2009

• Nick Barton, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, "Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation"
• Georg Gottlob, Oxford University & Vienna University of Technology, "Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology"
• Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "A Systems Level Approach to Proliferation and Differentiation Control in Neural Stem Cell Lineages"
• Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of Vienna, "Transformations of normative orders"
• Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University Innsbruck, "Coherently advanced tissue and cell holographic imaging and trapping"
• Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna, "Risk and Valuation of Financial Assets: A Robust Approach"
• Siegfried Selberherr, Vienna University of Technology, "Modeling Silicon Spintronics"
• Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, "i-FIVE: Interferon-focused Innate Immunity Interactome and Inhibitome"

Advanced Grants 2008

• Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck, "Cryogenic Traps for Entanglement Research with Ions"
• Silke Bühler-Paschen, Vienna University of Technology, "Quantum Criticality - The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales"
• Barry Dickson, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Neural basis of Drosophila mating behaviours"
• W. Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna, "The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach"
• Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Vienna, "Generalized Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications"
• Wolfgang Lutz, Vienna University of Economics and Business, "Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change"
• Falko Netzer, University of Graz, "Search for emergent phenomena in oxide nanostructures"
• Josef Penninger, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (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 Zeilinger, University of Vienna, "Photonic Quantum Information Technology and the Foundations of Quantum Physics in Higher Dimensions"

ERC Starting Grants

Starting Grants 2017

• Andrea Bachmaier, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), "SPD nanostructured magnets with tuneable properties"
• Johannes Fink
• Simone Gingrich
• Roman Gundacker, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), "Challenging Time(s): A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology"
• Maximilian Hartmuth, University of Vienna, "Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878–1918"
• Maximilian Jösch
• Thomas Juffmann
• Martin Kaltenbrunner
• Börries Kuzmany, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), "Non-Territorial Autonomy as Minority Protection in Europe: An Intellectual and Political History of a Travelling Idea, 1850–2000"
• David Natal, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• Anna Obenauf
• Stefan Pogatscher
• Christoph Rameshan
• Johannes Schmidt University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), "Going global? Renewable fuel trade and social land-use restrictions in a low-carbon energy system" (reFUEL)
• Simon Stellmer
• Toma Susi

Starting Grants 2016

• Bernd Bickel, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "MATERIALIZABLE: Intelligent fabrication-oriented Computational Design and Modeling"
• Jan Maas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Optimal Transport and Stochastic Dynamics"
• Gaia Novarino, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Probing the Reversibility of Autism Spectrum Disorders by Employing in vivo and in vitro Models"
• Sandra Siegert, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Microglia action towards neuronal circuit formation and function in health and disease"
• Beatriz Vicoso, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Prevalence and Influence of Sexual Antagonism on Genome Evolution"

Starting Grants 2015

• Anna Kicheval, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Coordination of Patterning And Growth In the Spinal Cord"
• Martin Loose, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Self-Organization of the Bacterial Cell"

Starting Grants 2014

• Florian Grebien, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research (LBI-CR [1]) Wien, "Common Oncogenic Mechanisms in Multi-Partner Translocation Families in Acute Myeloid Leukemia" [2]
• Chris Wojtan, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Efficient Simulation of Natural Phenomena at Extremely Large Scales"

Starting Grants 2013

• Stefan Ameres, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "Molecular Characterization of the microRNA Life-Cycle”
• Luisa Cochella, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Spatio-temporal specificity of miRNA function"
• Georgios Katsaros, University of Linz, "Towards spin qubits and Majorana fermions in Germanium self-assembled hut-wires"
• David Keays, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Magnetoreception"
• Stephan Kloos, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), "Reassembling Tibetan Medicine"
• Jannik Meyer, University of Vienna, "Picometer scale insight and manipulation of novel materials"
• Kristin Tessmar-Raible, University of Vienna, "Molecular neurobiology of a moonlight entrained circalunar clock"
• Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "Chromosome inheritance from mammalian oocytes to embryos”
• Johannes Zuber Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Systematic in-vivo analysis of chromatin-associated targets in leukemia"

Starting Grants 2012

• Björn Hof, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Decoding the complexity of turbulence at its origin"
• Kaan Boztug, CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, "Integrated Genetics of Congenital Defects of Innate Immunity”
• Julia Budka, Austrian Academy of Sciences, "Across ancient borders and cultures: An Egyptian microcosm in Sudan during the 2nd millenium BC"
• Wulf E. Haubensak, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "EmotionCircuits"
• Karsten Held, Vienna University of Technology, "Ab initio Dynamical Vertex Approximation"
• Christoph Lampert, IST Austria, "Life Long Learning of Visual Scene Understanding"
• Anthony Patt, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), "Social challenges of trans-Mediterranean renewable power cooperation"
• Friederike Range, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, "Understanding the Proximate Mechanisms of Canine Cooperation"
• Erik Reimhult, Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), "Interaction and actuation of lipid membranes with magnetic nanoparticles"
• Sebastian M. Nijman, CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, "Discovering Gene-Drug Interactions in Breast Cancer With a Systematic and Genetically Tractable Model”

Starting Grants 2011

• Andrius Baltuska, Vienna University of Technology, “Cycle-Sculpted Strong Field Optics”
• Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications”
• Jozsef Csicsvari, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Memory-Related Information Processing in Neuronal Circuits of the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex”
• Jiri Friml, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Polarity and subcellular dynamics in plants"
• Daniel Gerlich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "Bridging spatial and temporal resolution gaps in the study of cell division"
• Markus Hennrich, University of Innsbruck, “Quantum simulations with trapped Rydberg ions”
• Matthias Horn, University of Vienna, Department of Microbial Ecology, “The Evolution of the Chlamydiae - an Experimental Approach”
• Alwin Köhler, Medical University of Vienna, “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 Austria (IST Austria), “Cytoskeletal force generation and force transduction of migrating leukocytes”
• Tomas Sobotka, Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Fertility, reproduction and population change in 21st Century Europe”
• Andrew Straw, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, “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 Vienna, “Towards a quantitative framework for understanding proteinprotein interactions: from specific effects to protein ecology”
• Manuel Zimmer, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, “Neuromodulation of Oxygen Chemosensory Circuits in Caenorhabditis elegans” (IMP)

Starting Grants 2010

• Goulnara Arzhantseva, moved to University of Vienna in 2010, "Analytic properties of infinite groups: limits, curvature, and randomness"
• Julius Brennecke, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "The piRNA pathway in the Drosophila germline - a small RNA based genome immune system"
• Karlheinz Erb, University of 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 Technology, "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 Sciences (ÖAW), "The male-female health-mortality paradox"
• Sascha Martens, University of Vienna (MFPL), "Molecular mechanisms of autophagosome formation"
• Krzysztof Pietrzak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), “Provable Security for Physical Cryptography"
• Bernard Christiaan Oostenbrink, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, "Efficient and accurate simulation techniques for free energies, enthalpies and entropies"
• Florian Raible, University of Vienna, "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 Aspelmeyer, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) and University of Vienna, "Quantum Optomechanics: quantum foundations and quantum information on the micro- and nanoscale"
• Sylvia Cremer, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Social Vaccination in Ant Colonies: from Individual Mechanisms to Society Effects"
• Thomas Klausberger, Medical University of Vienna, "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 Pathology (IMP), "Regulatory Genomics in Drosophila"
• Stefan Szeider, Vienna University of Technology, "The Parameterized Complexity of Reasoning Problems"
• Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna, "Quantum entanglement and the renormalization group"

Starting Grants 2007

• Eva Benkova, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Hormonal cross-talk in plant organogenesis"
• Thomas Loerting, University of Innsbruck
• Kazufumi Mochizuki, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien
• Sigrid Wadauer, University of Vienna
• Stefan Westermann, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) "Molecular Dissection of the Kinetochore – Microtubule Interface" (KINETOCORE)

ERC Consolidator Grants

Consolidator Grants 2016>

• Simon Hippenmeyer, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Principles of Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression in Cerebral Cortex Development"
• Michael Sixt, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Cellular navigation along spatial gradients"

Consolidator Grants 2015

• Jonathan P. Bollback, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Selective Barriers to Horizontal Gene Transfer"
• Julius Brennecke, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien
• Krysztof Pietrzak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Teaching Old Crypto New Tricks"

Consolidator Grants 2014

• Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) Wien

Consolidator Grants 2013

• Fumiyo Ikeda, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien
• Vladimir Kolmogorov, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), "Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice"

Number of ERC Grants to Austrian Institutions

An overview on Austrian universities may be found at List of universities in Austria.

• Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria): 33
• University of Vienna: 25
• Vienna University of Technology: 15
• Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP): 16
• Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA-ÖAW): 12
• University of Innsbruck: 8
• CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: 4
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): 2
• Medical University Innsbruck: 2
• University of Klagenfurt: 2
• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna: 2
• University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna: 2
• Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW): 1
• Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI): 1
• Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-ÖAW): 1
• Medical University Vienna: 1
• University of Graz: 1
• Vienna University of Economics and Business: 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)

External links

• European Research Council
• Vienna Science and Technology Fund

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