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Talvikki Hovatta

Project: "Particle composition in relativistic jets"
Duration: 2025 - 2030

Talvikki Hovatta investigates in her five-year ERC project relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes, which have fascinated the scientific world for a century. Relativistic jets are among the most extreme and energetic phenomena in the universe. Although relativistic jets have been studied for decades, their exact composition remains a mystery. To solve the puzzle, the project will analyse the polarisation, or direction of light oscillation, of the light emitted by the jets. 

Person profile Talvikki Hovatta

News: Talvikki Hovatta wants to solve a mystery that has plagued astronomers for decades

Mauri Kostiainen

Project: "Multicomponent Protein Cage Co-Crystals."
Duration: 2021 - 2026

Person profile Mauri KostiainenNews: Mauri Kostiainen has received a two million euro grant to study new biohybrid materials

Anton Kuzyk

Project: "Electronically driven DNA-origami-based machines".
Duration: 2022 - 2027

Person profile Anton KuzykNews: Research project develops electrically controlled artificial molecular machines

Jose Lado

Project: "Engineering ultra-quantum materials with multiferroic super-moiré heterostructures"
Duration: 2025 - 2030

Professor Jose Lado will use this ERC funding to engineer a new type of topological quantum material that could have applications for quantum bit, or “qubit,” development for noise-resilient topological quantum computation. One of the biggest challenges in creating quantum computers capable of overcoming classical computers arises from the imperfect nature of qubits. However, there is a way to overcome this fundamental limitation by creating topological qubits.

Person profile Jose Lado

News: Quantum physics professor searches for exotic qubit alternatives with new European funding

Jaana Vapaavuori

Project: "Past-aware material networks towards tomorrow’s textile robots"
Duration: 2026 - 2031

This ERC project is developing soft, intelligent textiles that could one day function as rescue robots, sound-sensing agricultural fabrics, or assistive clothing. At the same time, the project aims to rethink the way we approach materials research. The researchers aim to create textile-based robots that can sense their surroundings, process information, and even change their shape or mechanical properties. The project will also investigate forms of logical computation based on smart yarns that move in response to external signals.

Person profile Jaana Vapaavuori

News: Smart textiles are reshaping our understanding of materials – and interspecies communication