ERC Consolidator Grant funding
ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD.
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-moir茅 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 鈥渜ubit,鈥 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.
News: Quantum physics professor searches for exotic qubit alternatives with new European funding