ERC Awards 478 Starting Grants - 11 ELLIS Members Among the Recipients
Eleven Members of ELLIS, representing five countries, are among the 478 early-career researchers across Europe who have been awarded this year’s prestigious ERC Starting Grants, amounting to a total of €761 million.
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded 478 Starting Grants to outstanding early-career researchers across Europe. These highly competitive grants, provided under the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, amount to a total investment of €761 million. They will support pioneering research in a broad spectrum of disciplines, ranging from the physical sciences and engineering to the life sciences, social sciences, and humanities. With this funding, researchers at the outset of their independent careers will be able to establish their own research agendas, form teams, and pursue bold scientific ideas with transformative potential.
We are delighted to announce that 11 Members and Scholars of ELLIS, representing five different countries, have been selected as ERC Starting Grant recipients. Congratulations to all the awardees on this remarkable achievement!
Alexander Winkler - ELLIS Member, Max Planck Society
PostPeak: How Land Carbon Dynamics Shape the Rise and Fall of Atmospheric CO2
Antoine Bosselut - ELLIS Scholar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
RESPECT-LM: Resolving the Paradoxes of Cross-lingual Transfer in Multilingual Language Models
Christian Rupprecht - ELLIS Member, University of Oxford
Volute: Visual Omniversal Learning from Universal Teachers
Corinna Coupette - ELLIS Member, Aalto University
CompLex: Toward a Computational Theory of Legal Complexity
Eddy Ilg - ELLIS Scholar, University of Technology Nuremberg
4DLang: Establishing a Spatio-Temporal Language for Scene Representation
Edoardo Maria Ponti - ELLIS Scholar, University of Edinburgh
AToM-FM: Adaptive Tokenization & Memory in Foundation Models for Efficient and Long-Horizon AI
Franziska Boenisch - ELLIS Member, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Privacy4FMs: Privacy Protection and Auditing for Foundation Models
Jiarui Gan - ELLIS Member, University of Oxford
ASPAC: Algorithmics of Stochastic Principal-Agent Coordination
Mariya Toneva - ELLIS Member, Max Planck Society
BrainAlign: Brain-Aligned Language Models for Long-Range Language Understanding and Neuroscientific Insight
Niki Kilbertus - ELLIS Member, Helmholtz Munich - German Research Centre for Environmental Health
DYNAMICAUS: Reliable Cause-Effect Quantification in Complex Dynamical Systems for Socially Beneficial Policies
Siyu Tang - ELLIS Scholar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
Human3D: Learning Visual Foundation Models for Perceiving 3D Humans
In the ERC’s official announcement, Ekaterina Zaharieva (European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation) highlighted the strategic importance of these investments: substantial financial support of this kind, she noted, is crucial for demonstrating Europe’s ability to attract, retain, and nurture world-class scientific talent. These grants help Europe attract and retain top scientific talent, reinforcing its position as a strong competitor in the worldwide research and innovation landscape.
For additional information, including statistics and the complete list of awardees, please see the ERC’s full press release.
