ERC at the ESRF

European Research Council (ERC) grants are awarded for investigator-driven frontier research in Europe, on the basis of scientific excellence. The ESRF hosts several ERC grants, which are either led by ESRF scientist or ESRF long-term users and based on the use of the new capabilities of ESRF-Extremely Brilliant Source. These projects aim to carry out breakthrough research of the highest impact and thus contribute to advancing knowledge and addressing global challenges.

On-going ERC grants

Grant Holder	Grant Type	Project Title	Period
Kristina KVASHNINA, BM20 Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf	Starting	Towards the bottom of the Periodic Table (TOP)	2018-2022
Hugh SIMONS, ID06 and UPBL2-ID03 Technical University of Denmark (DTU )	Starting	3D piezoresponse X-ray microscopy (3D-PXM)	2019-2023
Marie-Ingrid Richard, ID01 Aix-Marseille University	Consolidator	Nanostructures towards atomic resolution: catalysis and interface	2019-2024
Alexandra-Teodora JOITA-PACUREANU, ID16A ESRF	Starting	Bright, coherent and focused light to resolve neuronal circuits (BRILLIANCE)	2020-2025
Beatrice RUTA, CNRS (F) – ID10 and UPBL1-ID18	Starting	A coherent view of Glasses: complex dynamics of glasses with coherent X-rays	2020-2025
Henning Friis POULSEN, DTU (DK) – ID06 and UPBL2-ID03	Advanced	The physics of metal plasticity (PMP)	2020-2025
François RENARD, BM18, ID19, ID11 University of Oslo and ISTerre	Advanced	Break-Through Rocks” (BREAK)	2021-2026
Ilya KUPENKO, ID14, ID28, ID27, and ID15B ESRF	Starting	Light Elements in the Coree (LECOR)	2022-2027
Tilman GRUENEWALD, ID13 and ID15A Institut Frenel (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Centrale Marseille)	Starting	X-ray texture tomography for multiscale, in-situ imaging of the enthesis, a biological hinge between bone and tendon (TexTOM)	2022-2027
Alain MANCEAU, ID24-DCM CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon	Advanced	Fathoming Sequestration and Enrichment of metals in DEEP marine deposits with novel micro X-ray emission spectroscopy (DEEP-SEE)	2023-2028

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