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.

To meet our ERC scientists and find out about their projects, please see the ESRF ERC Grant brochure.

On-going ERC grants

Grant Holder	Grant Type	Project Title	Period
Ana Pakhomova, ID27, CNRS	Consolidator	OCEAN - Effect of high pressure on organic chemistry in large ocean worlds	2025-2030
Valerio Cerantola, University of Milan-Bicocca, ESRF, XFeL	Consolidator	S-CAPE - The Earth’s Deep Sulphur Cycle from Planetary Accretion to Present	2025-2030
Marie-Ingrid Richard, ID01, CEA Irig	Consolidator Advanced Advanced	REACT: - Revolutionising the use of coherent X-ray diffraction for structural crystallography applied to catalysis CARINE: Nanostructures towards atomic resolution: catalysis and interface	2024-2029 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)	2022-2027
Can YILDIRIM, ESRF, ID03	Starting	Deformation and Recrystallization Mechanisms in Metals (D-REX)	2023-2028