ERC Grants Austria

Researchers in Austria have been quite successful in winning grants of the European Research Council (ERC). These recently established grants have immediately gained high recognition due to their competitive nature. There are two types of grants, the ERC Advanced Grant for established researchers with a typical funding of 2,5 Mio. EUR and the ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers with a typical funding of 1,5 Mio. EUR. At the moment 41 researchers in Austria have received one of the two types of grants. Besides of six grants to universities in Innsbruck and one grant to both Graz and Klagenfurt, all grants have been awarded to researchers in Vienna (or close by such as IST Austria and IIASA). The current ERC President Helga Nowotny is from Austria.
Advanced Grant Winners 2009 in Austria
* Nick Barton, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, "Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation"
* Georg Gottlob, Oxford University & Vienna University of Technology, "Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology"
* Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "A Systems Level Approach to Proliferation and Differentiation Control in Neural Stem Cell Lineages"
* Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of Vienna, "Transformations of normative orders"
* Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University Innsbruck, "Coherently advanced tissue and cell holographic imaging and trapping"
* Walter Schachermayer, University of Vienna, "Risk and Valuation of Financial Assets: A Robust Approach"
* Siegfried Selberherr, Vienna University of Technology, "Modeling Silicon Spintronics"
* Giulio Superti-Furga, Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)
Advanced Grant Winners 2008 in Austria
* Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck, "Cryogenic Traps for Entanglement Research with Ions"
* Silke Bühler-Paschen, Vienna University of Technology, "Quantum Criticality - The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales"
* Barry Dickson, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Neural basis of Drosophila mating behaviours"
* W. Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna, "The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach"
* Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Vienna, "Generalized Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications"
* Wolfgang Lutz, Vienna University of Economics and Business, "Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change"
* Falko Netzer, University of Graz, "Search for emergent phenomena in oxide nanostructures"
* Josef Penninger, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "From flies to humans combining whole genome screens and tissue specific gene targeting to identify novel pathways involved in cancer and metastases"
* Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, "Photonic Quantum Information Technology and the Foundations of Quantum Physics in Higher Dimensions"
Starting Grant Winners 2010 in Austria
* Goulnara Arzhantseva, moved to University of Vienna in 2010, "Analytic properties of infinite groups: limits, curvature, and randomness"
* Julius Brennecke, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien, "The piRNA pathway in the Drosophila germline - a small RNA based genome immune system"
* Karlheinz Erb, Univ. Klagenfurt, "An integrated socioecological approach to land-use intensity: Analyzing and mapping biophysical stocks/flows and their socioeconomic drivers"
* Francesca Ferlaino, University of Innsbruck, "Ultracold Erbium: Exploring Exotic Quantum Gases"
* Christian Hellmich, Vienna University of Technology, "Poro-Micromechanics of Bone Materials, with Links to Biology and Medicine"
* Barbara Horejs, Austrian Archaeological Institute, "From Sedentism to Proto-Urban Societies in Western Anatolia"
* Arthur Kaser, Medical University Innsbruck, "XBP1 and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Mucosal Homeostasis"
* Marc Luy, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), "The male-female health-mortality paradox"
* Sascha Martens, University of Vienna (MFPL), "Molecular mechanisms of autophagosome formation"
* Bernard Christiaan Oostenbrink, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, "Efficient and accurate simulation techniques for free energies, enthalpies and entropies"
* Florian Raible, University of Vienna, "Moonlight-dependent Hormones Orchestrating Lunar Reproductive Periodicity and Regeneration"
* Thorsten Schumm, Vienna University of Technology, "Nuclear Atomic Clock"
* Gregor Weihs University of Innsbruck, "Entanglement from Semiconductor Nanostructures"
Starting Grant Winners 2009 in Austria
* Markus Aspelmeyer, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), "Quantum Optomechanics: quantum foundations and quantum information on the micro- and nanoscale"
* Thomas Klausberger, Medical University of Vienna, "The chronocircuitry of the hippocampus during cognitive behaviour"
* Alistair McGregor, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, "Evolution of sensory organ morphology: genetic analysis of eye size evolution in Drosophila"
* Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
* Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), "Regulatory Genomics in Drosophila"
* Stefan Szeider, Vienna University of Technology, "The Parameterized Complexity of Reasoning Problems"
* Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna, "Quantum entanglement and the renormalization group"
Starting Grant Winners 2007 in Austria
* Thomas Loerting, University of Innsbruck
* Kazufumi Mochizuki, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Wien
* Sigrid Wadauer, University of Vienna
* Stefan Westermann, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Number of ERC Grants to Austrian Institutions
An overview on Austrian universities may be found at List_of_universities_in_Austria.
* University of Vienna: 11
* Vienna University of Technology: 6
* Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA-ÖAW): 4
* University of Innsbruck: 4
* Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP): 3
* Medical University Innsbruck: 2
* Medical University Vienna: 1
* Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW): 1
* Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI): 1
* Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-ÖAW): 1
* Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria): 1
* International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): 1
* Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM): 1
* University of Graz: 1
* University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna: 1
* University of Klagenfurt: 1
* University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna: 1
* Vienna University of Economics and Business: 1
ERC Grants to Austrian Researchers working abroad (incomplete)
* Reinhard Kienberger, Max Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching (Deutschland)
* Stefan Leutgeb, Centre for the Biology of Memory an der Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (Norway)
* Benjamin Schuler, Biochemisches Institut der Universität Zürich (Schweiz)

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