ERC Grants
All researchers and projects that have received the prestigious grants for frontier science from the European Research Council (ERC).
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The European Research Council (ERC) is a part of the EU's research programme Horizon Europe. The ERC promotes high-quality research by funding the best researchers and the best ideas in Europe. The topics are proposed by the researchers themselves and selected through strong competition.
ERC funding is considered one of the most prestigious awards a researcher can receive.
Ongoing ERC funded research at UiB
Synergy Grant | |
Andrea Bender, | QUANTA (2021-2027) |
Advanced Grants | |
Rolv Skjærven, | HealthierWomen (2019-2024) |
John Birks, | HOPE (2017-2023) |
Consolidator Grants | |
Bettina Husebø, | 5-D (2024-2028) Decoding Death and Dying in people with Dementia by Digital thanotyping |
Kjetil Våge, Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research | ROVER (2024-2028) |
Cristian Gebhardt, Geophysical Institute/ Bergen Offshore Wind Centre | DATA-DRIVEN OFFSHORE (2023 - 2028) Data-Driven Approaches in Computational Mechanics for the Aerohydroelastic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines |
Karl Magnus Laundal, Department of Physics and Technology/ Birkeland Centre for Space Science | Dynamit (2023-2027) Dynamic Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere coupling The project will investigate how Earth's atmosphere is dynamically coupled to space. |
Hallvard Moe, | PREPARE (2023-2027) Distributed and prepared. A new theory of citizens’ public connection networks in the age of datafication. |
Pawel Burkhardt, Michael Sars Centre | ORIGINEURO (2023-2027) Tracking the deep evolutionary origins of neurons. The project will investigate the special nervous system of ctenophores (comb jellies) with a focus on their anatomy, development and function and could challenge the standard view that neural networks always consist of individual neurons. |
Inga Berre, | MaPSI (2021-2026) The project will develop new mathematical models and numerical methods, and use these in the simulation of processes in geothermal systems that has not been possible to quantify previously. |
Ragnhild Muriaas, | SUCCESS (2021-2026) |
Nele Meckler, | FluidMICS (2021-2026) |
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, | INCLUDE (2021-2026) |
Saket Saurabh, | LOPRE (2019-2025) Lossy preprocessing Saket Saurabh aims to revolutionise how we handle, utilise and compress Big Data. |
Harald Sodemann, | ISLAS (2018-2023) Isotopic links to atmospheric water's sources Harald Sodemann will use new technology to trace water vapour and its significance for weather prediction and climate models. |
Thomas Arnesen, | NterAct (2018-2023) Discovery and functional significance of posttranslational N-terminal acetylation Thomas Arnesen will study a gene that controls cell motion and how it is turned on and off. |
Jill Walker Rettberg, | MachineVision (2018-2024) Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media Jill Walker Rettberg studies how new algorithmic images are affecting us as a society and as individuals. |
Starting Grants | |
Aaron Spitzer, Department of Comparative Politics | CONFRONT (2024-2029) Contested frontiers: Rights clashes and the (re)constitution of settler-state peripheries This project studies how liberal-democratic settlers/states deploy rights-claims to domesticate borderland jurisdictions, and how Indigenous peoples deploy countervailing rights-claims to resist such domestication |
Marry-Anne Karlsen, | ASYKNOW (2023-2028) Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation ASYKNOW investigates how expert knowledge is mobilized, contested, and constituted in and through asylum appeal processes |
Justas Zalieckas, Department of Physics and Technology | SmartGROW (2023-2027) Fractals and metamaterials support 3D diamond growth for industrial coatings |
Vadim Kimmelman, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies | Nonmanual (2023-2027) The project “Fundamentals of formal properties of nonmanuals: A quantitative approach” (NONMANUAL) will study facial expressions and body and head movements in five different sign languages, using large datasets, Computer Vision and advanced statistical analysis. |
Carlo Koos, Department of Government | WarEffects (2022-2026) The Micro-Level Effects of Civil Wars on Multiple Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment The project investigates if, how and under which conditions violence in Civil Wars affects women's empowerment and gender relations. |
Adriana Bunea, Department of Comparative Politics | CONSULTATIONEFFECTS (2019-2025) |
Iain G. Johnston, | EvoConBiO (2019-2025) |
Timothy Lynagh, | iGLURs- A NEW VIEW (2018-2024) |
Randi Jacobsen Bertelsen, | BRuSH (2019-2024) |
Scott Bremer, | CALENDARS (2018-2023) |
Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, | SNOWISO (2018-2022) |
Proof of Concept Grants | |
Harald Sodemann, | VISOR - Versatile water vapour isotope calibration device for laboratory and field use. |
Noel Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research | TOSCP – Towards Operational Supermodel Climate Prediction |
Some researchers have not started their ERC project yet, and are therefore not added to the list.
Researchers who have received an ERC award but are carrying out or have carried out their ERC projects at other institutions are not added to the list.
Completed ERC projects
Synergy Grant | |
Eystein Jansen & Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu, Department of Earth Science/ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research | ICE2ICE (2014-2019) Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity |
Advanced Grants | |
Kenneth Hugdahl, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology | ONOFF (2016-2021) VOICE (2011-2016) |
Bruce Kapferer, Department of Social Antrhopology | EGALITARIANISM (2014-2019) Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons |
Nikolai Østgaard, Department of Physics and Technology | TGF-MEPPA (2013-2018) Terrestrial Gamma Flashes-the Most Energetic Photon Phenomenon in our Atmosphere |
Pål Rasmus Njølstad, Department of Clinical Science | SELECTionPREDISPOSED (2012-2017) Novel Tools for Early Childhood Predisposition to Obesity |
Fedor Fomin, Department of Informatics | PREPROCESSING (2011-2016) Rigorous Theory of Preprocessing |
Christopher Henshilwood, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion | TRACSYMBOLS (2010-2015) Tracing the evolution of symbolically mediated behaviours within variable environments in Europe and southern Africa |
Frede Tingstad, Department of Biological Sciences | MINOS (2010-2015) Microbial Network Organisation |
Consolidator Grants | |
Marit Skivenes, Department of Government | DISCRETION (2017-2023) Discretion and the child´s best interests in child protection Marit Skivenes researches discretionary decision-making in child protection services in different countries. |
Andreas H. Hejnol, | EVOMESODERM (2015-2020) The evolution of mesoderm and its differentiation into cell types and organ systems |
Noel Keenlyside,Geophysical Institute / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research | STERCP (2015-2020) Synchronisation to enhance reliability of climate prediction |
Starting Grants | |
Daniel Lokshtanov, Department of Informatics | PaPaAlg (2017-2022) Pareto-Optimal Parameterized Algorithms |
Nele Meckler, Department of Earth Science / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research | C4T (2015-2020) Climate change across Cenozoic cooling steps reconstructed with clumped isotope thermometry |
Saket Saurabh, Department of Informatics | PARAPPROX (2012-2017) Parameterized Approximation |
Contact information
For more information about the projects, contact the responsible researcher.
For infomation about ERC grants at UiB, please contact Senior Adviser Katie Anders.
This page is updated by Katie Anders and Åshild Nylund