MacroTaxReforms – Isaac Baley
Isaac Baley (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During his project MacroTaxReforms (The Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Tax Reforms) he will study the macroeconomic effects of corporate taxation and delineate and quantify the...
PIEZOZYMES – Susana Velasco
Susana Velasco (Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis, ISQCH) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During her project PIEZOZYMES (Enzymatic Piezoelectric Composites to Regenerate Redox-Cofactors driven by Mechanical Sources) she will pursue...
WINC – Sergi Abadal
Sergi Abadal (Technical University of Catalonia, UPC) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During his project WINC (Wireless Networks within Next-Generation Computing Systems), he will lay the foundations of revolutionary computing systems enabled by the...
CET-3PO – Nadia Blagorodnova
Nadia Blagorodnova (University of Barcelona) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During her project CET 3PO (Common Envelope Transients – Progenitors, Precursors and Properties of their Outbursts) she will study how pairs of massive stars...
DEMODRIVERS – Umberto Lombardo
Umberto Lombardo (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, ICTA‑UAB) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project DEMODRIVERS (Drivers of Demographic Dynamics) will study the patterns and drivers of human demographic dynamics in the Bolivian...
ECCO – Ángel Goñi-Moreno
Ángel Goñi-Moreno (Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, CBGP‑UPM/INIA) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. During his project ECCO (Evolutionary Cellular Computing for Environmental Synthetic Biology) , he will design and implement novel biological...
PASSAGE – Blanca Ausín
Blanca Ausín (Salamanca University, Usal) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. Her project PASSAGE (Provenance And tranSport PathwayS of mArine proxy-bearinG particlEs) will allow to accurately reconstruct past climates by identifying distorted climate signals in...
FAPoD – Sandro Shelegia
Sandro Shelegia (Pompeu Fabra University) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project FAPoD (Foundations for Antitrust and Policy on Digital Platforms) will study competition in digital platform markets. Sandro was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1980. After...
PEOPLE – Michael Toffolo
Michael Toffolo (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. His project PEOPLE (PalaeoEcology and OPen-LandscapE adaptations of Pleistocene humans in South Africa) will determine whether freshwater...
mayFLYeye – Isabel Almudi
Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. Her project mayFLYeye (The evolution of new organs during insects’ conquest of the sky) will study the origin of wigs and the turbinate eyes of mayfly males, a sex-specific...
InteVol – Asier Marzo
Asier Marzo (Public University of Navarre) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. His project InteVol (Interactions with Future Reach-Through Volumetric Displays) will produce the first volumetric display that supports direct interaction. Since Asier was a little...
HomE – Antonio J. Peña
Antonio J. Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, BSC) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project HomE (Enabling Homomorphic Encryption of Deep Neural Network Models and Datasets in Production Environments) will bring machine-learning users the...
Let T Be – María Mittelbrunn
María Mittelbrunn (Center of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. Her project Let T Be (Letting up senescence and inflammaging through T cells) will study the specific molecular mechanisms and metabolic requirements of...
COSMO-LYA – Andreu Font Ribera
Andreu Font Ribera (Institut de Física d’Altes Energie, IFAE) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project COSMO-LYA (A Cosmological Lever Arm for Fundamental Physics) will study some of the main open questions in cosmology and in particle physics. Andreu...
SCRAMBLE – Lluís Jofre Cruanyes
Lluís Jofre Cruanyes (Technical University of Catalonia – BarcelonaTech, UPC) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. His project SCRAMBLE (Turbulence-On-a-Chip: Supercritically Overcoming the Energy Frontier in Microfluidics) will focus on the fundamentals of...
EpiSperm – Eva Maria Novoa
Eva Maria Novoa (Centre for Genomic Regulation, CRG) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. Her project EpiSperm (Dissecting the role of sperm transcriptome dynamics in intergenerational inheritance through native RNA nanopore sequencing) will characterize the...
