Grants from the European Research Council
Since 2007 the European Research Counsil has awarded research grants for high quality research in Europe. Below you will find a list containing the projects that University of Copenhagen coordinated when the grant was received.
Source: The EU-Commission's official invitations for contract negotiations.
2024
Haakon Andreas Ikonomou
A social-bureaucratic history of the League of Nations Secretariat
(Consolidator Grant)
Bulat Ibragimov
The first AI-guided toxicity atlas for safer and more effective abdominal radiation therapy
(Consolidator Grant)
Christoffer Clemmensen
Peptide-drug conjugates for weight loss maintenance
(Consolidator Grant)
Matthew James Collins
The Medieval Book and Networks of Northern Europe c. 1000-1500: Texts, Crafts, Fragments
(Synergy Grant)
Maarten van de Meent
Making Sense of the Unexpected in the Gravitational-Wave Sky
(Synergy Grant)
Kathleen Stewart Morgan
Functions of Genomic Hypomethylation in Gametogenesis
(Starting Grant)
Ryomei Iwasa
Motivic Stable Homotopy Theory: a New Foundation and a Bridge to p-Adic and Complex Geometry
(Starting Grant)
Charlotte Mason
ReIonization and Signatures of Early Stars
(Starting Grant)
Morten Holm Christensen
Effects of Spin-orbit Coupling on Superconducting Pairing Interactions
(Starting Grant)
Mark Scherz
Genomics of Miniaturisation in Vertebrates
(Starting Grant)
Anja Simonsen
The Social Life of Dead Bodies. A new ethnographic approach to migrant deaths in and around the Mediterranean Sea
(Starting Grant)
Wiebeke Marie Junk
Lobbying (A)symmetry: The Dynamics Behind Informed Policy
(Starting Grant)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Green Surveillance: Imagining a Sustainable Internet of Things
(Advanced Grant)
Chuna Choudhary
Lysine Acetylation: The Scope and Function in Gene Activation
(Advanced Grant)
Anja Groth
Epigenetic memory by communication across chromosome scales
(Advanced Grant)
Christian Lund
Urban Frontiers. From Illegal Land Occupation to Legalized Property
(Advanced Grant)
Atreyee Sen
Anger, Legitimised: Amplified anger and its rhetorics of legitimation in the 21st century
(Advanced Grant)
Sarah Pearson
Decoding Dark Matter with Stellar Streams from Beyond the Milky Way
(Starting Grant)
2023
Klaus Høyer
Making Sense of Health in an Age of Cross-Border Data Infrastructures
(Advanced Grant)
Joshua Brickman
Signaling decoded in ENhanCEr states – a molecular basis for plasticity in development and differentiation
(Advanced Grant)
Guillermo Montoya
Repurposing of CAST Systems as Next-Generation Tools for Genome Engineering of Mammalian Cells
(Advanced Grant)
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Women in the Nordic Enlightenment.Changing the narratives of early modern philosophy and uncovering women’s contribution to Scandinavian gender equality
(Advanced Grant)
Jakub Sedzinski
Morphogenesis meets Cell Fate: Dissecting how Mechanical Forces coordinate Development
(Consolidator Grant)
Sorcha Macleod
Mercenarism and the Accountability Void: Finding routes to accountability and remedy for the victims of human rights abuses perpetrated by mercenaries
(Consolidator Grant)
Roberta Sinatra
Quantifying AI-infused Science
(Consolidator Grant)
Naja Hulvej Rod
The multiple LAYERS of childhood adversity
(Consolidator Grant)
Pedro Waterton
The Chromite Record of Mafic Crustal Growth
(Starting Grant)
Magnus Pharao Hansen
Exploring the Deep History of Southern Uto-Aztecan Languages and Peoples: A Mixed Methods Approach
(Starting Grant)
Isabelle Augenstein
Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking
(Starting Grant)
Lea Haarup Gregersen
The transcriptional response to oxidative stress
(Starting Grant)
Alisa Javadi
Photonic Quantum Technologies with Strain-Free Artificial Atoms
(Starting Grant)
Morten Kjaergaard
Novel Approaches to Error Detection and Protection with Superconducting Qubits
(Starting Grant)
Jakob Grunnet Knudsen
Paracrine signalling in alpha cells and the integration of mechanisms that control glucagon secretion
(Starting Grant)
Laura Mancinska
Quantum Information Processing with Interacting Parties
(Starting Grant)
Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas
Evolutionary dynamics of genomic erosion and its application in biodiversity conservation
(Starting Grant)
Jose Victor Moreno Mayar
Tracing Indigenous American genomic history, subsistence strategies, health and their interplay through time using DNA from ancient masticated plant fibres
(Starting Grant)
Darach Jafar Watson
How Neutron Star Mergers make Heavy Elements (HEAVYMETAL)
(Synergy Grant)
Mette Rosenkilde
Molecular dissection of viral genomes for future antiviral treatments (MEDIVATE)
(Advanced Grant)
Darach Jafar Watson
When was Greenland ‘green’? – Perspectives from basal ice and sediments from ice cores. (Green2Ice)
(Synergy Grant)
Anders Svensson
When was Greenland ‘green’? – Perspectives from basal ice and sediments from ice cores. (Green2Ice)
(Synergy Grant)
Hannes Schroeder
Ancient Chewing Gums and the Archaeology of Alpine Lake Settlements
(Consolidator Grant)
Maria Escudero Escribano
Atomic-Scale Tailored Materials for Electrochemical Methane Activation and Production of Valuable Chemicals
(Consolidator Grant)
Maria Mälksoo
Ritual Action: Making Deterrence Matter in International Security and Memory Politics
(Consolidator Grant)
Kamilla Miskowiak
Altitude-like hypoxia cognition training to target brain erythropoietin as a novel mechanism of long-lasting enhancement of neuroplasticity and cognitive functions
(Consolidator Grant)
Elsa Yvanez
Archaeology: Archaeology of Dress along the Middle Nile
(Starting Grant)
Michiel Lambrechts
Theoretical Astronomy: EXOplanet Diversity and the Origin of the Solar System
(Starting Grant)
Amin Doostmohammadi
Biophysics: BioPhysical basis of Collective Mechano-Transduction: Bridging cell decisionmaking to multicellular selforganisation
(Starting Grant)
Associate Professor Stine Lomborg
Communication: “Datafied living: pursuing human flourishing through mundane self-tracking across personal, work and institutional contexts in the welfare state” (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Leonardo Midolo
Nano physics: “Nano-mechanical quantum photonic circuits” (Starting Grant)
Postdoc Frido Welker
Evolutionary genetics: “Hominin phyloproteomics for the Pleistocene: PalaeoPROteomics of Skeletal Parts for Evolutionary Research” (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Kathrin Rousk
Terrestrial Ecology: “Quantifying and upscaling nitrogen fixation in pristine ecosystems: Uncovering the climatic, ecological, and molecular control mechanisms” (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Martin Brandt
Geography: “Trees outside forests in global drylands” (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Helena Safavi
Biomedicin: “Toxin mimetics of human peptides as novel tools for drug discovery and design” (Starting Grant)
Associate Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson
Sociology: “Social Class Mobility in Comparative Perspective: Bringing Siblings In” (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Laura Vang Rasmussen
Geography: “Reinterpreting how forests support people's dietary quality in low-income countries” (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Rasmus Heller
Computational and RNA Biology: “Genetic admixture and its impact on domestication in the Bos genus: a model for genetic” (Starting Grant)
Associate Professor Veronika Fikfak
Constitutional Law “A nudge in the rights direction? Redesigning the architecture of human rights remedies” (Starting Grant)
Professor Anne Rasmussen
Political Science: “Advocacy in Digital Democracy: Use, Impact and Democratic Consequences” (Consolidator Grant)
P
rofessor Gemma Solomon
Quantum Interference: “Challenging The Limits Of Molecular Quantum Interference Effects” (Consolidator Grant)
Professor Gunvor Simonsen
History: “In the Same Sea: The Lesser Antilles as a Common World of Slavery and Freedom” (Consolidator Grant)
Professor Simon Bekker-Jensen
Cellular and molecular medicine: ”Physiological roles of the Ribotoxic Stress Response” (Consolidator Grant)
Associate Professor Thomas Sand Jespersen
Solid-State Physics: “Tunable Hubbard Lattices in Semiconductor Nanowire Networks” (Consolidator Grant)
Associate Professor Charlotte Mehlin Sørensen
Biomedicine: “Super resolution Ultrasound Real time imaging of Erythrocytes” (Synergi Grant)
Professor Karsten Flensberg
Solid-State Physics: "Foundations of nonlocal and nonabelian condensed-matter systems" (Synergi Grant)
Associate Professor Kristine Bohmann
Marine Biology: “Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity” (Synergi Grant)
Professor Dan Zahavi
Philosophy: "Who are we? Self-identity, Social Cognition, and Collective Intentionality" (Advanced Grant)
Professor Morten Axel Pedersen
Anthropology: "The Political Economy of Distraction in Digitised Denmark" (Advanced Grant)
Professor Martin Bizzarro
Astronomy: "Probing the history of matter in deep time" (Advanced Grant)
Associate Professor Troels Kasper Høyer Scheel
Microbiology: "RNA regulation during viral infection" (Starting Grant)
Associate Professor Timothy Peter Lynagh
Molecular Biology: "Exposing nature’s view of ligand recognition in ionotropic glutamate receptors" (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Kirsten Marie Ørnsbjerg Jensen
Material Chemistry: "Live Tapings of Material Formation: Unravelling formation mechanisms in materials chemistry through Multimodal X-ray total scattering studies" (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Ida Moltke
Bioinformatics: "Gaining insights into human evolution and disease prevention from adaptive natural selection driven by lethal epidemics" (Starting Grant)
Postdoc Edyta Roszko
Anthropology: "Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple mobilities in and out of the South China Sea" (Starting Grant)
Associate Professor Mikkel Jarle Christensen
Legal Sociologi: "The Global Sites of International Criminal Justice" (Starting Grant)
Professor Jan Komárek
Constitutional Law: "European Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, Ideologies and the Other" (Starting Grant)
Dr. Ditte Andersen
Cell Biology: "Identification of paracrine and systemic signals controlling adult stem cell activity and organ homeostasis" Starting Grant
Professor Matthias Christandl
Quantum Mathematics: "Efficient Conversion of Quantum Information Resources" (Consolidator Grant)
Postdoc Hans Christian Steen Larsen
Ice and Climate ‘Signals from the Surface Snow: Post-Depositional Processes Controlling the Ice Core Isotopic Fingerprint’ (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Sebastian Marquardt
Section for Molecular Plant Biology ‘Pervasive Upstream Non-Coding Transcription Underpinning Adaptation’ (Starting Grant).
Assistant Professor Jacob Bourjaily
Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology ’Manifesting the Simplicity of Scattering Amplitudes’ (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Marie Pedersen
Section of Epidemiology ’Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Acrylamide on Health: Prospective Biomarker-Based Studies’ (Starting Grant)
Assistant Professor Jonathan Z. Shik
Centre for Social Evolution ‘Eco-physiological tradeoffs with crop domestication: have farming ants cracked the code?’ (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Jan Olaf Mirko Härter
Biocomplexity ‘Cloud-cloud interaction in convective precipitation’(Consolidator Grant).
Professor Riikka Rinnan
Terristial Ecology ‘Tundra biogenic volatile emissions in the 21st century’ (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Nathalie Wahl
Department of Mathematical Sciences ‘Loops and groups: Geodesics, moduli spaces, and infinite discrete groups via string topology and homological stability’ (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Michael Thomas-Poulsen
Ecology and Evolution ‘DiseasE-FreE social life without Antibiotics resisTance’ (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Hans H. Wandall
Glycomics Program ‘Dissection of Glycan Function by Engineered Tissue Models’ (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Eugene Simon Polzik
Quantop ‘Quantum mechanics in the negative mass reference frame’ (Advanced Grant).
Professor Matthew James Collins
Natural History Museum of Denmark 'Beasts to Craft (B2C)' (Advanced Grant).
Associate Professor Group Leader Julien Duxin
Protein Signaling Program 'Mechanism of DNA-protein cross-link repair in S phase' (Starting Grant).
Assistant Professor Peter Krogstrup
Condensed Matter Physics 'Hybrid Epitaxial Materials for Novel Quantum State Detection and Manipulation' (Starting Grant).
External Associate Professor Guus Kroonen
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities 'The Linguistic Roots of Europe's Agricultural Transition' (Starting Grant).
Postdoc Etienne Jean Michel Maisonneuve
Biomolecular Sciences 'Control of Bacterial Multidrug Tolerance and Stress Response by Alarmone Synthetase SpoT' (Starting Grant).
Professor Henrik Vigh
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Science 'Criminal Entanglements. A new ethnographic approach to transnational organised crime' (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Victoria Southgate
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences 'How do infants mentalize? Bringing a neuroimaging approach to the puzzle of early mindreading' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor MSO Christian Olsen
Medicinal Chemistry Research 'Chemical Tools for Unravelling Sirtuin Function' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Eva Hoffmann
Molecular Aging Program 'Repair capacity and genome diversity in mammals' (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Peter Brodersen
Computational and RNA Biology 'Reprogramming of small RNA function in plant-pathogen interactions' (Consolidator Grant).Professor Anja Groth
Groth Group 'New and Old Histones in Epigenetic Cell Memory' (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Mark Spencer Rudner
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'Probing topology and dynamics in driven quantum many-body systems' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Andres Lopez-Contreras
Molecular Aging Program 'CFS modelling: Chromosomal Common Fragile Sites: Unravelling their biological functions and the basis of their instability' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Aoife Maeliosa Daly
The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities 'Northern Europe's timber resource - chronology, origin and exploitation' (Starting Grant).
Professor Jens Juul Holst
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 'Reaching the effects of gastric bypass on diabetes and obesity without surgery' (Advanced Grant).
Professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences 'Diplomatic Face-Work - between confidential negotiations and public display' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Kim Jensen
Jensen Group 'Foetal Intestinal Stem Cells in Biology and Health' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Ludovic Orlando
Natural History Museum of Denmark 'The makeup of the modern horse: a history of the biological changes introduced by human management' (Consolidator Grant).
Head of Department Mette Rosenkilde
Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 'Mumps VIRus EXploitation of the human adhesion receptor GPR125' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Janine Terra Erler
Erler Group 'Matrix during cancer progression' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Klaus Lindgaard Høyer
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 'Policy, practice and patient experience in the age of intensified data sourcing' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Tom Gilbert
Natural History Museum of Denmark 'Extinction Genomics' (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Luis Ignacio Toledo Lazaro
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 'The Vitality of Disease - Quality of Life in the Making' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Ayo Wahlberg
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Science 'The Vitality of Disease - Quality of Life in the Making' (Starting Grant).
Professor Albert Schliesser
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'Quantum Cavity Electro- and Opto-Mechanics' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor David Gloriam
Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Science 'Determination of Orphan Receptor Physiological Agonists and signals' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Lorenz Rahmstorf
The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities 'Weight metrology and its economic and social impact on Bronze Age Europe, West and South Asia' (Consolidator Grant).Assistant Professor Oliver Gressel
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'First-principles global MHD disc simulations: Defining planet-forming environments in early solar systems' (Starting Grant).
PostDoc Robin Andersson
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science 'A systematic characterization of human regulatory architectures and their determinants of regulatory activity' (Starting Grant).
Assistant Professor Tania Rinaldi Barkat
Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 'Studying the developing auditory cortex to dissect neural circuit functions' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Zach Gerhart-Hines
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Det sundhedvidenskabelige Fakultet 'Circadian Regulation Of Brown Adipose Thermogenesis' (Starting Grant).Professor Christian Lund
Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science 'State Formation Through the Local Production of Property and Citizenship'(Advanced Grant).Professor Peter Lodahl
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'Scalable Quantum Photonic Networks' (Advanced Grant).
Assistant Professor Guido Festuccia
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'Dynamics of Supersymmetry in Curved Space' (Starting Grant).
Professor Chuna Ram Choudhary
Proteomics Program 'Systematic Decoding of Deubiquitylase-Regulated Signaling Networks' (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Sune Toft
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'Connecting the Extreme' (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Jes Kristian Jørgensen
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'Setting the Stage for Solar System Formation' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Kasper Hornbæk
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science 'Using Embodied Cognition to Create the Next Generations of Body-based User Interfaces' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Matthias Christandl
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science 'Multipartite Quantum Information Theory' (Starting Grant).
Associate Professor Stephan Wenkel
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science 'Designing microProteins to alter growth processes in crop plants' (Starting Grant).
Professor Niels Mailand
Protein Signaling Program 'Regulation of DNA damage responses at the replication fork' (Consolidator Grant).
Professor Ali Salanti
Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 'Targeting cancer using evolutionary refined pathogen derived antigens' (Consolidator Grant).Professor Martin Bizzarro
Natural History Museum of Denmark 'Stardust to asteroids: Unravelling the formation and earliest evolution of a habitable solar system' (Consolidator Grant).
Associate Professor Alessandro Gori
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities 'Islam in the Horn of Africa, A Comparative Literary Approach' (Advanced Grant).Professor Ian David Hickson
Center for Healthy Aging, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences REPBLOCK: Site-specific DNS replication perturbation and its effects on chromosome segregation (Advanced Grant).Professor Jan Philip Solovej
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science 'The Mathematics of the Structure of Matter' (Advanced Grant).Professor MSO Mette Birkedal Bruun
Department of Church History, Faculty of Theology 'MOS: Manifestations of Solitude: Withdrawal and Engagement in the long seventeenth-century' (Starting Grant).Associate Professor Anders Søgaard
Centre for Language Technology, Faculty of Humanities 'LOWLANDS: Parsing low-resource languages and domains' (Starting Grant).Professor Anders Søndberg Sørensen
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'QIOS: Quantum Interfaces and Open Systems' (Starting Grant).Assistant Professor Martin Pessah
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science '1ST-PRINCIPLES-DISCS: A First Principles Approach to Accretion Discs' (Starting Grant).Professor MSO David Dreyer Lassen
Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences 'HHPOLITICS: A Household Finance Theory of Political Attitudes and Political behaviour' (Starting Grant).
Professor Mads Meier Jæger
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences 'UNITRAN: Understanding Intergenerational Transmissions: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach' (Starting Grant).
Professor Birger Lindberg Møller
Section for Plant Biochemistry 'Light-driven Chemical Synthesis using Cytochrome P450s' (Advanced Grant).
International Researcher Jacobus Boomsma
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science 'Attine Ant Symbiomes' (Advanced Grant).
Professor Kristian Helin
Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) 'DNAMET: DNA methylation, hydroxymethylation and cancer' (Advanced Grant).Associate Professor Anja Groth
Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) 'CHROMATINREPLICATION: How to Replicate Chromatin - Maturation, Timing Control and Stress-Induced Aberrations' (Starting Grant).Associate Professor Anders Peter Brodersen
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science 'MICROMECCA: Molecular mechanisms underlying plant miRNA action' (Starting Grant).Professor MSO Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'EGGS: The first Galaxies' (Starting Grant).
Professor Kenn Gerdes
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science 'Bacterial Persistence' (Advanced Grant).
Professor Jan Ambjørn
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'Exploring the Quantum Universe' (Advanced Grant).Professor Eugene Polzik
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'INTERFACE: Quantum Optical Interfaces for Atoms and Nano-electro-mechanical Systems' (Advanced Grant).
Assistant Professor Gemma Solomon
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science 'CHEMHEAT: Chemical Control of Heating and Cooling in Molecular Junctions: Optimizing Function and Stability' (Starting Grant).Associate Professor Roger David John Pocock
Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) 'HYPOXICMICRORNAS: Deciphering the microRNA response to hypoxia' (Starting Grant).Professor Peter Lodahl
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'ALLQUANTUM: All-solid-state quantum electrodynamics in photonic crystals' (Starting Grant).
Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Niels Bohr Institute, Faculty of Science 'WATERUNDERTHEICE: Where is the water under the Greenland ice sheet?' (Advanced Grant).Professor Uffe Valentin Haagerup
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science 'OAFPG: Operator algebras, free probability, and groups' (Advanced Grant).Professor Nathalie Wahl
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science '2-3-AUT: Surfaces, 3-manifolds and automorphism groups' (Starting Grant).Associate Professor Vladimir Canudas Romo
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 'LONGEVITYBYCAUSE: Cause of death contribution to longevity: Modeling time trends' (Starting Grant).Associate Professor Michael Lisby
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science 'DEFACT: DNA repair factories how cells do biochemistry' (Starting Grant).
Professor Ib Henning Madsen
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science 'TMSS: Topology of moduli spaces and strings' (Advanced Grant).Professor Kirsten Hastrup
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Science 'WATERWORLDS: Natural environmental disasters and social resilience in anthropological perspective' (Advanced Grant).
Professor Albin Sandelin
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science 'DTSSCP: Determinants of mammalian transcription start site selection and core promoter usage' (Starting Grant).
