ERC Starting Grants for former FOM PhD students
Four former FOM PhD students have received an ERC Starting Grant: Arjan Houtepen (TU Delft), Rudie Kunnen (TU Eindhoven), Ivo Vellekoop (University of Twente) and Wouter Waalewijn (University of Amsterdam). A total of 17 ERC Starting Grants within the funding theme Physical Sciences and Engineering were awarded to researchers at Dutch universities.
The ERC Starting Grant gives researchers the opportunity to build up their own research group and to carry out ground breaking research. The grant can be up to 1.5 million euros in size.
In this round an ERC Starting Grant was awarded to 291 researchers and 32 of them are at Dutch universities.
The grants have been awarded in the framework of the 'excellent science' pillar of Horizon 2020, the European Union's programme for research and innovation.
The complete list of Dutch ERC Starting Grants within Physical Sciences & Engineering:
| Naam | Universiteit | Onderzoek | |
| Katalin Barta | RUG | Cleave and couple: Fully sustainable catalytic conversion of renewable resources to amines | |
| Andrea Caviglia | TUD | Designer Quantum Materials Out of Equilibrium | |
| Philippe Corboz | UvA | Accurate simulations of strongly correlated systems with tensor network methods | |
| Jean Michel Desert | UvA | Exploring the Plurality of New Worlds: Their Origins, Climate and Habitability | |
| Simon Gröblacher | TUD | Strong single-photon radiation-pressure coupling for quantum optomechanics | |
| Arjan Houtepen | TUD | Doping on Demand: precise and permanent control of the Fermi level in nanocrystal assemblies | |
| Wouter Immerzeel | UU | Climbing the Asian Water Tower | |
| Rudie Kunnen | TU/e | Turbulent Rotating Convection to the Extreme | |
| Alvaro Marin | UT | NanoPacks: Assembling nanoparticles via evaporation-driven droplet collapse for ultrasensitive detection techniques | |
| Alexandra Silva | RU | Probabilistic Foundations for Networks | |
| Frans Snik | LEI | Forging Advanced Liquid-Crystal Coronagraphs Optimized for Novel Exoplanet Research | |
| Ivan Titov | UvA | Induction of Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsers | |
| Ivo Vellekoop | UT | Information-age microscopy for deep vision imaging of biological tissue | |
| Jorien Vonk | UU | THAWing permafrost: the fate of Soil Organic Matter in aquatic Environments | |
| Wouter Walewijn | UvA | Precision Multi-Scale Predictions for the LHC: Higgs, Jets and Supersymmetry | |
| Stephanie Wehner | TUD | Quantum communication networks | |
| Amir A. Zadpoor | TUD | Meta-biomaterials: 3D printing meets Origami | |