European Research Council grants

ERC grants are high-profile grants awarded by the European Research Council to single researchers in order to fund a fundamental research project of their choosing.

The European Research Council (ERC) has various core grant schemes:

  • ERC Starting Grant, for scientists at the beginning of their career;
  • ERC Consolidator Grant, for scientists who want to establish a research team and develop a success career;
  • ERC Advanced Grant, for experienced scientists who want to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project;
  • ERC Synergy Grant;
  • ERC Proof of concept Grant
ULB is home to 54 current or former ERC grant laureates:
27 Starting Grants,
13 Consolidator Grants,
11 Advanced Grants,
1 Synergy Grant and
2 Proof of Concept Grant

If you are a reasearcher and would like to conduct research at ULB with an ERC grant, please contact the "Europe research unit" of the Research Department : 

ulb-europe@ulb.be
ERC Starting
derm
Elise Dermine
Droit
2025 - 2030

RethinkingWork:  Rethinking work beyond productivism from labour law and its uses
jescke
Jana Jesckhe
Médecine
2024 - 2029 


EpiResist: Exposing hidden targets of drug resistance in cancer by mapping the epitranscriptome at single-cell resolution
wels
Jacques Wels
Philosophie et Sciences sociales
2024 - 2029


UHealth: Trade Unions and Workers’ Health
calcus
Axelle Calcus
Psychologie des sciences de l'éducation et de logopédie
2023 - 2028

SensationaHL: Sensitive periods for audition: Teenagers with Normal Hearing & Hearing Loss
radermecker
Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker

Philosophie et Sciences sociales
2023 - 2028 

MOOVA: Making Old Objects Valuable Again. The Cultural, Economic Challenges and Sustainability Opportunities of Antiques in the 21st Century
van rinsveld
Amandine Van Rinsveld
Médecine
2023 - 2028 

MATHWAVES: Early mathematical learning dynamics in the developing brain
duerinckx
Mitia Duerinckx
Sciences
2023 - 2028

PASTIS: Scaling limits of particle systems and microstructural disorder
angé  
Olivia Angé
Philosophie et Sciences sociales
2021 - 2026


SeedsValues: Flourishing Seeds. Value Creation and Relatedness in Agrobiodiversity Hotspots
gobbi
Paula Gobbi
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
2021 - 2026 

IDED: Inheritance, Demographics, and Economic Development
 
wynants
Nele Wynants 

Lettres, Traduction et Communication 
2021 - 2026


SciFair: Science at the Fair: Performing Knowledge and Technology in Western Europe, 1850-1914
van petegem
Stijn Van Petegem
Psychologie des sciences de l'éducation et de logopédie
2021 - 2026 

SAFE-SORRY: Better safe than sorry? Identifying causes of overprotective parenting in a changing social world
valkenier
Hennie Valkenier-van Dijk
École Polytechnique de Bruxelles
2019 - 2025


ORGANITRA: Transport of phosphorylated compounds across lipid bilayers by supramolecular receptors
riquier
Birgit Ricquier
Philosophie et Sciences sociales
2019 - 2025 


BANTURIVERS: At a Crossroads of Bantu Expansions: Present and Past Riverside Communities in the Congo Basin, from an Integrated Linguistic, Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective
leo
François Léo

École Polytechnique de Bruxelles 
2018 - 2022

QuadraComb: Quadratic dispersive resonators for optical frequency comb generation
parente
Alessandro Parente

École Polytechnique de Bruxelles
2017 - 2022 

VADEMECOM: VAlidation driven DEvelopment of Modern and Efficient COMbustion technologies
goldman
Nathan Goldman

Sciences
2017 - 2022 

TopoCold: Manipulation of topological phases with cold atoms
bouton
Laurent Bouton

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
2015 - 2017

PEMP: Political Economy with Many Parties: Strategic Electorate and Strategic Candidates
compere
Geoffrey Compère

Sciences
2014 - 2019


HoloBHC: Holography for realistic black holes and cosmologies 
gloria
Antoine Gloria 

Sciences
2014 - 2019 


QUANTHOM: Quantitative methods in stochastic homogenization
debaillle
Vinciane Debaille

Sciences
2013 - 2019 

IsoSyC: Initial Solar System Composition and Early Planetary Differentiation
raksin
Jean-François Raskin

Sciences
2012 - 2017

inVEST: Foundations for a Shift from Verification to Synthesis
jacobs
Dirk Jacobs

Philosophie et Sciences sociales
2012 - 2017 

EQUOP: Equal opportunities for migrant youth in educational systems with high levels of social and ethnic segregation – Assessing the impact of teachers
lacroix
Justine Lacroix

 Philosophie et Sciences sociales
2010 - 2016


RESIST: Human Rights versus Democracy? Towards a Conceptual Genealogy of Skepticism about Human Rights in Contemporary Political Thought
de rock
Bram De Rock

Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management
2010 - 2015 

RPH: A revealed preference analysis of household consumption models
bourgeois
Frédéric Bourgeois

Sciences
2009 - 2013


CONTACTMATH: Legendrian contact homology and generating families
blanpain
Cédric Blanpain

Médecine
2008 - 2013



CANCERSTEM: Stem cells in epithelial cancer initiation and growth
cantillon
Estelle Cantillon

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
2008 - 2013

MADEM: Market Design and the Evolution of Markets

ULB is also involved in the following projects:

- CROSSROAD: Olivier Gosselain (Centre d'Anthropologie culturelle, Faculty of Philosophy and Social sciences) is associated to this project, conducted by the 'University of East Anglia. The project aims to study the 'empires' of West Africa between 1200 and 1850 AD;
KONGOKINGPierre De Maret (Centre d'Anthropologie culturelle, Faculty of Philosophy and Social sciences) is associated to this project, conducted by University of Ghent. The research will focus on the origins, early history and development of the Kongo kingdom, from onwards 1500.

ERC Consolidator
leo
François Léo 

École Polytechnique de Bruxelles
2024 - 2029 

HIGHRES: High resolution dual comb spectroscopy and ranging
goldman
Nathan Goldman
Sciences
2022 - 2027

LATIS: Local Addressing of Topological Interacting Systems
 
van hollebeke
Benoit Vanhollebeke
Sciences
2021 - 2026

Ctrl-BBB: Blood-brain barrier: from molecular mechanisms to intervention strategies
pino
Abel Garcia-Pino

Sciences
2020 - 2025

DiStRes: Disentangling the stringent response to engineer novel anti-persister drugs
collette
Christophe Collette
École Polytechnique de Bruxelles
2020 - 2025 


SILENT: Seismic Isolation of Einstein Telescope

gloria
Antoine Gloria

Sciences
2020 - 2025 

COR-RAND: Corrector equations and random operators
van doninck  
Karine Van Doninck
Sciences
2020 - 2025 

RHEA: Rotifers Highlight the Evolution of Asexuals: the mechanisms of genome evolution in the absence of meiosis
gurzov
Esteban Gurzov
Médecine
2019 - 2025 

METAPTPs: Protein tyrosine phosphatases in metabolic diseases: oxidation, dysfunction and therapeutic potential
 
pilet
Jean-Benoit Pilet
Philosophie et Sciences sociales
2018 - 2025 

CureOrCurse: Non-elected politics. Cure or Curse for the Crisis of Representative Democracy?
birattari
Mauro Birattari
Polytechnique
2016 - 2022

DEMIURGE: Automatic Design of Robot Swarms
 

fine
Joel Fine

Sciences
2015 - 2021

SymplecticEinstein: The symplectic geometry of anti-self-dual Einstein metrics

blanpain
Cédric Blanpain

Médecine 
2014 - 2019 

EXPAND: Defining the cellular dynamics leading to tissue expansion

fiorini

Samuel Fiorini
Sciences 
2014 - 2019

ForEFront: Frontier of Extended Formulations

ERC Advanced
cle
Axel Cleeremans
Psychologie des sciences de l'éducation et de logopédie
2023 - 2028

EXPERIENCE: Are you experienced? An exploration into the functions and value of consciousness
 
blan
Cédric Blanpain
Médecine
2020 - 2025


TrackingTumorStates: Tracking and Targeting Tumor States at single-cell
conconi
Paola Conconi
Solvay Brussels School of
Economics & Management
2019 - 2025

TRASC: Trade Agreements and Supply Chains
 
clerbaux
Cathy Clerbaux
 
Sciences 
2017 - 2022


IASI-FT: IASI - Flux and temperature
henneaux
Marc Henneaux 

Sciences 
2016 - 2021


High-Spin Grav: Higher Spin Gravity and Generalized Spacetime Geometry

legros
Patrick Legros 

Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management
2015 - 2020

OIO: Organizational Industrial Organization

pays
Etienne Pays

Sciences 
2015 - 2021


APOLS: Role of Apolipoproteins L in immunity and disease
 
cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans

Psychologie des sciences de l'éducation et de logopédie
2014 - 2019 

RADICAL: The Radical Plasticity Thesis: How we learn to be conscious

vanderhaegen
Pierre Vanderhaeghen

Médecine 
2014 - 2018 


GENDEVOCORTEX: Genetic links between development and evolution of the human cerebral cortex

henneaux
Marc Henneaux

Sciences 
2011 - 2015


Sydugram: Symmetries and Dualities in Gravity and M-theory

dorigo
Marco Dorigo

École Polytechnique de Bruxelles
2010 - 2015

E-SWARM: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems

ERC Synergy

fripiat
François Fripiat 

Sciences
2023 - 2029

Green2Ice: When was Greenland ‘green’? – Perspectives from basal ice and sediments from ice cores

ERC POC

parente

Alessandro Parente  
École Polytechnique de Bruxelles
2024 - 2026

INVENT: Innovative Digital Twins for Advanced Combustion Technologies

leo

François Léo
École Polytechnique de Bruxelles
2023 - 2025

Versacomb: Versatile optical frequency comb

If you are a reasearcher and would like to conduct research at ULB with an ERC grant, please contact the "Europe research unit" of the Research Department : 

ulb-europe@ulb.be
Updated on September 6, 2024