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ERC research projects

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 53 current or former ERC grant laureates:
26 Starting Grants,
13 Consolidator Grants,
11 Advanced Grants,
1 Synergy Grant and 2 Proof of Concept Grant

Jana Jesckhe Médecine 2024 - 2029 EpiResist: Exposing hidden targets of drug resistance in cancer by mapping the epitranscriptome at single-cell resolution	Jacques Wels Philosophie et Sciences sociales 2024 - 2029 UHealth: Trade Unions and Workers’ Health	Axelle Calcus Psychologie des sciences de l'éducation et de logopédie 2023 - 2028 SensationaHL: Sensitive periods for audition: Teenagers with Normal Hearing & Hearing Loss
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	Amandine Van Rinsveld Médecine 2023 - 2028 MATHWAVES: Early mathematical learning dynamics in the developing brain	Mitia Duerinckx Sciences 2023 - 2028 PASTIS: Scaling limits of particle systems and microstructural disorder
Olivia Angé Philosophie et Sciences sociales 2021 - 2026 SeedsValues: Flourishing Seeds. Value Creation and Relatedness in Agrobiodiversity Hotspots	Paula Gobbi Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management 2021 - 2026 IDED: Inheritance, Demographics, and Economic Development	Nele Wynants Lettres, Traduction et Communication 2021 - 2026 SciFair: Science at the Fair: Performing Knowledge and Technology in Western Europe, 1850-1914
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	Hennie Valkenier-van Dijk École Polytechnique de Bruxelles 2019 - 2025 ORGANITRA: Transport of phosphorylated compounds across lipid bilayers by supramolecular receptors	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
François Léo École Polytechnique de Bruxelles 2018 - 2022 QuadraComb: Quadratic dispersive resonators for optical frequency comb generation	Alessandro Parente École Polytechnique de Bruxelles 2017 - 2022 VADEMECOM: VAlidation driven DEvelopment of Modern and Efficient COMbustion technologies	Nathan Goldman Sciences 2017 - 2022 TopoCold: Manipulation of topological phases with cold atoms
Laurent Bouton Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management 2015 - 2017 PEMP: Political Economy with Many Parties: Strategic Electorate and Strategic Candidates	Geoffrey Compère Sciences 2014 - 2019 HoloBHC: Holography for realistic black holes and cosmologies	Antoine Gloria Sciences 2014 - 2019 QUANTHOM: Quantitative methods in stochastic homogenization
Vinciane Debaille Sciences 2013 - 2019 IsoSyC: Initial Solar System Composition and Early Planetary Differentiation	Jean-François Raskin Sciences 2012 - 2017 inVEST: Foundations for a Shift from Verification to Synthesis	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
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	Bram De Rock Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management 2010 - 2015 RPH: A revealed preference analysis of household consumption models	Frédéric Bourgeois Sciences 2009 - 2013 CONTACTMATH: Legendrian contact homology and generating families
Cédric Blanpain Médecine 2008 - 2013 CANCERSTEM: Stem cells in epithelial cancer initiation and growth	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; - KONGOKING: *Pierre 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

François Léo École Polytechnique de Bruxelles 2024 - 2029 HIGHRES: High resolution dual comb spectroscopy and ranging	Nathan Goldman Sciences 2022 - 2027 LATIS: Local Addressing of Topological Interacting Systems	Benoit Vanhollebeke Sciences 2021 - 2026 Ctrl-BBB: Blood-brain barrier: from molecular mechanisms to intervention strategies
Abel Garcia-Pino Sciences 2020 - 2025 DiStRes: Disentangling the stringent response to engineer novel anti-persister drugs	Christophe Collette École Polytechnique de Bruxelles 2020 - 2025 SILENT: Seismic Isolation of Einstein Telescope	Antoine Gloria Sciences 2020 - 2025 COR-RAND: Corrector equations and random operators
Karine Van Doninck Sciences 2020 - 2025 RHEA: Rotifers Highlight the Evolution of Asexuals: the mechanisms of genome evolution in the absence of meiosis	Esteban Gurzov Médecine 2019 - 2025 METAPTPs: Protein tyrosine phosphatases in metabolic diseases: oxidation, dysfunction and therapeutic potential	Jean-Benoit Pilet Philosophie et Sciences sociales 2018 - 2025 CureOrCurse: Non-elected politics. Cure or Curse for the Crisis of Representative Democracy?
Joel Fine Faculté des Sciences 2015 - 2021 SymplecticEinstein: The symplectic geometry of anti-self-dual Einstein metrics	Cédric Blanpain Médecine 2014 - 2019 EXPAND: Defining the cellular dynamics leading to tissue expansion	Samuel Fiorini Sciences 2014 - 2019 ForEFront: Frontier of Extended Formulations

ERC Advanced

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	Cédric Blanpain, Médecine 2020 - 2025 TrackingTumorStates: Tracking and Targeting Tumor States at single-cell resolution in real time in vivo	Paola Conconi Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management 2019 - 2025 TRASC: Trade Agreements and Supply Chains
Cathy Clerbaux Sciences 2017 - 2022 IASI-FT: IASI - Flux and temperature	Marc Henneaux Sciences 2016 - 2021 High-Spin Grav: Higher Spin Gravity and Generalized Spacetime Geometry	Patrick Legros Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management 2015 - 2020 OIO: Organizational Industrial Organization
Etienne Pays Sciences 2015 - 2021 APOLS: Role of Apolipoproteins L in immunity and disease	Axel Cleeremans Psychologie, des sciences de l'éducation et de logopédie 2014 - 2019 RADICAL: The Radical Plasticity Thesis: How we learn to be conscious	Pierre Vanderhaeghen Médecine 2014 - 2018 GENDEVOCORTEX: Genetic links between development and evolution of the human cerebral cortex
Marc Henneaux Sciences 2011 - 2015 Sydugram: Symmetries and Dualities in Gravity and M-theory	Marco Dorigo École Polytechnique de Bruxelles 2010 - 2015 E-SWARM: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems

ERC Synergy