European Research Council (ERC)
ERC Starting Grant:
ERC Starting Grants aim to support the academic and scholarly independence of recipients of support through building a research team. Candidates can apply to receive ERC Starting Grants for up to five years. Each grant encompasses a maximum project budget of 1.5 million euros.
ERC Consolidator Grant:
The ERC Consolidator Grant program is aimed at junior researchers seven to 12 years after earning a doctorate. The goal is to build or consolidate an excellent independent research team. The support is open in terms of subject. The maximum amount of funding available for one project is 2 million euros, and the maximum period is five years.
ERC Advanced Grant:
Through the Advanced Grant program of the European Research Council (ERC), established scholars and scientists at EU research institutions can receive support in order to realize outstanding and innovative research projects in the field of fundamental research.
Proof of Concept Grant:
A Proof of Concept Grant is an additional funding option for ERC projects that are currently in progress or have already been finalized. It is aimed at ERC grantees who wish to commercially exploit an idea arising from their project.
Recipients of funding under all four ERC programs are involved in research at Freie Universität Berlin.
* ERC Grantee has left the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
** ERC Grantee has come at the Freie Universitaet Berlin with his / her grant.
- Prof. Dr. Stephanie Reich
Subject Area: Experimental Physics
Project: Quantum Optics in Nanostructures (OptNano)
Year: 2008 - 2013 - Prof. Dr. Jens Rolff **
Subject Area: Zoology
Project: Multidrug Resistance and the Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Immunity (EvoResIn)
Year: 2012 - 2016 - Univ.-Prof.Dr. Frank Noé
Subject Area: Computational Molecular Biology
Project: Physicochemical Principles of Efficient Information Processing in Biological Cells (pcCell)
Year: 2013 - 2017 - Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert
Subject Area: Theoretical Physics
Project: Taming non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems (TAQ)
Year: 2013 - 2018 - Prof. Dr. Kirill Bolotin
Subject Area: Experimental Physics
Project: Unlocking New Physics in Controllably Strained Twodimensional Materials (Strained2DMaterials)
Year: 2015 - 2021 - Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kaufer
Subject Area: Virology
Project: Integration of Herpesvirus into Telomeres: From the Mechanism of Genome Integration and Mobilization to Therapeutic Intervention (INTEGHER)
Year: 2016 - 2021 - Prof. Dr. Elena Giannoulis
Subject Area: Japanese Studies
Project: Emotional Machines: The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan (EMTECH)
Year: 2017 - 2022 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mulzer
Subject Area: Computer Sciences
Project: Complexity Inside NP - A Computational Geometry Perspective (CGinsideNP)
Year: 2018 - 2023 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Volk *
Subject Area: Political Science
Project: Protest and Order. Democratic Theory, Contentious Politics (POWDER)
Year: 2018 - 2023 - Dr. Daniela Vallentin *
Subject Area: Biology
Project: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Interactions of Duetting Nightingales (MIDNIGTH)
Year: 2018 - 2023 - Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh
Subject Area: Arabic Studies
Project: Country of Words: Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present. (PalREAD)
Year: 2018 - 2023 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anja Osei **
Subject Area: Political Science
Project: Do Legislatures Enhance Democracy in Africa? (DLEDA)
Year: 2018 - 2024 - Dr. Radoslaw Martin Cichy
Subject Area: Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
Project: Cracking the Neural Code of Human Object Vision (CRACK)
Year: 2019 - 2024 - Dr. Miriam Knörnschild *
Subject Area: Animal Behavior
Project: Culture as an evolutionary force: Does song learning accelerate speciation in a bat ring species? (CULTSONG)
Year: 2019 - 2024 - Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka
Subject Area: Chinese Studies
Project: Governing with Data: Local Experimentation in Authoritarian China
Year: 2019 - 2024 - Dr. Jan C. Jansen (German Historical Institute, Washington, Host University: FU Berlin) *
Subject Area: History
Project: Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1770s-1820s
Year: 2019 - 2024 - Prof. Dr. Bertram Lomfeld
Subject Area: Civil Law
Project: A Global Theory of Reflexive Debt (Deliberation) (RESOLVENCY)
Year: 2021 - 2026 - Dr. Cedrick Ansorge**
Subject Area: Meteorology
Project: Turbulence-Resolving Approaches to the Intermittently Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer (trainABL)
Year: 2020 - 2025 - Dr. Marius Buning*
Subject Area: History of Early Modern Times
Project: Before Copyright: Printing Privileges and the Politics of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (B4COPY)
Year: 2022 - 2027 - Dr. Anna Fruhstorfer**
Subject Area: East European Studies
Project: The Logistics of Popular Uprisings (LOOPS)
Year: 2023 - 2028 - Dr. Verena Klein*
Subject Area: Social Psychology
Project: Investigating Bad Sex in its socio-legal contexts – (BadSex)
Year: 2023 - 2028
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/628dfn/doctor-verena-klein#publications - Dr. Steffen Hven*
Subject Area: Film Studies
Project: Towards a New Ecology of the Moving Image (CATNEMI)
Year: 2023 - 2028 - Dr. Lukas Hakelberg
Subject Area: International and Comparative Political Economy
Project: The Whiteness of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism, and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the Global South (WOWMA)
Year: 2023 - 2028 - Dr. Simona Olivieri
Subject Area: Semitic and Arabic Studies
Project: Arabic Linguistic Discourse in the Making (ALiDiM)
Year: 2023 - 2028
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Franke
Subject Area: Experimental Physics
Project: Nanoscale Spin Interactions and Dynamics on Superconducting Surfaces (NanoSpin)
Year: 2014 - 2019 -
Prof. Dr. Haike Antelmann **
Subject Area: Microbiology
Project: Protein S-Mycothiolations and Real-Time Redox Imaging in Corynebacterium Diphtheriae in Response to ROS Stress and Infection Conditions (MYCOTHIOLOME)
Year: 2015 - 2020 - Prof. Dr. Tobias Kampfrath **
Subject Area: Experimental Physics
Project: Ultrafast spin transport and magnetic order controlled by terahertz electromagnetic pulses (TERAMAG)
Year: 2017 - 2021 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Postberg **
Subject Area: Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing
Project: Habitability of Oceans and Aqueous Systems on Icy Satellites (Habitat-OASIS)
Year: 2018 - 2022 - Prof. Dr. Stephanie Reich
Subject Area: Experimental Physics
Project: Harvesting Dark Plasmons for Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (DarkSERS)
Year: 2018 - 2023 - Prof. Dr. Frank Noé
Subject Area: Scientific Computing
Project: Scalable Kinetic Models: From Molecular Dynamics to Cellular Signaling (ScaleCell)
Year: 2018 - 2023 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann
Subject Area: Japanese Studies
Project: Japanese Courts-Martial and Military Courts During the Asia-Pacific War, 1937 - 1945 (Law Without Mercy)
Year: 2019 - 2014 - Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel
Subject Area: Inorganic Chemistry
Project: Exploring the Limits of High Potential OxidizersPrediction, Validation and Preparation of Unusual Molecules at the Edge of Stability (High PotOx)
Year: 2020 - 2025 -
Prof. Dr. Kevin Pagel
Subject Area: Organic Chemistry
Project: Unravelling Glycochemistry with Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Gas-Phase Spectroscopy (GlycoSpec)
Year: 2020 - 2025 - Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh
Subject Area: Arabistic Studies
Project: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (KNOW)
Year: 2023 - 2028 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Juliane Noth
Subject Area: Art History of East Asia
Project: Art Academies in China: Global Histories and Institutional Practices (CHINACADEMY)
Year: 2023 - 2028 - Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kaufer
Research Area: Virology (Veterinary Medicine)
Project: Endogenous Human Herpesvirus: Germ line integration and effects on host cell and organism (ENDo-Herpes)
Duration: 2023 - 2028 - Prof. Dr. Lena Noack
Research Area: Planetology
Project: DIVerse Exoplanet Redox State Estimations (DIVERSE)
Duration: 2023 - 2028 - Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad
Research Area: Modern History
Project: Democratising the Family? Gender Equality, Parental Rights, and Child Welfare in Contemporary History (DEMFAM)
Duration: 2023 - 2028 - Prof. Dr. Radoslaw Martin Cichy
Research Area: Cognitive Neuropsychology
Project: A Theory and Model of the Neural Transformations mediating Human Object Perception (TRANSFORM)
Duration: 2024 - 2029 - Prof. Dr. Malte Rosemeyer
Research Area: Romance Philology / Spanish Linguistics
Project: Experimental Replication of Historical Reanalysis Processes (EXREAN)
Duration: 2024 - 2029
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke
Subject Area: Islamic Studies
Project: Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam (RATIONALISM)
Year: 2008 - 2013 - Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge *
Subject Area: Plant Physiology and Microbiology
Project: Cyclic-di-GMP: New Concepts in Second Messenger Signaling and Bacterial Biofilm Formation (SecMessBiofilm)
Year: 2010 - 2015 - Prof. Dr. Joachim Küpper
Subject Area: Comparative Literature
Project: Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet)
Year: 2010 - 2016 - Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler
Subject Area: Mathematics
Project: Structured Discrete Models as a Basis for Studies in Geometry, Numerical Analysis, Topology and Visualization (SDModels)
Year: 2011 - 2015 -
Prof. Dr. Hélène Esnault **
Subject Area: Mathematics
Project: Fundamental Groups, Étale and Motivic, Hodge Theory and Rational Points (RATIONAL POINTS)
Year: 2012 - 2014 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Warstat
Subject Area: Theater Studies
Project: The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre (AestApp)
Year: 2012 - 2017 -
Prof. Dr. Markham Geller
Subject Area: Ancient Studies, Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Project: Fragments of Cuneiform Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud: Knowledge Transfer in Late Antiquity (BabMed)
Year: 2013 - 2018 -
Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Rillig
Subject Area: Biologie
Project: Gradual and abrupt environmental change: connecting physiology, evolution and community composition (Gradual Change)
Year: 2016 - 2021 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler
Subject Area: Arabic Studies
Project: The Arabic Anonymous in a World Classic (Anonym Classic)
Year: 2018 - 2022 - Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke
(Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie and Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin)
Subject Area: Biochemistry
Project: Mechanisms of Presynaptic Biogenesis and Dynamic Remodeling
Year: 2020 - 2025 -
Prof. Dr. Roland Netz
Subject Area: Theoretical Physics
Project: Non-Markovian Memory-Based Modelling of Near-and Far-From Equilibrium Dynamical Systems (NaMaMemo)
Year: 2020 - 2025 -
Prof. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller
Subject Area: Neuroscience / Neurobiology
Project: Material Constraints Enabling Human Cognition
Year: 2020 - 2025 -
Dr. Mathieu Ossendrijver
Subject Area: History of science
Project: Ancient Astral Science in Transformation
Year: 2021 - 2026 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Robin Hiesinger
Subject Area: Neurobiology
Project: Synaptic Promiscuity in Brain Development (SynPromiscuity)
Year: 2021 - 2026 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Haag
Subject Area: Organic Chemistry
Project: Multivalent Supramolecular Nanosystems as Dynamic Virus Blockers
Year: 2022 - 2027 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg
Subject Area: Geochemistry, Hydrogeology, Mineralogy
Project: Deciphering the Effect of Vegetation and Erosion on basalt and carbonate weathering by Novel Denudation Rate Approaches (DEVENDRA)
Year: 2023 - 2028 - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigrist
Subject Area: Neurobiology
Project: The synaptic active zone as a signaling hub for sleep homeostasis and resilience (SynProtect)
Year: 2023 - 2028
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert
Subject Area: Quantum Physics
Project: Delineating the boundary between the computational power of quantum and classical devices (DebuQC)
Year: 2024 - 2028
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Eid
Subject Area: Psychology, Methods and Evaluation
Project: Production and Perception of Emotion: An Affective Sciences Approach (PROPEREMO)
Year: 2013 - 2015 - Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal
Subject Area: Evolutionary Psychology
Project: The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language (GRAMBY)
Year: 2014 - 2019 - Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera
Subject Area: Iranian Studies
Project: The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA)
Year: 2016 - 2021
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Rolff
Subject Area: Zoology
Project: Predicting antibiotic resistence for sustainable antibiotic stewardship (EVOLchip)
Year: 2017 - 2019 -
Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke
Subject Area: Islamic Studies
Project: Weaving the Humanities into the Web and the Web into the Humanities. Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Yemen by Creating an Universally Virtual Library of Manuscripts (HumanWeb)
Year: 2013 - 2014