ERC Grants (European Research Council) at the Faculty of Natural Sciences
ERC Grants at the Faculty of Natural Sciences
The most prestigious funding
An ERC grant from the European Research Council is the most prestigious funding a researcher can receive.
The ERC offers 4 core grant schemes: Advanced Grants, Consolidator Grants, Starting Grants and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to explore the innovation potential of their ideas or research results.
The NV Faculty has researchers represented in all four grant schemes.
ERC grants support projects carried out by an individual researcher who can employ researchers of any nationality as team members.
ERC Advanced Grants
Alex Hansen
AGIPORE - A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
- On how liquids move in porous media, for example, how water moves through the ground.
About the project in Gemini (in Norwegian)
Henrik Koch
QuantumLight - Coupled cluster theory for polaritons: changing molecular properties with quantum light
- Optical cavities could provide new technological possibilities.
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101020016
Jane M. Reid
EcoEvoMove – Spatio-Seasonal Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
- How are animals able to adapt to rapid environmental change?
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101140637
Bernt-Erik Sæther
EcoEvoRescue – Eco-Evolutionary Rescue of Fragmented Populations
- How can we save species that are in danger of becoming extinct?
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101095997
ERC Consolidator Grants

Fredrik Jutfelt
CLIMEVOLVE – Evolution and mechanisms of thermal performance – answers through artificial selection in zebrafish
- How are fish coping with climate change?
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101003026

Manuel Linares
LOVE-NEST – Looking for Super-Massive Neutron Stars
- Neutron stars are the little siblings of black holes and show some of the most extreme phenomena in the universe.
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101002352

Dennis Meier
ATRONICS – Creating building blocks for atomic-scale electronics
- Creating the world’s smallest electronic network.
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 863691
ERC Starting and Synergy Grants

Lena van Giesen
ERC Starting Grant
EnvIronchannel - Making a choice for life – Cellular and molecular basis of coral larvae settlement and metamorphosis
- Study how the sensory organs of the coral’s larvae function and react to signals from the outside world as well as the animal’s behaviour more generally.
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101076516

Øivind Wilhelmsen
ERC Starting Grant
InterLab – Unraveling the fundamentals of transport across the vapor-liquid interface
- The goal for the research group is to develop a more precise theory and methods to better understand the interface between the liquid and gas forms.
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101115669

Thorsten Hamann
ERC Synergy Grant
HYDROSENSING – Discovering how plants sense water stress
- An international research group that will study how plants cope with drought. NTNU contributes with expertise and advanced equipment.
- ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101118769