EUTOPIA Success in ERC Advanced Grants Competition

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded €721 million in its latest Advanced Grants competition, backing 281 top researchers across Europe. These highly competitive grants support cutting-edge, curiosity-driven research with the potential to drive major scientific breakthroughs.

Nine researchers from EUTOPIA universities are among this year’s winners, further underlining the alliance’s commitment to excellence in research and innovation. EUTOPIA congratulates the awardees and the hosting institutions for their achievements. Following are the details of the awardees: 


Frank BUCHHOLZ — Technische Universität Dresden
Project Title: DNA-binding domain Conditioned Precision Genome Editing

Andrew EWING — University of Gothenburg
Project Title: Nanoscale Analysis of Inter-Organelle Interactions and their Role in Neuronal Plasticity

Miguel FERREIRA — NOVA University Lisbon
Project Title: Financial Education in the Workplace: Combining Experimental Evidence with Administrative Data

Jan EECKHOUT — Pompeu Fabra University-Barcelona
Project Title: Macro Market Power and Distribution

Tim AUSTIN — University of Warwick
Project Title: High-dimensional probability in ergodic theory and representation theory

Gabrielle LYNCH — University of Warwick
Project Title: Judges' Off-Bench Activities: Evidence and Theory on Judicial Politics from Africa

Valery NAKARIAKOV — University of Warwick
Project Title: A new look at solar coronal heating problem

Mandy SADAN — University of Warwick
Project Title: Histories of Asia's Gendered Armed Frontiers, 1780 - 2021

Felix SCHULZE — University of Warwick
Project Title: Generic regularity of area minimising hypersurfaces and mean curvature flows

Established by the European Union in 2007, the ERC supports ambitious, high-risk projects driven by scientific curiosity across all fields of knowledge. Its four core schemes (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, and Synergy Grants) are designed to support researchers at all stages of their careers. The Advanced Grants specifically target established research leaders with a proven track record of significant achievements in the last decade.

In total, 2,534 proposals were submitted this round, with just over 11% selected—a testament to the scheme’s competitiveness. The ERC estimates these grants will create around 2,700 new research jobs across Europe.

The official news about the ERC results can be accessed here.