Our congratulations to...
Wulfram Gerstner and to Didier Trono who are among the top senior scientists selected by the European Research Council to get one of these prestigious 'Advanced Grants'.
The European Research Council has publically announced on 20 January the awardies of the ERC Advanced Grants 2010. Wulfram Gerstner and Didier Trono are among the top senior scientists who were selected for these prestigious grants.The ERC competitions are open to the best researchers of any nationality. This time candidates of no less than 26 nationalities are among the 260 selected who will carry out their projects in universities or other research institutions throughout the EU and its Associated Countries. As regards the profile of the successful researchers, the average age is around 54 years, which reflects the significant experience of the target group of this grant scheme. Of the successful candidates just over 9% are women, with the ratio varying between the different domains and panels.