Six SNSF Starting Grants awarded to EPFL researchers
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The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded six "SNSF Starting Grants" to EPFL researchers. The SNSF Starting Grants is an integrative call replacing the ERC Starting Grants and the SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships / PRIMA.
Congratulations to Karim Achouri (STI), Gioele La Manno (SV), Xiao-Shan Yap (ENAC / ESC - eSpace), Emma Tolley (SB / SCITAS), Dimitri Wyss (SB), Fides Zenk (SV) for winning an SNSF Starting Grant each!
Due to Switzerland’s status as a non-associated third country in the Horizon Europe programme, the federal government mandated the SNSF to launch the funding scheme "SNSF Starting Grants 2023". This integrative call is a transitional measure covering the ERC Starting Grants 2023 as well as the former SNSF funding schemes Eccellenza and PRIMA.
The scheme is open to all disciplines and topics. Researchers of any nationality may apply. Applicants have at least 2 years of research experience but no more than 8 years after the date of their PhD defense. They can request a budget of up to CHF 1.8 million for a period of five years.
With an SNSF Starting Grant, grantees will lead an independent research project and direct a team of researchers in Switzerland.
A total of 441 proposals were evaluated under the 2023 SNSF Starting Grants call; 67 were awarded a grant for a total of 116.9 MCHF. This call’s success rate has been 15.2%.
Six of these grants have been awarded to EPFL researchers:
Karim Achouri (STI) - Nonlocal Meta-Optics
Gioele La Manno (SV) - Unveiling the role of the lipidome in neural tube patterning and cellular specification
Xiao-Shan Yap (ENAC / ESC - eSpace) - Planetary stewardship in view of earth-space sustainability (PLANETSTEWARDS)
Emma Tolley (SB / SCITAS) - Deep Waves: Accelerating Wave Dark Matter simulations with physics-informed deep learning & constraining Wave Dark Matter models with MeerKAT deep HI surveys
Dimitri Wyss (SB) - Non-archimedean methods in geometry and topology
Fides Zenk (SV) - Tracking and resolving chromatin dynamics in human brain organoid development and disease
The 2024 SNSF Starting Grant call opened on November 1, 2023 and closes on February 1, 2024. Are you interested? Contact your hosts to inquire about the internal deadlines and procedures. Register now for the EPFL Applicant Workshop to be held online on 30 November 2023!