European Research Council names 319 ERC Advanced Grant winners

The results of the Advanced Grants 2025 are here! Out of 3,329 applicants, 319 leading researchers have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Congratulations to all! 🎉 Curious to know more ? 👉 buff.ly/uiU9x5K #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch

Delighted to have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for 'Stocking the Past' which will investigate the balance between arable farming and stockkeeping in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland using a range of isotopic and genomic approaches with a great team. Should be fun!

ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for @mpi-cbg.de director Stephan Grill @grill-lab.bsky.social! 🎉 He receives 2.5 million euros for his project “DNA Sequence-Dependent Structure Formation in the Cell Nucleus.” Congratulations! 🥳 🥳 🥳 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for #InfantNeuroAI The project will investigate how human infants learn to understand the visual world, by combining awake infant neuroimaging (fMRI and OPM-MEG) with computational models from AI.

Thrilled and grateful that SYNAPS has been selected for ERC Advanced Grant funding. @erc.europe.eu SYNAPS looks at how 14- to 16-year-olds develop political interest, knowledge and engagement in a networked world shaped by peers, social media, influencers and algorithms. @compcommlab.bsky.social

Congratulations, Eileen Furlong, on her third @ERC_Research Advanced Grant! The EMBL Unit Leader receives 2.5 million euros for a project to help better understand genome regulation, adding to what we know about disease-associated genetic mutations. www.embl.org/news/awards-...

We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Wenbo Ma FRS has been awarded a highly competitive @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant for her exciting new project sRNA-Defense, which will allow her and her team to uncover new roles for sRNAs in defending plants from pathogens 🧬🌱 www.tsl.ac.uk/news/srna-re...

Our researchers have been awarded over €9m for three major research projects – two into corals and one on historic maritime trade. Congratulations to Prof Gavin Foster, Prof Joerg Wiedenmann and Prof Craig Lambert on their prestigious ERC Advanced Grants! Read more: tr.ee/Pmc27i

🚨🏆👏 Congratulations to Prof Rick Schulting @rschulting.bsky.social - 1 of 14 Oxford academics awarded an ERC Advanced Grant - one of the most prestigious & competitive funding schemes in the EU - for his new project 'Stocking the past'. @erc.europa.eu @ox.ac.uk www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

Outstanding news from our faculty! Congratulations to Professor Alyssa Ney on being awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her project The Nature of Reality According to Quantum Physics (MetaQ). We are proud to celebrate this achievement and wish her every success. #ERC #LMU #Philosophy #QuantumPhysics

Congratulations to the 5 Ireland-based researchers awarded @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants: Prof Porscha Fermanis @ucddublin.bsky.social; Prof Richard Layte @tcddublin.bsky.social; Assoc Prof Rory Johnson UCD; Prof Anthony O'Mullane UCD; Prof Rhodri Cusack TCD www.researchireland.ie/news/erc-adv...

Paula Rubio-Fernández has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project COMMON_GROUND. The grant will allow Paula to test and develop a new theory of how people build and manage the shared understanding that makes communication possible. www.mpi.nl/news/paula-r...

'Well done, UK (and all other) researchers. '62 of the 319 winners in its 2025 Advanced Grant competition will carry out their work in the UK, followed by 46 in Germany and 32 in Switzerland.' Overall success rate was 9.6%, down from 11% in 2024.

📯 Four Oxford social scientists have been awarded prestigious @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants. Congratulations to Robert Klassen @education.ox.ac.uk, Rick Schulting @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social, Barbara Petrongolo and Martin Weidner @oxfordecondept.bsky.social! socsci.site.ox.ac.uk/articles/fou...

ISTA physicist Georgios Katsaros and his team have won a €2.8 million ERC Advanced Grant for the project SPINSWAP, aiming to directly observe and harness a special quantum connection at the heart of superconductivity. 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oJzJ9f @erc.europa.eu​