TU scientists Cees Dekker, Pier Siebesma and Leo de Vreede have been awarded synergy grants for the research projects they are leading. The grants are worth up to €10 million and will run for six years.
In total, the European Research Council (ERC) is making €684 million available to 66 international teams. The grants are part of the Horizon Europe research programme and aim to tackle complex scientific questions that can only be answered through collaboration between complementary experts. With 3 grants, TU Delft is this year the highest-scoring university in the Netherlands.
How the most common clouds on Earth are changing
Cees Dekker (Faculty of Applied Sciences) and three other principal investigators will receive the grant for research into how small proteins organise our DNA and switch genes on or off. Pier Siebesma (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) is also working with three other principal investigators. He will receive funding for research into how the most common clouds on Earth, stratocumulus clouds, are changing due to climate change and how this affects our temperature. Leo de Vreede (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) is working with three other principal investigators on a new way to transmit wirelessly using much less energy, so that future 5G/6G networks will be faster and more sustainable.
Less female scientists approved
A total of 712 proposals were submitted, so approximately one in ten has been approved. Around 25 per cent of the approved scientists are women. That is less than last year, when the figure was almost 32 per cent. (HOP, NB/ Delta, AdB)
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