Young researchers from Dutch research institutions have secured 44 European starting grants worth an average of €1.5 million. Five of these researchers work at TU Delft.
The five ERC Starting Grant winners from TU Delft are Kristin Kirchner (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, EEMCS), Nadia Haider and Carlos Errando Herranz, (both work at QuTech/EEMCS) and Yasemin Vardar and Eline van der Kruk (both from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering).
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded €761 million in starting grants. Of the 3,928 research applications, 478 were approved. Most grants went to Germany (99) and the United Kingdom (60). The Netherlands came in third with 44 grants. Large countries such as France (41), Italy (30) and Spain (28) received fewer grants.
In the Netherlands, most grants went to researchers at the University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, TU Delft and the University of Groningen. Sixteen of them are Dutch nationals and 28 are international, according to the ERC. Another nine Dutch winners are affiliated with foreign knowledge institutions.
The starting grants are intended for PhD scientists at the beginning of their scientific careers. The grant enables them to set up their own team and devote five years to research. The ERC expects that the grants will enable more than three thousand people to start work. (HOP, HC)
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