ERC Starting Grants

Peristalsis in Real-time human MRI to study the interwoven frequency & microstructural properties (EARTHWORM)

Contact: Frau Prof. Dr. Jana Hutter
Institute of Information Processing
Project duration: 01.12.2024 – 30.11.2029 (Transfer to LUH: 1.1.2026)
Proof of Concept: SyncWorm
Project duration: under negotiation

Large-Scale Structure of Entanglement (LargEnt)

Contact: Herr Prof. Dr. Henrik Wilming
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Project duration: 01.02.2026 - 31.01.2031

Managing Performative Science (MAPS)

Contact: Herr Prof. Dr. Philippe van Basshuysen
CELLS - Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
Project duration: 01.02.2024 - 31.01.2029

Multi-messenger soft-field spectroscopy of molecular electronics at interfaces (SoftMeter)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Andrea Trabattoni
Institute of Quantum Optics
(Assistant professor at LUH and Helmholtz Young Investigators Group leader, ERC guest institution: DESY)
Project duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2028

Taming Combustion Instabilities by Design Principles (TACOS)

Contact: Herr Prof. Dr. Abdulla Ghani
Institute of Turbomachinery and Fluid Dynamics
Project duration: 01.06.2023-31.05.2028

Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics (MODEL TRANSFER)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld
Institute of Philosophy
Project duration: 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2029

Interactive and Explainable Human-Centered AutoML (ixAutoML)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Marius Lindauer
Institute of Articifical Intelligence
Project duration: 01.12.2022 - 30.11.2027
Proof of Concept: AutoML Co-Designer
Project duration: 01.06.2026 - 30.11.2027

Revealing second messenger functions in bacterial stress response, cell differentiation and natural product biosynthesis (SecMessFunctions)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Natalia Tschowri
Institute of Microbiology
Project duration: 01.07.2022 - 30.06.2027

Smart protonic quantum frequency circuits (QFreC)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Michael Kues
Institute of Photonics
Project duration: 01.05.2021 - 31.12.2026

Rationality of varieties and algebraic cycles (RationAlgic)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schreieder
Institute of Algebraic Geometry
Project duration: 01.04.2021 - 31.03.2027

Estimation and control under limited information with application to biomedical systems (Cont4Med)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller
Institute of Automatic Control
Project duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2025

Computational Modelling, Topological Optimization and Design of Flexoelectric Nano Energy Harvesters (COTOFLEXI)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang
Institute of Photonics
Project duartion: 01.08.2019 - 31.07.2025

Blood and bone - conjoined twins in health and disease: bone marrow analogs for hematological and musculoskeletal diseases (bloodANDbone)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Lee-Thedieck
Institute of Cell Biology and Biophysics
Project duration: 01.02.2018 - 31.12.2023 (Transfer to LUH on 15.10.2018)
Proof of Concept: PRIOBONE
Project Duration:  01.01.2024 - 30.06.2025

Unlikely Intersection and Uniform Bounds for Points (UnIntUniBd)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Ziyang Gao
Institute of Algebra, Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics
Project duration: 01.09.2020 - 31.08.2025
Project ended on 30.09.2024

Elementary quantum dot networks enabled by on-chip nano-optomechanical systems (QD-NOMS)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Fei Ding
Institute of Solid State Physics
Project duration: 01.01.2017 - 31.12.2022

Multiscale Imaging-through-analysis Methods for Autonomous Patient-specific Simulation Workflows (ImageToSim)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dominik Schillinger
Institute of Mechanics and Computational Mechanics
Project duration: 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2023

Multicomponent Aerogels with Tailored Nano-, Micro- & Macrostructure (MAEROSTRUC)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Nadja-Carola Bigall 
Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry
Project duration: 01.03.2017 - 28.02.2022

Quantum Logic Enabled test of Discrete Symmetries (QLEDS)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Christian Ospelkaus
Institute of Quantum Optics
Project duration: 01.09.2013 - 31.08.2018, prolongation of project duration until 28.02.2020

Non-equilibrium Information and Capacity Envelopes: Towards a Unified Information and Queueing Theory (UnIQue)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Fidler
Institute of Communications Technology
Project duration: 01.12.2012 - 30.11.2017

Dynamic Minimal prior knowledge for model based Computer Vision and Scene Analysis (DYNAMIC MINVIP)

Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bodo Rosenhahn
Institute of Information Processing
Project duration: 01.10.2011 - 30.09.2016
Proof of Concept: Indivdualized Implant Placement (IIP)
Project duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2014

Arithmetic of algebraic surfaces (SURFARI)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Matthias Schütt
Institute of Algebraic Geometry
Project duration: 01.10.2011 - 30.09.2016

Quantum field theory, the variational principle, and continuous matrix product states (QFTCMPS)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Tobias Osborne
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Project duration: 01.08.2011 - 31.07.2016

Polar Molecules: From Ultracold Chemistry to Novel Quantum Phases (Polar)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Silke Ospelkaus
Institute of Quantum Optics
Project duration: 01.02.2011 - 31.01.2016