ERC Grants
ERC Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) funds Europe’s most exceptional researchers through a highly competitive process. Several distinguished NTNU researchers have earned these prestigious grants for their groundbreaking ideas.
Recognizing excellence
Rector Tor Grande hosted a celebration for NTNU’s ERC winners from the past three years. Together with Pro-Rector Toril A. Nagelhus Hernes, deans, vice-deans, and department heads, they discussed conditions for groundbreaking research before concluding with dinner and informal dialogue.
New ERC grants
As announced in the European Commission’s publication on 4 September 2025:
ERC Starting Grant to Øyvind Ødegård with the project ARCHEOROBOTICS: Archaeological Robotics for Mapping and Investigating Shipwrecks in the Arctic. Read about the project (in Norwegian).
Signed, ongoing ERC projects
AGIPORE – A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101141323
QuantumLight – Coupled cluster theory for polaritons: changing molecular properties with quantum light
ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101020016
OpenQuantum – Molecules as electronically open quantum systems
ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101170817
CLIMEVOLVE – Evolution and mechanisms of thermal performance – answers through artificial selection in zebrafish
ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 10113026
GPWILD – Prediction of genetic values and adaptive potential in the wild
ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101169862
Icevolt – Icevoltaics: from the Workman-Reynolds Freezing Potentials to Electrical Energy
ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101125009
InternalFortress – Internal Fortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980
ERC Starting Grant – ID 101116211
EnvIronchannel – Making a choice for life – Cellular and molecular basis of coral larvae settlement and metamorphosis
ERC Starting Grant – ID 101076516
GLITR – Breaking through: The Impact of Turbulence on the Gas-Liquid Interface
ERC Starting Grant – ID 101041000
MidWay – A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China
ERC Starting Grant – ID 101041995
ExMilk – Exercised breastmilk: a kick-start for childhood obesity prevention
ERC Starting Grant – ID 101075421
ATLANTIS – Whales, waste and sea walnuts: incorporating human impacts on the marine ecosystem within life cycle impact assessment
ERC Starting Grant – ID 850717
InterLab – Unraveling the fundamentals of transport across the vapor-liquid interface
ERC Starting Grant – ID 101115669
ARCHEOROBOTICS – Archaeological Robotics for Mapping and Investigating Shipwrecks in the Arctic
ERC Starting Grant – ID 101222542
4-OCEANS – Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE
ERC Synergy Grant – ID 951649
SHAPE – The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages
ERC Synergy Grant – ID 101167183
Completed ERC projects
ERC Advanced Grant
Arne Brataas – INSULATRONICS
Controlling Electric Signals with Insulating Antiferromagnets and Insulating Ferromagnets – ID 669442
Edvard Moser – CIRCUIT
Neural circuits for space representation in the mammalian cortex – ID 232608
Edvard Moser – GRIDCODE
Cortical maps for space – ID 338865
May-Britt Moser – ENSEMBLE
Neural mechanisms for memory retrieval – ID 268598
Bernt-Erik Sæther – STOCHPOP
Stochastic Population Biology in a Fluctuating Environment – ID 268562
ERC Consolidator Grant
Christian Doeller – GEOCOG
Cognitive Geometry: Deciphering neural concept spaces and engineering knowledge to empower smart brains in a smart society – ID 724836
ERC Proof of Concept
May-Britt Tessem – ARTS
Precision tissue biobanking made easy – ID 101082300
ERC Starting Grant
May-Britt Tessem – ProstOmics
'Tissue is the issue': a multi-omics approach to improve prostate cancer diagnosis – ID 758306
Jonathan Whitlock – RAT MIRROR CELL
Deconstructing action planning and action observation in parietal circuits in rats – ID 335328
Nicholas Worth – TAIAC
Breaking the paradigm: A new approach to understanding and controlling combustion instabilities – ID 677931
Emre Yaksi – CHEMOSENSORYCIRCUITS
Function of Chemosensory Circuits – ID 335561
Three ERC projects were transferred to another institution during the project period.
See also NTNU pages
Horizon Europe
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PF
EIT KICs Climate-KIC – InnoEnergy – Raw Materials
