ERC grant holders
At the end of Horizon 2020, 86 grantees at Ghent University have been awarded ERC funding, which amounts up to about 170 million euro. This ranks Ghent University at place 30 of the European top Host Institutions.
Many of them are young researchers who could build or consolidate their own research team with this funding.
Are you considering to apply for an ERC grant and want to discuss how to make your application more competitive? The EU team is there to help you with drafting and submitting your application and providing you a Host Institution support letter.
Since 2007, the ERC supports the best researchers from all over the world with a 5-year research project which can be conducted at one of Europe's many outstanding universities and research institutions. In May 2021, the ERC celebrates having awarded 10000 grantees providing a groundbreaking contribution to science.
Starting Grants
| Principal Investigator |
ERC panel |
Acronym | Title |
| Shola Adenekan | SH5 | YORUBAPRINT | The Yoruba Print Culture: Networks and Modernities, 1852- Present |
| Maaheen Ahmed | SH5 | COMICS | Children in Comics: An Intercultural History from 1865 to Today |
| Klaas Bentein | SH5 | EVWRIT | Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I - VIII AD). A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation |
| Senne Braem | SH4 | CoCoFlex | What makes us cognitively flexible? A new learning perspective |
| Frederik Buylaert | SH6 | STATE | Lordship and the Rise of States in Western Europe, 1300-1600 |
| Marco Caracciolo | SH5 | NARMESH | Narrating the Mesh: Ecology and the Non-Human in Contemporary Fiction and Oral Storytelling. |
| Alberto Gonzalez Curto | PE7 | CHANSON |
Chiral semiconductor nanophotonics for ultraresolved molecular sensing |
| Marthe De Boevre |
LS9 | HuMyco | Investigating the Human Mycobolome through Uniting Large-scale Epidemiological and Mechanistic Poly-omic Designs |
| Inge De Clercq (VIB) |
LS3 | COSI | Understanding organelle communication through contact sites in plant stress responses |
| Katrien De Graeve | SH3 | LiLI | Later Life Intimacy: Women's Unruly Practices, Spaces and Representations |
| Ilse De Looze | PE9 | DustOrigin | The origin of cosmic dust in galaxies |
| Bert De Rybel (VIB) | LS3 | TORPEDO | Understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling the orientation of plant cell divisions |
| Ilse Derluyn | SH3 | CHILDMOVE | On the Move: The impact of flight experiences on the psychological wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors |
| Pieter De Frenne | LS9 | FORMICA | Microclimatic buffering of plant responses to macroclimate warming in temperate forests |
| Tine Destrooper | SH2 | VictPart | Righting Victim Participation in Transitional Justice |
| Matteo Giletta | SH3 | Outside-In | How Bullying in Adolescence Gets Into The Mind and Under the Skin |
| Jutho Haegeman | PE2 | ERQUAF | Entanglement and Renormalisation for Quantum Fields |
| Anna M. Kaczmarek | PE5 | NORTH | NanOthermomteRs for THeranostics |
| Ruth Krebs | SH4 | REMOTIVATE | Reward revisited: Towards a comprehensive understanding of motivational influences on human cognition |
| Bart Kuyken | PE7 | ELECTRIC | Chip Scale Electrically Powered Optical Frequency Combs |
| Heidi Mertes | LS7+SH5 | DIME | Disruptive Innovation in healthcare requires disruptive innovation in Medical Ethics |
| Diego Miralles | PE10 | DRY-2-DRY | Do droughts self-propagate and self-intensify? |
| Iwan Moreels | PE5 | PHOCONA | Photonics in Flatland: Band Structure Engineering of 2D Excitons in Fluorescent Colloidal Nanomaterials |
| Griet Neukermans | PE10 | CarbOcean | An integrative approach to unravel the ocean's biological carbon pump |
| Moritz Nowack (VIB) | LS3 | ProCellDeath | Unraveling the regulatory network of developmental programmed cell death in plants |
| Charlotte Scott | LS6 | MyeFattyLiver | Unravelling the heterogeneity and functions of hepatic myeloid cells in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
| Petra Van Damme | LS2 | PROPHECY | Translational control in infection biology: riboproteogenomics of bacterial pathogens |
| Mariek Vanden Abeele | SH3 | DISCONNECT | Digital Wellbeing in a Culture of Ubiquitous Connectivity: Towards a Dynamic Pathway Model |
| Nele Vandersickel | LS7 | SMARTHEART | Directed networks as a novel approach for improving the management of cardiac arrhythmias |
| Katrien Van Poeck | SH3 | LESTRA | Transactional investigations of learning in view of sustainability transitions |
| Marianne Van Remoortel | SH5 | WECHANGED | Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe (1710-1920) |
| Pieter Van Vlierberghe | LS4 | EPITALL | Dynamic interplay between DNA methylation, histone modifications and super enhancer activity in normal T cells and during malignant T cell transformation |
| Hans Verbeeck | LS9 | TREECLIMBERS | Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change |
| Sarah Verhulst | PE7 | ROBSPEAR | Robust Speech Encoding in Impaired Hearing |
Consolidator Grants
| Principal Investigator |
ERC panel |
Acronym | Title |
| Felicitas Becker | SH6 | ASEA | The aftermath of slavery in East Africa |
| Wim Bogaerts | PE7 | PhotonICSWARM | Photonic Integrated Circuits using Scattered Waveguide elements in an Adaptive, Reconfigurable Mesh |
| Koen Bostoen | SH6 | BANTUFIRST | The First Bantu Speakers South of the Rainforest: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Human Migration, Language Spread, Climate Change and Early Farming in Late Holocene Central Africa |
| Kevin Braeckmans | LS7 | NANOBUBBLE | Laser-induced vapour nanobubbles for intracellular delivery of nanomaterials and treatment of biofilm infections |
| Kristof Cools | PE7 | BET3D | March-on-in-Time: Boundary Element Time-Domain Domain Decomposition Methods |
| Andrea Cuomo |
SH5 | MELA | The MEaning of LAnguage. A digital grammar of the Greek taught at schools in Late Constantinople |
| Bruno De Geest | LS7 | ImmunoBioSynth | Synergistic engineering of anti-tumor immunity by synthetic biomaterials |
| Koen De Temmerman | SH5 | NovelEchoes | Novel Echoes. Ancient Novelistic Receptions and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique and Medieval Secular Narrative from East to West |
| Martin Guilliams (VIB) | LS6 | KupfferCellNiche | Determining the instructive tissue signals and the master transcription factors driving Kupffer cell differentiation |
| Sophie Janssens | LS3 | DC-RIDDLE | A novel physiological role for IRE1 and RIDD..., maintaining the balance between tolerance and immunity? |
| Mo Lamkanfi (VIB) | LS3 | PyroPop | Mechanisms and regulation of inflammasome-associated programmed cell death |
| Marianne Maeckelbergh | PS05 | PaDC | Property and Democratic Citizenship: The Impact of Moral Assumptions, Policy Regulations, and Market Mechanisms on Experiences of Eviction |
| Koen Raemdonck | LS7 | RESPIRNA | REpurposing lung Surfactant Protein B for Inhalation therapy with RNA therapeutics |
| Daniël Van Damme (VIB) | LS3 | T-Rex | Clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants: mechanistic insight into the TPLATE REcycling compleX and its interplay with AP-2 |
| Arjen van der Wel | PE9 | LEGA-C | The Physics of Galaxies 7 Gyr Ago |
| Kevin Van Geem | PE8 | OPTIMA | PrOcess intensification and innovation in olefin ProducTIon by Multiscale Analysis and design |
| Thomas Van Leeuwen | LS9 | POLYADAPT | Molecular-genetic mechanisms of extreme adaptation in a polyphagous agricultural pest |
| Jo Van Steenbergen | SH6 | MMS-II | The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate II: historiography, political order and state formation in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria |
| Veronique Van Speybroeck | PE4 | DYNPOR | First principle molecular dynamics simulations for complex chemical transformations in nanoporous materials |
| Frederick Verbruggen | SH4 | Ctrl-ImpAct | Control of impulsive action |
| Frank Verstraete | PE2 | QUTE | Quantum Tensor Networks and Entanglement |
Advanced Grants
| Principal Investigator |
ERC Panel |
Acronym | Title |
| Wout Boerjan (VIB) | LS9 | POPMET | Large-scale identification of secondary metabolites, metabolic pathways and their genes in the model tree poplar |
| Marie-Benedicte Dembour | SH2 | DISSECT | Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication |
| Piet Demeester | PE7 | ATTO | A new concept for ultra-high capacity wireless networks |
| Geert De Schutter | PE8 | SmartCast | Smart casting of concrete structures by active control of rheology |
| Filip Du Prez | WE07 |
CiMaC | Circular Thermoset Materials: How to exploit Precision Engineered Macromolecules in their Bottom-up Design? |
| Lieven Eeckhout | PE6 | LoadSliceCore | Load Slice Core: A Power and Cost-Efficient Microarchitecture for the Future |
| Clay Holroyd | SH4 | See-ACC |
Cracking the Anterior Cingulate Code: Toward a Unified Theory of ACC Function |
| Dirk Inzé (VIB) | LS9 | BREEDIT |
A novel breeding strategy using multiplex genome editing in maize |
| Bart Lambrecht (VIB) | LS6 | ASTHMACRYSTALCLEAR |
Role of protein crystallization in type 2 immunity and asthma |
| Kodi Ravichandran (VIB)</span | LS3 | Sperm-Egg Phusion |
Unexpected connections between a phagocytic machinery and mammalian fertilization |
| Nico Van de Weghe | SH6 |
TRANSPACIFIC |
The Structure and Impact of Trans-Pacific Trade, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Manila Galleon Trade Beyond Silver and Silks (KULeuven is the host institution for this ERC and the principal investigator is Angela Schottenhammer) |
| Yves Van de Peer (VIB) | LS8 | DOUBLE-TROUBLE |
Replaying the 'genome duplication' tape of life: the importance of polyploidy for adaptation in a changing environment |
| Dries Van Thourhout |
PE7 |
NARIoS |
Nano-Ridge Engineering for Densely Integrated III-V Lasers Directly Grown on Silicon |
Proof of Concept
| Principal Investigator |
ERC Panel |
Acronym | Title |
| Roel Baets | PE | MIRASPEC | Miniature on-chip Raman spectrometer for personal volatile organic compound (VOC) monitoring |
| Kevin Braeckmans |
LS | INTRACYTE | Exploring the market potential of photoporation as the next generation of intracellular delivery technology for the R&D and cell therapy markets |
| Tijl De Bie |
PE | FEAST | Fair, Effective, and Sustainable Talent Management using Conditional Network Embedding |
| Piet Demeester | PE | BI-SDMof | Bit-interleaved sigma-delta modulation over fiber |
| Lieven Eeckhout | PE | FSC | Forward Slice Core |
| Lieven Eeckhout | PE | Sniper-ARM | High-Speed Architectural Simulation of ARM-based Systems |
| Mo Lamkanfi (VIB) | LS | FMF-Dia | Immunological Diagnosis of Familial Mediterranean Fever |
| Guy Marin | PE | GSVRotor | Development of the Gas-Solid Vortex-Rotor Reactor |
| Günther Roelkens | PE | FireSpec | Integrated spectroscopic sensors for the risk assessment of fires |
| Jan Tavernier (VIB) | LS | AcTafactors | Tumor Necrosis Factor-based immuno-cytokines with superior therapeutic indexes |
| Joris Thybaut | PE | ELR1K | Enhancing Large-scale chemical Reactions based on Elementary Kinetics |
| Joris Thybaut | PE | PR1ME |
First principles based process concepts for complex mixtures conversion |
| Joris Thybaut | PE | SERENiTi | Software Enhanced Research iN Transient kinetics |
| Dries Van Thourhout | PE | INTERDOT | INTERconnects enhanced by colloidal qDOT based optical amplifiers |
| Kris Verheyen | LS | UnderSCORE |
A web-based Decision Support System to score forest understorey dynamics in response to management interventions in a changing world |
| Sarah Verhulst |
LS | CochSyn |
A diagnostic test for cochlear synaptopathy in humans |