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ERC consolidator grants 2025

9 December 2025

Ghent University hits milestone: 150 ERC grantees with 4 new winners

With four new ERC Consolidator Grant winners in 2025, Ghent University has reached an impressive milestone. With this result, as many as ten percent of the professors at Ghent University have obtained ERC funding.

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13 October 2025	Ghent University scores twice at ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference
13 October 2025	Ghent University researchers develop world's fastest QD-based SWIR photodetector
4 September 2025	No fewer than seven new ERC Starting Grants for Ghent University researchers
1 September 2025	ETpathfinder Smart Skills Lab shares Einstein Telescope knowledge with businesses
14 July 2025	Two chemists from Ghent University both win an ERC Proof of Concept Grant
17 June 2025	Ghent University shines with six prestigious ERC Advanced Grants

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PhD defenses

Jan 13

Unveiling the hidden role of bacteria in pollinator insects

Botero Cardona, Juliana
Jan 15

Biomonitoring Paleozoic Ocean Anoxia: How chitinozoan malformations and geochemical anomalies chronicle brine-driven global change

De Backer, Tim
Jan 15

From nanopowders to photocatalytic coatings: degradation of gaseous volatile organic compounds

Cosaert, Ewoud
Jan 19

The impact of gene and genome duplications on plant gene regulatory networks

De Almeida Silva, Fabrício

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