ERC Grants

Since 2007, academics at the University of Vienna have successfully acquired 162 ERC grants, demonstrating the high quality of basic research conducted at the University and its strong international competitiveness.

The promotion of pioneering basic research is a key priority of the European Union, which established the European Research Council (ERC) to support this mission. The ERC funds research projects with high potential for academic breakthroughs and innovation through various grant categories: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants, Synergy Grants, and Proof of Concept Grants.

Here you will find a list of grants awarded in 2025 and a complete list of all ERC grants by category.

ERC Grants 2025

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All ERC Grants - by category

2025

2024 

2023

2022

  • Alves, Joao: ERC project “The 3D motion of the Interstellar Medium with ESO and ESA telescopes”
  • Felt, Ulrike: ERC project "Innovation Residues – Modes and infrastructures of caring for our longue-durée environmental futures"
  • Lingen, Kerstin von: ERC project "Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)"
  • Marchart, Oliver: ERC project "Prefiguring Democratic Futures“
  • Matthes, Jörg: ERC project "Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets"
  • Zimmer, Manuel: ERC project “Mechanisms and Functions of Brain- Body- Environment Interactions in C. elegans”

2021

  • Henzinger, Monika*: ERC project “The design and evaluation of modern fully dynamic data structures"
  • Procházka, Stephan: ERC project “What is bedouin-type Arabic? The linguistic and socio-historical realities behind the millennia-old dichotomous concept of nomadic and sedentary people in the Middle East and North Africa”

2020

  • Dullinger, Stefan: ERC project “A micro-scale perspective on alpine floras under climate change. Linking observations and models to improve our understanding of the future of European high mountain plants”
  • Schweitzer, Peter: ERC project “Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities”

2019

  • Kruschwitz, Peter: ERC project “Mapping out the poetic landscape(s) of the Roman Empire: ethnic and regional variations, socio-cultural diversity, and crosscultural transformations”

2017

2016

  • Schleper, Christa: ERC project "TACK Superphylum and Lokiarchaeota Evolution - Dissecting the Ecology and Evolution of Archaea to Elucidate the Prokaryote to Eukaryote Transition"

2015 und früher

  • Arndt, Markus (2012): ERC project “Processing of biomolecular targets for interferometric quantum experiments”
  • Constantin, Adrian (2010): ERC project “Nonlinear studies of water flows with vorticity”
  • Fitch, Tecumseh (2008): ERC project “The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach”
  • Henzinger, Monika* (2013): ERC project "Challenges in Graph Algorithms with Applications”
  • Herndl, Gerhard (2010): ERC project “Microbial Ecology of the DEep Atlantic pelagic realm”
  • Katzarkov, Ludmil* (2008): ERC project “Generalized Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications”
  • Kusch, Martin* (2013): ERC project “The Emergence of Relativism -- Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives”
  • Pauer-Studer, Herlinde (2009): ERC project “Distortions of Normativity: The NS-System and Morality”
  • Pohl, Walter (2010): ERC project “Social Cohesion, Identity and Religion in Europe, 400-1200”
  • Schachermayer, Walter (2009): ERC project “Risk and Valuation of Financial Assets: A Robust Approach”
  • Wagner, Michael (2011): ERC project “Nitrification Reloaded - a Single Cell Approach”
  • Zeilinger, Anton (2008): ERC project “Photonic Quantum Information Technology and the Foundations of Quantum Physics in Higher Dimensions”

*no longer employed at the University of Vienna

2025

2024

2023

2022

  • Chruściel, Peter* (togehter with Philip Walther): ERC project “GRAVITES” (Note: no longer at this university)
  • Walther, Philip (together with Peter Chruściel): ERC project “GRAVITES”

2020

*no longer employed at the University of Vienna

2026

2025

2023

2022

2020

2018

  • Maulide, Nuno: ERC project “Neutramenth”
  • Zagrovic, Bojan: ERC project "Short, weakly interacting RNAligands for the development of high-concentration monoclonal antibody therapeutics"

2011

2025

2024

2023

2022

  • Keating, Ailsa
  • Klimburg-Witjes, Nina
  • Pirtea, Adrian
  • Willemsen, Anouk
  • Wratil, Christopher 

2021

  • D’Onofrio, Federico
  • Douka, Katarina
  • Stahlschmidt, Mareike 

2020

  • Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz
  • Hacar, Alvaro
  • Hahn, Oliver
  • Plescia, Carolina
  • Rademacher, Christoph
  • Simakov, Oleg 

2019

  • Chumak, Andrii
  • Kurzbach, Dennis

2018

  • De Zorzi, Nicla
  • Mezger-Backus, Eleonora Hendrika Gertruda
  • Petersen, Jillian
  • Sousa, Filipa
  • Vadrot, Alice 

2017

  • Hartmuth, Maximilian
  • Juffmann, Thomas
  • Kuzmany, Börries
  • Susi, Toma 

2016

  • Berry, David
  • Muttenthaler, Markus
  • Schiemer, Georg
  • Weinzierl, Bernadett 

2007 - 2015

  • Arzhantseva, Goulnara (2010)
  • Aspelmeyer, Markus (2009)
  • Göbel, Christian (2015)
  • Horn, Matthias (2011)
  • Martens, Sascha (2010)
  • Maulide, Nuno (2011)
  • Meyer, Jannik (2013)
  • Raible, Florian (2010)
  • Teßmar-Raible, Kristin (2013)
  • Verstraete, Frank (2009)
  • Wadauer, Sigrid (2007)
  • Wöbken, Dagmar (2014)
  • Wujastyk, Dagmar (2014)
  • Zagrovic, Bojan (2011)
  • Zhou, Qi (2015)

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