Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has welcomed the announcement that two of its leading funded researchers, professors Luke O’Neill and Ken Wolfe – both based at Trinity College Dublin – have each been successful in securing special funding from the prestigious European Research Council (ERC).
Established in 2007, the ERC is the first pan-European funding organisation for frontier research and funds senior research leaders (ERC Advanced Grant) and younger, early-career top researchers (ERC Starting Grant). As well-established researchers with notable track records, Prof O’Neill and Prof Wolfe have been chosen as part of the Advanced Grants programme, in which €590 million in funding is being provided to 266 leading scientists around the globe to pursue innovative projects.
ERC is the newest component of the EU’s Seventh Research Framework Programme and comes within the remit of the EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, M
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