The European Research Council (ERC) announced Consolidator Grants for 329 top European researchers, seven of whom are scientists of Greek origin carrying out research at universities and research centres in Greece or abroad.

The funding, which is part of the research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, amounts to  630 million euro in total and gives grantees the chance to contribute significantly to scientific research. Those awarded will conduct their research at universities and research centres in 22 European countries, with the majority being in Britain (60), Germany (56), France (38) and Holland (25). Grants have been awarded to scientists and researchers of 39 different nationalities, including German (55), Italian (32), French (33) and British (31).

Of the 7 Greek grantees, 3 will carry out research in Greece and 4 in Europe:

Alkistis Bonanou, National Observatory of Athens, ASSESS project (Episodic Mass Loss in the Most Massive Stars: Key to Understanding the Explosive Early Universe)
Marinos Sariyiannis, Foundatioin for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology-ITE, GHOST project (Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities)
Konstantinos Tassis, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-ITE, PASIPHAE project (Overcoming the Dominant Foreground of Inflationary B-modes: Tomography of Galactic Magnetic Dust via Measurements of Starlight Polarization)
Lambros Malafouris, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University, HANDMADE project (Handmade: Understanding Creative Gesture in Pottery Making)
Konstantinos Panayiotou, Mathematics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Munich, PTRCSP project (Phase Transitions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems)
Ilias Papayiannou, London Business School, ORDINARY project (The Political Economy of African Development. Ethnicity, Nation, and History)
Maria Rentetzi, University of Vienna, HRP-IAEA project (International Atomic Energy Agency in the History of Radiation Protection)

The research project proposals of the new grantees covers a wide range of  topics in the Physical and Engineering Sciences, Life Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities.

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www.ekt.gr, with information from ERC, National Documentation Centre