ERC Grants

ERC Grants

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Several distinguished researchers at NTNU have been honoured with ERC grants.

The European Research Council (ERC) is dedicated to advancing high-quality research by providing funding to Europe's most exceptional researchers and innovative ideas. Researchers themselves propose the topics, which are then selected through a highly competitive process. Receiving an ERC grant is considered the most prestigious forms of research funding.


Lerchendal 20 mars 2025

Recognizing NTNU's ERC excellence

Rector Tor Grande hosted an ERC celebration where our ERC winners from the last three years were invited along with deans, vice-deans, and department heads. The ERC projects were presented in dialogue with Pro-Rector Toril A. Nagelhus Hernes, where important questions about the conditions for groundbreaking research and the development of large projects were discussed. The celebration concluded with dinner and the opportunity for more informal dialogue across the ERC projects.

Twelve of NTNU's ERC grant recipients were present at Lerchendal gård, 20 March 2025. Photo: Thor Nielsen/NTNU

New ERC grants awarded from the European Research Council

New ERC grants from the European Research Council

As announced in the European Commission’s publication on 4 September 2025:

ERC Starting Grant to Øyvind Ødegård with the project ARCHEOROBOTICS: Archaeological Robotics for Mapping and Investigating Shipwrecks in the Arctic. Read about the project (in Norwegian).

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See also

See also

NTNU Horizon Europe for information about NTNU’s support for researchers interested in participating in the EU Framework Programmes.

NTNU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PF

EIT KIC, where NTNU participates in Climate-KICInnoEnergyRaw Materials

NTNU Charter & Code

Signed, ongoing ERC projects

Signed, ongoing ERC projects

ERC Advanced Grant

ERC Advanced Grant

ERC Advanced Grant row 1


[画像:Alex Hansen, photo.]

Alex Hansen

AGIPORE – A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media

ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101141323

[画像:Henrik Koch, photo.]

Henrik Koch

QuantumLight – Coupled cluster theory for polaritons: changing molecular properties with quantum light

ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101020016

[画像:Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, photo.]

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen

CREME – Control of light vehicle-manipulator systems

ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101017697

ERC Advanced Grant row 2


[画像:Jane M. Reid]

Jane M. Reid

EcoEvoMove – Spatio-Seasonal Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics

ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101140637

[画像:Bernt-Erik Sæther, photo]

Bernt-Erik Sæther

EcoEvoRescue – Eco-Evolutionary Rescue of Fragmented Populations

ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101095997

[画像:Ingrid Bouwer Utne]

Ingrid Bouwer Utne

BREACH – A human-like perception system for marine applications

ERC Advanced Grant – ID 101142277

ERC Consolidator Grant

ERC Consolidator Grant

ERC Consolidator Grant row 1

[画像:Hans Bihs, photo]

Hans Bihs

Partres – Particle Resolving Fluid-Sediment Interaction

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101045646

[画像:Charles Butcher, photo.]

Charles Butcher

LEGACIES – Understanding how historical states have shaped modern institutions and dissent

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101045180

[画像:Simen Andreas Ådnøy Ellingsen, photo.]

Simen Andreas Ådnøy Ellingsen

WaTurSheD – Small Flows with Big Consequences: Wave-, Turbulence- and Shear current-Driven mixing under a water surface

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101045299

ERC Consolidator Grant row 2

[画像:Ida-Marie Høyvik]

Ida-Marie Høyvik

OpenQuantum – Molecules as electronically open quantum systems

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101170817

[画像:Fredrik Jutfelt, photo.]

Fredrik Jutfelt

CLIMEVOLVE – Evolution and mechanisms of thermal performance – answers through artificial selection in zebrafish

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 10113026

[画像:Manuel Linares, photo.]

Manuel Linares

LOVE-NEST – Looking for Super-Massive Neutron Stars

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 10112352

ERC Consolidator Grant Row 3

[画像:Dennis Meier, photo.]

Dennis Meier

ATRONICS – Creating building blocks for atomic-scale electronics

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 863691

[画像:Stefanie Muff]

Stefanie Muff

GPWILD – Prediction of genetic values and adaptive potential in the wild

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101169862

[画像:Senbo Xiao, photo.]

Senbo Xiao

Icevolt – Icevoltaics: from the Workman-Reynolds Freezing Potentials to Electrical Energy

ERC Consolidator Grant – ID 101125009


ERC Proof of Concept

ERC Proof of Concept

ERC Proof of Concept row 1


[画像:James Barrett, photo.]

James Barrett

PReciSe – Precise, Rapid and Scalable Proteomics Solutions for Archaeology, Ecology, Wildlife Forensics and Food-chain Authentication

ERC Proof of Concept – ID 101212629

[画像:Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, photo.]

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen

UR4energy – Underwater Robots for efficient ocean energy harvesting

ERC Proof of Concept – ID 101188523

ERC Starting Grant

ERC Starting Grant

ERC Starting Grant row 1

[画像:Madeleine Dungy]

Madeleine Dungy

InternalFortress – Internal Fortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980

ERC Starting Grant – ID 101116211

[画像:Lena van Giesen]

Lena van Giesen

EnvIronchannel – Making a choice for life – Cellular and molecular basis of coral larvae settlement and metamorphosis

ERC Starting Grant – ID 101076516

[画像:Jason Hearst]

Jason Hearst

GLITR – Breaking through: The Impact of Turbulence on the Gas-Liquid Interface

ERC Starting Grant – ID 101041000


ERC Starting Grant row 2

[画像:Marius Korsnes]

Marius Korsnes

MidWay – A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China

ERC Starting Grant – ID 101041995

Trine Moholdt

Trine Moholdt

ExMilk – Exercised breastmilk: a kick-start for childhood obesity prevention

ERC Starting Grant – ID 101075421

[画像:Francesca Verones]

Francesca Verones

ATLANTIS – Whales, waste and sea walnuts: incorporating human impacts on the marine ecosystem within life cycle impact assessment

ERC Starting Grant – ID 850717


ERC Starting Grant row 3

[画像:Øivind Wilhelmsen]

Øivind Wilhelmsen

InterLab – Unraveling the fundamentals of transport across the vapor-liquid interface

ERC Starting Grant – ID 101115669

ERC Synergy Grant

ERC Synergy Grant

ERC Synergy Grant row 1


[画像:James Barrett, photo.]

James Barrett

4-OCEANS – Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE

ERC Synergy Grant – ID 951649

[画像:James Dawson, photo]

James Dawson

HYROPE – Hydrogen under pressure

ERC Synergy Grant – ID 101119058

[画像:Thorsten Hamann, photo]

Thorsten Hamann

HYDROSENSING – Discovering how plants sense water stress

ERC Synergy Grant – ID 101118769

ERC Synergy Grant Row 2


[画像:Edvard Moser, photo.]

Edvard Moser

KiloNeurons – Populations Codes for Space in the Mammalian Cortex

ERC Synergy Grant – ID 951319

[画像:Jonas Scherner]

Jonas Scherner

The Hidden Weapon – Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars

ERC Synergy Grant – ID 101166983

[画像:Mila Vulchanova]

Mila Vulchanova

SHAPE – The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages

ERC Synergy Grant – ID 101167183

Completed projects row 1

Completed ERC projects

ERC Advanced Grant

Arne BrataasINSULATRONICS
Controlling Electric Signals with Insulating Antiferromagnets and Insulating Ferromagnets – ID 669442

Edvard MoserCIRCUIT
Neural circuits for space representation in the mammalian cortex – ID 232608

Edvard MoserGRIDCODE
Cortical maps for space – ID 338865

May-Britt MoserENSEMBLE
Neural mechanisms for memory retrieval – ID 268598

Bernt-Erik SætherSTOCHPOP
Stochastic Population Biology in a Fluctuating Environment – ID 268562

ERC Consolidator Grant

Christian DoellerGEOCOG
Cognitive Geometry: Deciphering neural concept spaces and engineering knowledge to empower smart brains in a smart society – ID 724836

ERC Proof of Concept

May-Britt TessemARTS
Precision tissue biobanking made easy – ID 101082300

ERC Starting Grant

May-Britt TessemProstOmics
'Tissue is the issue': a multi-omics approach to improve prostate cancer diagnosis – ID 758306

Jonathan WhitlockRAT MIRROR CELL
Deconstructing action planning and action observation in parietal circuits in rats – ID 335328

Nicholas WorthTAIAC
Breaking the paradigm: A new approach to understanding and controlling combustion instabilities – ID 677931

Emre YaksiCHEMOSENSORYCIRCUITS
Function of Chemosensory Circuits – ID 335561


Three ERC projects were transferred to another institution during the project period.