ERC-grantees at KTH
On this page, we list KTH researchers who have received an ERC grant during the course of the EU framework programmes Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) and Horizon Europe (2021–2027). The year indicates under which ERC work programme the grant was received.
ERC Advanced Grants
2023
Mats Danielsson, SCI-skolan
Project title: Si3 - 3D silicon detector for imaging of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine radiotracers with outstanding efficiency and high spatial resolution
Project start: 1 September 2024
2020
Joakim Lundeberg, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: TWIGA – Tissue-wide identification of genome alterations in cancer
Project start: 1 October 2021
2019
Barbara Noziere, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: EPHEMERAL – Detection and Speciation of Gas-Phase Atmospheric Peroxy and Criegee Radicals
Project start: 1 April 2021
Danica Kragic Jensfelt, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: BIRD – Bimanual Manipulation of Rigid and Deformable Objects
Project start: 1 September 2020
2018
Aristides Gionis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: REBOUND – An algorithmic framework for reducing bias and polarization in online media
Project start: 1 March 2020
2017
Sverker Sörlin, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE)
Project title: GLOBEGOV – The Rise of Global Environmental Governance: A History of the Contemporary Human-Earth Relationship
Project start: 1 October 2018
2016
Lars Berglund, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: WoodNanoTech – Wood Nanotechnology for Multifunctional Structures
Project start: 1 September 2017
Joakim Jaldén, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: AGNOSTIC – Actively Enhanced Cognition based Framework for Design of Complex Systems
Project start: 1 October 2017
The project is led by Björn Ottersten at University of Luxembourg. KTH is partner.
2015
Dan Henningson, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: TRANSEP– Flow physics and interaction of laminar-turbulent transition and flow separation studied by direct numerical simulations
Project start: 1 September 2016
ERC Consolidator Grants
2022
Shervin Bagheri, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: LUBFLOW - Lubricant-infused surfaces in sUrfactant- and Bacteria-laden turbulent FLOWs
Project start: 1 September 2023
2021
Ricardo Vinuesa, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: DEEPCONTROL – Discovering novel control strategies for turbulent wings through deep reinforcement learning
Project start: 1 April 2022
Lisa Prahl Wittberg, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: fitsCAN – Blood flow induced thrombosis and stenosis due to cannulation – an interdisciplinary study
Project start: 1 September 2022
Tuuli Lappalainen, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: DOSAGE2FUNC – Gene expression dosage as a driver of cellular and physiological traits
Project start: 1 July 2022
Madeline Balaam, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: Intimate Touch – Developing Interaction Design Knowledge and Materials where Technology Touches the Body
Project start: 1 September 2022
Read more about Intimate Touch
2020
Ilaria Testa, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: InSpIRE – Intact SynaPtic Imaging in REal-time
Project start: 1 January 2023
Jens Bárðarson, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: LOCFRONT – The localization frontier: from many-body localization to amorphous topological matter via the landscape
Project start: 1 June 2021
Maurice Duits, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: PiRaT – Patterns in Random Tilings
Project start: 1 March 2022
2019
Dimos Dimarogonas, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: LEAFHOUND – Leader-follower hybrid control and task planning for multi-agent systems under spatiotemporal logic specifications
Project start: 1 November 2020
Bob Sturm, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: MUSAiC – Music at the Frontiers of Artificial Creativity and Criticism
Project start: 1 October 2020
2017
Per Högselius, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE)
Project title: Nuclearwaters – Putting Water at the Centre of Nuclear Energy History
Project start: 1 May 2018
Dejan Kostic, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: ULTRA – Increasing the Spatial Correlation of Logical Units of Data to Enable an Ultra-Low Latency Internet
Project start: 1 June 2018
2015
Jonatan Lenells, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: BOPNIE – Boundary value problems for nonlinear integrable equations
Project start: 1 May 2016
ERC Starting Grants
2023
Hanna Barriga, CBH-School
Project title: MaxFUSE LNPS - Engineering lipid nanoparticles to target and escape the endosome, deliver their cargo and perform better as breast cancer therapies
Project start: 1 June 2024
Thomas E Winkler – EECS-skolan
Project title: CHIPzophrenia - Feedback-control of the Microenvironment: Modular Organ-on-Chip Technology to elucidate the role of Neurovascular Stress in Schizophrenia
Project star: 1 June 2024
2021
Georg Oberdieck, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: K3MOD – Correspondences in enumerative geometry: Hilbert schemes, K3 surfaces and modular forms
Project start: 1 February 2023
Michael Liverts, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: DYNPRESS – Towards materials at extremes: from intense dynamic compression to expansion
Project start: 1 September 2022
2020
Ian Hoffecker, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: DNA-Microscopy – In situ DNA sequencing-based microscopy for subcellular spatial transcriptomics
Project start: 1 May 2021
Read more about DNA-Microscopy
2019
Outi Tammisola, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: MUCUS – Modelling revolUtion for Complex flUid flow over Surfaces and walls
Project start: 1 March 2020
Maria Cuartero Botia, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: ConquerIons – Conquering a New Paradigm for Addressing Ion Detection in Real Scenarios
Project start: 1 January 2020
2016
Mahiar Max Hamedi, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: iMDx – Microfiber Electrofluidics for Integrated Molecular Diagnostics
Project start: 1 August 2017
Peder Roberts, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE)
Project title: GRETPOL – Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, and the Creation of the Modern Arctic and Antarctic
Project start: 1 February 2017
Danupon Na Nongkai, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: DisDyn – Distributed and Dynamic Graph Algorithms and Complexity
Project start: 1 February 2017
2015
Jens Bárðarson, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: QUANTMATT – Dynamics and transport of quantum matter – exploring the interplay of topology, interactions and localization
Project start: 1 January 2016
2014
Ilaria Testa, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI)
Project title: MoNaLISA – Long-term molecular nanoscale imaging of neuronal function
Project start: 1 April 2015
Dimos Dimarogonas, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: BUCOPHSYS – Bottom-up hybrid control and planning synthesis with application to multi-robot multi-human coordination
Project start: 1 March 2015
ERC Proof of Concept
Ilaria Testa, SCI-skolan
Project title: DiffusOMICS - A new technology to probe molecular interaction in cells at high throughput
Project start: 1 April 2024
Ian Hoffecker, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: MESH_CHIP - Spatial transcriptomics chips with sequencing-based microscopy
Project start: 1 January 2023
Joachim Oberhammer, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: TERAFILT – High-Q filter banks enabling unprecedented selective and high-sensitivity radiometers for environmental sensing
Project start: 1 October 2020
Frank Niklaus, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: MaMs3 – Crack-Defined Nanogap Electrodes for High-Throughput Decoding of DNA
Project start: 1 November 2018
Göran Stemme, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: xMEMSDBS – Dried Blood Spot sampling at home in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Project start: 1 October 2016
Gunnar Malm, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: NOVOFLOP – Non-Volatile Magnetic Flip Flop
Project start: 1 March 2016
The project is coordinated by TU Wien. KTH is partner.
Frank Niklaus, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: MaMs2 – Platform for Heterogeneous Integration of NEMS on ICs
Project start: 1 July 2015
Johan Hoffman, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: ADAPTIVE – Industrial implementation of adaptive computational methods for turbulent flow and fluid-structure interaction
Project start: 1 April 2015
Göran Stemme, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: xMEMsRAY – Minimal invasive x-ray source enabled by a novel vacuum packaging technique
Project start: 1 January 2015
Mikael Östling, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Project title: iPUBLIC – Inkjet Printed Ultrafast Batteries and Large Integrated Capacitors
Project start: 1 December 2014
ERC Synergy Grants
2023
Stefania Giacomello – School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)
Project title: Functional cartography of intestinal host-microbiome interactions (CartoHostBug)
Project start: 1 July 2024
Danica Kragic Jensfelt – EECS-skolan (deltar som Team member via KI)
Project title: D2Smell - Digitising Smell: From Natural Statistics of Olfactory Perceptual Space to Digital Transmission of Odors
Project start: 1 februari 2024