Victor Torres Company and Timur Shegai are winners of the European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grants, one of the most prestigious and competitive funding schemes in the EU.
The funding, worth in total 721 million euro, will go to 281 leading researchers across Europe, thirteen of them being from Sweden. The Advanced Grant gives senior researchers the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The new grants are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.
The two researchers at Chalmers who are now receiving the grant share their research and explain what the grant means to them.
Will create high-performance photonic systems on a chip
Victor Torres Company, Professor in photonics at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience is granted 3,49 million euros for the course of five years, for the project “ProSync: Precise optical synchronization of high-speed electronics with microcombs”.
Investigates how the Casimir effect influences self-assembly in optical microcavities
Professor Timur Shegai at the Department of Physics is granted 2,48 million euros for the course of five years, for the project “CASAlibra: Casimir self-assembly out of equilibrium”.
