Prizes and Awards: 2010
The European Research Council (ERC)
funds top researchers who engage in pioneering research, at the frontier of knowledge in their field. Congratulations to ERC grantees who received international scientific prizes and awards in 2010. Some of them are listed below.
Konstantin NOVOSELOV
University of Manchester
NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2010
ERC Starting Grant 2007: Physics and applications of graphene (GRAPHENE)
Prof. Novoselov received the prize together with his colleague Prof. Andre Geim "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".
ERC Press release - More information on the Nobel Prize website
David BAULCOMBE
University of Cambridge
UKWOLF PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE
ERC Advanced Grant 2008: RNA silencing in regulation and evolution (REVOLUTION)
The Wolf Prizes are awarded annually in several disciplines by the Wolf Foundation that aims to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind.
More information on the Prize
Jason W CHIN
Medical Research Council, London, UK
EMBO GOLD MEDAL
ERC Starting Grant 2007: Encoded Cellular Synthesis of Unnatural Biopolymers (ECSUB)
The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually and highlights the quality of molecular biology research being performed by young European research scientists.
More information on the Medal
Michael GRÄTZEL
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
MILLENIUM AWARD
ERC Advanced Grant 2009: Mesoscopic Junctions for Light Energy Harvesting and Conversion (MESOLIGHT)
The Millenium Award is one of the world's biggest technology prizes, awarded every second years "to highlight innovations that assist and enrich our everyday lives today as well as in the future."
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Ilkka HANSKI
University of Helsinki, Finland
EUROPEAN LATSIS PRIZE
ERC Advanced Grant 2008: Ecological, molecular, and evolutionary spatial dynamics (SPATIALDYNAMICS)
The European Latsis Prize is funded by the Latsis Foundation and awarded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) to an individual or a research group who has made the greatest contribution to a particular field of European research, in 2010: biodiversity.
ERC Highlight on the Prize
Andrea RINALDO
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
PRINCE SULTAN BIN ABDULAZIZ INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WATER (PSIPW)
ERC Advanced Grant 2008: River networks as ecological corridors for biodiversity, populations and waterborne disease (RINEC)
The Prize is established to acknowledge exceptional and innovative scientific work which contributes to the sustainable availability of potable water and the alleviation of water scarcity, particularly in arid regions.
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Nuno C. SANTOS
Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
FIRST VIKTOR AMBARTSUMIAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
ERC Starting Grant 2009: EXtrasolar planets and stellar astrophysics: towards the detection Other Earths (EXOEarths)
The award is given every 2 years, starting in 2010, to outstanding scientists of any nationality having a significant contribution in astrophysics and mathematics.
ERC Highlight on the Awardee and its project
Stanislav SMIRNOV
University of Geneva, Switzerland
FIELDS MEDAL
ERC Advanced Grant 2008: Conformal fractals in analysis, dynamics, physics (CONFRA)
The Fields Medal, or International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is awarded every four years to mathematicians not over 40 years of age.
More information on the Medal
Anton ZEILINGER
University of Vienna, Austria
WOLF PRIZE IN PHYSICS
ERC Advanced Grant 2008: Photonic Quantum Information Technology and the Foundations of Quantum Physics in Higher Dimensions (QIT4QAD)
The Wolf Prizes are awarded annually in several discipline by the Wolf Foundation that aims to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind.
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And also:
Spinozaprijs 2010 in The Netherlands: Marijn Franx, ERC Advanced Grant 2008: HIGHZ & Piet Gros, ERC Advanced Grant 2008: COCO
Prix Fondation ULB 2010 in Belgium: Cédric Blanpain (ERC Starting Grant 2007: CANCERSTEM), Frédéric Bourgeois (ERC Starting Grant 2009: CONTACTMATH), and Estelle Cantillon (ERC Starting Grant 2007: MADEM)
Find all abstracts of ERC-funded projects on the CORDIS website.
Search by project acronym or select "Theme: FP7-IDEAS", "Activity: ERC".
