ERC Advanced Grant funding
Olli Ikkala
Project: Life-Inspired Soft Matter
Duration: 2024–2029
This funding is Olli Ikkala's third Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The project explores nature-inspired materials that increasingly have the properties of living systems. The state of living systems is governed by a feedback loop called homeostasis. Project develops materials that can be brought out of equilibrium by external stimuli.
Maarit Karppinen
Project: Unique ALD/MLD-Enabled Material Functions
Duration: 2023–2028
Professor Karppinen research group develops new materials by combining inorganic and organic components with atomic and molecular precision. The goal is to develop ALD/MLD technology in an innovative way, exploiting unique new hybrid materials and material functionalities.
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Vili Lehdonvirta
Project: The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing: How State-Firm Interactions Shape the Geography of Computation to Produce Digital Sovereignty and Dependence
Duration: 2024–2029
Peter Liljeroth
Project: Artificial Designer Materials
Duration: 2018–2024
Professor Peter Liljeroth explores and fabricates new, artificial designer materials that do not exist in nature nor have yet been realised in the laboratory. The motivation for studying these materials are their electrical properties, and that they can be manipulated and tuned atom by atom with scanning tunneling microscopy or molecular self-assembly.
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Mikko Möttönen
Project: New superconducting quantum-electric device concept utilizing increased anharmonicity, simple structure, and insensitivity to charge and flux noise
Duration: 2022–2027
This five-year project led by Professor Mikko Möttönen, will develop a new qubit which will more accurately carry out quantum operations, such as those used in quantum computing. The team will also develop electronics that can operate at temperatures near absolute zero – in the millikelvin range. This is the fifth time Möttönen has received one of the extremely competitive ERC grants.
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Antti Oulasvirta
Project: Artificial User
Duration: 2024–2029
Oulasvirta studies the interaction between humans and computers and creates computational models of human behaviour. These models can be used to predict, for example, how easy it is to use a mobile device, but can also explain behaviour, like why some feel that AI-assisted text input is difficult while others do not. The modelling of behaviour has taken a giant leap over the past decade, while machine learning has made significant steps forward.
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Mika Sillanpää
Project: Probing the limits of quantum mechanics and gravity with micromechanical oscillators (GUANTUM)
Duration: 2021–2026
The team is trying to solve a hundred-year-old mystery of physics with the help of small gold spheres and extremely low temperatures.
In the GUANTUM project, researchers will bring gold spheres, with a diameter of 0.5 mm and a mass of one milligram, acting as sensitive oscillators in a quantum-mechanical state. It is an extremely closed system where phenomena unseen in classical physics may occur. At the same time, they will observe the very small gravitational forces, which cause the gold spheres to be attracted toward each other.
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Zhipei Sun
Project: Atomically-engineered nonlinear photonics with two-dimensional layered superlattices
Duration: 2019–2024
The expected outcomes of this project will result in significant advances in fundamental physics and breakthrough technologies to enable highly-integrated, wideband and high-efficient photonic systems.
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