ERC Consolidator Grant funding

Talvikki Hovatta

Project: "Particle composition in relativistic jets"
Duration: 2025 - 2030

Talvikki Hovatta investigates in her five-year ERC project relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes, which have fascinated the scientific world for a century. Relativistic jets are among the most extreme and energetic phenomena in the universe. Although relativistic jets have been studied for decades, their exact composition remains a mystery. To solve the puzzle, the project will analyse the polarisation, or direction of light oscillation, of the light emitted by the jets. 

News: Talvikki Hovatta wants to solve a mystery that has plagued astronomers for decades

Mauri Kostiainen

Project: "Multicomponent Protein Cage Co-Crystals."
Duration: 2021 - 2026

Person profile Mauri KostiainenNews: Mauri Kostiainen has received a two million euro grant to study new biohybrid materials

Matti Kummu

Project: "SOS.aquaterra - Respecting safe operating spaces: opportunities to meet future food demand with sustainable use of water and land resources".
Duration: 2019 - 2025

Matti Kummu, Assistant Professor of global water issues, aims to tackle this grand challenge in his new project SOS.aquaterra - Respecting safe operating spaces: opportunities to meet future food demand with sustainable use of water and land resource. The project received two million euros funding from the European Research Council (ERC) through the ERC Consolidator Grant programme. The main aim is to assess globally what are the feasible opportunities to meet the future food demand with sustainable use of natural resources.

The five-year project develops novel integrated modelling and data analysis methods to fully exploit the global open spatio-temporal datasets together with outputs from global agrological and hydrological models.

Person profile Matti KummuProject web page (wdrg.aalto.fi)News: Assistant Professor Matti Kummu secures €2 million ERC grant to explore sustainable ways to meet the growing food demand

Anton Kuzyk

Project: "Electronically driven DNA-origami-based machines".
Duration: 2022 - 2027

Person profile Anton KuzykNews: Research project develops electrically controlled artificial molecular machines

Jose Lado

Project: "Engineering ultra-quantum materials with multiferroic super-moiré heterostructures"
Duration: 2025 - 2030

Professor Jose Lado will use this ERC funding to engineer a new type of topological quantum material that could have applications for quantum bit, or “qubit,” development for noise-resilient topological quantum computation. One of the biggest challenges in creating quantum computers capable of overcoming classical computers arises from the imperfect nature of qubits. However, there is a way to overcome this fundamental limitation by creating topological qubits.

Person profile Jose Lado

News: Quantum physics professor searches for exotic qubit alternatives with new European funding

Jaakko Lehtinen

Project: "Learning Pixel-Perfect 3D Vision and Generative Modeling"
Duration: 2020 - 2025

Professor Jaakko Lehtinen’s project, Learning Pixel-Perfect 3D Vision and Generative Modeling (PIPE), focuses on how to bring models based on machine vision, machine learning, and physics together. The project explores the most fundamental questions of machine vision research; how can we teach a machine to perceive the world as animals do? Lehtinen’s work could also be used to help improve AI applications, like robots.

Person profile Jaakko LehtinenNews: Nearly 4 million euro for pioneering research in machine vision and tailor-made biosynthesis