ERC Projects

The European Research Council (ERC), which was brought to life in 2007, supports with different funding instruments outstanding researchers with groundbreaking projects in Europe

The MPQ acts as host institution for several researchers who have been awarded an ERC Grant.

Ongoing ERC Starting Grant projects at MPQ are:

• Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant UniRand - Random Unitaries in a Rapid Optical Lattice Simulator - Dr. Philipp Preiss
• Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant QuantumNet - A Scalable Quantum Network based on Individual Erbium Ions - Dr. Andreas Reiserer

• Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant WASCOSYS - Wavefunctions for strongly correlated systems - Dr. Norbert Schuch (ended in 2020)

• Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant RyD-QMB - Rydberg dressed quantum many-body systems - Dr. Christian Groß (ended in 2021)

 

MPQ is hosting the following ERC Advanced Grant projects:

• Horizon 2020 ERC Advanced Grant XUV-COMB - High Resolution Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Spectroscopy - Prof. Thomas Udem

• Horizon 2020 ERC Advanced Grant QUENOCOBA - Quantum Emitters in non-conventional baths - Prof. Ignacio Cirac

 

From 2013 until 2021, the MPQ coordinated an ERC Synergy Grant:

•  FP7 ERC Synergy Grant UQUAM - Ultracold Quantum Matter