Out of 2,313 applicants, the ERC has selected 328 researchers for this year's Consolidator Grants. 2 of them are permanent FNRS researchers.
🔹 Géraldine Laloux, FNRS Research Associate at de Duve Institute, UCLouvain
➡ Funded project: VAMPIRE: Connecting prey attacks and cell cycle switches in predatory bacteria
This is her second project funded by the ERC. She is Principal Investigator of the PREDATOR project, which is funded by an ERC Starting Grant 2018.
🔹 Viktoria Von Hoffmann, FNRS Research Associate in the Department of Historical Sciences at ULiège
➡ Funded project: PROXISENSES: Entangled Histories of the Proximal Senses (1350-1650): A Mediterranean History of (Subjective) Knowledge