ERC Starting Grants 2026: 10 projects at UZH
The ERC is funding 10 Starting Grants at UZH.
The 2026 ERC Starting Grants grants, totaling € 705 million, will support 421 early-career researchers across Europe. The funding will enable early-career researchers to work independently and take on leadership roles in research.
10 of these grants have been awarded to researchers at UZH:
- Dr. Morris Brooks (Department of Mathematics, MNF): Effective Theories in High-Dimensional Quantum and Probabilistic Systems
- Dr. Ana Costa-Ramon (Department of Economics, WWF): Safeguarding Childhood: Bullying, Online Risks, and Human Capital Formation
- Prof. Dr. Nina Hartrampf (Department of Chemistry, MNF): Lasso Peptides as Versatile Scaffolds for Peptide Engineering
- Dr. Emma Hoes (Department of Political Science, PhF): The Hidden Politics of Everyday Media: A New Framework for Political Learning
- Dr. Diego Känzig (Department of Economics, WWF): The Macroeconomics of Climate Change: Quantifying Physical and Transition Risks
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Kehle (Department of Mathematics, MNF): Criticality and Instability of Black Hole Spacetimes
- Dr. Sarah Mundt (Department of Experimental Immunology, MeF): Resolving Niche-to-Monocyte Crosstalk in Neuroinflammatory Disease
- Dr. Pascale Zwicky (Institute of Anatomy, MeF): Causal Mapping of Immune Exclusion and Infiltration in Cancer
Two additional grants secured by researchers who were employed at UZH at the time of the application will be transferred to other higher education institutions:
- Dr. Isabel Raabe (Department of Sociology, PhF): Blending Online and Offline Social Ties: How Digital and In-Person Social Processes in Peer-Family-Embedded Networks Shape Educational Inequalities
- Dr. Vakil Takhaveev (Institute of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, VSF): Error or Program? Resolving the Mechanisms of Ageing via High-Resolution Cross-Species Mapping of Major DNA-Damage Types
Congratulations!
Read here the UZH news articel on the Starting Grants recipients at UZH