European Research Council (ERC)

The European Research Council’s (ERC) funding programmes provide excellent opportunities for top-level scientific research in all academic fields. The ERC supports in particular fundamental and visionary research. Scientific excellence is the decisive criterion.  With a project budget of € 1.5 – 2.5 mill. for a period of up to 5 years, the ERC Grants are both an attractive award and an accolade for researchers.

Research Services at Leibniz Universität Hannover provides intensive assistance in the application process to researchers at the faculty.

These outstanding researchers are receiving support from an ERC Grant to pursue their innovative or unconventional research ideas:


Current ERC Starting Grants

Elementary Quantum Dot Networks Enabled by On-Chip Nano-Optomechanical Systems (QD-NOMS)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Fei Ding
Institute of Solid State Physics

Project period: 01.01.2017 - 31.12.2021
Project description at CORDIS

Quantum Logic Enabled Test of Discrete Symmetries (QLEDS)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Christian Ospelkaus
Institute of Quantum Optics

Project period: 01.09.2013 - 31.08.2018
Project extension until 28.02.2020
Project description at CORDIS


Expired ERC Starting Grants

Arithmetic of Algebraic Surfaces (SURFARI)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Matthias Schütt
Institute of Algebraic Geometry

Project period: 01.10.2011 - 30.09.2016
Project description at CORDIS

Quantum Field Theory, the Variational Principle, and Continuous Matrix Product States (QFTCMPS)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Tobias Osborne
Institute of Theoretical Physics

Project period: 01.08.2011 - 31.07.2016
Project description at CORDIS

Polar Molecules: From Ultracold Chemistry to Novel Quantum Phases (Polar)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Silke Ospelkaus
Institute of Quantum Optics

Project period: 01.02.2011 - 31.01.2016
Project description at CORDIS


Expired ERC Advanced Grant

Discrete Quantum Simulator (DQSIM)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Werner
Institute of Theoretical Physics

Project period: 01.04.2012 - 31.03.2017
Project Description at CORDIS
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