European Research Council Starting & Consolidator Grants

EURAXESS Australia & New Zealand and the European Research Council (ERC), bring to you a webinar on ERC funding opportunities, with a focus on the Starting & Consolidator Grants.

Starting Grants

Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? The ERC Starting Grant could be for you. Researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD can apply in any field of research.

• Open: 25 February 2021

• Deadline: 8 April 2021

Consolidator Grants

Are you a scientist who wants to consolidate your independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a successful career in Europe? The ERC Consolidator Grant could be for you. You can also apply if you have recently created an independent, excellent research team and want to strengthen it. Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD can apply in any field of research.

• Open: 11 March 2021 

• Deadline: 20 April 2021 

Watch the Recording Below

Agenda & Downloads

• introduction_to_starting_consolidator_grants.pdf: Nishant Shandilya, Regional Coordinator, EURAXESS Australia & New Zealand

• tips_advice_from_starting_grantee.pdf: Damian Evans, Research Fellow, French Institute of Asian Studies, Starting Grant (2014) & Consolidator Grant (2020)

• tips_advice_from_consolidator_grantee.pdf: Gemma C. Solomon, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Starting Grant (2010) & Consolidator Grant (2019)

• Interactive Q&A

External Speakers

• Damian Evans is an Australian archaeologist who specialises in using computational and geospatial techniques to uncover, map and analyse ancient urban complexes in the Asian tropics. He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2008, and was then assigned to Cambodia as the founding Director of the University’s overseas Research Centre, where he pioneered the use of airborne laser scanning, or lidar, to detect traces of ancient human land-use under dense jungle canopy at the monuments of Angkor. This work provided a springboard for a successful application to the ERC in 2014 for a Starting Grant, for which Dr Evans joined faculty at the French Institute of Asian Studies (EFEO) in Paris, France. His work there involves broadening the scope of lidar-based investigations across the Asian tropics, and using approaches from data science to analyse the massive geospatial datasets being generated by the ‘lidar revolution’ in archaeology; he was recently awarded a Consolidator Grant by the ERC to pursue this work in France from 2020-25.

• Gemma C. Solomon majored in Chemical Physics at the University of Western Australia before moving to the University of Sydney for her PhD in Chemistry with Prof. Jeffrey Reimers and Prof. Noel Hush. In 2006, she moved to Northwestern University, USA where she was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Mark Ratner until moving to the University of Copenhagen as an assistant professor in 2010 to start her independent career. She was promoted to associate professor in 2012 and professor in 2018. She has received ERC Starting and Consolidator grants (in 2010 and 2019) and has been awarded the Torkil Holm Prize from the Danish Academy for Technical Sciences (2014) and the Silver Medal from The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2019). In 2020 she was elected as a member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. She has authored over 85 peer-reviewed publications, is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C and the Deputy Editor for ACS Physical Chemistry Au.