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LAC ERC awardees and team members

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As of January 2024, 87 ERC awardees are nationals from LAC. They come from Argentina (26), Brazil (20), Mexico (13), Chile (11), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (4), Venezuela (3), Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Peru and Uruguay (1 each). There is one ERC Synergy grantee in Chile.

Some of them told us a little bit about their trajectory and shared their views on the EU-LAC cooperation, including the only researcher based in Chile as part of a Synergy Group. Read their interviews by clicking on their names.

Argentina

  • Nicolas Rascovan, Argentinian ERC Starting Grant awardee (interviewed by the ERC)
  • Germán Sumbre, Argentinian ERC Starting and Consolidator grants awardee
  • Eugenia Chiappe, Argentinian ERC Starting Grant (2017) and Consolidator (2022) awardee for her ECoFly Project: Neural Circuits for Error Correction, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
  • Yamila Miguel from Argentina, ERC Consolidator N-GINE Project: Next-Generation of Interior models of (Exo)planets: Studying the interior structure of giant planets and its effect on their evolution, atmospheres and observations at NWO Institute SRON: Netherlands Institute for Space Research at Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten, the Netherlands
  • Mauro Gaya from Argentina for his Outlining the Role of IgA in Memory Instruction (ORIgAMI) project (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Rocio Semino, for his project on decoding the mechanisms underlying metal-organic frameworks self-assembly, MAGNIFY (Starting grant awardee 2021)
  • Juan Garaychoechea, for his project on the Mechanisms of proliferationindependent mutation, CLOCK, (Starting grant awardee 2021)

Brazil

Out of the 20 Brazilian researchers who have been awarded ERC Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grants, we have interviewed some of them:

  • Artur Avila for his "Quasiperiodic" project (Starting grant awardee and Fields medalist)
  • Aureo de Paula for his project on “Econometric Analysis of Interaction Models.” (Starting grant awardee)
  • Elison Matioli for his project " IN-NEED" on energy efficiency (Starting grant awardee)
  • Bernardo Franklin for his Plat-IL-1 project on inflammasomes (Starting grant awardee)
  • Eduardo Lee for his project TOPOQDot on topological materials (Starting grant awardee)
  • Mariana de Campos Françozo, for her BRASILIAE project on Indigenous knowledge (Starting grant awardee)
  • Roberto Rinaldi for his LIGNINFIRST project on lignocellulosic Biomass (Consolidator grant awardee)
  • Aline Vidotto, for her ASTROFLOW project on the influence of stellar outflows on exoplanetary mass loss (Consolidator grant awardee)
  • Mario Barbatti, for his project SUBNANO on Computational Photochemistry (the first Brazilian to be awarded with an Advanced grant)
  • Gabriel Ulyssea, for his project FORCEDMIGDEV on Forced Migration and Development (Starting grant awardee)
  • Marcelo Dietrich, for his ONTOGENY project on the development of hypothalamic circuits for the control of homeostasis (Starting grant awardee)
  • Rosana Pinheiro Machado, for her WorkPoliticsBIP project on Labour Precariousness and Authoritarian Politics in the Global South (Consolidator grant awardee)
  • Daniel Gottlieb, for his timeriskbeliefs project on Beliefs, Time, and Risk Preferences (Consolidator grant awardee)
  • Moises Kopper for his Informational Citizenship: Toward a Global Ethnography of Practices and Infrastructures of Datafication in the Global South (InfoCitizen) project (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Marcos Henrique Diniz Guimaraes for his Spins in two-dimensional materials for tunable magnetic and optoelectronic devices (2D-OPTOSPIN) project (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Igor Carboni Oliveira for his Synergies Between Complexity and Learning (SYCLE) project (Starting grant awardee 2022).
  • Clarissa Campbell for her T Cell regulation by fed state bacterial metabolites project (T Cell Feedback), Starting grant awardee 2023
  • Ilana Gabanyi for her gut microbiota - brain neuron interaction project (MicrobiotaNeuroTalk), Starting grant awardee 2023
  • André Marques for his project on meiotic recombination dynamics in holocentric plants, HoloRECOMB, Starting grant awardee 2023

Chile

  • Manuel BASTIAS SAAVEDRA,  ERC consolidator IberLAND project: Beyond Property: Law and Land in the Iberian World (1510-1850), Max Planck Society, Germany.
    Manuel was Professor, Instituto de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile from 2013 to 2016. He did a MA in Political and Moral Philosophy and graduation in history at Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile
  • Ignacio FARÍAS HURTADO,  ERC consolidator WAVEMATTERS project: Urban vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
    Ignacio holds a Licentiate degree in Sociology, Minor in Philosophy from Universidad Católica de Chile and was a Lecturer in Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile in 2008.
  • Wolfgrand Gieren, ERC Synergy Grant awardee based at Universidad de Concepción in Chile
  • Jonathan Barichivich, for his project on Long-term consequences of altered tree growth and physiology in the Earth System, CATHE, Starting grant awardee 202
  • Alejandra Mancilla for her DynamiTE project on Dynamic Territory: A Normative Framework for Territory in the Post-Holocene at University of Oslo, Norway (Starting grant awardee 2020)
  • Elias Barriga for his MOVE_ME project on Mechanical and Electrical Guidance of Collective Cell Migration in vivo at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal (Starting grant awardee 2020)
  • Ginny Farias Galdames for her NEUROSORTER project on Uncovering the machinery for the sorting of newly synthesized proteins into the axon at Utrecht University, the Netherlands (Starting grant awardee 2020).

 

Colombia

  • Katherine Villa from Colombia for her Engineering of Photo-rechargeable Nanoswimmers using Multicomponent Heterojunctions (PhotoSwim) project  (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Paola Pinilla from Colombia for her Global Evolution of Planet-fOrming Disks (GEPOD) project, (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Juan Manuel Toro, Colombian ERC Starting Grant awardee
  • Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero for her project on the urban South (HOMESCAPES), (Starting grant awardee 2022)

Mexico

  • Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas from Mexico for his Evolutionary dynamics of genomic erosion and its application in biodiversity conservation (ERODE) project  (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Jose Victor Moreno Mayar from Mexico for his Tracing Indigenous American genomic history, subsistence strategies, health and their interplay through time using DNA from ancient masticated plant fibres (QUIDS) project  (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo for his project ASIEVE, Atomic scale sieves (Starting grant awardee 2021)
  • Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, for his project on the behaviors and neural mechanisms to form and maintain social ties, NEUROGROUP (Starting grant awardee 2021)
  • Susana Velasco, for her project on Enzymatic Piezoeletric Composites, PIEZOZYMES (Starting grant awardee 2021)

 

ERC awardees from other LAC

  • David Fernandez Rivas, Cuban ERC Starting Grant awardee
  • Alejandro Burga, Peruvian ERC Starting Grant awardee 
  • Jose Hugo Garcia Aguilar from Venezuela for his Artificial Intelligence–Driven Materials Design for Spintronic Applications (AI4SPIN) project  (Starting grant awardee 2022)
  • Silvia benavides-Varela, from Costa Rica, for her project on Infant verbal Memory in Development (IN-MIND), Starting grant awardee 2021

About ERC

Set up in 2007 by the EU, the European Research Council is the first pan-European funding organization for frontier research. It aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by encouraging competition for funding between the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age. The ERC also strives to attract top researchers from anywhere in the world to come to Europe. It funds young, early-career top researchers ('ERC Starting grants'), already independent excellent scientists ('ERC Consolidator Grants'), and senior research leaders ('ERC Advanced Grants'). 
With itsSynergy Grants, the ERC also supports groups of two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) working together and bringing different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems.

 

Jobs in ERC teams

Please, note that ERC grants support projects carried out by an individual researcher ('Principal Investigator') who can employ researchers of any nationality as team members. It is also possible to have one or more team members located in a non-European country.

Watch a testimony by Flávio Eiró below or read our interviews with:

Vacancies for team members interested in joining an ERC led research project, can be published on the Euraxess-Jobs portal.

Short-term postdoctoral visits (Brazil call)

In the framework of the European Commission (EC) - Confap implementing Arrangement (2016) and the Administrative Arrangement between the DG RTD of the EC - CNPq-FINEP-CONAP (2018), Brazilian active researchers in a wide range of scientific fields have the possibility to carry out research visits and temporarily join ERC teams in Europe to conduct frontier research activities. . 

Calls are at least annuals. More at http://bit.ly/BrazilianstaysERC and on Confap website.

Exemple of a Brazilian researcher who spent time working with an ERC grantee in France:

in Spain:

and another one who spent one month in an ERC funded team in Germany:

Additionnal resources: