ERC celebrates 10,000th grantee of frontier research awards
During an online ceremony on 6 May, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament President David Sassoli and other European leaders expressed their strong support for frontier research and the European Research Council.
The event was the occasion to mark reaching the landmark of 10,000 top researchers having been supported by the European Union through ERC grants across Europe.
European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel announced that the 10,000th researcher awarded an ERC grant was Professor Inga Berre from the department of mathematics at the University of Bergen, Norway, who in December 2020 was awarded an ERC consolidator grant for the project “Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems”.