The ERC Synergy Grant (SyG) brings together a group of two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) to tackle ambitious research problems with a special emphasis on the outstanding intrinsic synergetic effect.
CUBE
Unni Olsbye
Unravelling the secrets of Cu-based catalysts for C-H activation
The research, proposed by a team of leading experts in synthetic and biological catalysis, spectroscopy and computational methods, will explore novel catalysts for carbon-hydrogen activation, using both synthetic and biological tools. Ultimately, they hope to enable the selective oxidation of methane to methanol, which is crucial as methanol is a central building block in our chemical industry.
Project duration: 2019-2025
Call ID: ERC-2019-SyG
PI team
- Vincent Eijsink, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Silvia Bordiga, University of Turin
- Serena DeBeer, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
- Unni Olsbye, University of Oslo
WHOLE SUN
Mats Carlsson
The Whole Sun Project: Untangling the complex physical mechanisms behind our eruptive star and its twins
Project duration: 2019-2025
Grant agreement ID: 810218
Call ID: ERC-2018-SyG
This project gathers physicists from each side of the solar surface and aims at tackling challenging, beyond the state-of-the-art problems, by developing a deep theoretical understanding of the Sun and it's analogues and by building the most advanced multi-resolution solar code in order to jointly address global/macrophysics and local/microphysics aspects of the solar dynamics.
PI team
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Allan Sacha Brun, Commisariat a l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Laurent Gizon, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
- Mats Carlsson, University of Oslo
- Vasilis Archontis, University of St. Andrews