ERC Grants

ERC Advanced Grants

The ERC Advanced Grants (up to 3.5 million euros over a maximum of five years) are aimed at established scientists in all disciplines whose highly innovative research goes significantly beyond the current state of research and opens up new research areas.

• Prof. Dr. Christian Ochsenfeld (2024)
• Prof. Dr. Ivan Huc (2022)
• Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung (2020)
• Prof. Dr. Roland Beckmann (2019)
• Prof. Dr. Karl-Peter Hopfner (2018)
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell (2016)
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Bein (2012)
• Prof. Dr. Ivan Huc (2012) **
• Prof. Dr. Karl-Peter Hopfner (2012)
• Prof. Dr. Roland Beckmann (2011)
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer (2010) *
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Trauner (2010) *
• Prof. Dr. Paul Knochel (2008)

ERC Consolidator Grants

The ERC Consolidator Grants (up to three million euros over a maximum of five years) are aimed at outstanding young researchers from all disciplines whose own independent research group is in the consolidation phase.

• Prof. Dr. Lukas Jae (2025)
• Prof. Dr. Anne Schütz (2024)
• Prof. Benjamin Fingerhut (2023)
• Prof. Julian Stingele (2023)
• Prof. Dr. Olivia Merkel (2023)
• Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung (2014)
  

ERC Starting Grants

The ERC Starting Grants (up to 2.5 million euros over a maximum of five years) are aimed at outstanding young researchers from all disciplines who are at the beginning of an independent scientific career in Europe and would like to found or have already founded their own research group and establish it in the longer term.

• Prof. Dr. Lukas Milles (2024)
• Dr. Erkan Aydin (2022) **
• Prof. Daniel Merk (2022)
• Prof. Dr. Lena Daumann (2020)
• Dr. Thomas-Christian Jagau (2019) *
• Wolfgang Tress (2019) *
• Prof. Dr. Lucas Jae (2018)
• Prof. Dr. Julian Stingele (2018)
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Stigler (2017)
• Dr. Thomas Magauer (2016) *
• Dr. Franz Herzog (2014) *
• Prof. Dr. Olivia Merkel (2014)
• Prof. Dr. Mario Halic (2012) *
• Prof. Dr. Achim Hartschuh (2011)
• Prof. Dr. Jens Michaelis (2009) *
• Dr. Katja Sträßer (2008) *

ERC Synergy-Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) supports projects that “push the frontiers of knowledge” through interdisciplinary collaboration via its highly competitive Synergy Grant. Interdisciplinary teams of two to four scientists receive up to €14 million in funding for six years.

• Prof. Dr. Roland Beckmann (2025)
• Prof. Dr. Knut Müller-Caspary (2023)

* Contract signed with LMU as host institution, but ERC grantee has since left LMU.
** ERC grantee was not yet at LMU at the time of approval