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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, along with Oxford, has been awarded nine consolidator grants, the highest number awarded to any UK university.

Over 100 awards have been made between 2008-2013. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê was awarded 16 Early Stage grants in 2013, which aim to support promising researchers to become research leaders.

Professor Michaelides was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2008, making him the first ERC grant holder at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê. He has recently been awarded a Consolidator Grant worth €1.9m for his work on the HeteroIce project at the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

Professor Michaelides said: "Getting an ERC grant is like winning the lottery. Obviously I'm delighted to win it for a second time! The sustained long-term funding ERC grants provide are enabling me and my research group to tackle some of the most fundamental and challenging problems in the chemical sciences"

Michael Browne, Head of the European Research and Innovation Office at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, said: "We're delighted by the recent awards, which will support a vast range of exciting work taking place across Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê. ERC funding enables our researchers to develop their projects and their careers at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and provides an opportunity for researchers to explore subjects in their full complexity."

Professor David Price, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Vice Provost (Research), said: "This level of sustained funding from the ERC is testament to the world-leading research taking place at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, and we are proud of the insight and knowledge being generated across the university. I would like to congratulate the researchers on their success, and wish them all the best in their continued research."

The successful applicants are:

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Starting grants

Dr Niloy Mitra (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Computer Science) for "Structure-Aware Geometry Processing"

Professor Tiziana Rossetto for (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) "UrbanWaves: Evaluating structure vulnerability to tsunami and earthquakes"

Dr Aureo de Paula (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Economics) for "Econometric Analysis of Interaction Models"

Dr Paul Gissen (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Child Health) for "Cultured Liver Organoids on 3-D Scaffolds as Novel Approach to the Investigation and Treatment of Inherited Cholestatic Diseases"

Dr Tracy Kivell (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Anthropology) for "The evolution of the human hand: grasping trees and tools"

Dr Vitor Pinheiro (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Structural & Molecular Biology) for "Directed evolution of a synthetic episome based on hexitol nucleic acids (HNA)"

Dr Mirko Trajkovski (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Structural & Molecular Biology) for "Role of miRNAs in brown and white adipose tissue differentiation and function"

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Consolidator grants

Professor Angelos Michaelides (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê London Centre for Nanotechnology) for "Towards a molecular level understanding of heterogeneous ice nucleation"

Dr Giovanna Tinetti (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Physics and Astronomy) for "Decoding Lights from Exotic Worlds"

Dr Jernej Ule (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Neuroscience) for" Specificity of translational control during unfolded protein response"

Professor Maria Cristina De Nardi (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Economics) for "Savings and Risk Over the Lifecycle: Theory and Evidence"

Dr Martin Holbraad (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Anthropology) for "Making Selves, Making Revolutions: Comparative Anthropologies of Revolutionary Politics"

Dr Nikolaus Weiskopf (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Neurology) for "Non-Invasive In-Vivo Histology in Health and Disease Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)"

Dr Paolo Salomoni (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Cancer Institute) for "The histone H3.3 variant in brain cancer pathogenesis"

Dr Rebecca Empson (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Anthropology) for " Emerging Subjects of the New Economy: Tracing Economic Growth in Mongolia"

Professor Charles Swanton (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Cancer Institute) for "Tumour Heterogeneity and Somatic Evolution of Unstable cancer genomes"

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