27/09/2026
The European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. 15 projects are related to magnetism.
The projects of interest for the magnetism community are listed below. You may also download the entire list of principal investigators from the Physical Sciences and Engineering domain, as well as read the ERC press release.
BAIER Simon
University of Innsbruck [AT]
SpinCaT: Spin-Levitodynamics for Explorations at the Quantum-to-Classical Transition
CAIAZZO Ilaria
Institute of Science and Technology Austria [AT]
MERGERS: Merging White Dwarfs as Laboratories for Magnetism and Binary Evolution
SHETYE Shreeya
Free University of Brussels (ULB) [BE]
MERLIN: Magnetism, Evolution, and Rotation in Late-stage stellar Nucleosynthesis
SALA Giacomo
Paul Scherrer Institute [CH]
Q-GEOMSPIN: Quantum Geometrical Spintronics
DIRNBERGER Florian
Technical University of Munich [DE]
WAVES: Making waves with excitons and magnons
SCHLITZ Richard
University of Constance [DE]
MERLIN: Magnons and Antimagnons: Engineering Dissipation to Explore the Limits of Nonequilibrium Magnetism
TESI Lorenzo
University of Stuttgart [DE]
PLASMOLE-QIT: Plasmonic Enhanced Optical Control of Molecular Spin Qubits
GRADAUSKAITE Elzbieta
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) [FR]
MULTIPLEX: Realization of multiferroic metals in perovskite-based layered oxides
LAMMERS Pieter
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) [FR]
GeStruct: Geometric Structure of Lattice Spin O(N) models
NILFOROUSHAN Niloufar
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) [FR]
REPHASE: Resonant control of Emergent PHASEs in van der Waals materials
SCEPI Nicolas
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) [FR]
STORM: Simulating Transient and clumpy Outflows in Radiative and Magnetized disk around black holes
D'ELIA Alessandro
National Institute of Nuclear Physics [IT]
QUASAR: Enabling Quantum Search for Axion with Magnetic field-Resistant qubits
GUERCI Daniele
University of Pisa [IT]
STORM: Superconductivity in Time-reversal broken ORbital Magnetic matter
ILIN Ekaterina
Radboud University Nijmegen [NL]
PLANETARE: Stormy adolescence: detecting young planets through magnetic star-planet interaction
WANG Shuqiu
University of Bristol [UK]
DualSpin: Dual-Space Detection of Altermagnetism: A Pathway to Topological Superconductivity