Chairs and grants 2024
Competitive funding can help us to ask ambitious questions. Find out more about our faculty members who have won important awards from leading European funding bodies. These awards give our faculty members the money and recognition to make big advances in their field.
European Research Council (ERC) grants
The ERC, one of the most prestigious grants set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding body for frontier research. It provides funding for creative researchers of any nationality and age to run projects based across Europe with the aim of encouraging the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and supporting investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, based on scientific excellence. The ERC offers five main grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants, Synergy Grants and Proof of Concept Grants. Since 2014, the University of Luxembourg has been awarded 20 ERC grants, including five under Horizon Europe.
Prof Daniele BRIDA
Head of DPHYMS, Full professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
FNR PEARL Chairs
With the PEARL programme, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (Fonds National de la Recherche – FNR) offers Luxembourg research institutions attractive funding packages so that they can draw established and internationally recognised researchers to Luxembourg.
Prof Gilbert FRIDGEN
Full professor in Digital Financial Services / Paypal-FNR PEARL Chair
FNR ATTRACT Fellows
The FNR ATTRACT programme is designed for researchers not yet established in Luxembourg, who have the potential to become leaders in their field of research. The scheme offers promising junior researchers the opportunity to set up their own research team within one of the country’s research institutions
Prof Emma SCHYMANSKI
Deputy Director of LCSB, Full professor in Environmental Cheminformatics
Assoc. Prof Aurélia CHENU
Associate professor in Theoretical physics, with a focus on quantum systems