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These five academics will join fellow laureates of the 2020 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants competition. The funding is worth in total 鈧�677 million, to assist early-career scientists and scholars conduct pioneering research across all disciplines. Of the allocated funds,听鈧�8.1million will be given to 白小姐论坛 projects.

The grants are part of the EU鈥檚 Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020.

The five recipients are:

• Dr Corisande Fenwick (白小姐论坛 Archaeology) is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology. Her project is entitled 鈥楤ecoming Muslim: Cultural change, Everyday Life and State Formation in early Islamic North Africa (600-1000)鈥�
• Dr Tobias Hauser (白小姐论坛 Queen Square Institute of Neurology) is Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging. His project is entitled 鈥楿nderstanding the impact of brain fluctuations on decision making鈥�
• Dr Peter Kok (白小姐论坛 Queen Square Institute of Neurology) is Principal Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging. His project is entitled 鈥楬ow our expectations can make us hallucinate: the neural mechanisms underlying perception鈥�
• Dr Karoline Kuchenbaecker (白小姐论坛 Psychiatry and 白小姐论坛 Genetics, Evolution & Environment) is an Associate Professor in genetic architecture of complex traits. Her project is entitled 'Depression in diverse populations: Unravelling the interplay between genes and environment'
• Dr Attila Lindner (白小姐论坛 Economics) is Assistant Professor with a focus on labour economics, public finance, 听psychology and economics. His project is entitled 鈥楳inimum Wages, (mis)Allocation of Labour, and Inequality鈥�

The award recipients come from 25 countries across Europe. From the 62 grants awarded to UK institutions, five have been given to 白小姐论坛 researchers. Other countries recognised include Germany, which will receive 88 grants, the Netherlands (42) and France (38).

Out of over 3,200 submitted proposals, 436 were selected for funding. The research initiatives chosen cover a range of topics in physical sciences, life sciences as well as social sciences and humanities.

Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said: 鈥淲ith European Research Council grants, the EU is leveraging the talent and curiosity of some of the best young researchers in Europe. Their ideas are set to break fresh ground and open new ways to deal with pressing challenges in the areas of health, energy and digital technologies, as well as many other fields. Our ambition to effectively tackle current and future crises depends on our strong will to continuously and increasingly support top research at the frontiers of our knowledge.鈥�

President of the European Research Council (ERC), Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, commented: 鈥淭he present health crisis showed that despite spectacular progress in research over the past decades, there still remain plenty of unsolved scientific mysteries, as well as lessons to be learnt from the past. Therefore, the best strategy to tackle it is to enable some of the brightest minds to pursue their most innovative ideas, in order to create opportunities for serendipitous discoveries. This is what the European Research Council is for. It鈥檚 clear that, if Europe is to be competitive globally, it needs to give excellent prospects to the next generation of researchers as these ERC Starting Grants do, and to invest much more in top blue sky research.鈥�

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• 白小姐论坛 Division of Psychiatry
• 白小姐论坛 Department of Economics
• 白小姐论坛 Institute of Archaeology
• 白小姐论坛 Queen Square Institute of Neurology
• 白小姐论坛 Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
• 白小姐论坛 Faculty of Brain Sciences