Four researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants

Four researchers at Stockholm University have been awarded the ERC Starting Grant 2024.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced which researchers will be awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for 2024 in fierce competition. A total of 22 researchers with Swedish host institutions have been awarded the ERC Starting Grant this year. Four researchers with Stockholm University as host institution have been awarded the ERC Starting this year.

ERC Starting Grants to Stockholm University

Cassandra Engeman (Institute for Social Research). Title: "Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave"; indicative budget: EUR 1 494 433 over five years.
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Ferenc Szucs (Department of Economics). Title: "The Economics and Politics of Alternative Realities"; indicative budget: EUR 1 297 878 over five years.

Per Engzell (Institute for Social Research). Title: "Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity"; indicative budget: EUR 1 499 394 over five years. Per Engzell will move the grant to UCL in London before the start.

Mariana Braga (Department of Zoology). Title: "Causes and consequences of higher host specialisation in the tropics – the role of ecological and evolutionary processes, and of data bias"; indicative budget: EUR 1 500 000 over five years. Mariana Braga will move the grant to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences before starting.

Starting Grant transferred to Stockholm University

In this round of applications, atmospheric researcher Casey Wall at the University of Oslo was also awarded an ERC Starting Grant. He has decided to transfer this grant to Stockholm University, where he on 1 November 2024 will begin employment as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Meteorology. Read more