ERC Starting Grant 2025 : PSL's winners
The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the list of European researchers who have been awarded Starting Grants 2025. PSL University is proud to count the winners among its scientific teams.
Supporting research projects on ambitious and risky topics, ERC Starting Grants are awarded for five years to selected scientists (two to seven years after obtaining their PhD) to build their research team around an original theme.
For the 2025 edition, 33 French projects have been selected. Among them:
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Meryem BAGHDADI for her project Mechanical regulation of the intestinal stem cell niche in development and disease, conducted within the ‘Cell Migration and Invasion’ team in the Cell Biology and Cancer Unit (Institut Curie / CNRS)
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Joëlle BARIDO-SOTTANI for her project Using morphological information to accurately date phylogenies and understand past diversification dynamics, conducted within IBENS (ENS-PSL / CNRS)
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Charles BERTUCCI for his project Partial Differential Equations on Sets of Measures, conducted within CEREMADE (Paris Dauphine University - PSL / CNRS)
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Alessandro BUCCHERI, for his project Polytheism and Botany: An Experimental Approach to the Environmental Dimensions of Ancient Greek Religion, conducted at the ANHIMA laboratory at EPHE - PSL.
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Valentin CREPEL, for his project Pathways towards non-Abelian physics in moiré materials, conducted at the Institut de Physique du Collège de France and affiliated with the Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS-PSL.
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Carolina GIORGETTI for her project Monitoring Earthquake Mechanics under Evolving Natural Tectonic Stress, conducted at the ENS Geosciences Laboratory (CNRS / ENS - PSL
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Pedro MECÊ, for his project Multi-modal Imaging for Retinal Analysis at Cellular Levels in Early Alzheimer’s Disease, conducted at the Langevin Institute (CNRS / ESPCI Paris - PSL)
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Lauren REYNOLDS, for her project Risk and resilience in adolescent decision-making, conducted at the Brain Plasticity Laboratory (ESPCI Paris - PSL / CNRS)
These projects highlight the variety and diversity of research in France. The fields covered range from fundamental sciences to the most practical applications.
We offer our sincere congratulations to the winners and wish them every success in pursuing their projects.