2020 ERC Advanced Grants: two awardees in Lyon

The European Research Council (ERC) has just communicated the list of awardees for the "Advanced" grants. Each laureate has a budget of up to 2.5 million euros for their research project. France ranks third with 22 awarded projects behind Germany (40) and the UK (51). Two Lyonnais projects are among the 209 schemes that have been financed. They have been awarded to high-level researchers in physics and plant biology. MUSIX PROJECT . Multiscale mechanical signaling in plants With Olivier Hamant, INRAE Research director at the Laboratory of Reproduction and Development of Plants (RDP, ENS de Lyon / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / INRAE / Inria / CNRS).