Maksym Kovalenko receives an ERC Consolidator Grant 2018. Image: Empa
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Maksym Kovalenko an ERC Consolidator Grant 2018. His application convinced the jury to give him the opportunity to tackle an ambitious new research topic in the field of highly luminescent, molecular solid-state based compounds, together with his team at Empa and ETH Zurich. Maksym Kovalenko is one of 291 researchers to receive this year's Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), selected out of 2389 submitted proposals. In particular, his grant is amongst only 13 funded projects in the category Synthetic Chemistry and Materials. "It is a great honor to receive an ERC grant, especially a second in a row," says Kovalenko, meaning also his ERC starting Grant 2012. "I feel that this is both the recognition of the recent accomplishments of our team and the strategic support of our vision and research field by the ERC." The grant is intended to fund the new SCALE-HALO project, which aims to advance the development of highly luminescent, molecular solid-state based compounds. Metal halides - compounds comprising a metal bonded to a halogen - are a central focus of the project; they will be engineered as versatile photonic sources in devices such as displays and lighting as well as in future quantum technology applications.
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