The successful researchers from TU Graz (from left): Stefan Mangard and Gernot Müller-Putz are pleased with their ERC Consolidator Grants.
Gernot Müller-Putz and Stefan Mangard - even months after the announcement, you can still tell the joy from their faces. Both from TU Graz, they each have won an ERC Consolidator Grant. Gernot Müller-Putz, from the Institute of Neurotechnology, and Stefan Mangard, from the Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications, have one and a half years of preparation behind them leading up to their submissions to the European Research Council. The selection procedure is very extensive: first, a jury assesses a 5-page concept outlining the 5-year project. Only once this first obstacle has been overcome does the 15-page application, which is submitted together with the concept, get read. If these 15 pages are also assessed positively, the project is then presented in Brussels in the course of just a few minutes, but with an approximately 20-minute questions and answers session. "During those few minutes, every word is exactly placed, with no improvisation whatsoever", says Gernot Müller-Putz, "just like Marcel Hirscher in the slalom." But the effort pays off, as Stefan Mangard explains.
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