Over 100 ERC awards for UCL researchers

With the award of ¤1.9m to Professor Angelos Michaelides (London Centre for Nanotechnology), UCL's share of European Research Council (ERC) funding for 2008-2013 has breached the ¤156m barrier with over ¤33m awarded in 2013. UCL, along with Oxford, has been awarded nine consolidator grants, the highest number awarded to any UK university. Over 100 awards have been made between 2008-2013. UCL was awarded 16 Early Stage grants in 2013, which aim to support promising researchers to become research leaders. Professor Michaelides was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2008, making him the first ERC grant holder at UCL. He has recently been awarded a Consolidator Grant worth ¤1.9m for his work on the HeteroIce project at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Professor Michaelides said: "Getting an ERC grant is like winning the lottery.
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