Clockwise from top left: Dr Chunyu Ann Duan; Dr Paola Pinilla; Dr Suphanit Piyapromdee; Dr Dan Honig; Dr Philip Coen; Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes.
Clockwise from top left: Dr Chunyu Ann Duan; Dr Paola Pinilla; Dr Suphanit Piyapromdee; Dr Dan Honig; Dr Philip Coen; Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes. Seven UCL researchers have received prestigious EU funding for the next five years, investigating subjects ranging from how our brains develop to how planets form and the social context of decision making. The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants aim to help excellent younger scientists to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their most promising ideas. The recipients, who have received approximately 1.5 million euros (£1.3 million) each, are: Dr Philip (Pip) Coen (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology). His project will use recent advances in optogenetic and electrophysiology tools to investigate how the brain combines auditory and visual signals in mice. In particular, how neural circuits use correlations in these signals, both in space and time, to more accurately interpret the external environment-or create confounding illusions like the ventriloquist effect. Dr Chunyu Ann Duan (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL).
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