Young Researchers Win 4.5 Million Euros in Funding

Teodora Boneva Three scholars from the University of Zurich will receive support from the European Union's valuable ERC Starting Grants. The three young researchers will thus have the funds to carry out their ground-breaking projects on motherhood and the labor market, on visualization of neurotransmitter dynamics in the brain, and on the role of religious art in the early modern age of globalization. The European Research Council has this year awarded three of its highly competitive ERC Starting Grants to researchers at the University of Zurich: Three up-and-coming academics (two women, one man), who between them already have several years of research experience, will receive support of around 1.5 million euros each spread over five years. They can use the funds to establish their own research groups - an important step in their academic careers. The three researchers and their projects have demonstrated great potential. Determinants of fertility and labor supply decisions - Assistant professor of economics Teodora Boneva studies child development and parenting. In her research program she will shed light on the role of beliefs, preferences, constraints and social norms in women's decisions about having children and returning to work after the birth of a child.