ERC "Consolidator Grant" 2021: 5 projects of excellence in Aix-Marseille

This funding from the European Research Council (ERC) aims to support experienced and promising researchers, helping them to consolidate their teams and carry out pioneering research on selected topics. 313 grants were awarded across 24 countries, including 5 grants for projects carried out in laboratories co-supervised by Aix-Marseille Université. Congratulations to the researchers on their success!

Discover the winners

• Raphaël Beuzart-Plessis, CNRS Research Director at the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille (I2M, AMU/CNRS) for his project entitled RELANTRA, Relative Langlands Functoriality, Trace Formulas and Harmonic Analysis.
• Sophie Bonnet, IRD Research Director at the Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie (MIO, AMU/CNRS/Université de Toulon/IRD) for her project entitled HOPE, How do diazotrophs shape the ocean biological carbon pump? A global approach, from the single cell to the ecosystem.
• Elodie Choquet, teacher-researcher at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM, AMU/CNRS) for her project entitled ESCAPE, Exoplanetary Systems with a Coronagraphic Archive Processing Engine.
• Alexis Licht, CNRS research fellow at the Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement en Géosciences de l'Environnement, (CEREGE, AMU/CNRS/IRD/INRAE/Collège de France) for his project entitled DISPERSAL, A climatic or tectonic control on early primate dispersal? A new approach to investigate species dispersal in deep time.
• Benjamin Morillon, Inserm research fellow at the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS, AMU/Inserm) for his project entitled SPEEDY, Defining an integrated model of the neural processing of speech in light of its multiscale dynamics.