The CNRS is hosting 16 ERC ‘Advanced’ 2025 grantees

The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the results of the "ERC Advanced grant 2025" call for established researchers. The CNRS is the host institution for 16 grants.

In 2026, the European Research Council (ERC) selected 319 researchers in Europe to be awarded “Advanced” grants, worth a total of 838 millions euros from the Horizon Europe framework program. These grants enable scientists who are recognized in their fields at the national and international levels to carry out innovative, high-risk projects that break new ground in their discipline or in other fields. Designed for established researchers, these grants are intended for scientists with more experience than those eligible for “Starting” ” grants (up to 1.5 million euros, for European principal investigators who earned their PhD 2 to 7 years prior) and “Consolidator” grants (up to 2 million euros, for those 7 to 12 years after earning their PhD). Lasting five years, each of these projects receives a maximum budget of 2.5 million euros.1

This year, a record number of 3,329 project proposals were submitted, and a total of 9.6% of the projects received funding. The new grantees will be affiliated with universities and research centers in 24 European countries that are members of the European Union and other associated countries, notably the United Kingdom (62 grants), Germany (46), Switzerland (32), Spain (29), and France (26).

Of the 26 awardees selected in France, 16 are hosted by the CNRS; 7 different research disciplines are represented among the awardees: 5 in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2 in Physics, 2 in Mathematics, 3 in Earth and Space Sciences, 1 in Biology, 1 in Engineering, and 1 in Ecology and the Environment.

Awardees whose host institution is the CNRS:

• Boris Adamczewski, Research Professor at the Camille Jourdan Institute (CNRS/École centrale de Lyon/INSA Lyon/Lyon 1 Université/Université Jean Monnet) for the METIS project « Mixing Equations for Transcendence and Independence, and PD Structures »
• Marcel Babin, Research Professor at the IRL TAKUVIK (CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Laval) for the TWIL-ICE project « Photosynthesis at the twilight edge of Life in ice-covered oceans »
• Emmanuelle Bayer, Research Professor at the Laboratoire de biogénèse membranaire for the ER-CONNECT project « ER-across the line: the function of the ER in plant intercellular communication »
• Livia Bove, Research Professor at the Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (CNRS/Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle/Sorbonne Université) for the HYDRA project « HYDRA – HYdrogen Dynamics at extreme pRessure: Advanced neutron spectroscopy »
• Mathieu Daëron, Research Professor at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (CNRS/CEA/Université Versailles Saint-Quentin) for the TONIC project « Triple Oxygen Fingerprinting of Ice Sheets »
• Serge Dauchy, Research Professor at the UMR-Centre d’histoire judiciaire (CNRS/Université Lille) for the FoLC project « Forging Legal Confluences: from Legal Transplant to Cultural Bridging »
• Tatiana Giraud, Research Professor at the UMR-Écologie Société Évolution (CNRS/AGROPARISTECH-Paris Saclay/Université Paris-Saclay) for the DEGENSEX project « Sex Chromosome Degeneration and its Effects on Fitness »
• Vincent Pilloni, Research Professor at the Laboratoire de mathématiques d’Orsay (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay) for the MOMO project « p-adic modular forms and modularity »
• Thiery Poibeau, Research Professor at the UMR-Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (CNRS/ENS-PSL/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) for the CANON project « Computational Analysis of Narratives and the Organization of Novels »
• Eric Potma, Research Professor at the Institut Fresnel (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/Centrale méditerranée) for the MetaCARS project « MetaCARS: observing and identiying individual molecules at ultrahigh speeds » 
• Julien Réthoré, Research Professor at the Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique (CNRS/École Centrale de Nantes/Nantes Université) for the MASSTICK project « Questioning the universal motion equation of cracks in dynamic fracture: inertia matters too »
• Nicolas Richard, Research Professor at the UAR-Amérique Latine (CNRS/Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères) for the Feral Engines project « An ethnography of the gasoline era in post-colonial landscapes »
• Benjamin Sacepe, Research Professor at the Institut NEEL (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes) for the SUPERHall project « Superconductivity Meets the quantum Hall effect »
• Nikolai Shapiro, Research Professor at the Institut des sciences de la Terre (CNRS/IRD/Université Grenoble Alpes/ Université Savoie Mont Blanc) for the DeepMagmaWaves project « Illuminating deep magma transport and storage with process-oriented volcano seismology »
• Alessandro Stanziani, Research Professor at the Centre de recherches historiques (CNRS/EHESS) for the Dataempire project « Empires of data, ca 1850-1914 »
• Olivier Tercieux, Research Professor at the UMR-Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques (CNRS/Ecole des ponts/EHESS/ENS-PSL/INRAE/Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) for the DYMAP project « Dynamic Matching: From Theory to Public Policy »

• 1For each grant, an additional amount may be provided under specific conditions.