ERC Consolidator Grants
I finanziamenti ERC Consolidator Grants sono progettati per supportare i ricercatori esperti che desiderano creare un nuovo team di ricerca o consolidare i loro team e rafforzare la loro carriera scientifica in Europa.
HORIZON EUROPE (HE)
Debunking Eurocentric Literary History: Poetry Across Borders in Medieval Sicily
A Continent Disarmed? Gun Culture, Gun Control and the Making of Western Europe (ca. 1870-1970)
HORIZON 2020
Dynamical river NETworks: climatic controls and biogeochemical function (2018- 2023)
Theoretical chemistry Approach to tiME-resolved molecular Plasmonics (2016-2021)
Tuned to the Rhythm: How Prenatally and Postnatally Heard Speech Prosody Lays the Foundations for Language Learning
Migrating Commercial Law and Language. Rethinking Lex Mercatoria-11th-17th Century (2021-2026)
Demography of black hole binaries in the era of gravitational wave astronomy (2021-2026)
A seamless multi-scale model for contact, friction, and solid lubrication (2016- 2021)
GEOarchaeology of DAily Practices: extracting Bronze Age lifeways from the domestic stratigraphic record (2021-2026)
Redox Signaling and Metabolic States in Angiogenesis in Health and Disease (2016- 2021)
FP7 - Seventh Framework Programme
ERC Grantee: Alessandra Biffi
Department: Women’s and Children’s Health
Total Contribution: Euro 1.751.147,00
Project Duration in months: 72
Start Date: 01/06/2014
End Date: 30/11/2020
Alessandra Biffi is the Chief of the Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant Division at Padua University and at the Padua University Hospital since October 2018, and coordinates the Research Area on Onco-Hematology, Stem Cell Transplant and Gene Therapy at the Pediatric Research Institute in Padua. Previously, she was the Director of the Gene therapy Program and clinical attending in Stem Cell Transplant at the at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer in Boston (2015-2018), and Head of unit at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milano. Her preclinical and clinical research, and clinical activity are dedicated at developing innovative treatment modalities for monogenic disorders based on hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation and gene therapy. Her research is devoted at enhancing the efficacy of HSC-based therapeutic approaches for neurometabolic disorders with severe nervous system involvement by fostering brain microglia replacement by donor cells after HSC transplantation upon detailed understanding of this phenomenon, and enhancing the potential of protein delivery to the affected nervous system by means of the gene corrected progeny of the transplanted and engineered HSCs. She received a Consolidator ERC grant award on this research and she is now conducting exploratory novel work on the therapeutic role of engineered microglia in adult onset neurodegenerative conditions.
ERC Grantee: Giulio Di Toro
Department: Geosciences
Total Contribution: Euro 1.963.800,00
Project Duration in months: 66
Start Date: 01/07/2014
End Date: 01/01/2020
Giulio Di Toro is Full Professor of Structural Geology at the Department of Geosciences and Associate Researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics e Volcanology (INGV, Rome), and Full Professor at the University of Manchester (UK). He completed his Master degree in Geology (1999) and his PhD in Earth Sciences (2003) at the University of Padova. He was then postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padova (2003-2005), visiting researcher at Kyoto University (in 2005 and in 2006), research consultant at INGV in Rome, associated researcher for the National Research Centre (CNR; 2006-2009), and obtained a permanent position at the University of Padua in 2006. Before studying geology, he played volleyball in professional teams and with Italian junior and senior national team (1987-1995).
His research activity focuses on the study of earthquake mechanics and has been performed in continuous collaboration with colleagues and young students and researchers with different background (geologists, rock experimentalists, engineers, physicists and seismologists). His research activities were supported by several national grants (e.g., the Italian Ministry of Education and Research, INGV, and Cariparo Foundation), as well as European and international grants, including a National Science Foundation project (USA: 2006-2008) and especially by two ERC grants: one Starting grant for the project USEMS: Uncovering the Secrets of an Earthquake: Multidisciplinary Study of Physico-Chemical Processes During the Seismic Cycle (2008-2013) and one Consolidator grant for the project NOFEAR: New Outlook on seismic faults: From EARthquake nucleation to arrest (2014-2019).
He published 84 papers in peer-reviewed journals (total citations 3473, h-index 32 according to Google Scholar) and he has been awarded several international prizes, including the Arne Richter Medal for Outstanding Young Scientists by the European Geosciences Union (2008), the Award for Tectonophysics Most Cited Article 2005 to 2010 by Elsevier (2010), and the International Award Prof. Luigi Tartufari for Geology by the Accademia dei Lincei (2010). He is member of the Academia Europeae (from 2013) and of the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padova (from 2014) for scientific merits.
ERC Grantee: Paola Marigo
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Total Contribution: Euro 1.930.628,00
Project Duration in months: 72
Start Date: 01/05/2014
End Date: 01/05/2020
Paola Marigo is Full Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
She obtained her Master degree (1994) and her PhDs (2005) in Astronomy at the University of Padova. In 1998 she worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Munich (Germany), and from 1999 to 2004 as postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Padova, where she became Professor in 2005.
Her research interests include stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, Asymptotic Giant Branch stars, planetary nebulae, primordial stars, stellar populations in galaxies, and equation of state of the gas (molecular formation and opacity). Her activity has been funded by several national grants, including the Italian Space Agency programme, and by an ERC Consolidator grant (2014-2019) on Thermally Pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch (TP-AGB) stellar evolutionary phase. She also participated in several approved observing proposals. She published more than 100 high impact papers, of which 10 have more than 100 citations each and 2 have more than 500 citations, and her paper (Marigo et al., 2008, A&A, 482, 883) has been selected as New Hot Paper of July 2009 by the ESI (Essential Science Indicators) agency of the Thomson Reuters.
ERC Grantee: Sara Richter
Department: Molecular Medicine
Total Contribution: Euro 1.989.471,00
Project Duration in months: 72
Start Date: 01/05/2014
End Date: 01/05/2020
Sara Richter is Full Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the Department of Molecular Medicine.
She obtained her Master degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (1997) and her PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences (2001) and in Virology (2005) at the University of Padova. She was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA (1999-2001) and at the University of Padova (2001-2004). Since 2006 she is Professor at the University of Padova and works as first level manager at the Microbiology and Virology Unit of the Padua Hospital.
Her research interests focus on nucleic acid secondary structures (i.e. G-quadruplex), on antiviral and anti-HIV-1 compounds, and on the development of antitumor drugs. Her research on anticancer therapy was funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research on a project approved as an ERC Starting grant (2007), while her research on HIV-1 was funded by two Bill & Melinda Gates Grand Challenges Explorations grants (2011, 2013) and by an ERC Consolidator grant (2014-2019). She also won the Young Investigator Award (2000) at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA and the Best Poster Award (2006) by The Italian Society of Virology.