ERC Funding

During 2015, ICIQ received 2,084,000 euros from ERC Grants, which represents around 14 % of the overall funding.

In 2015, four ICIQ researchers have been awarded with grants funded by the European Research Council.

  • Julio Lloret-Fillol got an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop the project ‘Towards a Greener Reduction Chemistry by Using Cobalt Coordination Complexes as Catalysts and Light-driven Water Reduction as a Source of Reductive Equivalents’ (GREENLIGHT_REDCAT). This project aims to merge the concepts at the edge of the fields of solar fuels production and catalytic transformation facilitated by coordination complexes to perform light-driven catalytic transformations of organic substrates. The project may open a newer and greener avenue towards the application of artificial photosynthetic schemes in fine catalytic transformations of organic molecules.

Worth up to € 2.75 million per grant for up to 5 years, ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support researchers at the stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team or programme.

  • Emilio Palomares received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the project ‘Ratiometric FRET Based Nanosensors for Trypsin Related Human Recessive Diseases’ (2-NanoSi). The project aims to develop a demo system for cost effective, non-invasive device for rapid detection of cystic fibrosis in humans.
  • José Ramón Galán-Mascarós was awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the project ‘A Solar-Powered Hydrolyzer’ (HYDRER), that focuses on the determination of the technical and economic viability of a novel water electrolyzer technology based on inexpensive Prussian blue type catalysts.
  • Núria López received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the project ‘Big Data for Catalysis’ (BigData4Cat). This project aims to develop the ioChem-BDplatform. A multi-headed tool aimed to parse, organise, publish and analyse results of computational chemistry research projects.

Worth up to €150.000 per grant, ‘Proof of Concept’ funding helps ERC grant holders to bridge the gap between their existing frontier research and its commercial applications.