European Research Council names 319 ERC Advanced Grant winners
I am thrilled that my dream project was funded by the #ERC @erc.europa.eu as a 5 year Advanced Grant! Final amount somewhere over €2M. I'll be advertising 2 postdocs (1 more empirical; one more theoretical), technician and research administrator in due time. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
The name alone would have got my vote!
There's a lot for staff/collaborators to get involved in. Measurements of croc locomotor tissue mechanical properties and geometry. 3D musculoskeletal modelling & simulation galore. 3D scans & morphometrics. Fieldwork in locomotor behaviour in wild crocs in Australia. Phylogenetic trait synthesis.
This project had its gestation in a failed 2012 ERC submission that was way too scatterbrained, then a later NERC-NSF grant that was too ambitious for its short time, so I learned from my experiences. Huge thanks to the committee and 8 peer reviewers that believed in the project enough to fund it!