The European Research Council (ERC)

at the Annual meeting of the World Economic Forum

20 - 23 January 2016, Davos, Switzerland

Biographies

The ERC President & 13 ERC Grantees (2 Nobel laureates) in 16 Davos sessions

ERC Press contact: Madeleine Drielsma; madeleine.drielsma@ec.europa.eu (mobile: +32 498 98 43 97)

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Speaker at ERC press conference Friday 22 Jan. 12.30-13.00

Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

President of the European Research Council

Davos Sessions:

The future of computing: European Research Council IdeasLab session Thursday, 21.Jan: 14.45-16.00 Congress Centre, Flüela IdeasLab Friday, 22 Jan: 16.30-17.45 The Loft The Privatisation of Science: Problem or Progess? Friday, 22.Jan: 14:45 - 15:45 Congress Centre - Sertig

Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon was the Director of the Institut des Hautes Études

Scientifiques (IHÉS) from 1994 till 2013. This international research institute located near

Paris, France, was built as the European counterpart of the Institute for Advanced Study

in Princeton. He was also the first ERC Panel Chair in Mathematics, for Starting Grants.

A mathematician by training, he spent his whole career as a fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He held a Professor position at École polytechnique from 1986 to 2012. From 1990 to 1992, he was President of the Société Mathématique de France and President of the European Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1998. He is a former member of the Board of the EuroScience organisation (2002-2006) and served on EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) committees since 2004. Professor Bourguignon received the Prix Paul Langevin in 1987 and the Prix du Rayonnement Français in Mathematical Sciences and Physics from the Académie des Sciences de Paris in 1997. He is a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was elected honorary member of the London Mathematical Society and has been the secretary of the mathematics section of the Academia Europaea. In 2008, he was made Doctor Honoris Causa of Keio University, Japan, and, in 2011, Doctor Honoris Causa of Nankai University, China.

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ERC grantee at press conference Friday 22 Jan. 12.30-13.00

Prof. Hélène Rey

Until 2007, Hélène Rey was at Princeton University, as Professor of Economics and

International Affairs in the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School. Her

research focuses on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial

imbalances, the theory of financial crises and the organization of the international monetary

system. She demonstrated in particular that countries gross external asset positions help predict

current account adjustments and the exchange rate. She has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan

Research Fellowship and received the 2006 Bernácer Prize (best European economist working

in macroeconomics and finance under the age of 40). In 2012 she received the inaugural Birgit

Grodal Award of the European Economic Association honouring a European-based female

economist who has made a significant contribution to the Economics profession. In 2013, she

received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (European economist under 45 years old who has made a

contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to economics in Europe),

shared with Thomas Piketty and in 2014, she received the Inaugural Carl Menger Preis.

Professor Rey is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Econometric Society and of the

European Economic Association. She is on the board of the Review of Economic Studies and

associate editor of the AEJ: Macroeconomics Journal. She is a CEPR Research Fellow and an

NBER Research Associate. She is a member of the Haut Conseil de Stabilité Financière

(French Macro Prudential Authority), of the Commission Economique de la Nation and of the

Bellagio Group on the international economy. She was a member of the Conseil d’Analyse

Economique until 2012, on the Board of the Board of the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de

Résolution (2010-2014). She writes a regular column for the French newspaper Les Echos.

Hélène Rey received her undergraduate degree from ENSAE, a Master in Engineering

Economic Systems from Stanford University and her PhDs from the London School of

Economics and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She received an ERC

Starting Grant in 2007.

Professor of Economics, London Business School (UK), ERC Starting Grant holder Prof. Rey’s research has focused on the functioning of the International Monetary System, capital flows and the behaviour of the financial sector. In particular, she has analysed the international transmission of US monetary policy via asset markets around the world and the degree of monetary independence enjoyed by emerging markets as well as advanced economies. The research, which has potential implications for the conduct of monetary and macroprudential policies, has raised interest from academics, central banks and policy-makers. Recently named “the economist to watch in 2016” by the Economist.

Returned to Europe from the US with her ERC Grant.

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Other ERC Grantees at Davos 2016

José Baselga, M.D. Ph.D

Dr Baselga has received a number of awards including a Young Investigator Award (1992) and a Career Development Award (1994) from ASCO, Elected Member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (2004), AACR-Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2008), and King James I Award (2008). In October 2014, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and is the founding editor of Cancer Discovery. Dr Baselga received his MD degree from the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona in 1982. From 1996 to 2010, he was the Chairman of the Medical Oncology Service and Founding Director of the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona. From 2010 to 2012, he was the chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and associate director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.

Prof. Flemming Besenbacher

Professor, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Denmark. Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Carlsberg; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Carlsberg Foundation. Elected Member, Royal Danish Academy. Has published over 570 articles in international journals, including Nature and Science. Holder of several patents. Honorary Professor at 11 Chinese universities. Recipient of several distinguished international awards; received title of Knight 1st Class of the Order of Dannebrog from the Queen of Denmark.

Physician-in-Chief and Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (USA), Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (ES), ERC Advanced Grant holder Prof. Baselga’s research on breast cancer aims to circumvent the mechanisms that limit the effectiveness of some targeted therapies. His ERC project (2011-2014) focused on anti-HER2 therapies and allowed him to strengthen his multidisciplinary team at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (Spain). The team now concentrates on addressing questions that arise in the course of the clinical development of targeted therapies against breast cancer.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Carlsberg A/S, Aarhus University (DK), ERC Advanced Grant holder Prof. Flemming Besenbacher is the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at Aarhus University, Denmark. His current research focuses on the development of microscopy techniques to observe material surfaces at the nano-level, chemical reactions and biomolecular processes. With his ERC Grant (2008-2013), he has developed a high-speed and miniaturised “scanning tunnelling microscope”, which is currently commercialised. Prof. Besenbacher is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Carlsberg A/S since 2012.

Dr Julie Grollier

Her Ph.D. (2001-2003), under the supervision of Albert Fert, was dedicated to the study of a new phenomenon in Spintronics: the spin torque. After two years of post-doc, first in Groningen University (Netherlands, group of B.J. van Wees), then in Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale (France, group of C. Chappert), she joined CNRS in 2005. Her current research interests include Spintronics (dynamics of nanomagnets under the spin torque effect), and new devices for cognitive computation (in particular memristors).

Prof Grollier has over 75 publications, and is a frequent invited speaker in international conferences. She is a Fellow of the American Physics Society. In 2010, she was awarded the Jacques Herbrand prize of the French Academy of Science, for her pioneering work on spin torque. The same year, she received a prestigious European Research Council Grant for her “NanoBrain” project on Memristive Artificial Synapses and their integration in Neural Networks.

She is now leading the nanodevices for bio-inspired computing team that she initiated in 2009. She is also chair of the interdisciplinary research network GDR BioComp, coordinating French national efforts to progress towards the hardware realization of bio-inspired systems.

Prof. Michael Häusser

Research director in the CNRS/Thales lab in France, ERC Starting Grant holder Dr Grollier’s develops smart nano-devices for IT neural computing systems. With her ERC Grant, she created fast and efficient “memristor” devices that mimic brain synapses at the nano-scale and could become powerful accelerators for the next generation of processors. Her artificial neural hardware architectures moreover have a significant potential for performing fast patern recognition budget.

Welcome Trust Principal Research, Fellow and Professor of Neuroscience, University College London (UCL), UK, ERC Advanced Grant holder What is the fundamental unit of computation in the brain? Prof. Häusser’s research aims to better understand the cellular basis of information processing in our nervous system. His group has helped pioneer optical approaches for probing single neuron computation in the intact brain. With his ERC Grant, he focuses on how dendrites, the receiving elements of neurons, act as computing devices. His aim is to reveal how the cellular and molecular machinery of the nervous system helps the brain to solve computational problems, and what changes take place within these elements during learning.

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Prof. Häusser trained at the University of Oxford, the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He established his own laboratory at UCL in 1997. Prof. Häusser is interested in understanding the cellular basis of neural computation, focusing how single neurons contribute to solving computational tasks relevant to behaviour. He has a longstanding interest in how dendrites, the receiving elements of the neuron, help define the information processing capabilities of single neurons, using a combination of experiments and theory. His group has also helped to pioneer new optical and electrophysiological approaches for probing individual neural circuit elements in the intact brain in order to link their function with behaviour.

Prof. Sir Konstantin Novoselov

1997, MSc, Moscow Physical-Technical University; 2004, PhD, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 1997-99, Researcher, Institute for Microelectronics Technology, Chernogolovka; 1999-2001, Researcher, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. With University of Manchester, UK: 2001-05, Researcher; 2005-06, Leverhulme Research Fellow; since 2007, Royal Society Research Fellow; since 2010, Professor of Physics. Research field in mesoscopic systems and nanostructures. He has published over 90 peer-refereed research papers and has been a speaker at over 100 conferences during the last 5 years. Recipient of awards and honours.

Nobel Laureate in Physics (2010), Research Fellow, University of Manchester, ERC Starting and Synergy Grant holder Prof. Konstantin Novoselov, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for ground-breaking experiments on the two-dimensional super material graphene. Prior to that, in 2007, he received an ERC Grant to study the properties of the same material. One of the world leaders in graphene research, Prof. Novoselov is now leading the Hetero2D Synergy project, funded by the ERC. By combining one-atom thick materials such as graphene, the team aims to develop a new class of materials which could offer a wide range of industrial applications and devices, such as photodetectors, solar cells, transistors and other optical, photonic and electronic components.

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Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computing, Imperial College, London (UK), ERC Starting Grant holder Prof. Pantic is working on the machine-analysis of human non-verbal behaviours, such as stress and on its applications to human-machine interactions. With her ERC Grant (2008-2013), she has been able to develop a computer vision technique to detect human facial expressions as they occur in real-world settings. She then moved on to observe human facial behaviours in more difficult and uncontrolled environments, for example inside people’s cars. She foresees applications in healthcare such as measuring pain and distress through a computer analysis of patients’ faces.

Prof. Jeremy O'Brien

Jeremy O'Brien received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of New South Wales in 2002 for experimental work on correlated and confined electrons in organic conductors, superconductors and semiconductor nanostructures, as well as progress towards the fabrication of a phosphorus in silicon quantum computer. As a research fellow at the University of Queensland (2001-2006), he worked on quantum optics and quantum information science with single photons. CQP's efforts are focused on the fundamental and applied quantum mechanics at the heart of quantum information science and technology, ranging from prototypes for scalable quantum computing and communication to generalised quantum measurements, quantum control, and quantum metrology. Currently he is the CEO of PsiCorp Quantum Computing and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford and Bristol, where he is the Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics. Prof. O'Brien was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2009) that established the field of integrated quantum photonics. He was awarded an ERC Proof of Concept (2011) project that developed quantum secure mobile communication systems. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2014).

Prof. Maja Pantic

Maja Pantic is a Professor of Affective and Behavioral Computing and leader of the i·BUG group, working on machine analysis of human non-verbal behaviour and its applications to human-computer, human-robot, and computer-mediated human-human interaction. Prof. Pantic published more than 200 technical papers in the areas of machine analysis of facial

Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP), University of Bristol, ERC Consolidator Grant holder Prof. O’Brien is focussed on bringing quantum computing into reality and the market to transform artificial intelligence, healthcare, energy, finance, cyber security and the internet. He heads the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics that his ERC Starting Grant helped establish. With an ERC Consolidator Grant starting this year, he is pursuing a photonic approach to manufacture a universal quantum computer in a silicon fabrication facility, exploiting silicon photonics developed for optical interconnects in the semiconductor industry

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expressions, machine analysis of human body gestures, audiovisual analysis of emotions and social signals, and human-centered machine interfaces. She has more than 14,500 citations to her work, and has served as the Key Note Speaker, Chair and Co-Chair, and an organization/ program committee member at numerous conferences in her areas of expertise.

Prof. Sir Christopher Pissarides

Sir Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, a Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus and the Helmut & Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was educated at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics (LSE), and he spent the bulk of his career at the LSE. He had long visits in the US Universities of Harvard, Princeton and California at Berkeley. Sir Christopher specialises in the economics of labour markets, macroeconomic policy, economic growth and structural change. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University and Peter Diamond of MIT, for his work in the economics of markets with frictions. Prior to that, in 2005, he became the first European economist to win the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, sharing it again with his collaborator Dale Mortensen. He has written extensively in professional journals, magazines and the press and his book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory is an influential reference in the economics of unemployment that has been translated in many languages. He is frequently quoted in the press on issues concerning the Eurozone and the future of European integration. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Athens, the Academia Europaea and several other learned societies, and he is a Lifetime Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. In 2011 he served as the President of the European Economic Association. In 2011 he received the Grand Cross of the Republic of Cyprus, the highest honour of the Republic. He was knighted in 2013.

Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2010), Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Cyprus, ERC Advanced Grant holder Prof. Christopher Pissarides specialises in the macroeconomy of labour markets, economic growth and structural change. In 2012, he received an ERC Grant to support his research on European employment to better understand not only how Europe can return to productive levels of employment, but also why it is currently failing to do so.

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University Lecturer, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge(UK), ERC Starting Grant holder Prof. Sebastian is working toward the next generation of superconductor materials so efficient as to not lose any energy. This would allow the reduction of private and industrial energy consumption. With her ERC Grant, she looks at copper oxide-based materials in particular. In June 2013, Dr Sebastian was awarded a L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science fellowship.

Prof. Ehud Shapiro

1979, BA and BSc in Mathematics and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University; 1982, PhD in Computer Science, Yale University. Doctoral studies attempted to provide an algorithmic interpretation to the noted philosopher of science Karl Popper's approach to scientific discovery. 1982, joined the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. 1993, Founder and CEO, Ubique, an Israeli Internet software pioneer, sold to America Online and to IBM. 1998, returned to the Weizmann Institute; currently, Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Biological Chemistry, and incumbent, Harry Weinrebe Chair of Computer Science and Biology; currently leading research projects at the interface of computer science and molecular biology; designed a tiny computer made entirely of biological molecules which was successfully programmed – in a test tube – to identify molecular changes in the body that indicate the presence of certain cancers; developing single-cell genomics method to reconstruct the human cell lineage tree. Founder and member of the Ba Rock band that performs Baroque operas in a contemporary context and staging. Member, 2004 "Scientific American 50" as Research Leader in Nanotechnology. Recipient, 2004 World Technology Network Award in Biotechnology. Recipient of two ERC Advanced Grants.

Dr Suchitra Sebastian

Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, winner of two ERC Advanced Grants Ehud Shapiro is an interdisciplinary scientist, entrepreneur and artist. As a scientist he made foundational contributions to machine learning, software development, programming languages, molecular computers, molecular programming, and single-cell genomics. In 1993 he founded perhaps the first Internet social-network software startup. His first ERC project, which ended in 2013, combined computer science and molecular biology to design a ‘Doctor in a cell’, a programmable biological computer that in the future may navigate within the human body, diagnosing diseases and administering treatments. In his current ERC project, he develops single-cell genomics methods to reconstruct the human cell lineage tree.

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Suchitra Sebastian's research interests include quantum materials, specifically superconductors - which have the exciting property of transporting electricity with no energy loss - and hence hold great promise for energy saving applications. She holds an MS and PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad). Suchitra was named as one of thirty 'Exceptional Young Scientists' by the World Economic Forum in 2013 and one of the top ten 'Next big names in Physics' by the Financial Times. She received the L'Oreal-UNESCO fellowship for women in science in 2013, among numerous other awards including the Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize (2007); Young Scientist Medal in Magnetism (2012); Moseley Medal (2012); Philip Leverhulme Prize (2015); and Brian Pippard Prize (2015). Her research is supported by a prestigious five-year European Research Council starting Grant she was awarded in 2013. She is particularly interested in communicating science to a broad audience, having spoken at numerous large outreach events including the Google Solve for <X> summit, the Falling Walls International Conference, and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China.

Prof. Natalie Stingelin

Natalie Stingelin is a Full Professor at Imperial College London, held a part-time Senior researcher position (20%) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Techology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland (2003-2013) and was an External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2010 - 2013). Prior to these appointments she conducted research at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, and as junior staff at Queen Mary University of London. She obtained the degree of Engineer in Materials Science in 1997 from the Eidgenönissische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, and her PhD in 2001, for which she was awarded the ETH Medal. She has published more than 130 papers and 6 issued patents.

Prof. Stingelin is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, received a €1.2 Million ERC Starting Independent Researcher Award in 2011 and is, among other things, a Co-I of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large Area Electronics. She is leading the €4 Million EC Marie-Curie Training Network 'INFORM' that involves 11 European partners. She was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining's Rosenhain Medal and Prize (2014) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative

Professor of Functional Organic Materials, Imperial College, London (UK), ERC Starting Grant holder Prof. Stingelin specialises in polymer processing and has pioneered research on organic semiconductor materials. She believes inorganic/organic hybrid materials could improve light management in optical and photonic devices such as organic solar cells. With her ERC Grant, she aims to develop such hybrid materials so effective that they would absorb virtually no light allowing guiding the ‘flow of light’, as well as novel approaches to produce them easily. Proof of Concept funding from the ERC will support her team’s development of a new generation of anti-reflection coatings for industries from photonics to nanotechnology.

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(PIFI) Award for Visiting Scientists (2015) and will be Chair of the 2016 Gordon Conference on 'Electronic Processes in Organic Materials'.

Her current research interests encompass the broad field of organic functional materials, including organic electronics; multifunctional inorganic/organic hybrids

.Prof. Martin Vetterli

Martin Vetterli received the Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETHZ) in 1981, the Master of Science degree from Stanford University in 1982, and the Doctorat ès Sciences degree from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1986. After his dissertation, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York, and in 1993, he became an Associate and then Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1995, he joined the EPFL as a Full Professor. He held several positions at EPFL, including Chair of Communication Systems and founding director of the National Competence Center in Research on Mobile Information and Communication systems (NCCR-MICS). From 2004 to 2011 he was Vice President of EPFL for international affairs, and from 2011 to 2012, he was the Dean of the School of Computer and Communications Sciences. Since January 2013 he is President of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

His work won him numerous prizes, like best paper awards from EURASIP in 1984 and of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1991, 1996 and 2006, the Swiss National Latsis Prize in 1996, the SPIE Presidential award in 1999, the IEEE Signal Processing Technical Achievement Award in 2001 and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Award in 2010. He is a Fellow of IEEE, of ACM and EURASIP, was a member of the Swiss Council on Science and Technology (2000-2004), and is a ISI highly cited researcher in engineering.

President of the National Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, ERC Advanced Grant holder Prof. Vetterli works in the areas of electrical engineering, computer sciences and applied mathematics. Supported by the ERC, he developed a theory and framework for signal processing and communications with wide ranging applications. He showed we can “hear” the shape of a room, using a microphone and algorithms that make sense of echoes. This could have applications for indoor location devices or assistive

devices for both the visually and hearing impaired people.

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The ERC at the World Economic Forum, Davos 20-23 January 2016

For the fourth year, the European Research Council (ERC) participates in the World Economic Forum in Davos and this time takes part in sixteen sessions including one press conference.

ERC PRESS CONFERENCE

"Europe - magnet for talent"

Friday 22 January 2016 at 12:30 – 13:00 (Press conference room, Media village)

Speakers:

Prof. Hélène Rey, ERC Grant winner with expertise in global financial cycles; named "the economist to watch in 2016" by the Economist

Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation

Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President

With ever growing global competition, Europe faces a serious challenge: how to attract the brightest researchers to Europe and reverse brain drain?

Until 2020, the ERC will spend over €13 billion on first-class researchers allowing them to pursue their cutting-edge ideas and bringing top talent to Europe. Investing in blue sky research generates innovation, boosts the economy and helps create jobs. Many of the projects the ERC funds have already led to major breakthroughs, in fields such as cancer therapy, climate change or nanotechnology. ERC Grant winner Prof. Hélène Rey is a shining example of top talent returning to Europe from the USA. At the press conference, she will talk about her experience and work. The speakers will also reflect on how Europe can be more competitive and innovative through blue sky research.

Interview opportunity: The ERC President and 13 ERC Grantees - including Nobel laureate in Economics Sir Christopher Pissarides - will take part in some 16 sessions in Davos (see ERC event page). Members of the ERC delegation are available for interviews.

ERC Press contact:

Madeleine Drielsma; madeleine.drielsma@ec.europa.eu

Set up in 2007 by the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. Every year, it selects and funds the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run five-year projects based in Europe. The ERC also strives to attract top researchers from anywhere in the world to come to Europe. To date, the ERC has funded more than 5,500 top researchers at a variety of stages in their careers. Under the EU research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, the ERC has a budget of over €13 billion. The ERC consists of an independent Scientific Council and an Executive Agency. The Scientific Council, the ERC's governing body, is composed of distinguished scientists and scholars. Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon has been the ERC President since 1 January 2014. Carlos Moedas has been the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation since 1 November 2014.

Links ERC website