SNSF Starting Grants 2022

The SNSF Starting Grants program is aimed at researchers who intend to conduct innovative and high-risk research. For a period of five years, recipients can develop, with a team of their choice, their own research project in Switzerland. The SNSF Starting Grants program replaces the former ECCELLENZA and PRIMA programs and aims to compensate for the fact that scientists based in Switzerland cannot apply for the ERC program of Horizon Europe.

In 2021, 446 applications were submitted for the SNSF Starting Grants 2022. After a two-phase evaluation process, the SNSF selected 62 projects that will be funded with a total of CHF 104 million. The analysis of the success rates shows an overall success rate of 13.9%, almost identical for women and men, even though women submitted a significantly lower number of applications (177 applications, compared to 269 for men). The UNIGE is the institution that has obtained the highest number of laureates for this call for projects.

The University of Geneva warmly congratulates the 10 laureates who have been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant 2022, and who will thus be able to carry out their research within the UNIGE, in the Faculty of Humanities (1), in the Faculty of Medicine (2), in the Faculty of Science (5), at the GSEM (1) or in the Faculty of Social Sciences (1).

 

The 10 laureates are :

Monika Mrazova - GSEM, Institute of Economics and Econometrics
Global and Regional Externalities in Trade Agreements (GRETA)

Baptiste Le Bihan - Humanities, Philosophy
Space, Time and Causation in Quantum Gravity

Julie de Dardel - Social Sciences, Geography and Environment
Prison Degrowth. A geo-ethnographic study of prison reduction and non-penal alternatives

Charlotte Aumeier - Science, Biochemistry
Kinesin-1 regulated microtubule shaft dynamics in cell polarity

Adrien Leleu - Science, Astronomy
CARES-RIVERS: Characterising the Architecture of (nearly-)Resonant Exoplanetary Systems – Recognition of Interval Variation in Exoplanet Recovery Surveys

Daniel Pearce - Science, Theoretical Physics
Controlling active matter with topological defects

Andreas Boland - Science, Molecular Biology
Deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying chromosome segregation

Louk Rademaker - Science, Quantum Matter Physics
Quantum Matter with a Twist - The Interplay of Correlations and Topology in Moiré Materials

Ilaria Sani - Medicine, Basic Neurosciences
In the object’s shoes: Unveiling a ventro-temporal hub for object-centered space and object-based attention

Simone Becattini - Medicine, Pathology and Immunology
Biobehavioral mechanisms underpinning affective response during physical activity (BioAffect)