ERC Starting Grant for Tobias Barthel

Tobias Barthel [4], advanced researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics [5], has received a prestigeous ERC starting grant for his project on the "spectral geometry of higher categories". The total budget of the grant is 1.5 million euros for the project duration of 5 years. The eleven Max Planck grantees [6] are among the 397 young researchers who received an ERC Starting Grant in 2021.

The European Research Council [7] (ERC) is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants. The ERC is led by an independent governing body, the Scientific Council. Its prestigeous grants are awarded anually.

Link to the official announcement of the ERC starting grants results [7].