Playlist on the UW YouTube channel: “Laureates of the ERC grants”
European Research Council Grants
Among projects financed as part of the European or international programmes, particularly interesting are prestigious grants of the European Research Council: Starting Grants, Advanced Grants, Consolidator Grants, Proof of Concept Grants as well as Synergy Grants. The subsidy is awarded as part of the IDEAS programme, supporting the most innovative ventures in all fields of the science.
So far, the ERC has awarded grants to researchers from the University of Warsaw 40 times, as well as once to a foreign researcher who is carrying out their grant at the university.
Prof. Maria Nowak, The UW Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA)
2025 – Consolidator Grant, project: A provincial capital polis at the end of the Roman era. Periphery or a center of power?
Prof. Dominika Zgid, Faculty of Physics
2025 – Advanced Grant, project: Modelling disorder in crystalline materials using systematically improvable correlated methods (Correlated_Disorder)
Prof. Joanna Mizielińska, Faculty of Sociology
2025 – Advanced Grant, project: Rethinking Queer Kinship: LGBTIQ* Families with Children in Central and Eastern Europe (QUEERSHIP)
Prof. Małgorzata Kot, Faculty of Archaeology (since April 2026 Centre of New Technologies)
2024 – Consolidator Grant, project: INASIA: Were They Modern Humans? The Problem of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic in West Central Asia
Prof. Adam Izdebski, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”
2024 – Synergy Grant, project: A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe (1300-1800): Combining History, Machine Learning and Natural Sciences (EUROpest)
Prof. Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Faculty of Culture and Arts
2023 – Advanced Grant, project: Scholars, Animals, Images, Geographies, and the Arts: De-exoticizing Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period
Prof. Emanuel Gull, Department of Physics, University of Michigan / Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
2023 – Advanced Grant, project: Predictive algorithms for simulating quantum materials
Prof. Ewa Szczurek, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2023 – Consolidator Grant, project: Deep optimised generation of antimicrobial peptides
Prof. Szymon Toruńczyk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2023 – Consolidator Grant, project: Limits of structural tractability
Prof. Paweł Caputa, Faculty of Physics
2023 – Consolidator Grant, project: Quantum complexity from quantum field theories to quantum gravity
Prof. Magdalena Wojcieszak, Centre of Migration Research
2023 – Consolidator Grant, project: Incentivizing citizen exposure to quality news online: framework and tools
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak, Faculty of „Artes Liberales”
2023 – Proof of Concept Grant, project: The Modern Argonauts: A Multicultural Educational Programme Preparing Young People for Contemporary Challenges through an Innovative Use of Classical Mythology
2015 – Consolidator Grant, project: Our Mythical Childhood… The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges
Dr Agnieszka Brylak, Faculty of Modern Languages
2023 – Starting Grant, project: The concept of teotl: a complex approach to the principal religious category of pre-Hispanic Central Mexico
Assoc. Prof. Piotr Skowron, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2023 – Starting Grant, project: PRO-DEMOCRATIC: Proportional algorithms for democratic decision
Prof. Artur Obłuski, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
2022 – Consolidator Grant, project: Afropolis Tungul: Urban biography of a cosmopolitan African capital
2017 – Starting Grant, project: UMMA: Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city
Prof. Marta Bucholc, Faculty of Sociology
2021 – Consolidator Grant, project: Using human rights to change abortion law: involvement patterns and argumentative architectures in the global figuration of human rights
Prof. Piotr Garbacz, Faculty of Chemistry
2021 – Starting Grant, project: NMER: Chirality-sensitive Nuclear Magnetoelectric Resonance
Prof. Michał Tomza, Faculty of Physics
2021 – Starting Grant, project: Ultracold polyatomic molecules for controlled chemistry and precision physics (QuantMol)
Prof. Dorota Skowron, Astronomical Observatory
2021 – Starting Grant, project: LSP-MIST: A MISTery of Long Secondary Periods in Pulsating Red Giants – Traces of Exoplanets?
Dr Paweł Nowakowski, Faculty of History
2021 – Starting Grant, project: STONE-MASTERS: Masters of the stone: The stonecutters’ workshops and the rise of the late antique epigraphical cultures (third–fifth century AD)
Prof. Justyna Olko, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”
2020 – Consolidator Grant, project: MULTILING-HIST: Multilingual worlds – neglected histories. Uncovering their emergence, continuity and loss in past and present societies
2012 – Starting Grant, project: Europe and America in contact: a multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time
Prof. Michał Pilipczuk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2025 – Consolidator Grant, project: WYDRA: Towards a unified structure theory for dense graphs
2020 – Starting Grant, project: Decomposition methods for discrete problems
Prof. Wojciech Czerwiński, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2025 – Consolidator Grant, project: POLARIS: Reachability in Infinite Systems at High Resolution
2020 – Starting Grant, project: INFSYS: Challenging Problems in Infinite-State Systems
Prof. Anna Matysiak, Faculty of Economic Sciences
2019 – Consolidator Grant, project: LABFER: Globalization- and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility
Prof. Piotr Sankowski, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2010 – Starting Grant, project: Practical Approximation Algorithms
2015 – Proof of Concept, project: Practical Approximation Algorithms
2017 – Consolidator Grant, project: TUgbOAT: Towards Unification of Algorithmic Tools
Prof. Marcin Pilipczuk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2016 – Starting Grant, project: Cuts and decompositions: algorithms and combinatorial properties
Prof. Marek Cygan, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2015 – Starting Grant, project: Technology transfer between modern algorithmic paradigms
Prof. Piotr Sułkowski, Faculty of Physics
2013 – Starting Grant, project: Quantum fields and knot homologies
Prof. Natalia Letki, formerly Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology (at present: Faculty of Political Science and International Studies)
2009 – Starting Grant, project: Public goods through private eyes. Exploring citizens’ attitudes to public goods and the state in Central Eastern Europe
Prof. Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2009 – Starting Grant, project: Expressive power of tree logics
2015 – Consolidator Grant, project: A unified theory of finite-state recognisability
Prof. Andrzej Udalski, Faculty of Physics – Astronomical Observatory
2009 – Advanced Grant, project: Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment: New Frontiers in Observational Astronomy
Prof. Stefan Dziembowski, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
2007 – Starting Grant, project: Cryptography on non-trusted machines
2020 – Advanced Grant, project: Smart-Contract Protocols: Theory for Applications
The University of Warsaw participated also in 2 projects financed by the ERC as an institutional partner:
- 2008 – Host Institution: Polish Academy of Sciences Advanced Grant 2.44 mln euro, project: Functionalisation of diluted magnetic semiconductors; Scientist in charge at the University of Warsaw: Prof. Jacek Majewski (Faculty of Physics), UW budget 0.34 mln euro;
- 2013 – Host Institution: University of Oxford, Advanced Grant 2.5 mln euro, project: The Cult of Saints: a christendom-wide study of its origin, spread and development; Scientist in charge at the University of Warsaw: Dr. Robert Wiśniewski (Faculty of History), UW budget 0.35 mln euro.
- In 2015, Dr Piotr Nowak, a researcher at the UW Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics and the Polish Academy of Sciences, was also awarded an ERC grant. He is carrying out his project at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In 2016, Prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński of the UW Astronomical Observatory was awarded an ERC grant for the project: A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids. The grant was subsequently transferred to the Polish Academy of Sciences.