Professor Östling wins major European research grant
Mikael Östling, Professor of Microelectronics and Applied Physics at KTH, has been awarded a prestigious grant by ERC, the European Research Council. This is an Advanced Investigators Grant, aimed at supporting Europe’s most eminent researchers.
“I am very glad to have received this grant and I have now been invited over to finalise the conditions for the grant which will run for five years and may amount to as much as MEUR 2,” says Mikael Östling.
The research project supported, OSIRIS, concerns nanometre-based semi conductors for the future ICT industry. Some of the fields involved include 3D nano-threads that are based on silicon and/or germanium, low frequency noise in downscaled structures and strained silicon threads for silicon-based photonics.
“The project includes a number of challenging research fields and groundbreaking component technology beyond 2015. This major project financing provides us with the freedom to develop our international cooperation and recruitment,” states Mikael Östling.
Previously four researchers at KTH had also won grants in the first application round for ERC: Axel Brandenburg, Nordita/KTH, Johan Håstad, Theoretical Computer Science, Börje Johansson, Applied Material Physics and Björn Ottersten, Signal Processing.
ERC was formed in 2007 with the aim of supporting the best researchers in Europe. The long-term goal is to increase scientific excellence in Europe and raise its profile to a global level. The major difference to other ERC grants is that these are for individual researchers and do not concern network building.
Christer Gummeson