1,5 million euros EU funding for Andreas Bulling and Björn Brandenburg

Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Björn Brandenburg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (f.l.t.r)

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2018 Starting Grants. In this year’s funding round, two researchers from Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC) were successful. Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Björn Brandenburg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, received an ERC Starting Grant and up to 1.5 million euros to pursue their research projects. ERC Starting Grants are awarded annually by the European Research Council. The prestigious grants are awarded to researchers of any nationality with two to seven years of experience since completion of the PhD, who carry out their project at a European research institution. In this funding round, Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Björn Brandenburg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, received an ERC Starting Grant. /gb