Professor Karl Leo, partner in the ONE-P project, is one of the winners of the ERC Advanced Grant award 2010!
Top research leaders have been selected by the European Research Council in its second competition for established top researchers "Advanced Grants". Karl Leo, involved in the second workpackage of the ONE-P project: "Detection and sensing" and more precisely in the development of tandem devices is one of those.
European Research Council (ERC) is in charge of the newest, pioneering component of the EU's Seventh Research Framework Programme (the "Ideas" specific programme) and has a total budget of € 7.5 billion (2007-2013). Set up in 2007, the ERC aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by supporting and encouraging the best creative scientists, scholars and engineers of any nationality in any field of research, to work in European host institutions.
It has selected 266 senior top researchers to perform their pioneering research throughout Europe. Each of the "Advanced Grants" amounts to up to € 3.5 million and the estimated total call budget is € 590 million.
Prof. Karl Leo from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) IAPP has received one of these prestigious award in order to realise a research project NUDEV: New Organic Semiconductor Device Concepts.
