Professor Klaus Müllen, 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". Prof. Klaus Müllen involved in workpackages 1,2 and 3 of the ONE-P project 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. Klaus Müllen from the Synthetic Chemistry Group of the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) has received one of these prestigious award in order to realise a research project NANOGRAPH: The Chemists Way of Making and Utilizing Perfect Graphenes.
