UCC researchers win €4.75m in EU funding 

UCC researchers María Aburto, Piotr Kowalski, and Lijuan Qian competed against over 4,000 proposals from the world’s brightest scientific minds, to secure grants for their research.

Three University College Cork researchers have won a total of €4.75m in European funding for pioneering research projects, the most awards of any Irish Higher Education Institution.

A total of eight Ireland-based researchers from UCC, UL, UCD and Maynooth University secured European Research Council (ERC) ‘Starting Grants’, valued at a total of €12m.