Matthias Neubert receives ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.1 Mio. Euro
The European Research Council (ERC) announced that Matthias Neubert has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for research on theoretical high-energy physics. His proposal “An effective field-theory assault on the zeptometer scale: Exploring the origins of flavour and electroweak symmetry breaking” will be funded over a period of five years starting in 2012. Its goal is to explore the most fundamental laws of nature at distances as small as 10-21 m, by confronting precision calculations of quantum effects with data obtained with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
ERC Advanced Grants allow established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue groundbreaking, high-risk projects that open up new directions in their respective research fields. They are intended for exceptional scientists with a track-record of significant research achievements and recognition over the last ten years. The only evaluation criterion is scientific excellence. Research proposed for funding to the ERC should aim high, both with regards to the ambition of the scientific achievements as well as to the originality of the proposed approaches. Panels of renowned scientists and scholars evaluate the proposals in the course of a rigorous peer review in life sciences, social sciences and humanities, physical sciences and engineering as well as interdisciplinary research.