Wednesday, November 10, 2004

2004 EU Marie Curie Awards announced

European Excellence in Research rewarded. The European Commission announced in Warsaw the winners of the 2004 Marie Curie Awards, with grants of up to €50,000 going to five outstanding European researchersFostering excellence

The Awards are part of the opportunities provided by a four-year €1.56 billion programme intended to support the training and mobility of researchers in Europe, coming from all over the world. Each year, between one and five prizes are presented to former “Marie Curie” fellows or other researchers who have benefited from EU funded mobility research programmes. EU “Marie Curie” actions foster the training, mobility and career development of researchers. Fellowships are available in any scientific discipline. They contribute directly to the objectives of the EU Sixth Research Framework Programme (FP6 2002-2006) and the Lisbon Strategy - to make Europe the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010.

The Grand Jury

The 2004 winners were chosen by a six member Grand Jury chaired by Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 1999. The project disciplines were in Chemistry, Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics & Information Sciences and Physics. (See annex for further details)

And the winners are...

The 2004 Marie Curie Award winners are:

Benedetta Ciardi (Italy): for her work on the effect that the radiation of the first stars had on the different gases in the Universe and on the process of galaxy formation.

Christian Marc Keysers (Germany): for his research into the neural processes to uncover how and why people empathise with each other.

Jens Marklof (Germany): for his studies in quantum physics and the localisation properties of chaotic quantum states.

Gadi Rothenberg (Israel): for searching for new catalysts using a combination of advanced computational and experimental methods.

Stefano Zapperi (Italy): for his investigations into internal avalanches and crackling noises in different materials.

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