Over €5 million funding for University of Warwick projects tackling sustainability and fundamental question of our universe

Three new research projects at the University of Warwick that will investigate new avenues for a sustainable future as well as a fundamental question of our universe's past have been awarded a total of more than €5 million in European Research Council Starting Grants. Following the first call for proposals under the EU's new R&I programme, Horizon Europe, €619 million will be invested in excellent projects dreamed up by 397 scientists and scholars. Grants worth on average €1.5 million will help ambitious younger researchers launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their best ideas. The selected proposals cover all disciplines of research, from the medical applications of artificial intelligence, to the science of controlling matter by using light, to designing a legal regime for fair influencer marketing. The SHINE project (Shining Light on Metal Halide Perovskite Stability with Nanoscale Optical Microscopy and Ultrafast Spectroscopy), led by Dr Rebecca Milot of the University of Warwick's Department of Physics, has received €2,473,363 and will investigate one of the most promising new materials for solar energy conversion, metal halide perovskites.