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[Webinar for researchers from Singapore, Japan & South Korea] Applying for an ERC Grant

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Info Session for Singapore, Japan and South Korea

The ERC is one of the most prominent European funding organisations for breakthrough research. It not only supports frontier research across all fields but also awards grants to scientists and scholars from all over the world.

This webinar should especially be useful for post-doctoral and established researchers (PhD + 2 years experience) of all disciplines and nationalities.

Familiarize yourself with the basics and check out the ERC Classes video playlist beforehand.

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Date & Duration
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Location/Venue
Singapore
Tags
ERCSingaporeJapanKorea

Agenda

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Keita Ito received his doctorate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Currently, he is Vice Dean and full professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he leads the Orthopaedic Biomechanics group. This group combines numerical/experimental and engineering/biological methods to elucidate degenerative processes in bone, cartilage, disc and tendons/ligaments, as well as regenerative strategies thereof. He also is a professor in the Dept. of Orthopaedics at the University Medical Center Utrecht where he works on the mechanobiology of musculoskeletal regenerative medicine. He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is on the editorial board of Biomech Model Mechanobiol and is a deputy-editor of the Global Spine Journal. Recently, he was awarded an ERC-AdG to investigate the etiology of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
Suzana GOTOVAC ATLAGIĆ has graduated at the Faculty of Technology in her home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999, and since then, she completed her Master in humanities and environmental sciences and the PhD in science and technology in Switzerland and Japan. Her study periods included stays at Ochanomizu University, Neuchatel University and Chiba University. After working as teaching assistant and obtaining her PhD abroad, she returned home in 2007 and worked at the national Waste water laboratory for 8 years. From 2015 she is a teacher at the University of Banja Luka, Chemistry department, running national and international projects environmental nanotechnologies. Her team was awarded the “Best scientific team national award” for the last 4 years in a raw, due to number of extensive project activities, international exchange, publications and industrial collaboration. She is a strong advocate for repatriation of Bosnian scientists studying abroad, following with great attention Bosnian economic recovery and numerous foreign industrial investments in the country, actively running the national Association of Engineers of Technology as the president of its Assembly. She is the ERC NCP in her country.

Laura Pander is coordinator for personal grants (like ERC, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, NWO Talent Scheme) in the Research Support Office of Eindhoven University of Technology since 2017. She is mainly involved in pre-award support of personal grants applicants but she and her colleagues also help out for grant agreement preparations and post-award support. Laura studied Religious Studies and Philosophy at Radboud University and the University of Edinburgh. She has worked at several Dutch universities as an EU project manager and grant advisor in both technical and SSH domains. It’s Laura’s drive to help researchers to grow in their personal research strategy and to stimulate them to reach their research ambitions.

Organiser

Name
ERC, EURAXESS Worldwide
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Email
kommunikation@dlr.de