Three Imperial academics with ERC Starting Grants to pursue ’ambitious ideas’

Dr Huang aims to address the challenges around energy storage for electric transportation and from renewable sources - Three Imperial academics have won ERC Starting Grants to pursue their 'ambitious research ideas'. The grants - worth up to €1.5million euros each over five years - are awarded to emerging science talent through the Horizon Europe programme to launch their own projects and form teams. The UK received 70 grants in this wave of new funding from the ERC. President of the European Research Council Professor Maria Leptin said: "It is a pleasure to see this new group of bright minds at the start of their careers, set to take their research to new heights. Dr Chun Ann Huang - "I cannot emphasise enough that Europe as a whole - both at national and at EU level - has to continue to back and empower its promising talent. "We must encourage young researchers who are led by sheer curiosity to go after their most ambitious scientific ideas. Investing in them and their frontier research is investing in our future." - Dr Chun Ann Huang, Department of Materials - New battery materials.