TUM-IAS is proud to announce that Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professors Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Coding for Communications and Data Storage) and Matthias Nießner (Visual Computing) have both been awarded an ERC Starting Grant, with research projects focusing on data security and image processing.
Each year the European Research Council supports future-oriented research projects with substantial ERC Grants, awarded in various categories. Starting Grants are intended for early-career scientists and are endowed with up to € 1.5 million.
A full press release can be found here.
Congratulations also to TUM-IAS Alumnus Prof. Mansoor Yousefi (Télécom ParisTech) for his ERC Starting Grant. Before accepting an assistant professorship at Télécom ParisTech, Mansoor Yousefi was a postdoc in the TUM-IAS Focus Group Fiber-Optic Communications and Information Theory.