Corminboeuf Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for Work in Photoswitchable Catalysis

by Carey Sargent, EPFL, NCCR MARVEL

Professor Clémence Corminboeuf, MARVEL member and head of the Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design at EPFL, has been awarded the grant for her project "Pushing Quantum Chemistry by Advancing Photoswitchable Catalysis" (PushQChem).

The ERC received 2,389 research proposals and has decided to fund approximately 12%. The ERC says this new round of grants should create around 1750 jobs for postdocs, PhD students and other staff working in the grantees' research team. The full press release from the ERC can be found here.