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Vitor Cardoso was awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant. This is a 5 year-long grant, consisting typically on a 1 to 2 Million Euro financing awarded by the European Research Council, for outstanding junior researchers in any research field in Europe.

Citation: ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe. The scheme targets promising researchers who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders. It will support the creation of excellent new research teams and will strengthen others that have been recently created.