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Resubmission of ERC AdG proposal

Reworking of Advanced Grant proposal (which went through to Step 2 in the previous AdG call) to address remarks of reviewers. Involve colleagues at ARENA and beyond in process towards submission of new proposal on 30 August 2018.

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Moral residue – epistemological ramifications, emotional implications, and didactic opportunities

One of the problems on the way from the level of ethical theory to practice is the phenomenon of moral residue or moral remainder (MR). This distress experience of doubt, guilt, regret, remorse and shame emerging from cumulating unresolved moral conflicts is pervasive in human experience, not the...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

The Greenland Subglacial Lake & Ice Dynamics Experiment

The aim is to directly sample, instrument and assess life, hydrology and flow dynamics within and around a subglacial lake (SGL) beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. SGLs are an extraordinary component of the hydrosphere and among the most extreme aquatic environments where life is found. The impact ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Prosjektetableringsstøtte FRIPRO ERC LABOUR/POWER

PI went to interview-stage with an ERC Starting Grant Application (entitled: "Labour/Power. Ethnographic Explorations of the energy-work nexus in newly industrialised countries") twice (June 2016, June 2017). PI will rework grant application and improve CV through 1) a buy-out from other teaching...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Linking the Past to the Future: The 1918 Influenza as Preparedness Basis for Socioeconomic Equality in Upcoming Pandemics - PANEQUALITY(Rev)

Pandemics are most pressing global threats to human life. PANEQUALITY studies historical, social, & biological mechanisms for unequal morbidity, mortality, and fertility responses to 1918 pandemic influenza. The objective is to understand the mechanisms that influenced the unequal disease burden ...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Enactments of property ownership in times of climate change

While property ownership as guarantor of individual autonomy remains a central principle of the modern nation state and a globalized economy, the working hypothesis of this project is that climate change may intensify uncertainties, dilemmas and conflicts related to property ownership. The projec...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

The State of the South: Globalisation, economic policies and social protection in Asia, Africa and Latin America

Based on the reviews I received from ERC, I will revise the application, focusing especially on methodology and criteria for case selection. I will also seek to develop a better design for comparing welfare systems across very different systems. The funding will be used for work on the proposal,...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Intraspecific trait variation and stochastic population and community dynamics (INTRAVAR)

With the project INTRAVAR I will combine and extend recent advances in demographic models (in particular integral projection models) to develop and apply new methodology for investigating the impacts of intraspecific trait variation on stochastic population and community dynamics. To meet this ge...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Resubmission FADUS

This ERC project brings cutting-edge analytical approaches to existing data to address whether how, and under which economic and social conditions, family norms affect health at later ages across Europe. The project will specifically compare traditional versus individualistic family norms (consis...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

OXYENZ to ERC CoG

The submitted ERC StG proposal aimed to reveal how oxidative enzymes involved in degradation of lignocellulose work in concert. Also, since the mechanisms of several of these enzymes are not known, part of the proposal included enzyme characterization at an atomistic level. For a short introducti...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Akershus

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability

We will gauge the relative importance of genetics and environment in family demography and social stratification. First, we will study social change across cohorts, as influential theory suggests heritable dispositions will increase in importance when opportunity structures expand or social norms...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Marine Ecosystems: working towards their coverage within life cycle impact assessment

It is often said that we know less about our oceans than we do of space. As a consequence, we know surprisingly little about the largest ecosystems on Earth. At the same time, these ecosystems provide 15% of the world population with proteins, are responsible for millions of jobs and a very impor...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Quantification of tectonic stress effects on seafloor methane seepage in the Arctic

The SEAMSTRESS project will investigate the effect of tectonic stress on seafloor seepage across the west-Svalbard continental margin. I hypothesize that tectonic stress from Arctic mid-ocean ridges, has a significant impact on the pressure field that determines long-term seafloor methane release...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Changing Continents, Climates and Sea Levels

Build a full-plate Earth model for the past one billion years, model TPW numerically in order to understand it quantitatively and qantify how Plate Tectonics and deep Earth dynamics have controlled Earth's climate and sea level.

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Mechanisms leading to compromised mitophagy in Alzheimer?s disease

This is an application for the performance of some key experiments with data to support my ERC grant re-submission. The novelty of my ERC grant is to focus on compromised mitophagy as a contributor of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a dominant dementia in the world and brings formidable socio-economi...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Integration of Developmental Pathways by Methylation to Control Immunity to Intestinal Infection

Brief Summary of ERC proposal: The gastrointestinal tract is a common site for infection by a variety of pathogens. For example, gut-dwelling parasitic worms currently infect over a billion people, mostly in developing nations. In addition, food-borne bacterial infections such as enterohemorrhagi...

Awarded: NOK 0.39 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

ERC-PILOT

This application seeks funding for four initiatives that will strengthen the ERC Advanced Grant Application: - Research assistance - Proof reading - International team of reviewers - Pilot data collection

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Towards a new ERC application on energy storage for integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid

In 2015 and 2016 I submitted two proposals ERC-CoG-2015 (InOpera), ERC-CoG-2016 (NoriNa), and I have been both times invited to the interview in Brussel. Both proposals were sent to the panel PE8-Products and Processes Engineering. The topic of the proposals was the development of novel tubular i...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Kvalifiseringsstøtte for ERC Advanced Grant

Avansert lysmikroskopi er en hjørnestensteknologi innen de fleste livsvitenskaper, og hurtige fremskritt innen denne teknologien - aktualisert ved Nobelprisen i kjemi til tre pionerer innen lysmikroskopi - byr på nye muligheter. NALMINs mål er å tilby den mest avanserte lysmikroskopi til norske f...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Moving in Tandem or Going it Alone? Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies in Eastern Europe

The project aims to asses how notions of corruption and determinants for the success or failure of anti-corruption reform may depend on specific cultural and societal factors. Five countries in Eastern Europe are covered by the project and data will be collected in two stages - the first time by ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

ERC Resubmission: Exploring and Theorizing Indigenous Museums

This project will be the first focused study of indigenous museums. It asks,what are indigenous museums? Are there analogies among these institutions that justify the common appellation? And conversely, in what do they differ: can we get a better idea of the diversity within this category? The p...

Awarded: NOK 83,111

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Re-submission ERC CoG - TRANSFORM

In times of radical uncertainty and flux, how do individual deeds inspire collective action or lead to new institutional practices in ways that determine the direction a society takes? What can we learn from conflict contexts about the driving forces of societal transformation? TRANSFORM studies ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Role of novel DNA double strand break repair factors in immune system development

Cells have sensitive mechanisms for detecting and repairing deleterious breaks in DNA, and defects in DNA repair pathways result in complex disorders, including immunodeficiency, neurodegeneration and various cancers. During early lymphocyte development however, double strand breaks are created o...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Domesticating Monitoring of Human Rights through Parliaments

Strengthening the position of parliaments within a complex multi-level human rights system can reduce its democratic deficit and simultaneously enhance its impact where it matters: in individuals' lives. This will require attending to the allocation of authority between national parliaments, exec...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

SENMUS follow-up

The proposed project 'The Sense of Music' (SENMUS) aims to enlarge substantially our understanding of the ways in which music can help us make sense of the world and ourselves. By uncovering scholarly lacunae comprehensively for the first time, SENMUS examines how philosophical and musicological ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Malignant Exploitation of Obese Environments

The original proposal was suggesting a two-pronged systemic cancer biology approach to identify the molecular underpinnings of obesity-regulated cancer progression. While not often discussed in connection to obesity, cancer and cancer development are highly linked to obesity. Based on numerous la...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Charting the translational landscape of early development

This is the project summary of my ERC starting grant: The biogenesis of proteins transitions through two main phases: transcription and translation. While transcription has been extensively studied, both at the individual gene-level and genome-wide, translation has only recently been explored by...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

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The Rise of the Modern World and Civilisations: Water-society relations beyond environmental reductionism

The primary objective of the project will be to deepen our understanding of fundamental transformations in human history by integrating water-society interactions into analyses and by further developing a contrastive and genealogical methodology, called the Water-Society System Approach.

Awarded: NOK 0.43 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Støtte for ERC-CoG-2017: Nat-enzymer

Alle sider ved livet til en menneskecelle er kontrollert av proteiner. Ulike kjemiske grupper kan kobles på proteiner og disse fungerer som merkelapper som styrer proteinenes funksjoner. En kjemisk gruppe kalt acetyl er påkoblet nesten hvert eneste protein i cellene våre. Forskningsgruppen ved Ui...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC søkere som oppnår god evaluering

orbital free DFT

The central research goal of the project is to develop methods that improve the applicability of orbital free density functional theory for electronic structure of molecules. By exploiting fundamental properties of exact energy density functionals (convexity and linear response) we hope to improv...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo