ERC Advanced Grant for Inga Kamp

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to prof. Inga Kamp of the Kapteyn Astronomical Insitute of the UG’s Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Inga Kamp can use this money to set up long-term and ground-breaking research projects.

The Advanced Grants are meant for established academics with a track-record of significant research achievements. Advanced Grants may be awarded up to €2,5 million for a period of 5 years.

Prof. Inga Kamp: DISKS-ROCK
In her ERC project, Inga Kamp will use the James Webb Space Telescope to decipher the building blocks of rocky planets. The results will place our own Earth in the larger galactic context and provide crucial input for future missions in search of life. To accomplish this, Kamp will develop a novel two-dimensional modeling framework including physical, chemical and dynamical processes to constrain disk evolution during the early buildup phase of rocky planets using data from statistically relevant disk samples.

European Research Council
The European Research Council is the premiere European funding organization for excellent frontier research. Every year, it selects and funds the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based in Europe.

Source: ERC Advanced grants for three UG researchers