Ten researchers from BGU have been awarded prestigious Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIG) from the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Community. Each grant totals €100,000 over a period of 4 years.

The motivation behind the program is to assist new researchers establish themselves in one of the countries participating in its FP7 program.  The EU is particularly interested in inducing leading young scientists to return to those countries from post-docs outside of them. As might be expected the Integration Grant competition is extremely intense and grants are made only to those who show the most promise for making meaningful contributions to the European Research Arena in the years ahead.

While the success rate of Career Integration Grants throughout Europe is 29% at BGU it is 50% indicating that BGU is really making an effort to recruit outstanding your scientists and scholars.

The researchers who received grants in the March-September 2011 rotation are as follows (in alphabetical order):


Name:               Dr. Golan Bel
Department:      Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
Project Name:   Stochastic Modeling of Spatially Extended Ecosystems and Ecological and Climate Data Analysis       

Name:               Dr. Alberto Bilenca
Department:      Biomedical Engineering
Project Name:   Depth-Resolved Optical Nanoscopy

Name:               Dr. Ronit Biton
Department:      Chemical Engineering
Project Name: Towards Engineered Multicomponent Polysaccharide Hydrogels for Surrogate Extracellular Matrices

Name:               Dr. Hadas Hawlena
Department:      Life Sciences
Project Name:   Effects of ecological factors on bacterial communities of fleas

Name:               Dr. Sharon Hollander
Department:      Mathematics
Project Name:   Homotopy theory of quasi-coherent sheaves on stacks

Name:               Dr. Alexey Kamyshny
Department:      Geological and Environmental Sciences
Project Name:   Hydrogen Cyanide and Thiocyanate Transformations in Anoxic Aquatic Systems

Name:               Dr. Uri Keshet
Department:      Physics
Project Name:   Non-Equilibrium Processes in Galaxy Clusters

Name:               Dr. Yoav Kessler
Department:      Psychology
Project Name:   Cognitive and Electrophysiological Mechanisms of Visual Short-Term Memory Updating         

Name:               Dr. Yifat Miller
Department:      Chemistry
Project Name:   Insight into the synergistic interactions between A amyloid, -synuclein and Tau

Name:               Dr. Niv Papo
Department:      Biotechnology Engineering
Project Name:   Rational and Combinatorial Engineering of Antagonistic Angiopoietin Variants as Tools for Cancer Imaging