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STRUC­TURES member Friedrich Röpke, head of the Physics of Stellar Objects group at Hei­del­berg Institute for Theo­re­ti­cal Studies (HITS), has received an Eu­ro­pean Re­search Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of €2.5 million for his project ExCEED (“Explaining Common-Envelope Evolution and Dynamics in binary stellar systems“), which explores the enigmatic common-envelope phase in binary stellar evolution.

Moreover, STRUC­TURES member Nicolò Defenu, currently member of the mathematical physics group at the Institute for Theo­re­ti­cal Studies, ETH Zurich, has received an Eu­ro­pean Re­search Council (ERC) Starting Grant of €1.5 million for his project QLR-Net (“Quan­tum long-range networks”), which explores the prismatic physics of long-range interacting quan­tum systems in the many-body regime.

We congratulate the two to these highly prestigious awards!