ERC en Galicia

PERSOAL INVESTIGADOR DO PROGRAMA OPORTUNIUS

Ciencias Físicas e Enxeñaría

Martín Fañanás Mastral

Investigador Oportunius e Director Adxunto do CiQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant BECAME “Bimetallic Catalysis for Diverse Methane Functionalization” (ERC-2019-CoG).

María del Carmen Giménez López

Investigadora Oportunius adscrita ao CiQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigadora Principal da Starting Grant NANOCOMP “Complex Dynamics of Clusters in High-Aspect Ratio Hollow Nanostructures: A Nanoscale Platform for High-Performance Computing” (ERC-2015-StG).
Investigadora Principal das Proof of Concept Grants ZABCAT “A New Zn-Air Battery Prototype to Overcome Cathode Degradation Through Catalyst Confinement” (ERC-2020-PoC) e ZEST “Advanced Zn||Br₂-MnO₂ Batteries Enabled by Nanostructured Cathodes and Supramolecular Electrolytes” (ERC-2025-PoC).

David Ryan Glowacki

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CiTIUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant NANOVR “Nanoscale Design using Virtual Reality” (ERC-2019-CoG).

Ignacio Insua López

Investigador adscrito ao CIQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant REPLICATE “Supramolecular Self-Replicating Antimicrobials” (ERC-2024-StG).

Jaime Martín Pérez

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CITENI da Universidade da Coruña.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant PARACRYST “The Semi-paracrystalline Organization in Polymers: Towards Stable Organic Solar Cells” (ERC-2022-CoG).

Diego Martínez Santos

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CITENI na Universidade da Coruña.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant BSMFLEET “Challenging the Standard Model using an extended Physics program in LHCb” (ERC-2014-StG).

Javier Montenegro García

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CIQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant DYNAP “Dynamic Penetrating Peptide Adaptamers” (ERC-2015-StG).
Investigador Principal do proxecto Proof of Concept TRAFFIKGENE “Peptide Dynamic Amphiphiles for Gene Therapy and Macromolecular Delivery” (ERC-2018-PoC).
Investigador Principal coordinador da Synergy Grant CARAMEL “Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery” (ERC-2025-SyG).

Daniel Nieto García

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CICA na Universidade da Coruña.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant HOT-BIOPRINTING “Holographic Optical Tweezing Bioprinting (HOTB): Towards precise manipulation of cells for artificial multi-scaled vascularized tissues/organ printing” (ERC-2023-CoG).

Elena Pazos Chantrero

Investigadora Oportunius adscrita ao CICA na Universidade da Coruña.
Investigadora Principal da Starting Grant SENSE “Supramolecular Engineering of biologically iNSpired peptide nanostructurEs” (ERC-2019-StG) e da Proof of Concept Grant PEPTOC “PEPtide-based Therapy for recurrent Ovarian Cancer” (ERC-2025-PoC).

Beatriz Pelaz García

Investigadora Oportunius adscrita ao CiQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigadora Principal da Starting Grant SPACING “SPAtially-Controlled lIgand arrrangementy origami-based nanoprinters” (ERC-2020-StG).

Diego Peña Gil

Investigador Oportunius e Director Científico do CiQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Synergy Grant MolDAM “Single Molecular Devices by Atomic Manipulation” (ERC-2020-SyG).

Carlos Alberto Salgado López

Investigador Oportunius e Director do IGFAE na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant HOTLHC “Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era” (ERC-2011-StG) e da Advanced Grant YoctoLHC “Yoctosecond imaging of QCD collectivity using jet observables” (ERC-2018-AdG).

Manuel Souto Salom

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CiQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant ELECTROFOCS “Molecular Design of Electrically Conductive Covalent Organic Frameworks as Efficient Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries” (ERC-2021-StG).


Ciencias da Vida

José M. Castro Tubío

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CiMUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant SCUBA CANCERS “Finding the genetic causes of contagious metastases under the sea” (ERC-2016-StG).

Rubén Nogueiras Pozo

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CiMUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant: OBESITY53 “p53 as a New Mediator of Energy Balance in the Brain” (ERC-2011-StG).
Investigador Principal da Synergy Grant: WATCH “Well-Aging and the Tanycytic Control of Health” (ERC-2018-SyG).

Beatriz Orosa

Investigadora Oportunius adscrita ao CiQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigadora Principal da Consolidator Grant SynUbL “Improving plant immunity by synthetic exploitation of the ubiquitin system” (ERC-2023-CoG).

Yolanda Prezado

Investigadora Oportunius adscrita ao CIMUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigadora Principal da Consolidator Grant PROTONMBRT “Spatial fractionation of the dose in proton therapy: a novel therapeutic approach” (ERC-2018-CoG).

Diego Robledo

Investigador Oportunius adscrito á Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant FishTRIM “The evolution and function of fish TRIM E3 ubiquitin ligases” (ERC-2022-StG).

Sara Varela

Investigadora Oportunius adscrita ao CIM na Universidade de Vigo.
Investigadora Principal da Starting Grant: MAPAS “Mapping biodiversity cradles and graves” (ERC-2020-StG).

Ashwin Woodhoo

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CiMUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant MyeRIBO “Deconstructing the Translational Control of Myelination by Specialized Ribosomes” (ERC-2019-CoG).


Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades

Jacob Copeman

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao IDEGA na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant ROSA “Religion and Its Others in South Asia and the World: Communities, Debates, Freedoms” (ERC-2018-CoG).

Elena Ojea Fernández-Colmeiro

Investigadora Oportunius adscrita ao CIM na Universidade de Vigo.
Investigadora Principal da Starting Grant: CLOCK “Climate adaptation to shifting stocks” (ERC-2015-StG).

Mario Pansera

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CISPAC coa Universidade de Vigo.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant: PROSPERA “Prospering without growth: Science, Technology and Innovation in a post-growth era” (ERC-2020-StG).

Carlos Sebastián Villasante Larramendi

Investigador Oportunius adscrito ao CRETUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant EQUALSEA “Transformative adaptation towards ocean equity” (ERC-2020-CoG).




PERSOAL INVESTIGADOR APOIADO POLO PROGRAMA OPORTUNIUS

Ciencias Físicas e Enxeñaría

Jaime Álvarez Muñiz

Investigador adscrito ao IGFAE na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador da Synergy Grant HERON “Hybrid Elevated Radio Observatory for Neutrinos” (ERC-2025-SyG).

Julián Bergueiro Álvarez

Investigador Ramón y Cajal adscrito ao CiQUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant ChiroPore “Helico-Selective Membrane Transport” (ERC-2025-CoG).

Saray Busto Ulloa

Investigadora Ramón y Cajal adscrita ao CITMAga coa Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigadora Principal da Starting Grant SUPREMUM “StrUcture PREserving Methods on Unstructured grids for continuum Mechanics” (ERC-2025-StG).

Luis Manuel Liz Marzán

Investigador adscrito ao CINBIO na Universidade de Vigo.
Investigador Principal coordinador da ERC Synergy Grant CHIRAL-PRO “Handshake Complexes of Chiral Nanoparticles and Proteins”.

Guillermo Lorenzo

Investigador Ramón y Cajal adscrito ao CITEEC na Universidade da Coruña.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant DIGIPRO “Digital twins for cancer progression based on multiscale structured models and mechanistic learning” (ERC-2025-StG)

José Luis Mascareñas Cid

Catedrático de Química Orgánica da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, adscrito ao CiQUS.
Investigador Principal da Advanced Grant METBIOCAT “Metal catalysis in biological habitats: New strategies for optical bio-sensing and targeted therapy” (ERC-2013-AdG) e da Proof of Concept Grant antiCSC “Targeting the cancer stem cell (CSC) metabolism with designed, reactive metal complexes” (ERC-2019-PoC).

José Francisco Rivadulla Fernández

Profesor titular de Química Física da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, adscrito ao CiQUS.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant 2DTHERMS “Design of new thermoelectric devices based on layered and field modulated nanostructures of strongly correlated electron systems” (ERC-2010-StG) e da Proof of Concept Grant ANTS “A new technology of microthermal sensing for application in microcalorimetry” (ERC-2016-PoC).


Ciencias da Vida

Ismael González García

Investigador adscrito ao CiMUS na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant HypoPause “Hypothalamic cell changes during menopause: the neuroendocrine origin of its metabolic alterations” (ERC-2025-StG)

Miguel Antonio López Pérez

Profesor titular de Fisioloxía da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, adscrito ao CiMUS.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant OBERSTRESS “Hypothalamic Lipotoxicity and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress: a New Pathophysiological Mechanism of Obesity” (ERC-2011-StG).

Carlos Pérez Carmona

Investigador adscrito ao Instituto Misión Biolóxica de Galicia (MBG) do CSIC.
Investigador Principal da Consolidator Grant PLECTRUM “Forecasting Global Change Impacts On Ecosystems Using a Unified Plant Functional Spectrum” (ERC-2023-CoG).

David Posada González

Catedrático de Xenética da Universidade de Vigo, adscrito ao CINBIO.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant PHYGENOM “Models of genome evolution, phylogenomics and the tree of life” (ERC-2007-StG) e da Consolidator Grant PHYLOCANCER “Phylogeography and somatic evolution of cancer tumor cells” (ERC-2013-CoG).


Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades

Felipe Criado-Boado

Profesor de Investigación arqueolóxica do CSIC no Instituto de Ciencias do Patrimonio (Incipit).
Investigador Principal coordinador da Synergy Grant XSCAPE “Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artifacts, and Embodied Visual Search” (ERC-2020-SyG).

Carlos Gómez Rodríguez

Catedrático da Universidade da Coruña, adscrito ao CITIC.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant FASTPARSE “Fast Natural Language Parsing for Large-Scale NLP” (ERC-2016-StG) e do proxecto Proof of Concept SALSA “Efficient Syntactic Analysis for Large-scale Sentiment Analysis” (ERC-2022-PoC).

Olalla López Costas

Investigadora Ramón y Cajal da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, adscrita ao CRETUS.
Investigadora Principal da Consolidator Grant PollutedPast “Environmental metal pollution revealed in archaeological human remains” (ERC-2022-CoG).

Jorge de Torres

Científico Titular no Instituto de Ciencias do Patrimonio (Incipit) do CSIC.
Investigador Principal da Starting Grant StateHorn “Pathways to Statehood: Authority, legitimacy and Social Diversity in the Horn of Africa (11th-16th centuries)” (ERC-2019-StG).