As the ERC announced in November 2022, with 11 independent reviews, Dr Vucicevic won, at the first attempt, the ERC Starting Grant for the project which carries the acronym SCLoTHiFi and which is titled “Numerically exact theory of transport in strongly correlated systems at low temperature and under magnetic fields”.

ERC projects are the core of excellence in the European system of financing science – they are awarded to researchers, and not to teams or institutions, who manage to prove that they have an idea, a method, or results which can truly change the course of modern science. ERC is the most elite and expensive research program in Europe, and the grants have been awarded to leading world researchers in various fields, including numerous Nobel Prize laureates.

The European Commission annually awards hundreds of researchers through this program, but only two scientists have succeeded in this in Serbia so far - Sofija Stefanović, Ph.D., bioarchaeologist from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and Magdalena Đorđević, Ph.D., physicist from the Institute of Physics. Dr. Jakša Vučičević is the third researcher in Serbia and the second researcher of the Institute of Physics to win an ERC grant.

Source: Еkapija