First ERC Consolidator Grant for Turkey
The European Research Council has awarded its first Consolidator Grant to Professor Özgür Bariş Akan of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Koç University, Turkey.
The ERC provides funding for the world’s top researchers and their ground breaking projects. The funding programme received 3,680 applications from across Europe in 2013. Bariş Akan will be supported with a total of €1.8m of funding for a period of five years.
Bariş Akan’s research project titled ‘MINERVA: Communication Theoretical Foundations of Nervous System Towards Bio-Inspired Nanonetworks and ICT-Inspired Neuro-Treatment’ aims to develop communication models for the nervous system, as well as a nanonetwork simulator to validate theoretical models. Also being created is communication-capable neuro-implants for the ICT-inspired treatment of spinal cord disorders, which are currently incurable in most cases.
