ERC: Members of the PEPR Quantum Awarded Advanced Grant and Proof of Concept Grant
In June, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winning projects for the 2025 Advanced Grant and 2026 Proof of Concept grant. Find out which members of the PEPR Quantum have received these grants!
The “Advanced” grant enables scientists who are recognized in their field, both nationally and internationally, to carry out innovative, high-risk projects that break new ground in their discipline or in other fields.
The ERC Proof of Concept (PoC), on the other hand, is a supplementary funding program designed to support the early stages of commercializing research results in order to explore their potential for commercial and social innovation. It is intended exclusively for scientists who are current recipients or former recipients of an ERC grant.
ERC Advanced 2025
Benjamin Sacépé
Superconductivity Meets the Quantum Hall Effect (SUPERHALL)
Benjamin Sacépé is a CNRS research director at the Néel Institute in Grenoble, where he leads the QuNES team.
As the recipient of the 2025 ERC Advanced Grant for his SUPERHALL project, he is exploring the interface between superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, and topology in two-dimensional materials. The goal? To develop topological hybrid quantum circuits that are intrinsically protected against decoherence.
He is involved in the PEPR Quantum through RobustSuperQ.
Within the PEPR
“As part of the PEPR Quantum, I am developing new hybrid superconducting circuits based on topological phases of the quantum Hall effect in graphene. These circuits are intended to provide a new platform for qubits that are topologically protected against decoherence.”
Benjamin Sacépé
ERC Proof of Concept 2026
Ivan Favero,
ERror-free CLAdded PHOtonic circuits (ERCLAPHO)
Ivan Favero is a CNRS research director at the Materials and Quantum Phenomena Laboratory (MPQ). His research lies at the intersection of optics, condensed matter, quantum physics, engineering, and nanotechnology.
His ERCLAPHO project aims to develop a new technique for permanently correcting manufacturing errors in photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
He is contributing to the QuMOMI project under the PEPR Quantum.
About QuMOMI
In the QuMOMI project under the PEPR Quantum, we are developing a nanomechanical interface between telecommunications photons and radiofrequency photons. Such an interface is required to transfer quantum information from radiofrequency qubits—for example, those based on superconducting circuits—to light propagating through optical fibers (and vice versa). At the heart of this interface is an integrated photonic circuit that incorporates nanomechanical elements. The ERC PoC ERCLAPHO project aims precisely to improve the fabrication precision of such photonic circuits, with applications in quantum technology as well as more broadly in information technology. A natural synergy will therefore exist between QuMOMI and ERCLAPHO.Ivan Favero
Emmanuel Flurin,
SUPERconducting circuits for QUantum SENSing of microwave radiations (SuperQuSense)
Emmanuel Flurin, a CEA researcher in the Service de physique de l’état condensé (SPEC) as part of the Quantronique team, works at the intersection of superconducting quantum circuits and electron spin resonance.
SuperQuSense is based on technology developed as part of his ERC Starting Grant project, INGENIOUS: the Single Microwave Photon Detector (SMPD). This quantum detector, capable of counting microwave photons individually, achieves a sensitivity that exceeds that of conventional detectors and makes it possible to overcome the quantum limit. As such, SuperQuSense will explore the potential of this technology with the aim of transforming it into an instrument that can be used by other laboratories.
Emmanuel Flurin is participating in the PEPR’s RobustSuperQ project.
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