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Around nine million Euros in ERC grants awarded to Bristol academics for pioneering research

Press release issued: 22 November 2022

A total of six researchers from the University of Bristol have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Grants totalling around 1.5 million Euros each. This places the University joint second in the UK in terms of the number of Grants awarded from the 2022 call.

Among the awardees is Dr Rui Ponte Costa, who leads the Neural and Machine Learning group in the Department of Computer Science. The group builds biologically-constrained AI-driven models to transform our understanding of how the brain learns. 

He said: “This grant will unlock a new generation of brain computational models inspired by artificial intelligence that will transform our understanding of how we learn.” 

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