We’re delighted to announce the fantastic news that Konstantinos has been successful with his recent bid for a European Research Council Consolidator Award.

As many folks will know, ERC grants are extremely prestigious, very large, and fantastically competitive. So, many congratulations to Konstantinos for this amazing success, which builds on from his previous ERC Starting Grant award.

Konstantinos’ new Consolidator grant is a 5-year (approx. €2.1m) award for a project using a mix of experimental and MEG techniques to determine how people weigh up different factors when making multi-determined decisions.

Konstantinos said,

“Every day, we make decisions by balancing competing factors like health, effort, and financial reward. However, the neural processes that determine the relative importance of these factors remain poorly understood.

“In this project, we will use advanced neuroimaging techniques to shed light on these mechanisms, which will enable us to understand, at a deeper mechanistic level, what promotes preference stability and what drives preference change. Insights from this project will be valuable to clinicians seeking to understand pathological preference variability or persistence; and to policy makers probing whether specific consumer tradeoffs are stable or plastic.”