Dr. Denys Makarov from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project 3DmultiFerro: Curvilinear multiferroics. Over the next five years, with the funding of EUR 2.5 million Denys and his team will investigate a promising class of materials known as multiferroics. The aim is to develop novel materials on the basis of which computer chips could work with much higher energy efficiency, in particular for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Born and raised in Ukraine, Denys obtained his Master Degree (2005) at the Faculty of Radiophysics, Electronics and Computer Systems of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, followed by a Ph.D. (2008) from the University of Konstanz in Germany. Since July 2019, Denys leads the department “Intelligent materials and systems” at the HZDR. Since December 2019, he heads the Helmholtz Innovation Lab “FlexiSens”.
Dr Makarov was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project “Shapeable Magnetoelectronics in Research and Technology” in 2012 and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2013. Moreover, in 2014 Denys won the EU FET (Future& Emerging Technologies) Young Explorers grant “Curved Nanomembranes for Topological Quantum Computation”.
Denys Makarov is one of the founding members of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society.
2023 ERC Advanced grants competition attracted 1 829 proposals, which were reviewed by panels of internationally renowned researchers. Nearly 14% of proposals were selected for funding. The ERC Advanced Grants target established, leading researchers with a proven track-record of significant achievements. The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialisation.