Brussels. Stefan Wabnitz, professor of Electromagnetic Fields of the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Brsescia was awarded an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant for the project “STEMS – Spatiotemporal multimode complex optical systems”. The project, which received a € 2,084,181.00 grant will run for five years. It is the ERC project to be awarded to a researcher from the University of Brescia which has an average success rate of 9.6% worldwide (2016). The ERC is a European Union organisation that finances excellent researchers of any age and nationality for frontier research in EU Member States or associated countries. The ERC aims to maintain excellence in research by supporting high-risk projects led by Principal Investigators with internationally relevant curricula in any scientific field. (9Colonne)