Conny Aerts will use EU grant to model evolution of stars in four dimensions

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a prestigious €10 million Synergy Grant to astronomer Conny Aerts (KU Leuven and Radboud University Nijmegen). She joins forces with three other renowned researchers from France and the United States. The researchers want to develop numerical models of the whole evolution of rotating magnetic stars in the three spatial dimensions and in time.

 Conny Aerts. (c) Nils Lund / Kavli Prize
Conny Aerts. (c) Nils Lund / Kavli Prize

ERC Synergy Grants from the EU's Horizon Europe research and innovation program help teams of two to four outstanding researchers bring together complementary skills, knowledge and resources into one ambitious overarching project, tackling the world's most formidable research problems. The projects typically involve multiple scientific disciplines. In the case of Conny Aerts' project, these include astronomy, theoretical physics, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, computer science and software development.

Source and more: news release from KU Leuven