Krishna R. Veeramah will be continuing his pioneering research into ancient DNA with funding from a $10 million grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC).
The ERC’s 2019 Synergy grants include funding for a study integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400-900 CE by a team led by Patrick Geary of the Institute for Advanced Study. More than $2 million will be allocated to Veeramah’s lab at Stony Brook University.
Krishna Veeramah, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution in the College of Arts & Sciences, specializes in paleogenomics. His DNA analysis has already provided important insight into European history, including recent studies of early medieval skulls in southern Germany and the emergence of the modern dog from a population of gray wolves during the Neolithic era.
The European Research Council, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organization for excellent frontier research. Every year it selects and funds the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age to run projects based in Europe. The ERC has three grant schemes for individual principal investigators – Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, and Advanced Grants – and Synergy Grants for small groups of excellent researchers.
