Radoslaw Martin Cichy Awarded Second European Research Council Grant

ERC Consolidator Grant worth 2.3 million euros awarded to neuroscientist at Freie Universität Berlin. Radoslaw Martin Cichy, two-time recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant Image Credit: Personal collection The European Research Council (ERC) will be providing funding in the form of an ERC Consolidator Grant for a new research project led by neuroscientist Professor Radoslaw Martin Cichy of Freie Universität Berlin. Cichy will receive approximately 2.3 million euros for his five-year project "A Theory and Model of the Neural Transformations Mediating Human Object Perception" (TRANSFORM). The project aims to unravel how the human brain processes visual information and helps us make sense of the world around us. This will be the second time that Cichy has received funding from the ERC, following his receipt of an ERC Starting Grant in 2018. In just the blink of an eye our brain transforms the photons hitting our retinas into a detailed image. By perceiving the objects around us, be they tables, chairs, or cups, we understand the meaning of the visual world.