Prof. Sandra Hirche has been awarded with the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. ERC grants is a highly competitive funding line by the European Commission. ERC Consolidator Grant are open to researchers with between seven and 12 years' experience since completion of a doctorate and can receive up to 2 million euros in funding.

In her ERC project "CO-MAN" Sandra Hirche will develop fundamentally novel approaches for safe data-driven control for human-centric systems bridging gap between rigorous control and flexible machine learning techniques. She has already been awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2013.

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