ERC Advanced Grant for Albrecht Schmidt

June 23, 2025; Christina Warren

Congratulations to Albrecht Schmidt, professor of computer science at LMU Munich and leader of SFB-TRR 161 Project C06, for winning an ERC Advanced Grant for the project “AI-Twins of Human Experience: Towards Personal Generative AI-Systems for Amplifying Human Cognition (AI-twin)”. With a funding sum of 2.5 Million Euros over five years, Albrecht Schmidt and his team intend to establish a scientific basis for AI twins of human experience. By continuously collecting data from wearable devices, they aim to develop AI twins—sophisticated personal systems designed to store and process human experiences while seamlessly augmenting human cognitive and creative functions.

In the highlights section on their website, the European Research Council reports on Albrecht Schmidt’s project as one of five example projects that received an ERC Advanced Grant: https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/advanced-grants-2024-examples-projects 

About ERC Advanced Grants

ERC Advanced Grants are designed for established researchers with a proven track record of significant research achievements and are highly competitive. A proposal for an ERC Advanced Grant needs to demonstrate the groundbreaking nature and ambition of the project. Successful applicants receive a funding sum of up to 2.5 Million Euros over a period of five years. In the latest competition, a total sum of 721 Million Euros was awarded to 281 leading researchers all across Europe.