The Institute of Astrophysics is excited to announce that Vasiliki Pavlidou, Professor at the University of Crete and affiliated faculty at IA-FORTH, together with Torsten Enßlin of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, Germany, and Philipp Mertsch of RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany, have been awarded a highly competitive European Research Council Synergy Grant (ERC-SyG) aiming to create the first three-dimensional, comprehensive atlas of our Milky Way galaxy. This will revolutionize the way we observe and understand the Universe. The project, called MW-atlas, has a total budget of ten million euros and will be implemented in the three institutes for six years, starting in 2025.
More information is available in the press release of FORTH here.
