Nuno Bicho, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Archeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB) at the University of Algarve (UAlg), has just received a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, worth 2.5 million euros.

This grant will allow the ICArEHB researcher to investigate the dynamics of the first migrations of Homo sapiens in and from Africa and to evaluate, with archaeological data, the genetic model that the human populations of Southern Africa were the genesis of the migration of our species from of Africa, about 70 thousand years ago.

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent scientists and scholars in any field at the career stage when they are already established research leaders, with a recognised track record of research achievements. 

More info here: https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2021-advanced-grants-results

In the history of the ERC, this is the first time that, in the same year and in any scientific area, a center of this size has managed to obtain three grants, one in each type: Vera Aldeias with an ERC Starting Grant, João Cascalheira with an ERC Consolidator Grant and now Nuno Bicho with the ERC Advanced Grant.