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摘要

The European Commission announced this week that French mathematician Jean-Pierre Bourguignon will be the new president of the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union's main funding agency for basic research. After 19 years directing the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies in Paris, Bourguignon joins the agency at the dawn of the European Union's new 7-year research program, Horizon 2020, which will dramatically increase ERC's budget.