Astrophysicist wins grant, returns to Italy after 10 yrs

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 1 - A young Italian astrophysicist has decided to return to Italy after 10 years in Germany in one sign of reversing the Bel Paese's chronic brain drain.
    Mattia Sormani, 35, won a 1.5 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and opted to transfer it from Heidelberg University, where he did the research that earned him the prize, to the Como branch of Italy's Insubria University.
    Sormani got the ERC Starting Grant 2023 for a project to study how matter is transported towards the centre of the Milky Way and the ways that Black Holes are fed.
    He is the first ERC winner to pick Insubria for his grant project. (ANSA).