The European Research Council has awarded Melanie Müller an ERC Starting Grant for her project FASTOMIC. With a total amount of €1.5 million for a period of five years, this grant will allow her and her team to push the limits of ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy to study the emergence and dynamics of nonequilibrium quantum states in real time and space. The project entitled “Ultrafast atomic-scale imaging and control of nonequilibrium phenomena in quantum materials” is one out of 494 funded projects in the 2024 ERC-StG call.