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The European Union’s top scientist quit after just three months on the job, slamming the bloc’s coronavirus response in a blistering parting statement.

Mauro Ferrari, the now-former president of the European Research Council (ERC), submitted his resignation Tuesday, blaming the EU’s institutional resistance to his proposal for a big scientific program to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I have been extremely disappointed by the European response [to the COVID-19 pandemic],” Ferrari said in a statement to the Financial Times.

Ferrari added that bureaucratic infighting throughout the EU’s complex structures also contributed to his decision.

“I arrived at the ERC a fervent supporter of the EU… The COVID-19 crisis completely changed my views,” the statement said.

The Italian-American scientist’s resignation was effective immediately. He had only taken the top job on Jan. 1.

Ferrari was expected to run the ERC on a four-year mandate when he accepted the position earlier this year.

“The commission regrets the resignation of Professor Ferrari at this early stage in his mandate as ERC President,” an ERC spokesman said.

His departure comes as EU finance ministers failed to agree to a financial rescue package Wednesday to soften the economic impact of the pandemic.

Ferrari, who spent much of his career as a prominent cancer researcher in the US, will now return to the US to fight coronavirus on the front line, the Financial Times reports.

With Post wires