2021.01.07 | Computer Science
Professor Lars Arge, Department of Computer Science, passed away 23 December 2020 at the age of just 53.
2020.12.21 | Department of Physics
The Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma plays a major role in research by Nordic astronomers, and in the education of new astronomers. It has been doing this for more than 30 years, and it will to continue to do so. Together with the University of Turku in Finland, Aarhus University has just taken over the observatory, which was otherwise under…
2020.12.15 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
Kidney diseases, atherosclerosis, colon cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and neurological disorders are five global health problems that the first five research projects in the Open Discovery Innovation Network (ODIN) are now addressing. In the projects, researchers from Aarhus University and the pharmaceutical industry are working…
2020.12.11 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
The groundbreaking open research collaboration, so far between Aarhus University and nine pharmaceutical and biotech companies, ODIN, is now up and running, and the researchers are ready to embark on their first joint projects aiming at fostering the development of new drugs throughout the world. The platform is completely open with the goal that…
2020.12.10 | Department of Biology, Sustainability
Researchers at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University and the Natural History Museum in Aarhus have now shown that cow pads contain DNA from the entire community of insects inhabiting the dung.
2020.12.09 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Associate Professor Bjørn Panyella Pedersen from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receives an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for research in plant growth. The amount awarded is EUR 2.0 million and runs over five years.
2020.12.09 | Department of Biology
Researchers from Aarhus and Copenhagen universities have shown that environmental DNA - the method of analysing DNA from an environmental sample to find out which organisms live in the area - works on a large scale. In a three-year project, they have used the method to map the biodiversity of the sea around Qatar based on DNA purified from…
2020.12.07 | Department of Biology
Over the next four years, a major new EU project will examine how noise from shipping affects the marine environment and identify solutions to make ships quieter. Project SATURN has participants from ten countries, and researchers from AU will play a key role.
2021.01.06 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
At the Faculty of Natural Sciences (NAT) 22 researchers have received grants from two of the Carlsberg Foudation programmes for a total sum of DKK 27,3 million.
2020.12.04 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
Peter Henriksen, senior researcher at the Department of Bioscience will take up the position as the new head of WATEC on 1 December 2020. The research centre was founded in 2017, and is now among the research elite, with close collaboration relations near and far. The new head of the centre is looking forward to being in charge of the centre,…
