2020.11.03 | Faculty of Natural Sciences, Sustainability
Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) has just published the 65 research projects on the green transition that have been awarded grants. At the Faculty of Natural Sciences, seven projects are to receive a total of DKK 38 million, and can now focus on this socially important research area.
2020.10.29 | Department of Mathematics
Aarhus University Press publishes a revised translation of 'Camp Century – The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice' with the American publisher Columbia University Press. The book is written by associate professors Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henry Nielsen from Centre for Science Studies at the…
2020.10.28 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Immune cells in the lungs are important for the immune system's recognition and fight against viruses. However, the virus that produces COVID-19 is not recognised by these cells, as the virus may hide its genomic material, and as a result the cells' immune system against the virus is not activated. This may help explain why some people with…
2020.10.28 | Department of Geoscience
Postdoc Line Meldgaard Madsen from the Department of Geoscience has received more than DKK 2.3 million for her research project. The grant is from the Villum Foundation and it is part of the Villum International Postdoc programme, which is designed to ensure increased diversity in Danish research.
2020.10.12 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
With the grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, main applicant Poul Nissen and colleagues from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and iNANO as well as partners at the Department of Biomedicine and the Department of Engineering will be able to establish an infrastructure for Cryo-Electron Tomography (ICE-T), which will also be made…
2020.10.05 | Department of Biology, Sustainability
AU researchers will receive a total of DKK 119.1 million to establish research centres to find research-based solutions to future-proofing biodiversity in a volatile climate with ever-increasing resource needs. The grants are from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and are a part of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme.
2020.10.05 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
Kristine Kilså is to be vice-dean for education and David Lundbek Egholm is to be vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences. This gives the faculty a strong new management team.
2020.10.05 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
Kristine Kilså is to be the new vice-dean for education at Natural Sciences from 1 December. Kristine comes from a position as the head of studies administration in Sweden, and she has solid management experience in the field of education, in addition to an academic career in chemistry and nanoscience.
2020.10.05 | Faculty of Natural Sciences
David Lundbek Egholm will be the new vice-dean for research from 1 November. He comes from a position as a professor of climate and ice dynamics at the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University and he also has solid experience with research management and external research funding.
