The Danish National Research Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation and the VILLUM Foundation…

Professor of astrophysics Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard from Aarhus University will be the first Dane to receive the Norwegian Kavli Prize for…

Joanna M. Davies and Adrián López Quirós have received research grants from iCLIMATE

Pollen isn’t - atishoo! – just pollen. Some grasses are bad news for allergy sufferers, while others are completely harmless. Aarhus University has…

Thomas Vosegaard has been appointed as the new centre director from 1 June 2022

Biology Professor Signe Normand has received the Victor Albeck Award of DKK 100,000 for her innovative and ground-breaking research on climate change…

Researchers from Aarhus University have developed the browser extension Consent-O-Matic – a piece of software that automatically answers consent…

Niels Kristian Kjærgård Madsen from the Department of Chemistry receives AUFF's PhD prize, DKK 50.000, for his development of quantum chemistry…

Rasmus Andreasen is co-author in a new article in Nature Astronomy: "The dissipation of the solar nebula constrained by impacts and core cooling in…

Corona prevented chemistry professor Anja-Verena Mudring from using the travel budget from her VILLUM Investigator grant. Now she is instead using the…

Through hard work and team effort, one man's seminal vision twenty years ago became the first interdisciplinary research centre at Aarhus University…

”Climate research in Northeast Greenland (KLANG)”

Fuel from liquid hydrocarbons as we know them, but made completely without the use of fossil resources. This is the goal of a new project partnered by…

Azadeh Shahsavar, who is assistant professor in Professor Poul Nissen's group at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University,…

Xavier Bofill De Ros is one of the seven talented researchers who will become a Lundbeckfonden fellow in 2022. And the grant that comes with the…

The European Research Council has granted Professor Mikkel Heide Schierup from the Bioinformatics Research Centre at Aarhus University EUR 2.5 million…

Astrophysicist Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard from Aarhus University has become a member of the exclusive and highly esteemed American scientific…

Most drugs used today have only one mechanism of action and it is both difficult and expensive to manufacture drugs with multiple functions.…

AU researcher, Associate Professor Brigitte Stadler, and an intercontinental team of researchers, have received a prestigious international grant to…

ODIN has reserved DKK 23.9 million for six new research projects that will pave the way for new drugs to treat a wide range of medical conditions –…

A group of PhD students from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics has set out to make their department even greener. They have therefore…

Denmark is phasing in a new digital ID system, known as MitID. A student and several researchers from the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus…

Isabella Nymann Westensee from iNANO and Simon Vendelbo Bylling Jensen from the Department of Physics and Astronomy each receive DKK 200,000, which…

Kasper Green Larsen is 35 years old and a newly appointed professor at the Department of Computer Science - that makes him one of the youngest…

Exceptionally promising. This is how an Arctic top researcher describes a probe that three engineer students have developed during a bachelor's…

With data from Aarhus University, among other places, more than 140 researchers from all over the world have calculated that there must be some 73,300…

With a grant of DKK 50 M in the form of a Laureate Research Grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Professor Daan von Aalten moves his research group…

It was surprising in itself when an international team of researchers from AU and elsewhere discovered communities of microorganisms thriving at…

Good news for innovative researchers: Working together with the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the five largest universities in Denmark are bringing the…

The VILLUM FOUNDATION has selected this year's 16 research talents to be part of the Villum Young Investigator programme. Six of this year's…

Despite recent progress in predicting protein and RNA structure, we are still far from being able to design biomolecular structures that rival the…

Around half of the world’s plant species rely on animals to spread their seeds. A new international study has shown that, as a consequence of the…

Assistant Professor Jonas Elm (Chemistry) and the upcoming group leader of DANDRITE, Postdoc Taro Kitazawa, will each receive approx. DKK 11 million…

Aarhus University’s research vessel Aurora is also an excellent communication platform.

Kristiansen receives support to test new fast field methods together with archaeologists

A research team at Aarhus University has developed a new molecule that attaches to the surface of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. This attachment prevents…

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded almost DKK 98 million to basic research at Aarhus University. The humanities and social sciences have been…

The underwater noise around Greenland has just been mapped in a new study, thereby allowing future changes of ambient noise levels to be investigated…

By using ground-breaking new electronics and data modelling, a team of researchers from Aarhus University has proven that it is possible to carry out…

A course in bio-entrepreneurship was the basis for a new life as an entrepreneur for two biology students from Aarhus. After receiving two financial…

Researchers from Aarhus University have led a team that has discovered one of the ways legume plants balance nitrogen acquisition from the soil with…

An international team led by researchers from Aarhus University have discovered how plant receptors recognize specific carbohydrate signaling…

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD) has awarded DKK 280 million to 55 green research ideas, 15 of which are from Aarhus University. Five…

Postdoc Laura Stidsholt from the Department of Biology is one of the grant recipients under the Villum International Postdoc talent programme. The DKK…

Denmark’s first Biodiversity Council has been set up to advise the government and the Danish Parliament on nature initiatives. The Minister for the…

Legumes can make agriculture greener, both by carbon fixing, but more specifically because they do not need artificial fertilizers supplying nitrogen,…

The modern university is closely intertwined with the surrounding community. This does not mean that the freedom of research is compromised, writes…

Researchers at Aarhus University have elucidated structures of a sugar transport protein that drives transport of sugar in plants. The study provides…

A large part of the world's population has fragments of neanderthal genes in their DNA. The length of these fragments provides new insight into how…

The Villum Foundation grants DKK 6 million for two interdisciplinary research projects at Aarhus University - more specifically the Department of…

A new, unique research centre has been launched. The Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center is to be established with a grant of DKK 630 million…

The Faculty of Natural Sciences (Nat) is a good place for daring ideas that can and will change our perception of the world around us. The VILLUM…

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany have discovered that root commensal…

Det Fjernstyrede UndervisningsTeleskop (FUT) is a free offer from Aarhus University to the Danish educational community. Pupils will be able to…

A total of 14 new AIAS-COFUND Marie Sk?odowska-Curie fellows from around the world has been selected in a thorough international, triple peer-review…

In relations to the Annual Party 2021 at Aarhus University, Professor Conny Aerts has been appointed Honorary Doctor at Aarhus University.

On Wednesday, 25 August 2021, a multitude of new students started their studies at Aarhus University, of whom the Faculty of Natural Sciences welcomed…

Providing clean water and sanitation while still protecting natural environments is one of greatest challenges in modern society, one of the UN…

The human body's attempt to eradicate invading viruses can eventually become fatal. With the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is in many cases…

A paper from Jørgen Kjems and colleagues published in Nature Communications presents a new method to determine the full-length sequence and isoform…

In a joint collaboration, researchers from Aarhus, Cambridge and Warsaw have characterized how the essential mRNA poly(A) tails are synthesized in the…

The phenomenon of citizen science is taking an ever more important role in a number of research projects all over the world. Aarhus University has…

Researchers have re-examined the last meal of the famous Tollund Man bog body, consumed shortly before he died around 400 BC. The analysis reveals…

Biologists from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen have studied the environmental DNA in water samples collected simultaneously by 370…

Faba beans are an excellent source of food protein, but about 4% of the world’s population are afflicted by favism, which renders them sensitive to…

There is still so much we don’t know about the earth. One of the blind spots can be found in northeast Greenland, and it is relevant to climate change…

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ebbe S. Andersen who is awarded the Danish polymer prize, Elastyrenprisen 2021, for being an internationally…

One of the Nordic region's most prestigious research prizes, the Anders Jahre Prize, goes to Professor Poul Nissen from Aarhus University. Poul Nissen…

Researchers from Aarhus University and Caltech have developed a method to build much larger, though still nanosize, RNA scaffolds than previously…

This summer, Aarhus University will welcome Professor Anja-Verena Mudring when she joins the Department of Chemistry. Professor Mudring is one of the…

Why spend time wading through streams and rivers to catch insects and other small animals with finely meshed nets, when all you need is their DNA in a…

Every year, the Aarhus University Research Foundation awards PhD prizes to five young researchers with extraordinary talent. The five award recipients…

A research group at Aarhus University has found a way to transform a naturally occurring substance class that is toxic for both bacteria and mammals…

A new partnership between Skrydstrup Group (iNANO & Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University), Vestas, Olin, and the Danish Technological Institute…

Chemically synthesized short DNA sequences are extremely important ingredients with countless uses in research laboratories, hospitals and in…

Professor of biology Signe Normand from Aarhus University is one of the five recipients of the Elite Research Prize for 2021. There are also Elite…

Andreas Sommerfeldt, PhD in chemistry and nanotechnology from Department of Chemistry and iNano at Aarhus University has won the PhD Cup final. The…

Professor Birgit Schiøtt has been reappointed as the head of the Department of Chemistry on a three-year contract starting when her current five-year…

Four early career researchers at Nat have just received grants from the Lundbeck Foundation as part of their postdoc programmes. The grants will…

Postdoc Andrii Bugai from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receives the highly prestigious Marie Sk?odowska-Curie…

Nanomaterials have become indispensable for modern life, and our lives increasingly depend on nanomaterials with defined structures and properties. A…

A new, national pioneer center for artificial intelligence research is expected to open at the end of 2021.

From 1 June 2021, Associate Professor and Head of Department Erik Østergaard Jensen has been reappointed for another three years as head of the…

Again this year, Aarhus University is seeing an increase in the numbers applying via quota 2, and at Natural Sciences, applications are stable in…

In two new scientific articles, two geologists from Aarhus University have demonstrated that strontium from agricultural lime runs off from upper soil…

Jørgen Kjems from iNANO and the Department of Molecular Biology at AU and the AU spinout company, OMIICS, are partners in a new consortium, PRIME,…

For the first time ever, the Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted project funding earmarked specifically for basic research within the natural and…

Glycine can stimulate or inhibit neurons in the brain, thereby controlling complex functions. Unraveling the three-dimensional structure of the…

Following a grant from the National Committee for Research Infrastructures (NUFI) of DKK 25 million, an Aarhus research group headed by Professor Bo…

The bats' echolocation is more advanced than previously thought. Bats muffle their screams almost to a whisper when hunting, so echoes from trees and…

New paper in Nature Physics: A collaboration in the “Center for Complex Quantum Systems” at Aarhus University has successfully observed the formation…

Postdoc Thibaud Dieudonné from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receives the highly prestigious Marie…

Associate Professor Frans Mulder is heading a new consortium, BOUNDLESS, funded by the Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme of the Novo Nordisk…

After seven years of intense research, a research group from Aarhus University has succeeded - through an interdisciplinary collaboration - in…

In a recently published scientific article, a research group led by the Stellar Astrophysics Centre at Aarhus University describes a very special…

As quantum technology makes its inroad, we need to be able to use new materials to capture and tame the promising new opportunities offered by the…