The Lundbeck Foundation is giving the DANDRITE neuroscience centre at Aarhus University funding to spend on research up to 2028. The funds worth DKK…

Ten years ago, researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark, reported the discovery of centimeter-long cable bacteria, that live by conducting an…

Two research projects at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, have received a total of DKK 61.6 million for research equipment and facilities to support…

A scientific article published in Nature in 2016 has been the subject of criticism from peers for a number of years, and it has given rise to an…

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has just granted almost DKK 37 million to a targeted effort to unravel the importance of the ongoing…

Although the protein ITIH4 is found in large amounts in the blood, its function has so far been unknown. By combining many different techniques,…

Professor Jens-Christian Svenning conducts research into the dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems to reveal the factors that shape, threaten and…

With a grant of DKK 15 million (EUR 2M) from the Green Development and Demonstration Programme (GUDP) - a programme under the Ministry of Food,…

Since 2011 the Young Investigator-programme from the VILLUM Foundation has supported the carriers of young and ambitious researchers. This year two…

Associate Professor Magnus Kjærgaard participates in a new consortium, BOUNDLESS, headed by Associate Professor Frans Mulder and funded by the…

Professor Peter Jørgensen, Department of Mathematics, has been awarded a DNRF Chair from the Danish National Research Foundation, which is just the…

Professor Lars Arge, Department of Computer Science, passed away 23 December 2020 at the age of just 53.

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…

Results published in Science from Aarhus University describe how legumes pick up special signalling molecules to distinguish between harmful and…

Andrew Murray and Mads Faurschou Knudsen from the Department of Geoscience, together with colleagues from DTU and the universities in Oslo, Uppsala,…

In a joint collaboration, Danish and German researchers have characterized a cellular activity that protects our cells from potentially toxic…

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…

The groundbreaking open research collaboration, so far between Aarhus University and nine pharmaceutical and biotech companies, ODIN, is now up and…

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…

Researchers from Aarhus and Copenhagen universities have shown that environmental DNA - the method of analysing DNA from an environmental sample to…

Associate Professor Bjørn Panyella Pedersen from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receives an ERC Consolidator…

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…

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…

The sperm whale is the world's largest toothed predator, and they consume as many fish and squid as the entire global fishing industry. However, we…

With new insights into how the genetic tool CRISPR – which allows direct editing of our genes – evolved and adapted, we are now one step closer to…

The Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded some of the foremost research talents, Sapere Aude research leader grants. There are three…

Aarhus University is collaborating with three Danish universities to establish a national satellite programme in collaboration with the Danish…

In a screening for a functional impact to the neuronal differentiation process, Danish researchers identified a specific circular RNA, circZNF827,…

Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) has just published the 65 research projects on the green transition that have been awarded grants. At the…

Georg Bruun and Nikolaj Thomas Zinner have both been appointed professors in theoretical physics at Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus…

Aarhus University Press publishes a revised translation of 'Camp Century – The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the…

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…

With the grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, main applicant Poul Nissen and colleagues from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and…

VILLUM Experiment has just awarded grants to a number of researchers, who each represent innovative approaches to their research areas, and who can…

AU researchers will receive a total of DKK 119.1 million to establish research centres to find research-based solutions to future-proofing…

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…

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…

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…

What happens to the nanoparticles when they are injected into the bloodstream, for example, to destroy solid tumours? With new results published in…

A so-called circular RNA molecule, which is thought to be carcinogenic, is not present in cancer cells after all. A Danish research team has published…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted DKK 15 million from its interdisciplinary synergy programme to project DRAMA. With researchers from both Nat…

The research initiative LifeTime represents more than 50 European universities, including Aarhus University. A new Perspective article in Nature,…

Introduced species are reshaping how plants and animals interact in ecosystems worldwide

This year, Natural Sciences welcomes 966 new science students. Due to corona, orientation days are different than usual, and yet still the same.

As of 1 September 2020, Peter Balling has been appointed Professor of Experimental Physics

A recent study in eLife shows a new mechanism in the fish eye that boosts the retina´s oxygen supply more than 10-fold and enhances eye´s ability to…

Tinna Stevnsner has been appointed Professor of Molecular Ageing Research at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University…

Researchers from Aarhus University challenge one of the cornerstones of biochemistry, the Michaelis-Menten equation. They show that many enzymes in…

Anne E. B. Nielsen has received the H.C. Ørsted Selskabet research talent award for her ground-breaking work within electromagnetism and quantum…

99 botanists from 19 countries – including three from Denmark – have mapped plant life on the world's second-largest island, New Guinea, and so far…

Legume plants know their friends from their enemies, and now we know how they do it at the molecular level. Plants recognize beneficial microbes and…

An international team of researchers led by Aarhus University are the first to determine the crystal structure of an exopolysaccharide receptor. The…

The immune system protects us from attacks from external enemies such as bacteria and viruses, but sometimes the body fights so fiercely against…

20 per cent more students will be offered a place at Natural Sciences this year. There are also still vacant places, because the university has…

Professor Jørgen Kjems and the consortium Virofight has received funding from the EU FET-OPEN program to advance novel antiviral treatment. Instead of…

The university invites partners, staff and students to a welcome reception for Dean Kristian Pedersen 19 August 2020.

25% more have chosen one of Aarhus University’s IT programmes as their first priority. The three programmes at the Faculty of Natural Sciences -…

As expected, applications to Denmark’s higher education degree programmes have increased this year – this also applies to Aarhus University, which has…

Ebbe S. Andersen is awarded a DKK 10 million Ascending Investigator Grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Research Leader Programme. The research…

The natural science journal Aktuel Naturvidenskab and the natural science lecture series "Offentlige foredrag i Naturvidenskab" have been granted DKK…

Retirement is approaching for Professor Niels Peter Revsbech from the Department of Biology, and tomorrow, 1 July, he is passing on one of his biggest…

Faculty of Natural Sciences is looking for two new vice-deans for research and education to develop and run the newly established faculty.

For the first time, the Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded grants within the research programme NERD, which is targeted at ambitious and wild…

A new paper from Jørgen Kjems' group at iNANO and MBG describes how expression of non-coding RNA changes during epileptic seizures in rodents. The…

More students are to have the opportunity to study a natural science degree programme at Aarhus University, and after the summer holidays, 152 more…

Recent paper in ACS Nano reveals surprising electronic properties in the new two dimensional semiconductor rhenium diselenid. Søren Ulstrup of IFA is…

Innovation Fund Denmark supports the CoronaLytics project with 4 M DKK. From University of Aarhus, Professor Kaj Grønbæk of the Department of Computer…

Joseph Lyons is one of the nine talented researchers who will become a Lundbeckfonden fellow in 2020. And the grant that comes with the appointment…

We need new guidelines to shield whales from human-made noise to ensure them some peace and quiet. It is no good keeping whale-watching boats out of…

An international research team has used new X-ray techniques to describe how the architecture of healthy human bones is built up. The team has…

Researchers from the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University are participating in a new research project, ECOTIP, which will investigate the…

It is difficult wage war without causing collateral damage , and the same goes for our immune system when it has to fight viral infections, such as…

Aarhus University and Esbjerg Municipality join forces to establish an observatory at Mandø. This is happening as part of Esbjerg Municipality 's…

After three years as head of the internationally recognised Centre for Water Technology (WATEC) at Aarhus University, Professor Niels Peter Revsbech…

Mikkel Slot Nielsen from the Department of Mathematics has been awarded Aarhus University Research Foundation's PhD Award 2020. The prize will be…

Daniel Otzen and collaborators, Jørgen Kjems and Victoria Birkedal from the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and the company Fida…

Independent Research Fund Denmark (IFRD) grants DKK 97.6 million to 23 research projects at Natural Sciences.

With a grant of DKK 6,181,260 (USD 900,000) from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Associate Professor Bjørn Panyella Pedersen can now increase…

Danish National Research Foundation centre in Aarhus has a central role in some newly discovered details of the remarkable delta Scuti stars. To be…

Ever wondered if you could see through the body of a living organism and observe the dynamic interplay between cells and nanoparticles injected into…

A global research project has demonstrated that climate change entails a higher risk of freezing temperatures late in the spring. This can damage…

Areas of the planet home to one-third of humans will become as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years, unless greenhouse gas emissions…

The Earth’s core is not as isolated from the rest of the globe as previously believed. An international research group headed by Aarhus University has…

Else Marie Friis elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Society

On 1 April, Kristian Pedersen took up his position as the first dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. He is looking forward to getting down to…

Jan Piotrowski has been appointed head of Geoscience, where he has been acting head of department since the summer of 2019. Hans Brix has been head of…

Professor Bo Barker Jørgensen from Aarhus University is to become a member of the world's most prestigious science academy, the American National…

The healthcare system and the economy are under pressure in many parts of the world due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With fundings from…

New research by an international team of scientists reveals that endangered North Atlantic right whales are in much poorer body condition than their…

An international team of researchers has put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in the DNA of modern humans…

A Danish-German research collaboration may have found a solution to the large climate impact from the world's rice production: By adding electric…

According to an international group of marine scientists, it is not too late to restore the ecosystems in the world's oceans. If we follow their road…

The new dean at Faculty of Natural Sciences sends a greeting to employee sand students of the faculty.

Working and studying has been different in just as many ways as there are employees and students, and together, each in their own way, they are…

The automated SONG telescope in Tenerife does not require on-site staff to conduct the observations of stars, yet the Corona virus has forced the…

Professor Ira Assent from Department of Computer Science and Professor Birgit Schiøtt from Department of Chemistry and iNANO have received a VILLUM…

With more than a quarter of a billion DKK, and in close collaboration with more than 50 industrial partners, Danish researchers and experts are now…