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…

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 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…

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…

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…