Independent Research Fund Denmark (IFRD) is investing a total of DKK 696 million in 202 new research ideas from all the main academic areas. DKK 219 million goes to AU researchers, of which DKK 97.6 million will go to researchers from Natural Sciences.

The grants from IFRD are allocated as follows:

(The links lead to the individual project descriptions on IFRD's homepage. When you get there, click on the headline to expand the text).

• Rune Hartmann, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: Characterisation of a novel antiviral pathway in Drosophila melanogaster.
• Nicolaj Krog Larsen, Department of Geoscience: Dating the Hiawatha impact crater in NW Greenland.
• Jan J. Enghild, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: Determining the molecular mechanisms underlying the conformational collapse of alpha macroglobulin protease inhibitors.
• Mark Preston Campbell Bayley, Department of Biology: Gill plasticity in the transition to air-breathing.
• Franciscus Alfonsus Albertus Mulder, Department of Chemistry: Hierarchical Protein Dynamics.
• Jan Arlt, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Quantum Fluids beyond the Mean-Field Paradigm.
• Charlotte Rohde Knudsen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: Single-molecule studies of how amino acids are accurately selected during protein synthesis on the ribosome.
• Gregers Rom Andersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: Structural dissection of the IgE-FceRI interaction.
• Christian Tegner, Department of Geoscience: Testing the volcanic vs. impact hypotheses for mass extinctions.
• Trine Bilde, Department of Biology: The molecular basis of evolutionary transitions to sociality.
• Ditlev E. Brodersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: Understanding the molecular basis of NAD+-depleting toxins in bacteria.
• Ulf Andersson Vang Ørom, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: miR22HG - from microRNA to enhancer.
• Peter Teglberg Madsen, Department of Biology: Batsound: How bats can locate and catch prey in less than a second.
• Søren Fournais,  Department of Mathematics: Mathematics of the dilute Bose gas.
• Jens-Christian Svenning, Department of Biology: Megafauna complexity as a global driver of vegetation diversity (MegaComplexity).
• Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: Molecular mechanisms of sterol uptake.
• Alexander Zelikin, Department of Chemistry: Synthetic artificial internalizing receptors.
• Marit-Solveig L.S. Seidenkrantz, Department of Geoscience: The NE Greenland shelf – a blank spot on the map (GreenShelf).

• Aurelien Romain Dantan, Department of Physics and Astronomy: A novel instrument for the accurate and direct measurement of saturation vapor pressures of low-volatile substances.
• Jørgen Skibsted, Department of Chemistry: Carbonation Curing of Cementitious Systems (C3S): New Binders and Concrete Recycling.
• Torsten Nygaard Kristensen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics: Optimization of insect production for animal feed through breeding.
• Hanne Birgit Schiøtt, Department of Chemistry: The Virtual Laundromat – Modelling Enzymes in Complex Detergent Mixtures.
  
  

• Rasmus Andreasen, Department of Geoscience: Making strontium isotopes a reliable tracer of human migration.