Independent Research Fund Denmark provides funds for ground-breaking and original research ideas across all scientific research areas. This year, the foundation grants a total of DKK 750 million. to 222 researchers, of which almost DKK 169 million go to researchers at AU – 52 of them to researchers at Nat.

The fund distributes the two different instruments, DFF-Research Project 1 and DFF-Research Project 2

DFF-Research Project 1 typically runs over three years, and must be carried out within a financial framework of up to DKK 2 M, excl. overhead.

DFF-Research Project 2 typically lasts up to 4,5 years and is carried out by several researchers (including postdoctoral candidates and PhD students) with a financial framework of DKK 2 M to DKK 4,3 M, excl. overhead.

• Angela Fago, Department of Biology, DKK 2.788.058, The importance of myoglobin for mitochondrial function in vivo , FP1
• Brian Keith Sorrell, Department of Biology,  DKK 2.879.081, Ice Algae Photon Harvesting At Polar First Light, FP1
• Kasper Urup Kjeldsen, Department of Biology, DKK 6.191.693, Cellular ultrastructure of Asgard archaea, the putative missing link in the evolution from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, FP2
• Lars Birkedal, Department of Computer Science, DKK 2.875.276, Tools for Modular Verification of Distributed Systems, FP1
• Claudio Orlandi, Department of Computer Science, DKK 6.169.872, Cryptographic Foundations for Digital Society, FP2
• Peyman Afshaninaghadeh, Department of Computer Science, DKK 2.661.400, Data Structures in the New Multicore World, FP1
• Anders Møller, Department of Computer Science, DKK 2.878.531, Detecting Malicious JavaScript Software with Static Resource Analysis, FP1
• Steen Brøndsted Nielsen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, DKK 2.878.889, Fluorescence mass spectroscopy going cold: Energy transfer in “frozen” molecular ions, FP1
• Brigitte Maria Städler, iNANO, DKK 2.654.475, Ex-Vivo Epidermis Model to Identify Clinically Relevant Treatment Targets in Inflammatory Skin Diseases, FP1
• Daniel Otzen, iNANO, DKK 2.761.728, ChaMet: A new role for molecular chaperones in metabolostasis, FP1
• Frank Jensen, Department of Chemistry, DKK 2.880.000, The HINT method for automatic determination of chemical reaction pathways, FP1
• Lotte Bjergbæk, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, DKK 2.877.398, Studies of Break Induced Replication in human cells - The Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde repair mechanism, FP1
• Gregers Rom Andersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, DKK 2.879.992, Structural basis for ligand induced signalling in leukocyte integrin receptors, FP1
• Tinna Ventrup Stevnsner, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, DKK 2.833.455, Cockayne Syndrome Group B protein - a novel player in stress granule dynamics?, FP1
• Kasper Røjkjær Andersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, DKK 2.877.706, Large nanobody scaffolds to explore receptor-carbohydrate interactions using cryo-EM, FP1
• Claus Oxvig, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, DKK 2.879.760, Dynamic regulation of growth-promoting proteolytic activity, FP1