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Have you been keeping up with AU news over the last year? Then you should participate in AU’s advent calendar quiz for employees every weekday from the 3 to 21 December (weeks 49,50 and 51). A new question about the ‘AU year in review’ will be published every day.

"We’re going to start using our new e-recruitment system at the beginning of December, and I’m looking forward to it. The new system will simplify the work processes involved in recruiting new employees at AU. And the journey towards the new system has been exciting, challenging and instructive, so I’ll be focusing on it in this month’s blog post," Arnold Boon writes.

As of 1 December 2018, you will no longer be able to find your own or your colleagues’ AU ID at international.au.dk/person. AU ID will be removed from AU’s website for security reasons. Instead, you can look up AU ID in Outlook and at mit.au.dk.

They have been discussed a lot over the last few years. The fifty recognised researchers from foreign top universities who will be affiliated with Health and hold the title of Honorary Skou Professor. Now we can reveal the initial 21 names.

Marcus T. Pearce is newly appointed as professor of cognitive neuroscience at Aarhus University. Here he will conduct research into the psychological mechanisms that come into play when we listen to and create music.

Peter Nejsum from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital has just received DKK three million from Horizon 2020. The grant will be used to develop a device that can sort nanoparticles, which can have importance for treatment and diagnosis.

Flemming Bro, professor at Aarhus University and general practitioner, has received the general practitioners prize of honour, the Halfdan Mahler Prize. He receives the prize for his work on creating coherence between research and quality improvement.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from AU have developed a remote interface to control a quantum gas experiment and are starting to unravel how citizen scientists solve complex, natural science problems.