2016 Award ceremony
On Wednesday 25 May 2016, one of Denmark’s oldest and most prestigious awards – the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research – will be conferred at the 2016 award ceremony at Aarhus University
On Wednesday 25 May 2016, one of Denmark’s oldest and most prestigious awards – the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research – will be conferred at the 2016 award ceremony at Aarhus University. Each year, the award is conferred on two researchers who have achieved the highest level of academic distinction and international recognition. On the same occasion, the Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD Award will be conferred on five PhDs.
Register for the 2016 Award Ceremony (link for registration in Danish only)
The award was established in 1956 to mark Carl Holst-Knudsen’s 70th birthday. For several years, Carl Holst-Knudsen played a very important role in establishing Aarhus University. From 1933 to 1956, barrister Carl Holst-Knudsen was chairman of Aarhus University as well as the University and City Liaison Committee. He was involved in establishing Aarhus University from the very beginning in 1928, when he was a member of Århus City Council and was elected as one of the council’s representatives on the board of the University Teaching in Jutland.
The Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD Award is conferred on promising young researchers who have completed their PhDs at Aarhus University the previous year. At the university’s 75th anniversary in 2003, the first five PhDs received the award in recognition of their research work, and since then the award ceremony has been an annual event. The award includes a DKK 50,000 cash award.
This year, the Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD Award will be conferred for the fourteenth time. Five PhDs have been selected to receive additional recognition for their efforts.
Read more about the Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD Award and previous award winners.