Four AU researchers win funding for sustainability research
The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) has awarded grants totalling DKK 105m to 37 research projects to support the green transition. Four of the grant recipients are researchers from Aarhus University, each of whom has received approx. DKK 2.8m to realise their projects.
This coverage is based on a press release from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Four early career researchers from Aarhus University have won grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for research projects to support the green transition: from research into carbon capture and storage technologies and cooling technologies that rely on magnetism rather than environmental pollutants such as fluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons to increasing environmental literacy through new approaches to teaching Danish literature.
The four research projects and 33 others have been selected as the most innovative, promising ideas among 337 applications for the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Green Transition grants.
- Associate Professor Patrick Biller, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, has received DKK 2,875,849 for the project: Catalytic pyrolysis of biogas
- Senior Scientist Dominik Zak, Department of Ecoscience, has received DKK 2,846,702 for the project: REcoVEr the full potential of Rewetted peatlands for global Change mITigation
Read more here: Two Tech researchers receive funding for green research from DFF - Professor Anja-Verena Mudring, Department of Chemistry, has received DKK 2,879,812 for the project: Enabling energy-efficient refrigeration through new magnetocaloric materials
Read more here: Anja-Verena Mudring receives major funding from DFF for green cooling - Assistant Professor Tobias Thejl Ploug Skiveren, School of Communication and Culture,has received DKK 2,856,748 for the project: Environmental Literacy in L1 Education: Greening Danish Literary History
Maja Horst, chair of the DFF Board, has this to say about the grants:
"Green research is more important than ever if society is to meet our green ambitions. That's why it makes me both confident and proud to see that so many of Denmark's talented researchers have submitted relevant and potentially groundbreaking ideas."
The DKK 105 million in funding awarded by DFF to green research comes from the government’s research reserve funds in 2022; DFF was tasked with allocating funding earmarked by the government to the theme of ‘Green research’. DFF has placed a high priority on providing support for researchers' own initiatives within green research, and the fund supports projects within and across all disciplines.