The Carlsberg Foundation awards DKK 50.6 mil. to 43 AU researchers
Danish basic research gets a major boost with almost DKK 300 mil. from the Carlsberg Foundation — 50.6 mil. of which goes to 43 AU researchers.
Read more in the press release from the Carlsberg Foundation
New treatment for Covid-19. The significance of zooplankton in the Arctic. A study of the Lutheran legacy in Danish society.
There is a wide range of topics in the 44 research projects at Aarhus University which have been awarded grants from the Carlsberg Foundation totalling DKK 50.6 mil.
With the grants, the Carlsberg Foundation continues its strategic objective of supporting and ensuring the conditions for the most outstanding basic research within natural sciences, humanities and social sciences.
All of the grants have been awarded based on a thorough scientific evaluation of almost 600 applications based on the researchers’ own visionary ideas and project proposals.
Read the article from Aarhus BSS about grant recipient and associate professor Morten Valbjørn: Valbjørn must rethink Islamism
Read the article from Health about the grant recipient Rasmus O. Bak: Biomedicine researcher receives fellowship and five million kroner
See all of the grant recipients from Aarhus University below in Carlsbergs own categorization: Humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and interdisciplinary projects.
Humanities and social sciences
Professor MSO Anna Katharina Becker
Amount: 821,100
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: Politics that matters. Materiality and the Body Politic 1500-1800
Associate professor Christian Olaf Christiansen
Amount: 720,493
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: A Miscalculated Bet: Business, Human Rights and the Battle against Global Poverty
Associate professor Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
Amount: 178,700
Grant type: Research trips/field expeditions
Project title: Supporting children’s play in Early Childhood Education and Care ECEC
Associate professor Felix Weiss
Amount: 3,456,114
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Ethnic minorities in the Danish higher education system. A study on the intersection between ethnic and social inequalities with specific attention to written language skills.
Associate professor Gauri Pathak
Amount: 3,720,090
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Plastics and the Anthropocene: The Bads Associated with the Goods We Consume
Amount: 318,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Advertiser Bias in Business News
Associate professor Jens Christian Bjerring
Amount: 3,792,510
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Algorithmic Decision Making: Philosophical Challenges
Amount: 819,731
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: The Programmatic Scene in New Testament Gospels and Ancient Biographies
Amount: 950,352
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: Sharing Mountains: Ethical Change in Ik Land
Associate professor Morten Valbjørn
Amount: 772,228
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: Rethinking Islamisms: The transformation of Islamist scenes in a new Middle East
Associate professor Nina Javette Koefoed
Amount: 341,508
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Making the 18th century accessible
Associate professor Nina Javette Koefoed
Amount: 736,203
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: Lutheran legacy in Danish society in a longue durée perspective. Household, authority and social responsibility.
Amount: 331,000
Grant type: Research trips/field expeditions
Project title: Research stay at Universität Mannheim
Natural Sciences
Amount: 300,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy, FLIM, for chemical and metabolic imaging in microbial systems
Amount: 714,840
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Mitochondrial adaptations to environmental change
Associate professor Charlotte Rohde Knudsen
Amount: 310,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Does accurate protein synthesis depend on protein domain rotations?
Associate professor Christian Kroun Damgaard
Amount: 120,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Regulation of mRNA decay and translation during the cellular stress response
Associate professor Claudia Strauch
Amount: 3,863,066
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships
Project title: Exploring the potential of nonparametric modelling of complex systems via stochastic partial differential equations
Associate professor Ditlev Egeskov Brodersen
Amount: 350,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Understanding the molecular basis of NAD-depleting toxins in bacteria
Senior researcher Eva Friis Møller
Amount: 250,000
Grant type: Research trips/field expeditions
Project title: Where do you find energy in the arctic winter? A study of the importance of fat-laden zooplankton.
Amount: 1,000,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Improving the science quality of the Hertzsprung SONG telescope in the Stellar Observations Network Group
Assistant professor Joanna Kalucka
Amount: 350,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Framework to generate blood vessel organoid: a model system to address human vascular biology
Amount: 900,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Measuring macromolecular interactions under native conditions
Associate professor Karin Lykke-Hartmann
Amount: 100,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Stimulating dormant eggs to become activated
Amount: 240,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: How do soil invertebrates survive thermal extremes?
Associate professor Rasmus O. Bak
Amount: 5,000,000
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Elucidating genetic programs in hematopoietic stem cells
Amount: 750,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: High precision laser capture microdissection system for isolation of individual cell types
Amount: 188,804
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: IFN-?: A novel therapeutic for treatment of COVID-19
Associate professor Simon Wall
Amount: 4,996,778
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Coherence and disorder in light-driven phase transitions
Professor Steen Brøndsted Nielsen
Amount: 700,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Spectrometer and CCD camera for LUNA2, a luminescence setup for 77-Kelvin molecular ions in vacuo
Amount: 600,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: IceMelt - Changes in freshwater runoff, glacial melt, sea ice melt in polar areas will be quantified by measuring hydrographic conditions, oxygen isotopes and other tracers on the coast and shelves around Greenland.
Senior researcher Thomas Alexander Davidson
Amount: 400,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: High resolution measurements of greenhouse gas dynamics in temporarily stratifying lakes
Associate professor Thomas B. Poulsen
Amount: 1,000,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Automating cell based screening and morphological profiling at Aarhus University
Associate professor Ulf Andersson Vang Ørom
Amount: 350,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Molecular mechanisms of RNA modification in regulation of gene expression
Interdisciplinary projects
Amount: 230,152
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Building a Mobile Eye Tracking Infrastructure in Denmark
Professor Bo Brummerstedt Iversen
Amount: 1,500,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: TESCAN Scanning Electron Microscope
Associate professor Ebbe Sloth Andersen
Amount: 398,437
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Optimization of Cryo-EM characterization pipeline for biomolecular nanostructures
Associate professor Jesper Olsen
Amount: 1,300,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Ultra small samples directly on CO2 for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry AMS. A first step towards 14CO2 dating of methane from marine sediments
Associate professor Kenneth Howard
Amount: 100,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Checkpoint Inhibitor Bioassay for Next-Generation Immunotherapy Nanomedicines
Senior researcher Martin Hansen
Amount: 307,920
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Novel in vitro assay platform for environmental toxicology at Aarhus University
Associate professor Michaela Hejná
Amount: 3,708,897
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships
Project title: It is not what you said, it is how you said it: an empirical approach to human voice as the outward expression of inner character
Associate professor Mingdong Dong
Amount: 2,234,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Fluidic Force Microscope for Single-Cell Manipulation and Analysis
Associate professor Rikke Louise Meyer
Amount: 432,898
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: Confocal microscope upgrade for live cell imaging
Amount: 950,000
Grant type: Research infrastructure
Project title: NMR-based lipidomics for disease detection
DKK 50,603,821