The Carlsberg Foundation has granted DKK 204 million to 134 young up-and-coming researchers and young newly appointed associate professors with visionary research ideas and projects. Thirty researchers from AU have received grants totalling more than DKK 47 million.

The grants went to support basic research in the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, and all supported activities stem from the researchers ' own visionary research proposals.

With the new grants, Aarhus University has received more than DKK 121 million from the Carlsberg Foundation on the basis of applications submitted to the Foundation in 2019. Earlier this year, five researchers from Aarhus University were awarded a Semper Ardens grant from the Carlsberg Foundation. 

This year, the Carlsberg Foundation awarded a total of DKK 400 million based on calls in 2019. Funding for research infrastructure projects will be awarded in January.

Read more in the press release from the Carlsberg Foundation

The 30 recipients of the Carlsberg Foundation's most recent grants

From Arts:

Associate Professor Mads Anders Baggesgaard, School of Communication and Culture
Amount: DKK 674,792. 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: The freest port? Slavery and literature in St. Thomas.  

Professor Nils Bubandt, School of Culture and Society
Amount: DKK 988,859. 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: The Last Paradise on Earth: A Study of Coral Worlds and Their End in Indonesia  

Associate Professor Sedat Gumus, Danish School of Education
Amount: DKK 2,959,991
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Finding the Missing Link: Exploring the Role of School Leadership in Student Achievement and Well-Being

Senior Researcher Lone Kølle Martinsen, School of Culture and Society
Amount: DKK 621,804 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: N.F.S. Grundtvig and The Concept of Woman: A Conceptual and Political History of the 19th Century

Professor Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, School of Culture and Society

Amount: DKK 805,583 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: The Practical Foundations of Epistemology

Associate Professor Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen, School of Culture and Society
Amount: DKK 730,093 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: Towards a Cultural Immunology. The project will present an innovative rethinking of the cultural sphere as an immunological system by combining insights from cognitive science, predictive processing, and theoretical biology, immunology.

 Line Marie Thorsen, PhD, School of Communication and Culture
Amount: DKK 700,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: Border-zones of empire: art, ecology, and negotiations of territory in East Asia. Based in East Asia I will research how farming artists has become the forefront of geo-political negotiations of territory: who and what gets to live where and how?

Professor Somogy Varga, School of Culture and Society
Amount: DKK 811,692 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: The Goal of Medicine. A Philosophical Analysis

Postdoc Mattias Skat Sommer, School of Culture and Society
Amount: DKK 850,000
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: TOLERATION: Toleration as a religious experiment in early modern Schleswig-Holstein

Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, PhD, School of Culture and Society
Amount: DKK 683,200 
Grant type: Special research projects
Project title: Danish excavations at Caesar's Forum in Rome 2020  

Associate Professor Hagen Schulz-Berg, School of Culture and Society
Amount: DKK 694,896 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: Upon this Rock. Neoliberalism, Global Governance and Liberal Democracy, 1930-1960.

Nicolai Krejberg Knudsen, PhD, School of Culture and Society, Department of the Study of Religion

Amount: DKK 850,000
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford
Projektnavn:The Phenomenology of Shared Responsibility

From Aarhus BSS:

Associate Professor Katerina Mitkidis, Department of Law
Amount: DKK 2,831,158
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Regulating emerging pollutants: designing law amidst constant scientific knowledge development

Professor Jørgen Møller, Department of Political Science
Amount: DKK 878,248 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship
Project title: The Catholic Origins of the Rise of Europe. Summary: I will write a book elucidating how the Catholic Church affected the development of institutions of political constraint in medieval and early modern Europe.

Fra Science and Technology:
Associate Professor Victor Silva Aguirre, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Amount: DKK 4,490,710
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: 3S3: 3D Simulations of Stellar atmospheres and oScillations

Postdoc Jesper Tataru Bjerg, Department of Bioscience
Amount: DKK 850,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: Electrosymbiosis of cable bacteria

Postdoc Amanda Bundgård, Department of Bioscience
Amount: DKK 700,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: Metabolic drivers of cellular damage in low oxygen

Associate Professor Menglin Chen, Department of Engineering
Amount: DKK 4,150,480 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: OptoMed: Injectable Nanofibrous Optoelectronics as Regenerative Medicine

Postdoc Johannes Christensen, Department of Mathematics
Amount: DKK 700,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: Ergodic theory and the structure of KMS weights

Postdoc Oskar Franch
Amount: DKK 350,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: Sensing Genomic Sequences using the Bacterial CRISPR Immune System: a Potential New Sensor System

Postdoc Lasse Hyldgaard Klausen
Amount: DKK 1.190.099
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowships
Project title: Understanding and regulating membrane tension for the nano-bio interface

Postdoc Emil Laust Kristoffersen, iNANO
Amount: DKK 425,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: Ribozyme rolling circle amplification

Associate Professor Nina Lock, Department of Engineering
Amount: DKK 4,254,305
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Rational development of inexpensive and scalable electrocatalysts

Assistant Professor Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Amount: DKK 4,499,599 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Molecular Mechanisms of Sterol Export from the Lysosome

Postdoc Pil Pedersen, Department of Bioscience
Amount: DKK 425,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: RewildECO 2 - Cross-scale assessment of Rewilding Efforts on Ecosystem Biodiversity and Resilience

Associate Professor Qian Janice Wang, Department of Food Science
Amount: DKK 3,081,399 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Virtual and augmented flavours: Extending human flavour perception via novel sensory inputs

From Health:

Associate Professor Christine Parsons, Department of Clinical Medicine
Amount: DKK 3,772,850 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: The New Parent Sleep Experience: sensitivity to infant signalling across genders and culture  

Associate Professor Joanna Kalucka, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
Amount: DKK 2,919,800
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship
Project title: Exploring the heterogeneity of splenic vasculature - is it more than a sieve?  

Postdoc Trine Line Hauge Okholm, Department of Clinical Medicine
Amount: DKK 700,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: Improving personalized cancer immunotherapy vaccines by computationally optimizing neoantigen selection

Postdoc Karen Kræmmer Schelde
Amount: DKK 425,000 
Grant type: Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation stipend
Project title: How mutations in the "Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator" gene alter the immune system in Cystic Fibrosis patients