Eight researchers from Aarhus University will receive funding from the Danish Council for Independent Research’s (DFF) Sapere Aude programme which only supports the best researchers.

The following two categories are part of the Sapere Aude programme: Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant and Sapere Aude: DFF Research Talent.

Six of the grants for AU researchers are starting grants. Five researchers at Science and Technology and one researcher at Arts received these six grants amounting to nearly DKK 42 million in total. Two talents at Arts each received a grant of DKK 144,000 as part of the talent programme.

The Danish Council for Independent Research’s Sapere Aude programme grants a total of DKK 124 million for 38 talented researchers in Denmark.

Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant (in Danish):

• Aslan Askarov, associate professor of computer science: Language-Based Anonymity
• Jill Atsuko Miwa, associate professor of physics: Engineering quantum materials for next generation devices.
• Felix Riede, associate professor of geoarchaeology: Apocalypse then? The Laacher See volcanic eruption (13,000 years before present), Deep Environmental History and Europe’s geo-cultural heritage
• Martijn Jan Resie Heck, PhD in electronics: micro-NIST.
• Claudio Orlandi, associate professor of computer science: Foundations of Cryptographic Computing.
• Thomas Bjørnskov Poulsen, assistant professor of chemical biology: Targeting and Manipulating the Hypoxic Cancer Cell.

Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Talent (in Danish):

• Heide Wrobel Nørgaard, postdoc in archaeology: An archaeological fingerprint: Isotopes as a key to trace Denmark’s metal supply and routes of transfer in Early Bronze Age (2100-1500 BCE)
• Lasse Gammelgaard, assistant professor of literary theory: Forms of Mental Illness Representation in Contemporary Literature.

Read the news from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science:

• Read more about Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant
• Read more about Sapere Aude: DFF Research Talent