The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) is awarding DKK 192 million to be divided between 34 extraordinary early career researchers with original ideas and strong research leadership ambitions. The fund’s investment provides these young talents with the opportunity to lead their own research teams and carry out research at a high international level. 

“We have made risk-minded investments in the very best researchers, with a focus on innovative research for the benefit of Denmark. These are promising projects that will help set the course for Danish research and create the foundation for new quantum adventures, for example, in addition to making a very direct contribution of knowledge to societal issues,” says Peter Munk Christiansen, chair of the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

The seven newly appointed research directors from all four of AU’s faculties are:

• Assistant Professor Anne Ersbak Bang Nielsen, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Science and Technology
• Associate Professor Jacob Lund Orquin, Department of Management, Aarhus BSS
• Associate Professor Wolf Lukas Tilmann Eiserhardt, Department of Bioscience, Science and Technology
• Associate Professor Christian Olaf Christiansen, Department of Culture and Society, Arts
• Associate Professor Jevgenijs Ivanovs, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology
• Associate Professor Lin Lin, Department of Biomedicine, Health
• Assistant Professor Klaus Koren, Department of Bioscience, Science and Technology

More information:

• Read the press release from the Independent Research Fund Denmark
• Read coverage from Health
• Read coverage from Science and Technology