News about Grants

Free movement? New Centre of Excellence examines global mobility rights

A new national Centre of Excellence in law will examine the complex legal structures that govern how we, as humans, move or are prevented from moving across national borders and parts of the world. The new centre will…

Nine young SUND-researchers receive millions to ignite career

Lundbeck Foundation Postdocs research grants are aimed at young, highly qualified scientists working in the field of biomedical sciences. SUND receives nine out of total of 31 Postdoc grants for 2022.

Anna Klawonn and Alexander Hauser new members of Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network

The Lundbeck Foundation has admitted assistant professors Alexander Hauser and Anna Mathia Klawonn into their recently established network of researchers, LFIN, Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network.

Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg receives grant to research individual diabetes treatment

Post.doc and Ph.D. at the Department of Biomedical Sciences Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg receives grant of DKK 600,000 from the Danish Diabetes Association to ensure more individualised diabetes treatment.

Department of Psychology involved in new project on the ‘Big Two’

Researchers from the University of Mannheim and UCPH will lead a new project asking why the so-called ‘Big Two’ in human psychology – agency and communion – are so fundamental to us.

New research on how to quantify quantum effects on black holes

Professor in Physics, Vitor Cardoso from the Niels Bohr Institute, NBIA, has received a DNRF Chair grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to study and quantify quantum effects on astrophysical black holes

Does altitude-like cognition training strengthen brain function?

Researchers at the Department of Psychology will now investigate whether simulated altitude cognition training can strengthen the brain function.

Research project about deterrence is rewarded an ERC Grant

What influence does deterrence have on international politics? The topic is highly relevant at the moment and is now being supported by the European Research Council.

Young researchers awarded grant for cardiovascular research

The Danish Cardiovascular Academy is ready with the first out of five scholarship grants. Two research talents from BMI among the 20 best projects that have received funding from the newly established academy.

Two of our researchers have received the LF Experiment grant from the Lundbeck Foundation

Postdoc Laura Mikél Mc Nair and Associate Professor Matthias Herth have received the grant given by the Lundbeck Foundation for audacious and innovative projects.

Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, new research anchored at the Department of Anthropology will examine how to create green neighbouring communities in housing associations.

Research into digital sovereignty and governance of oceans receives multi-million grants

Two VELUX FONDEN grants allow researchers from the Department of Political Science to launch projects on crucial political challenges in digital technologies and sustainable governance of seas.

Joint educational project at NBI

Alessandra Camplani and Stefania Xella from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen, have received a 4EU+ grant for Joint Educational Projects.

Villum Investigator 2021

Barbara Ann Halkier awarded a Villum Investigator grant of 30 million DKK.

Georgios Magdis receives Villum Young Investigator Plus grant to investigate the beginning of galaxies

With the Villum Young Investigator Plus, he will be able to look even further into the past, to the first few billion years of galaxy evolution, using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James…

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and sparkling”, but the idea is to take a closer look at where elements heavier than iron like platinum and gold actually come…

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are among the beneficiaries this year and their research reaches across the spectrum the smallest to the largest, i.e. from…

Kirstine Meyers Memorial Grant for two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

These young, promising researchers are receiving this honorary grant for their outstanding research that brings exciting new contributions in their respective fields.

Quantum electronics accelerator awarded to Anasua Chatterjee and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded Assistant Professor Anasua Chatterjee and Associate Professor Ferdinand Kuemmeth an infrastructure grant; adding to the NBI new cryogenic tools to screen quantum devices at low…

Two grants for innovative research to help battle antibiotic resistance

With the use of 3D microscopy and mathematical modeling, Liselotte Jauffred will explore how the spread of antibiotic resistance is influenced by the way microbes organize themselves. Not in a test tube, but in a 3D…

Sapere Aude Grant for research into the connection between religiosity and wealth

Associate Professor Jeanet Sinding Bentzen from the Department of Economics has received the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Sapere Aude grant for talented research leaders.

Grant for developing long term weather predictions in Denmark

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to provide us with a much longer perspective on the general weather situation in Denmark.

Young researcher talents get prestigeous career push

The ERC starting grant means a lot to me, as it provides an important step forward in my academic career, says Leonardo Midolo, Niels Bohr Institute.

New collaboration between Niels Bohr Institute and Stanford University

How do cells know in which direction to grow? Silas Boye Nissen, a PhD student in the Biocomplexity Group has received a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.