News about Grants

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.

DKK 10.5 million for three new research ideas

The Independent Research Fund Denmark supports three new research projects at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Sarah Pearson receives the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship

Former Niels Bohr Institute student, Sarah Pearson, has just been awarded one of the most prestigious research fellowships in astrophysics, the so-called Hubble Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded annually by NASA…

Elite Research travel grant to Kelton Ray Minor

PhD Fellow Kelton Ray Minor, SODAS and Department of Economics, receives the Elite Research travel grant of DKK 200,000 for his research talent.

Three young scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Three young scientists, Mauricio Bustamante, Amin Doostmohammadi and Johan Samsing get to boost their research in particle physics, self-pumping fluids and gravitational waves in the Universe.

3 researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive grants from Villum Fonden

VILLUM FONDEN awards DKK 98.5 million in grants to 52 bold research projects within the technical and natural sciences. For the third year running, VILLUM FONDEN has selected innovative research projects to receive…

Tiina Sikanen (University of Helsinki) among 2019 ERC Proof of Concept Grantees

Prof. Tiina Sikanen (The University of Helsinki, The leader of Nordic POP work package 4) is one of the researchers who have been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2019 in the second batch of research projects. Her…

Eugene Polzik receives Villum Investigator grant for pushing the boundaries of quantum mechanics

Eugene Polzik, head of the QUANTOP Laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives 30 million from the Villum foundation to “push the boundaries of the quantum behavior towards larger and more…

Physics knowledge about the cell’s puncture kit can be used in cancer treatment

Poul Martin Bendix, researcher in biocomplexity at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, has received 15 million DKK to research the cell’s surface repair in collaboration with the Danish Cancer Society an…

Large Grant for Research into Innovative Way of Fighting Severe Overweight

Romain Barrès, who researches epigenetics within metabolism, has received the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s prestigious Challenge Programme of DKK 60 million

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data processing facilities at CERN, so that in the future we can increase our knowledge about the early state of the Universe.

Official opening of Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q)

The official opening of the new Center of Excellence, Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) was celebrated on September 17 in Festauditoriet at the Faculty of Science.

VILLUM Experiment millions to six NBI researchers

Six researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have received just under DDK 11 million in research funding from the Villum Foundation, which will be used for projects or ideas that are…

What causes superconductivity? It will take legwork!

With a grant of 5,662,844 DKK from the Danish Council for Independent Research, Brian Møller Andersen at the Niels Bohr Institute will have the opportunity to try to understand the superconducting properties of…

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives grant of 4.4 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for Microphysics of the…

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives a Villum Young Investigator grant on 7.350.000 DDK for…

Giorgos Leloudas receives 10 million DKK to investigate the “blackest” of black holes in the Universe

The research in the black holes in the center of galaxies gets a boost on 10 million DKK with a Villum Young Investigator grant to assistant professor Giorgos Leloudas at DARK Cosmology Centre.

Lars Egstrøm Kristensen receives 9.3 million DKK to look for the building blocks of life in the Universe

From dead molecules to life – but how? Lars Egstrøm Kristensen, associate professor at the Astro and Planetary research section, has received 9.368.760 DKK from the Villum Young Investigator programme.

Climate research receives a 4.5 million DKK grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

Carlsberg Foundation supports a climate project with 4.5 million DKK grant, that will provide new knowledge about the mechanisms of the sudden climate change of the past, improving our ability to handle the risk of the…

Jan Haerter receives DKK 10 million for research on atmospheric complexity

Jan Haerter from the Atmospheric Complexity Group at the Niels Bohr Institute receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of DKK 10 million for research on cloud-cloud interaction and for better understanding of the climate…