News about Grants

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…

Eugene Polzik receives DKK 10 million for fundamental research and innovation in quantum optics

QUANTOP at the Niels Bohr Institute has attracted DKK 10 million funding from two funding agencies, the John Templeton Foundation (USA) and EUREKA – the European framework targeting cooperation between SMEs and research…

Large ERC grant for Kim Sneppen

An advanced ERC grant for Kim Sneppen of DKK 16.500.000 was awarded for development of new methods and models to explore the diverse and complex world within and between cells, for investigating how diversity emerges an…

Niels Bohr Institute welcomes 6 new Marie Curie Fellows

From “Quantum Supremacy” to planet-disks interactions, the Niels Bohr Institute opens its doors to ever more scientific excellence, with 6 new Marie Curie Grants for a total of € 1,3 million, so just short of 10 Million…

Carlsberg supports Danish Mars research

Morten Bo Madsen, head of the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of 2.5 million kroner from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project: A Field Trip 250 million km from home – Salary for Essentia…

Large EU grant for astronomy project

Astrophysicist Heidi Korhonen, associate professor in the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute has received a grant of 3.2 million kroner to lead an EU project that will train young researchers in…

Quantum technology boosted by 20 million kroner from the Ministry of Science

Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation has awarded 20 million kroner to a new centre, QUANTECH, which will build up a research infrastructure comprised of a facility with a number of instruments for…