News about Grants

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.

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