DKK 16 million for daring experiments at Aarhus University
The VILLUM FOUNDATION has granted approx. DKK 16 million to eight research projects at Aarhus University. The eight researchers behind the projects are all from Science and Technology, and the projects have been selected anonymously based on how innovative and daring they are.
The core of the VILLUM FOUNDATION programme, the Villum Experiment, is to promote technical and scientific research ideas that challenge researchers and make them think in new ways.
And they are not experimental research projects. All the almost 400 applications have been through an anonymous selection process, with 20 international assessors assessing the research idea without being able to consider the researchers' CVs and academic work. 52 of the applications came through, and eight of them are from Aarhus University:
Title and name | Department/Centre | Experiment | Grant (DKK) |
Postdoc Chengfang Pang | iNANO | Shaping Nanoparticle-Microbial Interactions to Modify the Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance (NanoShapMicro) | 1,996,044 |
Associate Professor Rikke Louise Meyer | iNANO | The secret life of DNA | 1,970,658 |
Visiting scientist Ada Pastor | Department of Bioscience | Nitrogen in rocks: an overlooked nutrient source in Arctic aquatic ecosystems | 2,000,000 |
Associate Professor Maximilian Stritzinger | Department of Physics and Astronomy | Cosmography of Laniakea: Type Ia supernovae, Peculiar Velocities & Dark Matter | 1,993,738 |
Assistant Professor Nicola Lanata | Department of Physics and Astronomy | Simulating strongly correlated materials by combining quantum theory with machine learning | 1,930,108 |
Assistant Professor Victoria Antoci | Department of Physics and Astronomy | Exploring the interplay between hot stars and exoplanets - A new spectrograph prototype for a unique nano-sat mission | 1,960,230 |
Junior Fellow, visiting scientist Yonghui Zeng | Department of Environmental Science | Link Phototrophy and Methanotrophy in Glacial Bacteria | 1,984.518 |
Assistant Professor Magnus Kjærgaard | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics | Self-assembled protein droplets as reaction platforms for biotechnology | 1,992,652 |
| In total | 15,827,948 |
Read more about the projects at the Villum Foundation