Basic research is an important priority for the Carlsberg Foundation, which has strategic focus on strengthening Danish basic research. Through future-oriented, focused support for young talents, the Foundation aims to secure the generation change at Danish universities.

The Carlsberg Foundation has granted a total of DKK 204 million to the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, distributed among 134 recipients.

The 12 researchers from Science and Technology are:

Associate Professor Victor Silva Aguirre, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Amount: DKK 4,490,710 
Grant Type: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships
Project title: 3S3: 3D Simulations of Stellar atmospheres and oScillations

Postdoc Jesper Tataru Bjerg, Department of Bioscience
Amount: DKK 850,000
Grant Type: The Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowships
Project title: Electrosymbiosis of cable bacteria

Postdoc Amanda Bundgård, Department of Bioscience
Amount: DKK 700,000 
Grant Type: The Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowships
Project title: Metabolic drivers of cellular damage in low oxygen

Lektor Menglin Chen, Department of Engineering
Amount: DKK 4.150.480
Grant: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships
Project title: OptoMed: Injectable Nanofibrous Optoelectronics as Regenerative Medicine

Postdoc Johannes Christensen, Department of Mathematics
Amount: DKK 700,000
Grant: The Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowships
Project title: Ergodic theory and the structure of KMS weights

Postdoc Oskar Franch
Amount: DKK 350,000 
Grant: The Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowships
Project title: Sensing Genomic Sequences using the Bacterial CRISPR Immune System: a Potential New Sensor System

Postdoc Lasse Hyldgaard Klausen, lassehyldgaard@inano.au.dk
Amount: DKK 1,190,099
Grant: Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowships
Project title: Understanding and regulating membrane tension for the nano-bio interface

Postdoc Emil Laust Kristoffersen, iNANO
Amount: DKK 425,000 
Grant: The Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowships
Project title: Ribozyme rolling circle amplification

Lektor Nina Lock, Department of Engineering
Amount: DKK 4,254,305
Grant: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships
Project title: Rational development of inexpensive and scalable electrocatalysts

Lektor Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Amount: DKK 4,499,599
Grant: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships
Project title: Molecular Mechanisms of Sterol Export from the Lysosome

Postdoc Pil Pedersen, Department of Bioscience
Amount: DKK 425,000
Grant: The Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowships
Project title: RewildECO 2 - Cross-scale assessment of Rewilding Efforts on Ecosystem Biodiversity and Resilience

Lektor Qian Janice Wang, Department of Food Science
Amount: DKK 3,081,399
Grant: Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships
Project title: Virtual and augmented flavours: Extending human flavour perception via novel sensory inputs

In total, 30 outstanding researchers from Aarhus University have received grants from the Carlsberg Foundation, see all of them here.