2024 has been a transformative year at DIAS, paving the way for exciting new initiatives.
Mette Præst Knudsen and Kim Klyver bring expert insights into the dynamics of innovation and entrepreneurship, respectively, enriching DIAS's intellectual landscape with both academic credentials and fresh perspectives.
The Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) makes a bold leap forward by hiring tenured professors alongside a new cohort of tenure track research fellows.
In an open event at DIAS, Gøsta Esping-Andersen will explore the complex interplay of economic and cultural factors shaping fertility trends across different educational groups.
Professor Lars Boje Mortensen, Department of Culture and Language, and three Nordic partners receive an ERC Synergy Grant of DKK 97 million to investigate over 50,000 fragments of books from the Middle Ages.
With a background in programming languages and communicating computer systems, Professor Fabrizio Montesi brings innovative thinking and new perspectives to DIAS as the first Chair specialising in Computer Science.
Good news for Swifties and those who can’t get enough of the battle for the Oval Office. A new partnership between the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and Word Festival ensures a new stage and prominent researchers at the festival in 2025. You can also look forward to two free pre-events in Autumn 2024, zeroing in on the phenomenon Taylor Swift and the upcoming election in November.
Is medicine or physical exercise training better for keeping bones strong – or perhaps a combination of both? This question will be investigated in a new project supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, focusing on women aged 45-60.
When DIAS Chairs Anne-Marie Mai and Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen joined forces to study Bob Dylan’s impact on his fans’ lives, they not only found that “The Bard’s” songs help his fans navigate through life's highs and lows, but their research also underlined the benefits of collaborating across disciplines.
Are you an early-career researcher at SDU with an interest in interdisciplinarity? The DIAS Visiting Fellow Programme presents a unique opportunity to enhance your academic career, collaborate with fellow researchers across disciplines, and contribute to a vibrant research community that fosters excellence and creativity.
As populations age and have lower fertility, fiscal sustainability and societal reproduction may become harder to maintain. Do we need to boost the intergenerational social contract in our aging Europe? Professor and DIAS Senior Fellow Pieter Vanhuysse will share his perspectives directly with the policymaking world.
Far too few children are born – even in the otherwise family-friendly Nordic welfare states – to sustain our labour market and social model. New research from SDU Professor Pieter Vanhuysse has a surprising idea of why we lack babies in Europe.
This Spring, the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology Cluster at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study will host six visiting junior fellows. Each junior fellow will prepare an application for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship, with the aim of securing EU funding to take up a postdoctoral position at SDU.
The Society is a springboard for community, collaboration, and consolidated relationships within the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and across the University of Southern Denmark.