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These SDU researchers have been awarded this year’s grants from the Carlsberg Foundation

Twenty-six researchers from SDU have been awarded grants from the Carlsberg Foundation to investigate questions that could pave the way for new breakthroughs in their fields. This year, the Carlsberg Foundation has awarded a total of DKK 93 million to SDU researchers.

By Susan Grønbech Kongpetsak, , 12/18/2025

This year’s grants from the Carlsberg Foundation have just been announced, and 26 researchers from SDU have been awarded grants to pave the way for new breakthroughs in their research areas. In total, DKK 93 million will go to research at SDU in this round of grants. Last year, it was DKK 88 million. 

This year, four SDU researchers have been awarded Semper Ardens Accomplish grants of almost DKK 13 million each. Semper Ardens Accomplish grants are awarded to internationally recognised recently appointed professors to carry out innovative and ambitious research projects.

Moreover, two SDU researchers have been awarded Semper Ardens Accelerate grants, the first to explore how consumers can be engaged and play an active role in increasing cybersecurity and the second to explore how human life expectancy can be predicted much more accurately.

In addition, numerous grants in a variety of other categories, including research infrastructure, the publication of a groundbreaking monograph or outstanding Danish doctoral thesis, have been awarded to SDU researchers.

View a comprehensive list of the Carlsberg grants awarded to SDU researchers below.

These SDU researchers have been awarded grants

  • Semper Ardens Accomplish
    Ingvild Bode, professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management - read more
    Karol J. Borowiecki, professor at the Department of Economics - read more
    Amelia-Elena Rotaru, professor at the Department of Biology - read more
    Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid, professor at the Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering - read more
  • Semper Ardens Accelerate
    Stefanie Sohn, associate professor, Department of Business and Sustainability - read more
    Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher, associate professor at The Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics - read more
  • Digital Research Infrastructure
    Rasmus Glenthøj, professor at the Department of Culture and Language - read more
    Pantelis Pipergias Analytis, associate professor at the Department of Business and Management - read more
    Paul Sharp, professor at the Department of Economics - read more
  • Monograph Fellowships
    Malene Breunig, associate professor at the Department of Culture and Language - read more
    Chiara De Franco, associate professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management - read more
    Marcel Lysgaard Lech, associate professor at the Department of Culture and Language - read more
    Nicole Richter, professor at the Department of Business and Management - read more
    Martin Lindhardt, associate professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management - read more
  • Research Infrastructure
    Beate Kraft, associate professor at the Department of Biology - read more
    Changzhu Wu, associate professor at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy - read more
    Per Svenningsen, professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine
    Jacek Fiutowski, associate professor at the Mads Clausen Institute
    Steffen Bähring, associate professor at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy - read more
    Nils Joakim Kaas Færgeman, professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - read more
    Kim Ravnskjær, associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - read more
    Tore B. Stage, professor at the Department of Public Health
    Lars Grøntved, associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- read more
  • Reintegration Fellowships
    Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, postdoc at the Department of Economics - read more
    Christian Furbo Reeder, postdoc at the Department of Biology - read more
    Özlem Has, postdoc at the Department of Political Science and Public Management- read more

The Carlsberg Foundation’s Autumn Call 2025 in brief

The Carlsberg Foundation has received 709 applications for DKK 3.5 billion in total.

Of these, 467 applications were submitted by male applicants, 234 by female applicants; eight applicants did not state their gender or stated another gender.  

Of the 159 grants awarded, 59 were awarded to female researchers, 97 to male researchers and three to researchers who did not state their gender. Based on the number of applications received in which the gender was stated, the overall success rate for female applicants was 25 per cent, and it was 21 per cent for male applicants.

Including the Autumn Call 2025, the Carlsberg Foundation has approved funding of a total of DKK 753 million for basic research this year.

Learn more about all of this year’s Carlsberg grants

Editing was completed: 18.12.2025