The first researchers have landed in Vejle
The construction of the research and study environments has really taken off at SDU Vejle. This week, the first two researchers started in the beautiful and inspiring surroundings, and more researchers will be added throughout the autumn.
Joakim Bruslund Haurum is the first researcher to start at SDU in Vejle.
He is employed in an assistant professor position, where he researches computer vision and the possibilities of technology. One example of this is his research into the use of artificial intelligence to solve expert tasks such as identifying animal species, with the long-term ambition of being able to automatically monitor biodiversity directly in nature.
Over the next period, he will continue his research projects, while he, together with several good people, will help build the excellent research and teaching environments when many students start at SDU Vejle in September 2026.
- "I am very excited about the opportunity to help shape and define what Vejle as a university city will look like. The establishment of SDU Vejle is very exciting from both a research, business and teaching perspective, and I look forward to opening the doors to the first students next year," he says.
Mubashra Saddiqa has also been hired as an assistant professor. She comes from a post/position at SDU in Sønderborg, and her research area/area of research is cyber security. She had her first working day at SDU's premises at Spinderihallerne on Tuesday.
More researchers on the way
During the autumn, more researchers will be joining SDU Vejle, and it is expected that by the end of the year there will be 15 people working at the university in Vejle.
- "We are pleased to have attracted many talented researchers with exciting profiles from different backgrounds. This provides a good basis for creating the excellent and international education/education programme/programme/course of study and research environment that is the ambition for SDU Vejle," says Torben Worm from the Centre for Software Technologies (CST), who heads the TEK researchers affiliated with SDU Vejle.
He also emphasises the warm welcome the municipality and the staff from Spinderihallerne have given the University of Southern Denmark.
- "We have been given a warm welcome in Spinderihallerne and have experienced great service and goodwill from Vejle Municipality and the many partners, who provide us with the optimal conditions to make it all succeed. We're off to a good start, and that bodes well," he says.