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Eight NAT Researchers Receive Funding from the Carlsberg Foundation

Approximately DKK 20 million for eight different research projects has been awarded to the Faculty of Science from the Carlsberg Foundation. Among them are two Semper Ardens: Accelerate grants of DKK 7 million each.

By Birgitte Svennevig, , 12/17/2024

The Carlsberg Foundation, which supports independent fundamental research in Denmark, has just distributed DKK 613 million to 188 scientific activities. According to the foundation, these grants are expected to yield new fundamental insights and discoveries over the coming years.

Of the total, nearly DKK 132 million has been allocated to humanities research projects, DKK 155 million to social sciences research projects, and DKK 326 million to research within the natural sciences.

All funds were awarded based on applications submitted to the foundation's Autumn Call 2024.

86 million to SDU researchers

At SDU, 27 researchers have received a total of DKK 86 million. Among these, seven researchers have been awarded a Semper Ardens:Accelerate grant. This grant is given to newly appointed associate professors with a permanent position to establish an independent research group or environment.

In addition to the two recipients at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, two Semper Ardens:Accelerate grants were awarded to the Faculty of Humanities (Maja Klausen and Christian D. Pedersen), and one to the Faculty of Social Sciences (Anthony Wray).

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded a total of 16 Semper Ardens:Accelerate grants to researchers at Danish research institutions. At SDU, a Semper Ardens:Advance was awarded to Professor Claes de Vreese from the Digital Democracy Centre.

The two Semper Ardens:Accelerate recipients

The two Semper Ardens:Accelerate recipients, Jamie Gabe (IMADA) and Rasmus Siersbæk (BMB), account for DKK 14 million of the approximately DKK 20 million awarded to projects at the Faculty of Science by the Carlsberg Foundation.

Jamie Gabe, PhD in mathematics and associate professor at IMADA, studies topics such as operator algebras and K-theory. He received a Semper Ardens:Accelerate grant of DKK 7 million for the project Classifying finite and infinite C-dynamics*. Previously, he was awarded a Sapere Aude grant of approximately DKK 6 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project on C*-algebras.

Rasmus Siersbæk, associate professor and research leader at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, also received a Semper Ardens:Accelerate grant of DKK 7 million. His project, Transcriptional control of cancer cell heterogeneity by MYC, supports his long-term research into the growth and spread of cancer cells.

Other recipients

The other Carlsberg Foundation Grant recipients are:

Changzhu Wu, FKF: DKK 791,045 for the project Unraveling Novel Chemical Structures Using Advanced GC-MS Technology.

Carolin Löscher, BIOLOGY: DKK 1,615,007 for the project Quantifying biological nitrogen fixation in Arctic waters using Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry.

Nils Færgeman, BMB: DKK 460,603 for the project Improved Chromatography for Superior Lipidomics Analyses.

Jonathan Brewer, BMB: DKK 746,100 for the project Bridging Light and Electron Microscopy with a Tabletop SEM-EDS at DaMBIC.

Daniel Wüstner, BMB: DKK 1,477,833 for the project Automated ultraviolet microscopy for high-throughput imaging of drugs and biomolecules.

Martin Rosenlyst Jørgensen, FKK: DKK 1,220,000 for a fellowship at MIT.

Editing was completed: 17.12.2024