Research at SDU’s five faculties is organised in a number of departments with considerable professional and financial autonomy. The research, education and knowledge exchange activities of the departments are focused in centres established in co-operation with one or more external parties.
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BioNEC is a Center of Excellence focusing on nucleic acid chemical biology, established as a collaboration with Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen.
The center focuses on formal schooling, including the public- and private schools. We have a practice-oriented focus on didactics and school development.
The aim of our research is to obtain a cell type and time-resolved understanding of hepatic and adipose tissue plasticity in response to metabolic challenges.
At CAPE we are doing research and development within new types of organic and hybrid thin-film solar cells, as well as other novel thin-film energy devices within e(...)
We ceate and support smooth, transparent and systematic matchmaking between highly requested skills and interested collaborators within and outside the university.
The center's goal is to establish future collaboration on research, education, and public sector consultancy in the fields of health philosophy and ethics.
Centre for Human Interactivity pursues a groundbreaking view of what it is to be human by drawing on synergies of what is best in Cognitive Science and the Humaniti(...)
With outstanding research within mechanics and mechatronics, CIM will contribute to the development of profound professional competences within disciplines in which(...)
The Centre for Multimodal Communication sees multimodality as the study of the semiotic resources people use to communicate and the way they use these resources
The Centre for Upper Secondary School and Vocational Education Research will maintain and renew SDU's position in upper secondary school research and education.
The Center employs theoretical, hermeneutical, and empirical methods to research literature’s diverse uses, especially in relation to welfare, gender, etc.
Our main purpose to build and gather new scientific knowledge on endocrine disruptors, with the focus on providing information requested by regulatory authorities.
CLF works to provide professional knowledge about what a good life in the rural areas is and what factors are important for creating and maintaining it.
The international and interdisciplinary scientific research environment at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology provides an excellent platform for a(...)
Research and teaching at the Department of Biology cover a wide range of topics, from basic questions on the origin of life on Earth to societal challenges such as (...)
The vision of the Department of Clinical Research is to pioneer tomorrow’s patient care through cutting-edge research and education, in strong partnership with OUH (...)
Research within the department covers the areas of American Studies, Business Language, Classical Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature, Culture, Danish, E(...)
Research within the department covers the areas of Business Language, Design, Education Sciences, Information Studies, Library Science, Upper Secondary Didactics, M(...)
The study programmes and research of the institute lies in the intersection between scientific and engineering disciplines with focus on global challenges and local(...)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Breaking new frontiers in: Algorithms - Optimisation - Analysis - Data Science - Statistics - Computational Science (...)
We are happy to move beyond traditional disciplines and work to develop new technologies and sciences across physics, chemistry, pharmacy, mathematics, computer sci(...)
The vision of the Department of Psychology is to develop a prominent international profile for education and research that provides new knowledge about psychologica(...)
Educating engineers for the future in Odense and Sønderborg and generate research & innovation with global impact in collaboration with industry and other external (...)
Research & Innovation Center for Human Movement & Learning (FIIBL) is to develop new forms of learning, incorporating the body in the learning of children and young(...)
Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is collecting research units and programmes in the fields of mechanics, electronics and mechatronics.
IRCA is an innovation cluster, which is fostering interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Together with the most important stakeholders in the Danish-German r(...)
IRS is a network of research environments and educational activities anchored at SDU and 12 different hospitals in the regions of South Denmark, Zealand, and the Ca(...)
Explores and manipulates polaritons in flatland, in engineered meta-surfaces interfacing light-emitting quantum systems or serving as light sources themselves.
The centre is an interdisciplinary research unit. Research program in the centre has been developed in close collaboration with industry and contributes to the sust(...)
The center's core competencies are research, innovation, and education within the field of health technology such as data-driven health technology, training and reh(...)
Our principal research topics are in the field of plasmonics, where you combine optics and electronics. Nano-optics opens exciting future perspectives and can be us(...)
The overarching field of the centre is nanotechnology with special emphasis on thin films, device development from organic molecules, nanofabrication and nanophoton(...)
SDU Robotics conducts research within the fields of robotics and computer vision. We focus on research problems from real robotics applications within manufacturing(...)
In the SDU Climate Cluster Elite Centre on Solar Energy Conversion and Storage, SOLEN, we aim to design, engineer and scale up novel devices for solar energy conver(...)
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute conducts research within robotics, drone technology, artificial intelligence, I4.0, software as well as health and energy info(...)
BioNEC is a Center of Excellence focusing on nucleic acid chemical biology, established as a collaboration with Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen.
The center focuses on formal schooling, including the public- and private schools. We have a practice-oriented focus on didactics and school development.
The aim of our research is to obtain a cell type and time-resolved understanding of hepatic and adipose tissue plasticity in response to metabolic challenges.
At CAPE we are doing research and development within new types of organic and hybrid thin-film solar cells, as well as other novel thin-film energy devices within e(...)
We ceate and support smooth, transparent and systematic matchmaking between highly requested skills and interested collaborators within and outside the university.
The center's goal is to establish future collaboration on research, education, and public sector consultancy in the fields of health philosophy and ethics.
Centre for Human Interactivity pursues a groundbreaking view of what it is to be human by drawing on synergies of what is best in Cognitive Science and the Humaniti(...)
With outstanding research within mechanics and mechatronics, CIM will contribute to the development of profound professional competences within disciplines in which(...)
The Centre for Multimodal Communication sees multimodality as the study of the semiotic resources people use to communicate and the way they use these resources
The Centre for Upper Secondary School and Vocational Education Research will maintain and renew SDU's position in upper secondary school research and education.
The Center employs theoretical, hermeneutical, and empirical methods to research literature’s diverse uses, especially in relation to welfare, gender, etc.
Our main purpose to build and gather new scientific knowledge on endocrine disruptors, with the focus on providing information requested by regulatory authorities.
CLF works to provide professional knowledge about what a good life in the rural areas is and what factors are important for creating and maintaining it.
The international and interdisciplinary scientific research environment at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology provides an excellent platform for a(...)
Research and teaching at the Department of Biology cover a wide range of topics, from basic questions on the origin of life on Earth to societal challenges such as (...)
The vision of the Department of Clinical Research is to pioneer tomorrow’s patient care through cutting-edge research and education, in strong partnership with OUH (...)
Research within the department covers the areas of American Studies, Business Language, Classical Studies, Communication, Comparative Literature, Culture, Danish, E(...)
Research within the department covers the areas of Business Language, Design, Education Sciences, Information Studies, Library Science, Upper Secondary Didactics, M(...)
The study programmes and research of the institute lies in the intersection between scientific and engineering disciplines with focus on global challenges and local(...)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Breaking new frontiers in: Algorithms - Optimisation - Analysis - Data Science - Statistics - Computational Science (...)
We are happy to move beyond traditional disciplines and work to develop new technologies and sciences across physics, chemistry, pharmacy, mathematics, computer sci(...)
The vision of the Department of Psychology is to develop a prominent international profile for education and research that provides new knowledge about psychologica(...)
Educating engineers for the future in Odense and Sønderborg and generate research & innovation with global impact in collaboration with industry and other external (...)
Research & Innovation Center for Human Movement & Learning (FIIBL) is to develop new forms of learning, incorporating the body in the learning of children and young(...)
Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is collecting research units and programmes in the fields of mechanics, electronics and mechatronics.
IRCA is an innovation cluster, which is fostering interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Together with the most important stakeholders in the Danish-German r(...)
IRS is a network of research environments and educational activities anchored at SDU and 12 different hospitals in the regions of South Denmark, Zealand, and the Ca(...)
Explores and manipulates polaritons in flatland, in engineered meta-surfaces interfacing light-emitting quantum systems or serving as light sources themselves.
The centre is an interdisciplinary research unit. Research program in the centre has been developed in close collaboration with industry and contributes to the sust(...)
The center's core competencies are research, innovation, and education within the field of health technology such as data-driven health technology, training and reh(...)
Our principal research topics are in the field of plasmonics, where you combine optics and electronics. Nano-optics opens exciting future perspectives and can be us(...)
The overarching field of the centre is nanotechnology with special emphasis on thin films, device development from organic molecules, nanofabrication and nanophoton(...)
SDU Robotics conducts research within the fields of robotics and computer vision. We focus on research problems from real robotics applications within manufacturing(...)
In the SDU Climate Cluster Elite Centre on Solar Energy Conversion and Storage, SOLEN, we aim to design, engineer and scale up novel devices for solar energy conver(...)
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute conducts research within robotics, drone technology, artificial intelligence, I4.0, software as well as health and energy info(...)