Departments and centres

The central animal facility at SDU and OUH

BioNEC is a Center of Excellence focusing on nucleic acid chemical biology, established as a collaboration with Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen.

Our researchers help your company to analyse and characterize products and components regarding materials, surfaces and interfaces.

The goal of our research is to understand how the signaling states of adipocytes depend on depot, gender and genetic variation.

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.

Centre for Learning Computational Thinking was established as a response to the growing societal and research interest in Computational Thinking.

A multidisciplinary research center on the Modern Middle East and on Muslim majority and minority countries, as well as their transnational dynamics.

A center for the study of datafication, AI, algorithms, and the ethics hereof

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.

We develop ground-breaking new computational methods for analysing chemical reaction networks.

The Center for Cold War Studies was founded in 2006 with the aim of maintaining and strengthening free research in the Cold War.

Forskning i krydsfeltet mellem computer science, advanced manufacturing og fremspirende materialeteknologier.

This center gathers scholars who investigate technology from a cultural perspective in close dialogue with society.

The Centre for Design and Product History creates exchange, collaboration, and joint projects.

We bring together researchers in the humanities and natural sciences to conduct quantitative studies on cultural data sets.

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(...)

Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE) has a strong mission to advance electrification, digitalisation and energy efficiency.

With outstanding research within mechanics and mechatronics, CIM will contribute to the development of profound professional competences within disciplines in which(...)

Software technological research and education in close cooperation with companies to utilize the potential in digitalization.

Cooperation between technical science and marketing

We aim to enhance the communication between humans and machines for updating machine learning models.

Language and Learning is an interdisciplinary research environment that research linguistic aspects of the acquisition and use of L1 and L2.

From 2012-2022 CML was a Centre of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.

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 Center Organizing Social Sustainability researches standards and processes of “good work".

We perform research in mathematics with relations to quantum theory, covering both foundations as well as various applications.

We work to inspire involving and educational experiences with science, technology and mathematics throughout the ecucational sector.

Tourism is an excellent lens through which we can engage and critically understand ourselves and society at large.

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.

Elite Centre for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment.

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 (...)

Understanding business

We cover business, environment, and resource economics activities at the Sønderborg, Esbjerg, and Kolding campuses.

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(...)

Cutting-edge topics within Economics and Data Science

HIC LOCUS EST UBI MORS GAUDET SUCURRERE VITAM - here is the place where it pleases death to help life

The study programmes and research of the institute lies in the intersection between scientific and engineering disciplines with focus on global challenges and local(...)

We offer a range of legal education programmes in Odense and the Bachelor of Laws programme in Esbjerg.

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(...)

How may we improve human health? This is the question researchers at the Department of Public Health seek to answer.

The Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Educating engineers for the future in Odense and Sønderborg and generate research & innovation with global impact in collaboration with industry and other external (...)

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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(...)

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Excellence in research and teaching within mechatronics, nanotechnology, electronics and innovation

Tourism is an excellent lens through which we can engage and critically understand ourselves and society at large.

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Explores and manipulates polaritons in flatland, in engineered meta-surfaces interfacing light-emitting quantum systems or serving as light sources themselves.

The Biomedical Engineering Centre (BEC) advances interdisciplinary innovation at the intersection of engineering and medicine to improve human health.

We empower the smart digital transformation of the energy sector.

We provide automation solutions for the maritime, construction, and energy sectors.

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(...)

Here, engineers and architects collaborate on the concept of total design, which involves a deeper understanding of the complexity of construction projects and the (...)

Vi arbejder tværfagligt for at skabe optimale forhold for banebrydende og excellent og forskning, uddannelse og formidling inden for klimaområdet.

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(...)

SDU Life Cycle Engineering focuses on education and research contributing to global sustainability

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(...)

We aim to advance drones (UAS) for societal flourishing through excellence in education, research, and innovation.

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(...)

One of the development areas in relation to IRS's strategy is to create sustainable research environments.

The Centre for Gender and Diversity is a platform for research, teaching and communication that addresses issues related to gender and diversity.

The center works with literary, cultural and communication approaches to H.C. Andersen's work, life and cultural significance.

The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute conducts research within robotics, drone technology, artificial intelligence, I4.0, software as well as health and energy info(...)