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EliteForsk Prize
The EliteForsk Prize (Elite Research Prize) is the most prestigious award given by the Danish Council for Independent Research, of the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. The award of 1.2 million Danish krone honors outstanding researchers of international acclaim, who are under 45 years of age, and is currently awarded to five individuals annually. Recipients External links Danish Council for Independent ResearchEliteForsk References {{Reflist Danish awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lene Hansen
Lene Hansen is an international relations scholar who is a full professor at the University of Copenhagen. Hansen is most well known within academia for her critique of the absence of gender within the thinking of the Copenhagen School of security studies. Her article "The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School" is most commonly referenced for that argument. The Feminist scholar Christine Sylvester Christine may refer to: People * Christine (name), a female given name Film * ''Christine'' (1958 film), based on Schnitzler's play ''Liebelei'' * ''Christine'' (1983 film), based on King's novel of the same name * ''Christine'' (1987 fi ... describes Hansen as the 'leading European feminist doing Critical Security Studies'.Sylvester, C. (2007), 'Anatomy of a footnote', ''Security Dialogue'', 38: 555 References Copenhagen School (security studies) Danish feminists 21st-century Danish politicians Living people Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Rebecca Adler-Nissen is a Danish political scientist specializing in international politics, particularly in European integration and the European Union, as well as the relationship between EU and its member states. She is a professor in the department of political science at the University of Copenhagen. Early life and education Adler-Nissen studied at the University of Copenhagen, obtaining a BA in political science in 2002. She then earned a diploma at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, before returning to the University of Copenhagen where she earned an MSc in 2005 and a PhD in 2009. She has held visiting appointments at institutions including The European University Institute, McGill University, and the University of Sydney. Career In 2010–2011, Adler-Nissen was Head of Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. From 2012-2017, she was a member of the Young Academy of Denmark, a scientific academy for young researchers within the Royal Danish Academy of Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Søren Galatius
Søren Galatius (born 1 August 1976) is a Danish mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. He works in algebraic topology, where one of his most important results concerns the homology of the automorphisms of free groups. He is also known for his joint work with Oscar Randal-Williams on moduli spaces of manifolds, comprising several papers. Life Galatius was born in Randers, Denmark. He earned his PhD from Aarhus University in 2004 under the supervision of Ib Madsen. He then joined the Stanford University faculty, first with a temporary position as a Szegő Assistant Professor and then two years later with a tenure-track position, eventually becoming full professor in 2011. He relocated to the University of Copenhagen in 2016. Recognition In 2010, Galatius won the Silver Medal of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. He was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Hornekær
Liv Hornekær (born 1972 in Copenhagen.) is a Danish experimental physicist who works in nanotechnology and astrochemical research. She is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University Aarhus University ( da, Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Gr ... and head of the surface dynamics group at the department. Her research mainly covers the interaction between hydrogen atoms and carbon-based surfaces In 2016, she won the prestigious EliteForsk Prize, which was awarded by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. In 2017 she was appointed Professor of Physics at Aarhus University as the first woman ever, and in 2020 she was elected as member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters References External links * Danish women physicist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubina Raja
Rubina Raja is a classical archaeologist educated at University of Copenhagen (Denmark), La Sapienza University (Rome) and University of Oxford (England). She is professor (chair) of classical archaeology at Aarhus University and centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet). She specialises in the cultural, social and religious archaeology and history of past societies. Research foci include urban development and network studies, architecture and urban planning, the materiality of religion as well as iconography from the Hellenistic to Early Medieval periods. Her publications include articles, edited volumes and monographs on historiography, ancient portraiture and urban archaeology as well as themes in the intersecting fields between humanities and natural sciences. Rubina Raja received her DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 2005 ( Lincoln College) with a thesis on urban development and regio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasse Heje Pedersen
Lasse Heje Pedersen (born October 3, 1972) is a Danish financial economist known for his research on liquidity risk and asset pricing. He is Professor of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School. Before that, he held the position of a Professor of Finance and Alternative Investments at the New York University Stern School of Business. He has also served in the monetary policy panel and liquidity working group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is a principal at AQR Capital Management. He was the winner of the 2011 Germán Bernácer Prize, awarded annually to the best European economist under the age of 40, for his original research contributions on how the interaction between market liquidity risk and funding liquidity risk can create liquidity spirals and systemic financial crises. Education and academic career After completing his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics and economics at the University of Copenhagen in 1997, he went to Stanford Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrik Lund Andersen
Ulrik Lund Andersen (born 1972 in Ikast) is a Danish physicist and professor of physics at the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), who researches quantum optics and quantum network Quantum networks form an important element of quantum computing and quantum communication systems. Quantum networks facilitate the transmission of information in the form of quantum bits, also called qubits, between physically separated quantum p ...s. He went to Ikast-Brande Gymnasium high school. He received a Master of Science in physics from DTU in 1999 and a Ph.D. from DTU in 2003. He worked at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany from 2003-2006, and was then employed as an associate professor at DTU. In 2012, he was appointed professor and section leader at DTU Physics. In 2013, Andersen received the EliteForsk Prize in recognition of his work on quantum optics. References External links * 1972 births Living people 21st-century Danish phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev (born 5 June 1971) is a Danish evolutionary geneticist notable for his pioneering work in molecular anthropology, palaeontology, and ecology. He currently holds the Prince Philip Professorship in Ecology and Evolution at University of Cambridge, UK and the Lundbeck Foundation Professorship in Evolution at Copenhagen University, Denmark. He is director of the Centre of Excellence in GeoGenetics, a research associate at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and a professorial fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. Willerslev is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (US) and holds the Order of the Dannebrog issued by her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 2017. Early life and education Willerslev was born in Gentofte north of Copenhagen as the son of the historian Richard Willerslev and teacher Lona Loell Willerslev, and as identical twin brother of the anthropologist Rane Willerslev. He attended Ordrup Gymnasium. Before becoming a scient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Sannino
Francesco Sannino (born 9 February 1968) is an Italian theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Southern Denmark. He conducts research in the topics of effective field theories and their applications to strongly coupled theories such as quantum chromodynamics. He also researches in beyond standard model physics and quantum field theory. After his studies at the University of Naples, Federico II in 1992, he enrolled in PhD programmes at Syracuse University and University of Naples, obtaining the doctoral degree in 1997. In 1997, he obtained a research fellowship from Yale University and in 2000 he moved to NORDITA. In 2004 he became associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark. In 2007 he has been a paid associate at CERN while becoming full professor at the University of Southern Denmark. In 2009 the research centre CP3-Origins at University of Southern Denmark was formed under his leadership by the Danish Research Foundation. In 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Council For Independent Research
The Independent Research Fund Denmark, until 2017 known as the Danish Council for Independent Research (Danish: ''Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond'', formerly ''Det Frie Forskningsråd''; ''DFF'') of Denmark funds basic research and gives advice to government and parliament. The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI) oversees its activity. As of 2012 the council has five sub-councils: Humanities, Medical Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technology and Production Sciences. Mission Independent Research Fund Denmark funds basic research within all scientific areas in a bottom-up manner, i.e. it funds ideas based on the researchers' own initiatives, as opposed to through thematic calls. Research projects which improve the quality and internationalisation of Danish research are prioritised, and the main funding criterion is scientific excellence. The DFF annually awards around 400 research projects of well over 1 billion DKK. Organisation As of 2005, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Favell
Adrian Favell is chair in Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Leeds and chercheur associé of the Centre for European Studies at Sciences Po, Paris. He is also a Professorial Academic Associate of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and serves as an associate editor of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and on the editorial committee of Journal of Common Market Studies. Academic career Adrian Favell has been Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po. Before that he was the Director of Centre for Regional and Global Ethnographies and Professor of European and International Studies at Aarhus University and Professor of Sociology at UCLA. His research on migration studies has contributed to debates on citizenship, multiculturalism and integration, intra-EU migration, and high skilled migration. He argues for the necessity of sophisticated comparative approaches, which recognise the asymmetry between nation-state contexts of immigration, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
