The grants are awarded within the framework of the Danish Council for Independent Research’s Sapere Aude programme. The purpose of this programme is to provide gifted researchers with the best career conditions, to enable them to deliver stand-out research results at a high international level. The recipients of the Sapere Aude: DFF- Research Talent 2014 grant are specifically selected from the group of applicants who in 2014 have been awarded an individual postdoctoral grant by The Danish Council for Independent Research.
Grant letters and rejection letters will be forwarded as soon as possible.
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Project Title: Making sense of data – understanding digital reality through contemporary artistic practices of visualization and sonification
Grant Recipient: Thomas Bøgevald Bjørnsten
Place of Employment: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,813 DKK
Project Title: From Global Social Rights to Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Intellectual History of Two Alternative Responses to Global Inequality, 1970-2000
Grant Recipient: Christian Olaf Christiansen
Place of Employment: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded Amount: 496,465 DKK
Project Title: Sufficiency and Capability: On the Ideal of Distributive Justice
Grant Recipient: Lasse Nielsen
Place of Employment: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,545 DKK
Project Title: Exploitation of CRISPR-Cas systems for genotyping and DNA interference in clostridia
Grant Recipient: Joakim Mark Andersen
Place of Employment: North Carolina State University
Awarded Amount: 192,000 DKK
Project Title: Fusion systems and Burnside rings in equivariant stable homotopy theory
Grant Recipient: Sune Precht Reeh
Place of Employment: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awarded Amount: 483,612 DKK
Project Title: Mechanism of SOD1 misfolding and oligomerization - bridging from biophysics to mitochondrial physiology
Grant Recipient: Kristine Steen Jensen
Place of Employment: Lunds Universitet
Awarded Amount: 426,919 DKK
Project Title: Mechanisms in assembly of actin networks specialized for 3D cell migration
Grant Recipient: Iben Rønn Veland
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 496,483 DKK
Project Title: Altruistic Prophylaxis
Grant Recipient: Line Vej Ugelvig
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,979 DKK
Project Title: Gamma-ray bursts in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies
Grant Recipient: Martin Sparre
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,940 DKK
Project Title: Bottom-Up Investigation of the Electronic Properties of Layered Materials
Grant Recipient: Søren Ulstrup
Place of Employment: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded Amount: 340,499 DKK
Project Title: Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet - Implications on global sea level and geodetic observations
Grant Recipient: Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,932 DKK
Project Title: Investigation of the underlying molecular mechanisms in the stress response of tardigrades using transcriptomics
Grant Recipient: Dennis Krog Persson
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 500,000 DKK
Project Title: Highly Porous Metal-Organic Materials: Selective Chemical Sensing Through Non-Covalent Interactions
Grant Recipient: Kasper Steen Pedersen
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 494,257 DKK
Project Title: How do Skilled Social Actors affect the use of new EU competences? The case of Wage Setting
Grant Recipient: Jens Arnholtz
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 498,240 DKK
Project Title: The Effect of Social Influence on Knowledge Production: An Analysis of Academic Productivity
Grant Recipient: Valentina Tartari
Place of Employment: Copenhagen Business School
Awarded Amount: 499,163 DKK
Project Title: Extraction of natural resources in Greenland - from decision-making to social responsibility
Grant Recipient: Lone Wandahl Mouyal
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 471,518 DKK
Project Title: Roadblock economies and fragile state formation: multinational corporations and local conflict dynamics in Africa’s volatile environments
Grant Recipient: Peer Schouten
Place of Employment: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS)
Awarded Amount: 449,696 DKK
Project Title: Molecular mechanisms and physiological significance of the candidate plasticity gene CPG2
Grant Recipient: Mette Rathje
Place of Employment: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awarded Amount: 500,000 DKK
Project Title: Involvement of Rac1 binding partners in regulating insulin and exercise-induced glucose transport and whole body glucose homeostasis
Grant Recipient: Lykke Sylow
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 498,960 DKK
Project Title: The Heart failure progression study. From risk factors, a preclinical ailing heart to severe and fulminant disease
Grant Recipient: Tor Biering-Sørensen
Place of Employment: Gentofte Hospital
Awarded Amount: 498,218 DKK
Project Title: Genetic Risk of Hepatic Steatosis
Grant Recipient: Stefan Stender
Place of Employment: University of Texas Southwestern
Awarded Amount: 494,497 DKK
Project Title: Exploring replication catastrophe and Replication Protein A as novel players in cancer diagnosis and treatment
Grant Recipient: Luis Toledo
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 496,000 DKK
Project Title: Systems biology analysis of DNA damage-induced phosphorylation responses in cancer cells
Grant Recipient: Louise von Stechow
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 497,717 DKK
Project Title: Structural and Functional Studies of Acyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase Complexes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Grant Recipient: Mette Laursen
Place of Employment: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded Amount: 491,047 DKK
Project Title: Preventing the proton-induced initiation of pain
Grant Recipient: Tim Lynagh
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 460,109 DKK
Project Title: The role of bacterial toxins in malignant inflammation and colon cancer
Grant Recipient: Thorbjørn Frej Krejsgaard
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 360,000 DKK
Project Title: Activated microglia regulate neuronal secretion of ?-synuclein by exophagy through activation of neuronal JNK stress kinase
Grant Recipient: Dan Ploug Christensen
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 486,708 DKK
Project Title: Computational Oriented Real-time Convex Optimization in Signal Processing
Grant Recipient: Tobias Lindstrøm Jensen
Place of Employment: Aalborg Universitet
Awarded Amount: 424,333 DKK
Project Title: Explorations of novel C-H activation methodology
Grant Recipient: Tue Heesgaard Jepsen
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 302,400 DKK
Project Title: New trends towards prevention of implant-associated bone infections
Grant Recipient: Louise Kruse Jensen
Place of Employment: Københavns Universitet
Awarded Amount: 475,200 DKK
Project Title: Genome based investigation of uncultured members of the phylum Chloroflexi: key microbes in energy producing anaerobic digesters
Grant Recipient: Simon Jon McIlroy
Place of Employment: Aalborg Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,531 DKK
Project Title: Microcontainers for oral vaccine delivery
Grant Recipient: Line Hagner Nielsen
Place of Employment: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,968 DKK
Project Title: Nanodelivery systems for urine bladder tissue engineering applications
Grant Recipient: Fatemeh Ajalloueian
Place of Employment: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,680 DKK
Project Title: Interface engineering for future organic solar cells
Grant Recipient: Yinying Wei
Place of Employment: Aalborg Universitet
Awarded Amount: 500,000 DKK
Project Title: Efficient non-precious metal electrocatalysts for sustainable energy conversion: engineering the active site
Grant Recipient: Maria Escudero Escribano
Place of Employment: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Awarded Amount: 499,997 DKK
Project Title: Enabling Forbidden Transitions in II-IV-V2 Photovoltaic Semiconductors
Grant Recipient: Kasper A. Borup
Place of Employment: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded Amount: 500,000 DKK
Project Title: THz-wave Driven Ultrafast Electron Gun Source on a Chip
Grant Recipient: Krzysztof Iwaszczuk
Place of Employment: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Awarded Amount: 477,968 DKK
Project Title: Ultra-high field MRI characterization of brain network microstructure and connectivity in individuals with multiple sclerosis
Grant Recipient: Henrik Lundell
Place of Employment: Hvidovre Hospital
Awarded Amount: 499,904 DKK
Project Title: The Commercialized Public Sphere
Grant Recipient: Rikke Frank Jørgensen
Place of Employment: Institut for Menneskerettigheder - Danmarks Nationale Menneskerettighedsinstitution
Awarded Amount: 451,051 DKK
Project Title: Novel methods of assessing human embryo viability
Grant Recipient: Kirstine Kirkegaard
Place of Employment: Aarhus Universitetshospital
Awarded Amount: 499,953 DKK