The grants are awarded within the framework of the Danish Council for Independent Research’s E2013 and F2014 call, with the aim of providing younger researchers the best possible conditions for producing outstanding research results at a high international level.
Grant letters will be forwarded to the recipients as soon as possible. Rejection letters will include a brief text, explaining the main academic reasons for the project not obtaining a grant.
Please be advised that the Council cannot be held responsible for printing errors and reserves the right to make adjustments with regards to the amounts granted.
Project title: Ultra strong optomechanical coupling between a toroidal resonator and a nanomechanical system using plasmonic enhancement
Grant recipient: Andreas Næsby Rasmussen
Place of research activities: University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queensland Quantum Optics Lab
Awarded amount: DKK 815,318
Project title: Reconstructing Labrador Sea dynamics during past periods of reduced circulation strength
Grant recipient: Christof Pearce
Place of research activities: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded amount: DKK 1,871,169
Project title: Eco-physiology of annual feasts in nature
Grant recipient: Mikael van Deurs
Place of research activities: Lunds Universitet, Aquatic Ecology
Awarded amount: DKK 913,231
Project title: Riemannian manifolds with exceptional holonomy and related structures
Grant recipient: Marco Karl Freibert
Place of research activities: Aarhus Universitet
Awarded amount: DKK 1,714,968
Project title: Elucidation of correlated motions in biological macromolecules
Grant recipient: Simon Olsson
Place of research activities: Københavns Universitet
Awarded amount: DKK 1,672,593
Project title: Exploitation of CRISPR-Cas systems for genotyping and DNA interference in clostridia
Grant recipient: Joakim Mark Andersen
Place of research activities: North Carolina State University, USA
Awarded amount: DKK 1,471,102
Project title: Fusion systems and Burnside rings in equivariant stable homotopy theory
Grant recipient: Sune Nikolaj Precht Reeh
Place of research activities: Københavns Universitet
Awarded amount: DKK 1,697,036
Project title: Mechanism of SOD1 misfolding and oligomerization - bridging from biophysics to mitochondrial physiology
Grant recipient: Kristine Steen Jensen
Place of research activities: Lund University
Awarded amount: DKK 1,387,562
Project title: Unravelling the biological interaction between millipedes and parasitic fungi
Grant recipient: Ana Sofia Pereira Serrenho Reboleira
Place of research activities: Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
Awarded amount: DKK 1,743,199
Project title: Mechanisms in assembly of actin networks specialized for 3D cell migration
Grant recipient: Iben Rønn Veland
Place of research activities: University of Glasgow, Scotland
Awarded amount: DKK 2,006,459
Project title: Coral reef protection strategies based on the sensory ecology of the coral eating crown-of-thorns starfish
Grant recipient: Ronald Petie
Place of research activities: Københavns Universitet
Awarded amount: DKK1,946,494
Project title: Exploring new horizons for black holes and cosmology
Grant recipient: Andreas Vigand Pedersen
Place of research activities: University of California, Berkeley.
Awarded amount: DKK 1,654,253