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: Altruistic Prophylaxis
Grant Recipient: Line Vej Ugelvig
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 2,684,398 DKK
Project Title: Gamma-ray bursts in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies
Grant Recipient: Martin Sparre
Place of Employment: Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Awarded Amount: 1,846,907 DKK
Project Title: Bottom-Up Investigation of the Electronic Properties of Layered Materials
Grant Recipient: Søren Ulstrup
Place of Employment: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Awarded Amount: 1,263,697 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: University of Ottawa
Awarded Amount: 2,155,267 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: Harvard University
Awarded Amount: 2,227,987 DKK
Project Title: Highly Porous Metal-Organic Materials: Selective Chemical Sensing Through Non-Covalent Interactions
Grant Recipient: Kasper Steen Pedersen
Place of Employment: Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal
Awarded Amount: 1,467,007 DKK
Project Title: Regulation of the CRISPR adaptive immune system by bacterial cell-cell communication and potential therapeutic applications
Grant Recipient: Nina Molin Høyland-Kroghsbo
Place of Employment: Princeton University
Awarded Amount: 2,368,407 DKK
Project Title: Genetic recoding to enable neuron-specific proteomics in C. elegans
Grant Recipient: Julius Fredens
Place of Employment: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Awarded Amount: 1,421,000 DKK