The grants are awarded within the framework of the Danish Council for Independent Research’s E2014 and F2015 call, with the aim of providing younger researchers the best possible conditions for producing outstanding research results at a high international level.
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Project Title: The Role of Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy in Tau Protein Pathology
Grant Recipient: Nadia Storm
Place of Employment: Albert Einstein College of Medicin, USA
Awarded Amount: 1,196,152 DKK
Project Title: Structure and mechanism of the bile-salt dependent lipid extrusion pump ABCB4
Grant Recipient: Jeppe Anker Olsen
Place of Employment: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Awarded Amount: 1,385,247 DKK
Project Title: Pursuit of Strong Magnetic Exchange and Large Magnetic Anisotropy in Compounds of the f-elements
Grant Recipient: Katie Meihaus
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 1,828,800 DKK / Withdrawn
Project Title: Program Logics for Relaxed Memory Models
Grant Recipient: Kasper Svendsen
Place of Employment: University of Cambridge, UK / University of Aarhus
Awarded Amount: 1,823,032 DKK
Project Title: The influence of metabolic rate plasticity on animal behaviour and performance in a changing environment
Grant Recipient: Tommy Norin Andersen
Place of Employment: University of Glasgow, UK
Awarded Amount: 1,485,120 DKK
Project Title: Biogeographical variation in species interaction networks
Grant Recipient: Daniel Carstensen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 1,811,427 DKK
Project Title: Overcoming the computational barrier of predicting accurate binding energies with fragment-based methods
Grant Recipient: Casper Steinmann Svendsen
Place of Employment: University of Bristol, UK / University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: 2,010,816 DKK
Project Title: The internal dynamics of stars: high-precision depth-dependent asteroseismology with SONG
Grant Recipient: Mikkel Nørup Lund
Place of Employment: University of Birmingham, UK / University of Aarhus
Awarded Amount: 1,721,798 DKK
Project Title: Cooperative Transition Metal Catalysis in the Synthesis of Enantiomerically Enriched Amines and Anilines
Grant Recipient: Stig Pagh Düring Friis
Place of Employment: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA / University of Aarhus
Awarded Amount: 2,088,288 DKK
Project Title: From craton to shelf: What controls the geodynamic evolution of wide continental shelves?
Grant Recipient: Alexey Shulgin
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: 1,874,234 DKK
Project Title: Physics and Mathematics of Scattering Amplitudes
Grant Recipient: Mads Søgaard
Place of Employment: Stanford University, USA
Awarded Amount: 1,353,999 DKK
Project Title: Elucidation of the role of Factor XIII-A in human macrophages.
Grant Recipient: Camilla Lund Nikolajsen
Place of Employment: University of Oxford, UK / University of Aarhus
Awarded Amount: 1,792,516 DKK / Withdrawn