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.
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.
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Project Title: Tunable multi-material fibers for mid-IR nonlinear applications
Grant Recipient: Christos Markos
Place of Employment: Technical University of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,903,399
Project Title: Water Vapor Sorption Isotherms as Proxy for Soil Surface Properties
Grant Recipient: Emmanuel Arthur
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,966,176
Project Title: Next Generation Rubbers Based on Self-Reinforcing Materials
Grant Recipient: Frederikke Bahrt
Place of Employment: Technical University of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 3,019,444
Project Title: Reliable Real-time Communications in Lossy Networks Through IP Packet Erasure Coding
Grant Recipient: Jesper Hemming Sørensen
Place of Employment: Aalborg University
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,710,519
Project Title: CaroAlgae - Production of carotenoids in algae
Grant Recipient: Johan Andersen-Ranberg
Place of Employment: University of California, Berkeley
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,193,500
Project Title: Systematic Design of Bandgap Microstructure for Miniaturized Acoustic-Mechanical Devices: Application to BTE Hearing Aid Design
Grant Recipient: Junghwan Kook
Place of Employment: Technical University of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,998,677
Project Title: Rational design of chimeric antigen receptors for cancer immunotherapy
Grant Recipient: Lars Rønn Olsen
Place of Employment: Technical University of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,762,944
Project Title: Photo-Activated Coupling Chemistries for Molecular Layer Deposition
Grant Recipient: Mie Lillethorup
Place of Employment: Stanford University / Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,849,386 / Withdrawn
Project Title: HI-TEM: High-resolution Terahertz Emission Microscopy for Conductivity Sensing on Nanoscale
Grant Recipient: Pernille Klarskov Pedersen
Place of Employment: Brown University / Technical University of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,320,834
Project Title: Ultra-Efficient Syntheses of Natural Product-Like Compound Libraries for Biomedical Screening
Grant Recipient: Rico Petersen
Place of Employment: The Scripps Research Institute / Technical University of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 3,087,364
Project Title: CURE – Curing of plasmids as a novel line of attack against antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli infections
Grant Recipient: Rikke Heidemann Olsen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,652,932
Project Title: Small Signalling Peptides for Stimulating Root Growth - a Novel Approach to Improve Nutrient Use Efficiency (SSPinROOTS)
Grant Recipient: Thomas Christian de Bang
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 3,040,200 / Withdrawn
Project Title: Automated Verification for Concurrent Programs
Grant Recipient: Thomas William Dinsdale-Young
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,826,918
Project Title: Towards improved treatment of parasitic worm infections: studies on nutrient and drug transport pathways in whipworms
Grant Recipient: Tina Vicky Alstrup Hansen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 3,302,288
Project Title: Quantum Imaging of Biological Samples
Grant Recipient: Tobias Gehring
Place of Employment: Technical University of Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,494,323
Project Title: Total Synthesis of Fidaxomicin
Grant Recipient: Tobias Gylling Frihed
Place of Employment: Max-Planck-Institut / University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,554,139 / Withdrawn
Project Title: Stabilization of Organic Solar Cells by Ternary Blending Active Layers with Stabilizing Additives
Grant Recipient: Vida Engmann
Place of Employment: University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,401,920
Project Title: The role of water for the strength of cementitious materials
Grant Recipient: Wolfgang Kurt Kunther
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,057,318