23 FEB EliteForsk awards for artificial muscles and complex networks Anne Ladegaard Skov and Sune Lehmann receive EliteForsk awards for their research. Two PhD students receive travel scholarships. Materials Polymers Cyber security Computer calculations Materials technology
15 FEB Audacious search for the roots of Parkinson’s disease A computational model being developed at DTU aims to help get to the roots of Parkinson’s disease to allow for future early diagnosis and treatment. Computer calculations Health and diseases
17 JAN Vaccine development requires super-fast computing power Calculating large amounts of data is crucial in combating a pandemic and in developing individual treatment of patients. Viruses Computer calculations Health and diseases
06 FEB Three new Villum Young Investigators Three young DTU-scientists are honoured as Villum Young Investigators and receive almost DKK 10 million each to continue their research. Energy storage Magnets Optics Energy efficiency Software and programming Computer calculations Electrochemistry Catalysis
23 SEP Artificial intelligence reduces energy consumption of buildings Data and algorithms can reveal a building’s condition and show which renovations can lead to the biggest energy savings and thereby to immense carbon savings. The solutions... Data analysis Energy efficiency Computer calculations
15 APR Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span New study in Nature Communications finds increasingly narrow peaks of collective attention over time, supporting a ‘social acceleration’ occurring across different domains... Computer calculations Data analysis
05 APR Personalized medicine for children with cancer In a joint project involving Rigshospitalet and DTU, parents of all Danish children with cancer will be given the offer to have the genetic characteristics of their children... Genes and genomes Biotechnology Health technology Health and diseases Computer calculations
05 APR How close are we to personalized medicine? Mapping patients’ genetic make-up could lead to better treatment for a wide range of diseases. Health technology Genes and genomes Computer calculations Cyber security
03 APR Mathematics professor named VILLUM Investigator Professor Per Christian Hansen from DTU Compute receives a VILLUM Investigator grant of DKK 35 million. He will develop new algorithms that can describe the uncertainty... Mathematical analysis Mathematical modelling Statistics Computer calculations Software and programming
01 MAR Kristian Sommer Thygesen receives EliteForsk Prize Professor Kristian Sommer Thygesen from DTU Physics is among this year’s recipients of the EliteForsk Prize, which he receives for his research in two-dimensional materials... Micro and nanotechnology Materials Quantum theory and atomic physics Computer calculations Materials technology