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Sapere Aude DFF-Starting Grant for DTU researchers

Eight talented DTU researchers have received the Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Friday 28 June 2024

Freja E. Klippmann

A total of 38 researchers have received Sapere Aude grants, which are awarded to young researchers who have performed top research in their field. With the grant, the research talents can develop and strengthen their research ideas and competencies as research leaders.

The grant recipients from DTU

Tenure Track Assistant Professor Alexander Bagger, DTU Physics, receives the grant for the project ”Non-Aqueous Electrosynthesis of Fuels and Chemicals”.
Senior Researcher Bitten Gullberg, DTU Space, receives the grant for the project ”SUB-millimetre SelecTed gAlaxies iN Cluster Environments (SUBSTANCE)”.
Senior Researcher Bjarke Eltard Larsen, DTU Construct, receives the grant for the project ”COASTLAB: A virtual COASTal LABoratory enabling accurate morphological coastal profile modelling”.
Associate Professor Eva Rotenberg, DTU Compute, receives the grant for the project ”Dynamic Graphs -- Distributed and Geometry”.
Senior Researcher Felix Trier, DTU Energy, receives the grant for the project ”Perpetual Energy Storage by Topological spin textures in Oxides”.
Senior Researcher Navid Ranjbar, DTU Construct, receives the grant for the project ”PolYCEM: Metastable calcium carbonate cement toward cultivating carbon neutrality”.
Researcher Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo, DTU Aqua, receives the grant for the project ”WaterColor: Unraveling the shades of change in Greenlandic marine waters”.
Assistant Professor Shengda Zhang, DTU Bioengineering, receives the grant for the project ”EcoFac: Microbial Ecology-inspired cell Factory for novel antibiotics discovery”.

Read more about the Sapere Aude research grant at the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Facts

Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant

Sapere Aude means ”Dare to Know” and is given to talented, younger researchers ready to lead a research project at a high international level.

The grant allows the researchers to develop and strengthen their research ideas and start their own research groups. It will also promote mobility internationally and nationally between research environments.

The researcher can apply for a grant of a maximum of DKK 6.2 million (incl. 44% overhead) for a project of up to 4 years duration.

Contact

Alexander Tholstrup Bagger Tenure Track Assistant Professor Department of Physics alexbag@dtu.dk

Bitten Gullberg Senior Researcher National Space Institute bitgu@dtu.dk

Bjarke Eltard-Larsen Senior Researcher Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Mobile: +45 51906358 bjelt@dtu.dk

Eva Rotenberg Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science erot@dtu.dk

Felix Trier Senior Researcher Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +45 22924610 fetri@dtu.dk

Navid Ranjbar Senior Researcher Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering naran@dtu.dk

Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo Researcher National Institute of Aquatic Resources Mobile: +45 22157879 rafgo@aqua.dtu.dk

Shengda Zhang Assistant Professor Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine shez@dtu.dk