Seven research talents from DTU receive the Villum Foundation's Villum's Young Investigators grant
The Villum Foundation awards a total of DKK 126 million to 22 research talents within technical and natural sciences.
Assistant Professor Battulga Munkhbat is one of this year's YIP grant recipients. Photo: Jesper Scheel
Wednesday 25 January 2023
Freja E. Klippmann
Villum Young Investigators, YIP, are given to researchers at the beginning of their careers so that they can pursue the ideas they are passionate about and build their own research groups. As part of the programme, the researchers will have the opportunity to be part of a research community with networks and seminars on issues such as research management.
The seven grant recipients from DTU
Assistant Professor Battulga Munkhbat, DTU Electro, receives the grant for the project “Efficient single-photon emission from novel quantum light sources on a chip”.
Postdoc Bitten Gullberg, DTU Space, receives the grant for the project “Exploring the infLuence of the Local envIronment on the Production of Stars In Starbursts (ELLIPSIS)”.
Assistant Professor Carsten Baum, DTU Compute, receives the grant for the project ”QUID-PRO: Quantum-safe Information Distribution for Cryptographic Protocols”.
Postdoc Daesung Park, DTU Energy, receives the grant for the project ”Defect-Induced Symmetry Breaking in Centrosymmetric Oxides for High-Efficiency Energy Conversion (SYMTEC)”.
Researcher Deming Kong, DTU Electro, receives the grant for the project ”Digital Optical Neural Network Processor (DONN)”.
Associate Professor Erwin Schoof, DTU Bioengineering, receives the grant for the project ”Revolutionizing spatial multi-omics through advanced sample preparation strategies”.
Associate Professor Maria Montanucci, DTU Compute, receives the grant for the project ”Algebraic curves in information theory: a treasure yet to discover”.
DKK 6-8 million is awarded to talented young researchers who are setting up their own research group for the first time. Applicants must have between two to eight years of research experience since the completion of their PhD.
The programme is announced once a year in an open competition with an application deadline in June. In 2023, seven DTU researchers received YIP.
In 2021, the programme has been supplemented with a so-called additional grant called YIP+, which will ensure a stable research career for the most talented Villum Young Investigators.
In 2022, four researchers — three of whom come from DTU — have all demonstrated their abilities as research leaders and will now each receive a YIP+ grant of almost DKK 4 million.
