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DFF grants for DTU researchers

Independent Research Fund Denmark awards a total of DKK 318 million to 52 researchers with innovative and excellent research projects.

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Tuesday 28 May 2024

Freja E. Klippmann

9 DTU researchers receive DKK 55 million in total from the Independent Research Fund Denmark under the DFF-Research Project2 initiative. With the grant, the researchers have the opportunity to pursue their most innovative ideas and promote innovative Danish research.

Grant recipients from DTU

  • Professor Aasa Feragen, DTU Compute, receives the grant for the project ”EASE: Explainable AI as a clinical mentor for obstetric ultrasound”.
  • Professor Esben Thormann, DTU Chemistry, receives the grant for the project ”Ion pairing in aqueous polyelectrolyte systems”.
  • Associate Professor Ivano Eligio Castelli, DTU Energy, receives the grant for the project ”Multiscale Modeling of Non-Aqueous Corrosion (MONACO)”.
  • Associate Professor Jon Spangenberg, DTU Construct, receives the grant for the project ”The holistic digital framework for 4D printing of smart sustainable composites”.
  • Professor Manuel Pinelo, DTU Chemical Engineering, receives the grant for the project ”Pioneering Cell-Like Technology to Overpower Traditional Chemical Synthesis: Engineering Intelligent Microenvironments with Innovative Materials for Sequential Enzyme Reactions”.
  • Senior Researcher Morten Nørholm, DTU Biosustain, receives the grant for the project ”DisCoTech: A high-throughput synthetic biology platform for identifying and optimising bioactive disulfide-rich peptides”.
  • Professor Stephan Sylvest Keller, DTU Nanolab, receives the grant for the project ”Mucosal ImmuNE Response through buccal microinjection of mRNA VAccines (MINERVA)”.
  • Professor Thomas Bolander, DTU Compute, receives the grant for the project ”Attention in Epistemic Planning”.
  • Professor Thomas Willum Hansen, DTU Nanolab, receives the grant for the project ”Controlled Local Generation of Quantum Emitters in 2-Dimensional Materials”.

Read more at the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Contact

Aasa Feragen

Aasa Feragen Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Mobile: +45 26220498

Esben Thormann

Esben Thormann Professor Department of Chemistry Phone: +45 45252439 Mobile: +45 53828118

Ivano Eligio Castelli

Ivano Eligio Castelli Professor Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Phone: +45 45258206 Mobile: +45 53538491

Jon Spangenberg

Jon Spangenberg Head of Section, Associate Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Mobile: +45 93518898

Manuel Pinelo

Manuel Pinelo Professor Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Phone: +45 45252950

Stephan Sylvest Keller

Stephan Sylvest Keller Professor DTU Nanolab - National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization

Thomas Bolander

Thomas Bolander Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Phone: +45 45253715 Mobile: +45 50474650

Thomas Willum Hansen

Thomas Willum Hansen Professor DTU Nanolab - National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization Phone: +45 45256476 Mobile: +45 27146910