News from the Foundation

Rubina Raja
4. February 2025

Looking Back to Gain a Full Perspective as You Move Forward

We can only understand the present and shape the future by understanding the past.
Conversation with center leader Rubina Raja.

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Stefan Hecht
22. January 2025

New member appointed to the DNRF board

Minister of Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund has just appointed Einstein Professor Stefan Hecht as a new member of the board for the Danish National Research Foundation.

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Mette Birkedal Bruun.
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20. January 2025

A Historical Outlook

Conversation with professor Mette Birkedal Bruun about how the humanities can create value for and have an impact on the world outside the DNRF research center.

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Tejs Vegge Rubina Raja
16. December 2024

December stardust

Two more distinguished researchers from our DNRF centers have received international recognition for their research achievements.

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Niels Mejlgaard
26. November 2024

New CEO of the Danish National Research Foundation

Professor Niels Mejlgaard will assume the role of CEO of the Danish National Research Foundation as of Monday, January 13, 2025.

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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
4. November 2024

A legal revolution

How has innovation evolved at our basic research centers established within the humanities and social sciences?

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Jesper Svejstrup, Rubina Raja, Tine Jess, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
9. October 2024

Distinguished recognition of four DNRF professors

Once again we have the opportunity to congratulate brilliant scientists who were acknowledged for their groundbreaking basic research

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Press Release
1. October 2024

730 mil. DKK. for 13 new Centers of Excellence

The board of the Danish National Research Foundation has decided to support the establishment of 13 new DNRF Centers of Excellence.

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The reticulorumen of a calf in a close up.
5. September 2024

The climate-friendly cow

The third-place winner of the 2024 Photo Competition is looking into how ruminants digest feed to help cut down their methane emissions.

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A black
5. September 2024

Concrete abstractions

Professor Nathalie Wahl has won 2nd place in the DNRF’s photo competition 2024 with a photo that shows how mathematicians use the blackboard to capture wild ideas and infinite spaces.

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Pige flyder i vand med udbredte arme.
5. September 2024

The winner of the 1st prize in the DNRF Photo Competition 2024 opens a Gateway to New Knowledge and Insight.

Christian Vium is the winner of this year’s photo competition with the photograph entitled “Epiphany,”

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Illustration
26. August 2024

CEO for the Danish National Research Foundation

The DNRF is seeking an experienced and ambitious CEO with strong leadership skills to head the Foundation’s operating activities and set and reach long-term strategic […]

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Illustration
22. August 2024

Nine wise pieces of advice for the creative research process

The DNRF has published a new inspirational publication that contributes to a current debate on the power of ideas in research. A theme that the online media Science Report has been focusing on in the recent weeks.

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Collage with Andy Sode Anker, Nathalie Eiris Henriksen, Eske Willerslev, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Tine Jess, Charlotte Mason
3. July 2024

Further Achievements

We are often reminded of how much talent the Danish research world possesses when scientists win prizes, publish in prestigious journals, or in other ways are acknowledged for their research. And we are immensely proud and happy when the excellent academics derive from one of our centers.

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Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
27. June 2024

New Chairman of the DNRF

For decades, Dahl-Jensen has been at the forefront of research related to ice core drilling and Arctic sea ice. As a glaciologist, she has helped […]

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