Former Centers of Excellence

Center for Stem Cell Decision Making (STEMPHYS)
Head of center: Lene Broeng Oddershede
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Bacterial Stress Response and Persistence (BASP)
Head of center: Kenn Gerdes
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Dynamiske Molekylære Interaktioner (DynaMo)
Head of center: Professor Barbara Ann Halkier
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Nanostructured Graphene (CNG)
Head of center: Professor Antti-Pekka Jauho
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Center for Stellar Astrofysik (SAC)
Head of center: Professor Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Glykom Analyse (CCG)
Head of center: Professor Henrik Clausen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Medieval Literature (CML)
Head of center: Professor Lars Boje Mortensen
Location: University of Southern Denmark

Center for Vitamins and Vaccines (CVIVA)
Head of center: Christine Stabell Benn
Location: Statens Serum Institut (SSI)

Center for Geomicrobiology
Head of center: Bo Barker Jørgensen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Permafrost (CENPERM)
Head of center: Bo Elberling
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC)
Head of Center: David Lando
Location: Copenhagen Business School

Center for International Courts (iCourts)
Head of Center: Mikael Rask Madsen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Quantum Devices (QDev)
Head of Center: Charles M. Marcus
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC)
Head of center: Carsten Rahbek
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center On Autobiographical Memory Research (CON AMORE)
Head of center: Dorthe Berntsen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for GeoGenetics (CGG)
Head of center: Eske Willerslev
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Star and Planet Formation (STARPLAN)
Head of center: Martin Bizarro
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology (CP3-Origins)
Head of center: Francesco Sannino
Location: University of Southern Denmark

Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces (QGM)
Head of center: Jørgen Ellegaard-Andersen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Symmetry and Deformation (SYM)
Head of center: Jesper Grodal
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Materials Crystallography (CMC)
Head of center: Bo Brummerstedt Iversen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Particle Physics (DISCOVERY)
Head of center: Peter H. Hansen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES)
Head of center: Niels Haldrup
Location: Aarhus University

Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signaling (CARB)
Head of center: Jens Stougaard
Location: Aarhus University

Centre for Comparative Genomics
Head of center: Rasmus Nielsen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for DNA Nanotechnology (CDNA)
Head of center: Kurt Vesterager Gothelf
Location: Aarhus University

Centre for Epigenetics
Head of center: Kristian Helin
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for Ice and Climate
Head of center: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO)
Head of center: Lars Arge
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease (PUMPKIN)
Head of center: Poul Nissen
Location: Aarhus University

Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE)
Head of center: Don Canfield
Location: University of Southern Denmark

Center for Individual Nanoparticle Functionality (CINF)
Head of center: Ib Chorkendorff
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism (CIM)
Head of center: Bente Klarlund Pedersen
Location: Rigshopsitalet

Centre for Genotoxic Stress (GENOTOXIC)
Head of center: Jiri Lukas
Location: The Danish Cancer Society

Centre for Social Evolution (CSE)
Head of center: Jacobus J. Boomsma
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for mRNP Biogenesis and Metabolism
Head of center: Torben Heick Jensen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Insoluble Protein Structures (inSPIN)
Head of center: Niels Chr. Nielsen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Oxygen Microscopi and Imaging (COMI)
Head of center: Peter R. Ogilby
Location: Aarhus University

Centre for Viscous Liquid Dynamics (Glass and Time)
Head of center: Jeppe Dyre
Location: Roskilde University

Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK)
Head of center: Jens Hjorth
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for Language Change in Real Time (LANCHART)
Head of center: Frans Gregersen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for Textile Research (CTR)
Head of center: Marie Louise Nosch
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Models of Life (CMOL)
Head of center: Kim Sneppen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Danish Arrhythmia Research Centre (DARC)
Head of center: Søren-Peter Olesen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Sustainable and Green Chemistry (CSG)
Head of center: Claus Hviid Christensen
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Centre for Molecular Movies (CMM)
Head of center: Martin Meedom Nielsen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals
Head of center: Nils Holger Petersen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for Black Sea Studies (PONTOS)
Head of center: Pia Bilde Guldager
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Subjectivity Research (CfS)
Head of center: Dan Zahavi
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for Metal Structures in 4 Dimensions (M4D)
Head of center: Henning Friis Poulsen
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Nucleic Acid Center (NAC)
Head of center: Jesper Wengel
Location: University of Southern Denmark

Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM)
Head of center: Martin Browning
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Biomembrane Physics (MEMPHYS)
Head of center: Ole G. Mouritsen
Location: University of Southern Denmark

Center for Quantum Optics (QUANTOP)
Head of center: Eugene S. Polzik
Location: University of Copenhagen

Water and Salt Research Centre
Head of center: Søren Nielsen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Quantum Protein (QuP)
Head of center: Henrik Bohr
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN)
Head of center: Leif Østergaard
Location: Aarhus University

Wilhelm Johansen Centre for Functional Genome Research (WJC)
Head of center: Niels Tommerup
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for Solid Phase Organic Combinatorial Chemistry (SPOCC)
Head of center: Morten Meldal
Location: Carlsberg Laboratory

Center for Catalysis
Head of center: Karl Anker Jørgensen
Location Aarhus University

Center for Plant-Microbe Symbiosis
Head of center: Henriette Giese
Location: RISØ National Laboratory

Center for Demographic Research
Head of center: Hans Chr. Johansen
Location: University of Southern Denmark

Danish Center for Earth System Science (DCESS)
Head of center: Gary Shaffer
Location: University of Copenhagen

Network in Mathematical Physics and Stochastics (MaPhySto)
Head of center: Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Molecular Plant Physiology (PlaCe)
Head of center: Birger Lindberg Møller
Location: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University.

Center for Experimental Bio Informatics (CEBI)
Head of center: Matthias Mann
Location: University of Southern Denmark

Center for Human-Machine Interaction
Head of center: Annelise Mark Pejtersen
Location: RISØ National Laboratory

Søren Kierkegaard Research centre (SKC)
Head of Center: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn
Location: University of Copenhagen

The Danish Epidemiology Science Centre (DESC)
Head of center: Jørn Olsen, Location
Statens Serum Institut

Centre for Labour Market and Social Research (CLS)
Head of center: Niels Westergaard Nielsen
Location: Aarhus University

Theoretical Astrophysics Center (TAC)
Head of center: Igor Novikov
Location: University of Copenhagen

Center for Atomic Physics (ACAP)
Head of center: Jens Ulrik Andersen
Location: Aarhus University

Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics (CAMP)
Head of center: Jens Kehlet Nørskov
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Centre for Basic Research In Computer Science (BRICS)
Head of center: Professor Mogens Nielsen
Location: Aarhus University

International Research Centre for Computational Hydrodynamics (ICCH)
Head of center: Per Madsen
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Danish Centre for Remote Sensing (DCRS)
Head of center: Søren Nørvang Madsen
Location: Technical University of Denmark

Danish Lithosphere Centre (DLC)
Head of center: Hans Christian Larsen
Location: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Danish Centre for Experimental Parasitology (CEP)
Head of center: K. Darwin Murrell
Location: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University.

Center or Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS)
Head of center: Søren Brunak
Location: Technical University of Denmark.

Centre for Biomolecular Recognition
Head of center: Peter E. Nielsen
Location: University of Copenhagen

The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre (CMRC)
Head of center: Bengt Saltin
Location: Copenhagen University Hospital

Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI)
Head of center: Thomas Sinkjær
Location: Aalborg University.

Centre for Sound Communication (CSC)
Head of center: Axel Michelsen
Location: University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Centre for Crystallographic Studies (CCS)
Head of center: Sine Larsen
Location: University of Copenhagen.

Centre for Enzyme Research
Head of center: Kaj Frank Jensen
Location: University of Copenhagen

Centre for Gene Regulation and Plasticity of Neuro-endocrine Network
Head of center: Lars-Inge Larsson
Location: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University.

Centre for Semiotic Research
Head of center: Per Aage Brandt
Location: Aarhus University

Copenhagen Polis Centre (CPC)
Head of center: Mogens Herman Hansen
Location: University of Copenhagen.

Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Head of center: Søren H. Andersen
Location: The National Museum of Denmark.

Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU)
Head of center: Peter Birch Sørensen
Location: University of Copenhagen.