Science at VILLUM

I am excited to share the amazing news I was awarded the Villum Young Investigator grant (1.2M €)!The project we will investigate both parasitic and symbiotic Fungi associated with Hemipteran insects in South America, Africa and Asia. Two postdoc positions to be announced soon!

Great discussion at today’s talk at Tokyo Institute of Technology - presenting recent and ongoing @MobileUCPH research on XAI and asylum law in collab w/ Thomas Moeslund @aalborg_uni / @AiCentreDK thx 2 @VILLUMFONDEN +@GrundforskFond

Et nyt banebrydende studie af forskere fra @koebenhavns_uni har undersøgt, hvordan bladskærermyrer i millioner af år har plantet og dyrket svampe. Projektet har modtaget støtte fra Villum Fondens Experiment-program. Læs mere her: www1.bio.ku.dk/english/news/2… #forskning #dkforsk

Fascinating results on leaf-cutting ants from #VillumExperiment grantee Jonathan Shik at @science_ku www1.bio.ku.dk/english/news/2…

Vi søger fantastiske interdisciplinære forskningsideer. Villum Synergy-programmet er nu åbent for ansøgninger. Dette program har til formål at styrke tværfaglig, data-drevet forskning i Danmark. Læs mere her 👇 villumfonden.dk/da/group/grant…

The annual #VillumExperiment meeting for our grant holders is always a great experience with a lot of energy the room. This year we ask grant holders to come up with good and not-so-good uses of generative AI in grant proposal writing to inform our future policy in @VILLUMFONDEN.

Our new research on a calcareous syconoid sponge, reveals high choanocyte pumping rates and sheds light on its aquiferous system, enhancing our understanding of sponge fluid dynamics. @VILLUMscience #IndependentResearchFundDenmark @BiologyAarhus @AarhusUni rdcu.be/dXZ5y

One week to go until the launch of our new event series on experimenting with funding! Next Wed 23 Oct, we'll talk about double-blind proposal evaluation @VILLUMFONDEN, where the review panel only sees an anonymous research proposal, and the identity of the review panel is not disclosed. Register here: researchonresearch.org/afire-funders-…

New Paper in Marine Pollution Bulletin: Epiphytes can turn seagrass phyllospheres into hotspots for N2O production/emission, and lead to toxic NO and H2S production in anoxic leaf microenvironments. Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… Thanks to the Villum Foundation (@VILLUMscience)

Happy and grateful to announce that @VILLUMFONDEN has granted 11,9 mio. DKK to T. Moeslund @aalborguni and MOBILE director @tgammeltoft @jura_ku to launch the project 'Explainable AI and Credibility in Asylum Decision-Making' 47 millioner til tværfaglig forskning | Villum Fonden

Forskning i, hvordan man kan overføre dufte på afstand og brugen af insekter som råstoffer. Dette er to eksempler på modige forskningsprojekter, der i år har fået støtte som en del af Villum Experiment Programmet. 🦗💡 Læs mere her: villumfonden.dk/da/nyhed/fra-d… #forskning #dkfonde

Organocatalysis is crucial for the production of many pharmaceuticals. Karl Anker Jørgensen @JorgensenGroup outlines the importance of finding green synthesis routes with reduced waste for the pharmaceutical industry. A great talk rounding out an exciting #VillumFellow symposium.

En skøn tilbagevendende tradition hos @VILLUMFONDEN - en hel eftermiddag med naturvidenskabelige oplæg og diskussion 😀 #dkforskning

How to eat a jellyfish? At the #VillumFellow symposium Mie Thorborg Pedersen from @NATsdu explains how to turn a jellyfish into a crisp using chemistry and culinary science.

Efficient power-to-X is to a large extent a materials challenge. At the #VillumFellow seminar @kirsten_mj outlines how fundamental investigations of the nanostructure of electrocatalysts may lead to better synthesis processes.

How do you scale basic research in power-to-X to an industrial scale? Peter Vesborg from the Villum P2X accelerator at @DTUtweet outlines their approach at the #VillumFellow meeting.

Henrik Stiesdal from @stiesdalgroup kicks off our #VillumFellow seminar with a thought-provoking talk on how to bring the energy technologies needed for the green transition to scale.

Happy to share this article on the promises of #algae #biotechnology, published in @TheScientistLLC featuring some of our group's research at @SyddanskUni, along with the amazing work of other researchers. @VILLUMscience @novonordiskfond @SDUClimate tinyurl.com/bdhjmaz8

Big (1.2 million plots) global study on #forest structure: Single-species dominance in #tree stands decreases w rainfall & increases w soil #sand content @GEB_macro🌳🌴 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… -led by @hordijk_iris; happy to have been part🙂🌲🌲 #GFBI #forests #trees #vegetation

Great collaboration with @lab_sensor and Daniel Aagren Nielsen: In Vivo Lifetime Imaging of the Internal O2 Dynamics in Corals with near-Infrared-Emitting Sensor Nanoparticles | ACS Sensors pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @MooreFound @FlImagin3_DN @VILLUMscience @DFF_raad