This week’s interdisciplinary and future-oriented AIAS conference on Rebuilding of Ukraine offered insights and constructive discussions on a very difficult, complex and emotional topic: How to best develop Ukraine in a post-war scenario.

After a hard time struggling with cancer, director of AIAS Søren Keiding has passed away, leaving behind his wife, Lis Keiding, two adult children and a grandchild. He will be deeply missed.

Professor Jens-Christian Svenning, director of the Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) and founder of the Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), is appointed new member of the AIAS Board of Directors from 2023 to 2027.

On 1 March 2023, AIAS welcomes the first of three Visiting fellows who will stay at AIAS during the spring of 2023.

On the day marking one year of war imposed on Ukraine, the AUFF-Ukraine research fellows have organized a conference ‘Rebuilding of Ukraine’ on 28 March that looks to the future. The conference is open to all.

AIAS Former Fellow Doug Speed is awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop novel statistical tools for classifying heterogeneous diseases based on genetic information. The new tools will potentially lead to a more widespread use of personalized medicine.

With a grant of DKK 20 million the interdisciplinary group of researchers will study Parkinson’s disease with the potential to change the perspective of 20 years of research in Parkinson’s disease.

Mathematician and AIAS Fellow Corina-Gabriela Ciobotaru is awarded a Villum Young Investigator grant of DKK 6 million to study the unexplored mathematical area: limits of geometries over the p-adic numbers.

AUFF-Ukraine research fellow and ecologist Anastasiia Zymaroieva is awarded ‘Young Scientist of 2021’ by the Ukrainian Parliament. The notification of the 2021 awards have been delayed due to the war imposed on Ukraine.

With the support from a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant, physicist and AIAS Fellow Mie Andersen will investigate conversion of CO2 over metal oxides to help creating a more sustainable and economically viable production of fuels and chemicals.