After months of travelling in peer review around the world, an international Selection Board has successfully appointed 19 AIAS-COFUND Fellows out of a cohort of 143. The AIAS-COFUND Fellows will commence on 1 October 2014 or 1 February 2015, and are the first of their kind. They represent 11 different nationalities and 18 different universities and will hereby contribute to the international sphere and network of the Institute.

Physicists from across the world met with local AU researchers at the AIAS Conference ‘Cold Atoms and Beyond’ June 25-27 to discuss the hot topic of ultracold atoms and its links to other fields in physics.

Anthropologists and philosophers gathered at the AIAS Conference ‘Moral engines: Exploring the moral drives in human life’ to discuss moral, ethics and the interplay between the two fields of studies.

Meet Cheryl Mattingly when she talks about 'Trust, Family Peril and the Good Life: A Narrative Perspective'.

With a total number of 143 applications of this first call, a complex review and selection process in the months ahead is to end in the first cohort of up to 25 AIAS-COFUND Marie Curie Fellows, commencing 1 October 2014 and some 1 February 2015.

The largest grant ever given to Aarhus University from the European funding programme, FP7, will enrich 70 talented researchers with a fellowship at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies over the next 5 years.

A workshop for PhDs and postdocs to be held on 10 June 2014 in relation to the conference ’Moral engines: Exploring the moral drives in human life’ on 4-6 June invites scholars to send papers addressing the issues of the interdisciplinary conference of anthropology and philosophy.

After an extensive process of selection and external peer review, six new fellows have been granted a fellowship, and will be joining the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies on 1 February in the spring semester of 2014.

AIAS Fellow Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard has establihed a new Journal Club in collaboration with Ebbe Sloth Andersen from iNano.

At a festive ceremony at Grundfos in Bjerringbro, Mr Microsensor – Professor and AIAS Fellow Niels Peter Revsbech, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and Department of Bioscience – was honoured with the prestigious Grundfos Prize 2013, amounting to DKK 1 million.