Via the CAT programme, the European Network for Institutes of Advanced Study supports excellent early career research groups committed to developing new ideas in order to understand and tackle current or emerging societal challenges. The group working on ‘Light and Human health’ will visit AIAS from 28 March to 1 April.

A two-day workshop at AIAS brought researchers, policy-makers, research management and industry together to discuss the methods of interdisciplinary collaboration in the Nordic countries.

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Aarhus University Research Foundation has donated funding to research fellowships for researchers affected by the war in Ukraine. The researchers will be hosted at AIAS.

With a highly interdisciplinary research approach, Professor and AIAS Associate Fellow Felix Riede contributes with new understandings of contemporary climate change adaptation by studying how climate change and natural disasters in the deep past have changed societies.

Seven fellows will start their AIAS-COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship on 1 February 2022. With this new group of fellows, the AIAS community is the largest so far, extending the number of in-house fellows from around the world to 43.

A new book by AIAS Fellow Katarzyna Jażdżewska offers a comprehensive study of the Greek genre of dialogue in antiquity, including new sources and bringing novel insights.

The last 50 years of Mars missions are reviewed in a new publication by AIAS Fellow Julene Aramendia and international collaborators, focusing on the techniques used for making on-site geochemical studies of the surface of Mars.

AIAS incoming Fellow Fulvio Reggiori is awarded a Novo Laureate grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to start his own research laboratory to study and answer key unsolved questions in the field of autophagy, the process of ‘self-eating’ cells, which has therapeutic potential to fight diseases such as cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s.

Political scientist Sandra Eckert is appointed a full professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany from August 2022.

Together with major European bodies involved in imaging radiation safety, AIAS Fellow Ruben Pauwels has contributed to a re-evaluation of the use of shielding in radiology, which has resulted in issuing of consensus-based recommendations.