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.

AIAS Former Fellow Rasmus O. Bak is awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study stem cells and gene therapy to improve treatment of diseases like blood cancer and genetic disorders by applying a new state-of-the-art method for precisely controlling gene expression.

AIAS Fellow Markus Rinschen is awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship of DKK 4.7 million to study the ‘Metabolic modulation of podocyte mechanotransduction’

AIAS Fellow Lisa M. Wu has developed a new programme to help improve cognitive problems in brain cancer survivors. The project is funded by the Danish Cancer Society and aims to improve real-life functioning, work ability and quality of life for brain cancer survivors.