Former AIAS Fellow Sâmia Joca (Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University) is awarded an Ascending Investigators grant of DKK 5 million by the Lundbeck Foundation to investigate whether the compound cannabidiol can have a positive effect on depression.

AIAS Director Søren Rud Keiding contributes to the book series Tænkepauser, Reflections, with a new book on water. As a chemical physicist, Keiding dives into the wondrous properties of water and takes us on a freezing or vaporizing experience.

AIAS has engaged in a collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) and Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), Finland to further develop the Nordic approach to interdisciplinary research. A series of three workshops on the topic will be held in Uppsala, Aarhus and Turku, over the next year.

A new study by AIAS Fellow Mark Johnson and international collaborators shows that toothed whales rapidly adjust their echolocation behaviour to track fast and unpredictable prey movements, with response times similar to human vision.

On 10 November an interdisciplinary event at AIAS will address the role of creativity as a tool for resilience in the midst of a global pandemic by bringing art history, music science and information science together.

In his new book, AIAS fellow Kei Hiruta tells the story of the conflict between Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin and considers how their profound disagreement over central issues in politics, history and philosophy continues to offer important lessons for political thought broadly construed today. Join the panel discussion on 4 November to know more about Hiruta’s work.

Today, on 1 October 2021, it’s commencement day at AIAS. Seven new AIAS COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows will begin their fellowship at AIAS and collaboration with fellows and Aarhus University faculty members. The researchers are at AIAS on fellowships that will last from one year up to three years.

A new book co-edited by AIAS Fellow Helen Van Noorden is the first large-scale multidisciplinary volume on ancient eschatology, the study of the end of things.

Life is not only lived forwards – it is also experienced a little ahead of time, and now there is empirical evidence for the claim. AIAS Fellow Niels Chr. Hansen and collaborators have used music to understand the brain's expectation mechanisms. The study is published in Psychological Science.

AIAS Former Fellows Shubiao Wu (Acroecology) and Magnus Kjærgaard (Molecular Biology and Genetics) have each received a DKK 2 million grant by the Villum Experiment programme that reward scientists who question conventional thinking.