Ten international researchers selected in the AIAS-AUFF Fellowship programme 2026
From a grand pool of applications showing a global reach and an increase in applications from the natural and technical sciences, ten talented researchers have been selected in the AIAS-AUFF fellowship programme. From September 2026, the new fellows arrive from around the globe to explore innovative research projects in Aarhus in an interdisciplinary and transformative environment.
The ten fellows bring novel research projects to Aarhus that will explore topics ranging from political representation to hydraulic diversity in a drying climate, over studying populist performance to understanding generational health trends. The researchers arrive from research institutions from around the world: from Australia to Brazil, from Ethiopia to Ireland, bringing new perspectives and research methods to AIAS and Aarhus University.
Individual projects in a joint cross-disciplinary community
The fellows will work on individual research projects and also be part of an explorative community of talented scholars at AIAS that value cross-disciplinary research exchanges and joint training and career development activities. In addition, the fellows will work together with collaborators and research groups at Aarhus University.
The ten selected researchers commencing on 1 September 2026 are:
- Cameron Hu, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, USA
Project at AIAS: ‘Predicaments of Knowledge in/of the Anthropocene’ - Daijun Liu, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Project at AIAS: ‘Integrating Hydraulic Diversity to Predict Temperate Forest Productivity in a Drying Climate (HyDiv)’ - Darren Halpin, School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia
Project at AIAS: ‘Organising the Present to Give Voice to the Future? Political Representation of Future Generations’ - David Waszek, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, École Normale Supérieure, France
Project at AIAS: ‘Virtues of Intelligibility and Mathematical Language in the Sciences’ - Ermias Debie Adane, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Project at AIAS: ‘Sacred Corridors: Modeling Socio-Ecological Resilience in Ethiopia’s Church Forest Networks’ - Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
Project at AIAS: ‘Inside Experience: Linking Bodily Awareness and Emotional Meaning in Adolescence (InExperience)’ - Jessica Wax-Edwards, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork, Ireland
Project at AIAS: ‘Visualising populist performance: audiovisual approaches to the study of populist imagemaking’ - Joshua Bergamin, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria
Project at AIAS: ‘Embodying Freedom: Habits, Improvisation, and Distributed Agency’ - Octavio Bramajo, Institute for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Project at AIAS: ‘Understanding health trends outcomes in young adults in Denmark: a generational perspective’ - Sayeh Khaniha, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME), University of São Paulo, Brazil
Project at AIAS: ‘Geometric Hierarchical Stochastic Block Model (GHSBM): Theory, Algorithms, and Biological Validation’
Meet the new fellows – 3-minute speed-lectures on 3 September 2026
At the ‘Introductory Research Presentations Seminar’ on Thursday 3 September 2026 at 13:15pm, the ten new AIAS-AUFF fellows and the 21 other incoming fellows will introduce their research areas and projects in short 3-minute speed-lectures.
The seminar and the time of the speakers will be announced here: https://aias.au.dk/events/show/artikel/aias-seminar-introduction-research-presentations-2026-1
Participants are welcome to join the entire seminar or selected parts of the programme.
About the AIAS-AUFF Fellowships
The AIAS-AUFF Fellowship programme is supported by Aarhus University Research Foundation (in Danish Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond (AUFF)) and aims at bringing talented scholars from abroad to Aarhus University to develop new and innovative lines of research, thinking and collaboration across disciplines.
See the last call of the AIAS-AUFF Fellowship programme here: https://aias.au.dk/opportunities-at-aias/aias-auff-fellowships
The next call is expected to open in August 2026 with an application deadline in October 2026, and a commencement date on 1 September 2027.
Contact
Andreas Roepstorff, AIAS Director
E-mail: andreas.roepstorff@aias.au.dk
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, AIAS
Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark