The new fellows join AIAS through various fellowships with different objectives. Six AIAS-AUFF fellows bring a bottom-up basic research project to AIAS, exploring in-depth very diverse areas: from economics and sustainable financing in Ghana, to recycling of plastics, to the study of past ocean circulation and climate changes that are analogs for modern and future climates.

Two fellows will start a scientist and artist collaboration in the new Artist-in-Residence Tandem fellowship to undertake an interdisciplinary, multimedia and performance project, exploring the impact of an asset-based economy on digital personhood.

One AIAS-DANDRITE fellow will commence to gain insights and network outside the neuroscientific field; yet another fellow commence with support by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond to foster collaboration among the Nordic universities. With a Monograph fellowship funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, six fellows will condense and share decades of research insights into a book format.

Four AIAS Science-Diplomacy fellows will work in a theme group, aiming at developing the field of science diplomacy from diverse research perspectives and projects; whereas 14 Associate fellows from Aarhus University will be affiliated with the AIAS community over the next two years to expand their international, interdisciplinary network, and broaden their knowledge and establish collaborations outside their own immediate research field.

‘Meet the new’ Marathon: 34 3-minute speed-lectures

On Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 13:00 – 17:00, the new fellows will present their research and research questions in short 3-minute speed-lectures that are open to all. Participants are welcome to join the whole afternoon, but also only for parts of the talks.

• Find more information about the ‘Introductory Research Presentations Seminar’ here: https://aias.au.dk/events/show/artikel/aias-seminar-introduction-research-presentations-2025

From 1 September 2025 AIAS welcomes:

AIAS-AUFF Fellows 

• Dario Campisi, Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Italy
  Project at AIAS: ‘Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Templates for the Origin of Life?’
• Emily Cockayne, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, School of History and Ideas of Art, University of East Anglia, UK
  Project at AIAS: ‘Recreating historical non-synthetic plastics: relearning Victorian recycling for environmental good’
• Federica Cavaletti, Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti", University of Milan, Italy
  Project at AIAS: ‘Improving Neurodiverse Cooperation in Academic Research: A Study on (Shared) Time Experience’
• Kwadwo Opoku, Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana
  Project at AIAS: ‘Sustainable Financing of Long-Term Care in Lower Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Ghana’
• Malene Friis Hansen, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA
  Project at AIAS: ‘Towards a Cultural Biology’
• Nazik Ogretmen, Ocean and Climate Change Research Group, Center for Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal
  Project at AIAS: ‘Minimum Endmember of Paleo-salinity Spectrum from Subpolar and Equatorial Deep Ocean: DEEP’

AIAS- Science Diplomacy Theme-group Fellows (AIAS-SD)

• Maria Rentetzi, Science Technology and Gender Studies, Professor, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  Project at AIAS: ‘Tracking Diamonds: How AI and Science Diplomacy Save Colonialism’
• Matteo de Donà, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
  Project at AIAS: ‘Striving for epistemic pluralism in the International Seabed Authority (ISA)'
• Rachel Fishberg, The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
  Project at AIAS: ‘The Role of Universities in Science Diplomacy: Institutional Dimensions and Academic Practices’
• Casper Andersen, School of Culture and Society, History of Ideas, Aarhus University
  Project at AIAS: ‘Dual use and/or internationalism in Science Diplomacy’

AIAS- Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Fellow

• Alison Gerber, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden
  Project at AIAS: ‘Show & Tell: Representation, visualization, and evidence across epistemic cultures’

Artist-in-Residence Tandem Fellows (AIAS-ART) 

• Anneke Kampman, London-based artist and musician, PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK and
• Jan Løhmann Stephensen, Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture, and Museology, Aarhus University, Denmark. 
  Joint Project at AIAS: 'Machine-Characters: The Choreographed Subjectivity of Platform Media Performance'

Carlsberg Monograph Fellows at AIAS

• Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Project: ‘Rhythms of Reading’
• Christian Ulrik Andersen, School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Project: ‘Minor Tech’
• Donna Briggs Bødtkjer, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Project: ‘Thomas Bartholin’s discovery of the human lymphatic vasculature’
• Mathias Clasen, School of Communication and Culture, Department of English, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Project: ‘The Master of Fear: Why Stephen King Became Everybody’s Favorite Boogeyman’
• Samuel Schindler, Department of Mathematics - Science Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
  Project: ‘Scientific Discovery: Its Nature, Social Function, and Future’
• Susanne Ravn, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark
  Project: ‘Towards a Phenomenology of Movement Praxis’

AIAS-DANDRITE Fellow

• Fiona Müllner, The Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE), Aarhus University, Denmark
  Project: 'Exploring how the brain shapes sensory perception'

Associate Fellows from Aarhus University

• Amanda Bundgård, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Christian Elbæk, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Daniele Nosenzo, Professor, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Derek Beach, Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Professor, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Janne Flora, Associate Professor, School of Culture and Society - Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Jessica Coria, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Mette Terp Høybye, Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Mirgita Frasheri, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Nicole Hauser, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Niculina Musat, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Peter Musaeus, Associate Professor, Centre for Educational Development, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Rachel Charlotte Smith, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Ruben Pauwels, Associate Professor, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

Contact

Andreas Roepstorff, Director
E-mail: andreas.roepstorff@aias.au.dk 

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