AIAS supports and actively helps build a thriving and trusting community where interdisciplinary exchanges and ideas, methods and creative practices among the fellows can flourish.
The diversity of research fields present at AIAS reflects the diversity of practises and methods applied to capture and foster interdisciplinarity. This page gathers some of the social and creative intiatives that bring the intersciplinary communitity together, and displays how fellows use their different fields as a lens for interdisciplinarity.
Mie Andersen, AIAS Fellow and a physical chemist, studies catalysis at the interface between physics and chemistry. In her formula to your right, she explores interdisciplinarity at AIAS through a mathematical formula of catalysis in asking the question: AIAS - a catalyst for interdisciplinary work and excellent research?
Donna Briggs Bødtkjer, AIAS Associate fellow and a physiologist, studies the human lymphatic vessels. At the yearly Sandbjerg Retreat for AIAS fellows, she presented how she works with interdisciplinarity and how this has opened novel perspectives for her.
Donna has developed the model to your left, comparing the pulmonary function of the lungs to the stages and phases of interdsciplinary research. Her model seeks to make the invisible visible. Donna highlights the importance of creative tension that is crucial for the onset of novel ideas and for venturing into interdisciplinarity. Her model is still in the making.
