The JCS Programme was aimed at researchers from Aarhus University with a distinguished track record in research, who intended to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas.
The JCS fellowships were available for researchers with a PhD, a minimum of two years of postdoctoral research experience, and with a tenured position/ in a tenure track position at Aarhus University.
A Jens Christian Skou Fellowship offered fellows the time and space to develop their research project, unrestricted by other obligations. Fellowship had a duration from 6 up to 12 months.
Jens Christian Skou (1918-2018)
The JCS fellowships were named after Professor Jens Christian Skou (1918-2018) from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University. Jens Christian Skou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 for his discovery of an enzyme. In 1957, Jens Christian Skou discovered the enzyme, Na+/K+-ATPase, that serves as a biological pump to transport ions (known as the sodium-potassium pump).
This fellowship has received funding from The Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF)
