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Research Activities of 2026

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Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is author of the book chapter ‘Tuning in to the East Village Poetry Walk’ in: Poetry, Music, and Sound Art / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst by Rebecka Dürr et al. (eds), De Gruyter, 2026. 


Bharti Arora was awarded a Study Circle Grant form the Nordic Summer University (NSU) for the Study Circle: Re-configuring Colonialities: Reforging Knowledges, Healing Trauma and Re-Imagining (Digital) Futures. Awarded: 2026.


Nazik Ögretmen is corresponding author of the article Coastal strip of the Levantine Corridor for the Calabrian (late Early Pleistocene) hominin migration in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, July 2026. Read an abstract here.


Rachel Fishberg gave the talk 'Research Security in Practice: Technologies of Risk Management and the Institutionalisation of Security in Danish Universities' in Machester, UK, 2026. 


Malene Friis Hansen gave the talk ‘Towards a Cultural Biology – and the path to get there’ at the Department of Animal and Veterinary Science, 2026.


Bharti Arora gave the talk ‘Re-framing Citizenship as Hope and Solidarity in Selected Literary Narratives of Post-independence India’ at the ICA Workshop-Pluralities of Resonant Relationships, Erfurt, Germany, 29 June - 3 July 2026. 


Anna Maria Langmüller gave a poster presentation ‘Assessing the potential of evolution-informed conservation in Danish butterfly populations’ at The Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, Copenhagen, Denmark, 29 June 2026.


Elena-Daniela Ana gave the presentation ‘Soil and the politics of wine heritage in Moldova’ at the online workshop ‘Viti-Vinicultural Heritage’ co-organised by University of Southampton, University of Burgundy and University of Edinburgh, 23 June 2026.


Nazik Öğretmen was awarded a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) grant of EUR 1,600 within COST Action CA23124 to go to ZMT-Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen. Awarded: 2026.


Nazik Öğretmen was awarded an Erasmus+ grant of EUR 1,541 for teaching activities at EU-IMBRSea Joint Summer School for Master's degree students between 2-15 August 2026 at Tjärnö Marine Station, Gothenburg University in Sweden. Awarded: 2026.


Malene Friis Hansen was awarded a Re:wild grant of USD 5000 from the Re:wild foundation. Awarded: 2026. Read more about Re:wild here.


Rachel Fishberg is co-editor of the book Europeanized social science: Changes in hierarchies, practices, and institutions and author of the chapter: ‘EU research as unequal Europeanisation? Exploring the less visible navigational work accompanying EU-funded social science collaboration’, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 19 June 2026. More about the book here.


Andrei Kalinichev gave a talk ‘Rethinking Optical Chemical Imaging: New Platforms and Readout Strategies for Complex Systems’ at the conference Matrafured 2026, Visegrad, Hungary, 16 June 2026.


Donna Briggs Bødtker organized and co-chaired the workshop ‘Spaces of the Nervous System: Intersections between Anatomical Architecture and Neuroscience,’ Aarhus University, 15-16 June 2026. 


Andrei Kalinichev is corresponding author of the article ‘From the ground to the data cloud: what limits chemical sensor networks from reaching their full potential and what can be done to overcome those challenges’ in: TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 15 June 2026. Read an abstract here.


Malene Friis Hansen gave the presentation ‘Human- wildlife food sharing and the consequences for co-cultures and coexistence’ and co-organized the symposium ‘Part 1: Food for thought? Understanding the drivers of provisioning of primates and other wildlife across the globe’ and the workshop ‘Part 2: Food for thought? Understanding taxonomic and geographic variation in wildlife provisioning across the globe’ at the Pathways Europe Conference,  Oxford Brookes University, UK, 14-17 June 2026. 


Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen gave a talk at the ‘Experimental Forms Workshop: Rhythms in Writing’, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark, 12 June 2026.


Malene Friis Hansen gave an interview for the podcast series Hvorfor er jeg leder? for the episode 'Er der sammenhænge mellem aber, hierarkier og moderne ledelse?', 9 June 2026. Listen to the podcast here (in Danish).


Elisabetta Ferrari was awarded the 2026 Outstanding Book Award from the Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) for her book Appropriate Negotiate Challenge. Awarded: 6 June 2026. 


Kwadwo Opoku is the co-author of the article ‘The Causal Influence of Pension on the Participation of Older Workers in the Ghanaian Labour Market’ in: Social Sciences and Humanities Open, June 2026. Read the article here


 Christian Mario Appendini gave an interview to a Mexican News Network Aristegui Noticias on sargassums, 5 June 2026. Listen to the interview here.


Elisabetta Ferrari gave three presentations on ‘Whose Protest Counts? Power and Exclusion in Online Activism’, ‘Reflections on the Past and Future of Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division’ and ‘Technocratic Ambitions, Populist Justifications: The Discursive Legitimation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)’ at the 2026 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), South Africa, 4 – 8 June 2026.


Dario Campisi gave an interview to the AIAS iPerspectives Podcast Series for the episode: ‘Where Quantum Chemistry Meets Astronomy: Tracing Life’s Origins, 4 June 2026. Listen to theepisode here.


Elena-Daniela Ana gave an invited lecture on 'Keep calm and be proud of Wine of Moldova’. Looking at Moldovan wine anthropologically in a globalized world.' at the Department of Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany, 2 June 2026.


Bharti Arora gave the talk ‘Decolonial Praxis of Land Rights versus Bureaucratic Inscriptions of Nation-State’, University of Tubingen, Germany, 1 June 2026. 


Federica Cavaletti is author of the article ‘It Takes… Three! Enhancing Phenomenological Evidence in the Triangulation Approach to Aesthetic Experience’ in: Argumenta, May 2026. Read the article here.


Andrei Kalinichev participated in two stand activities on ‘Sensorer til jord og landbrug – udforsk den levende jords kompleksitet’ and ‘Sensorer til iltmåling – udforsk “døde zoner” i vandet’ at Naturmødet 2026, Hirtshals, Denmark, 28-29 May 2026.


Andrei Kalinichev was awarded a Carlsberg Conference Grant (CF26-0375) of DKK 32,875 for the conference ‘InterSensing Vol. 1 — Environmental Sensing Across Sciences and Humanities’. Awarded: 20 May 2026.


Donna Briggs Bødtker gave the talk ‘Translating the Invisible: Thomas Bartholin, the English Print Market, and the Vernacular Reception of the Lymphatic System’ at the Colloquium in History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University, 20 May 2026.


Kwadwo Opoku is the corresponding author of the article ‘Bivariate probit analysis of determinants of health status and health care seeking behaviour among the older persons in Ghana' in: International Journal of Social Economics, 19 May 2026. Read the article here.


Federica Cavaletti gave the talk ‘"Our Time is Now": Reclaiming One’s Future, and its Emotional Correlates’ at the Anticipation and Aesthetics - Nordic Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference, Aarhus University, Denmark, 19 May 2026. 


Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen organized and co-chaired the conference ‘Anticipation and Aesthetics’ at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark, 18 – 20 May 2026.


Elena-Daniela Ana gave the presentation ‘Drying landscapes, shifting practices: Unequal green transition and transnational farming in Romania ’ at the conference ‘The Greyzone of the Green Transition: Environmental Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe’ at the Lucian Blaga University, Romania, 18 May 2026.


Magda Hamczyk gave the talk ‘Novel Mechanisms Behind Accelerated Vascular Disease in Progeria’ at Aarhus University, Denmark, 18 May 2026.


Bharti Arora gave the talk ‘Politico-Aesthetics of Solidarity in Indian Literary Narratives on Social Movements’ at the IASH symposium Cultures of Solidarity in Global South Movements: Past and Present, University of Edinburgh, UK, 18 May 2026.


Bharti Arora gave the talk ‘Remapping Sensualities and (Queer) Desires in Select Indian Literary Narratives’, the University of Manchester, UK,15 May 2026. 


Donna Briggs Bødtker is co-author of the review ‘Lymphatic Matters in Heart Disease: Systemic and Cardiac Perspectives’ in: Physiology (Bethesda). 13 May 2026. Read the review here.


Donna Briggs Bødtker is co-author of the review ‘Ca2+-Activated Cl Channels: Do Bestrophins and TMEM16A Interact?’ in: Acta Physiologica, 12 May 2026. Read the review here.


Christian Mario Appendini gave the talk ‘Tropical cyclones and climate change - redefining design parameters’ at the Division of Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, Sweden, 12 May 2026.


Dario Campisi gave the talk ‘MicroTS: A Smart Adaptive Algorithm for Activation Energies on Astrochemical Surfaces’ at the workshop on new Methods in Astrochemistry, Aarhus University, 6 May 2026.


Dario Campisi gave a poster presentation on Collisional Monte Carlo Energy Transfer for Vibrational-to-Translational (COMET-VT) Dynamics with Adaptive Local Correlation Embedding (ALCE)’ at the Workshop on new Methods in Astrochemistry, Aarhus University, 4 May 2026.


Bharti Arora gave the online talk ‘Contours of Feminist Activism: Reimagining Decolonial Futures through Indian Women’s Writing’ at the conference Moving Towards Egalitarian Horizons: The Poetics, Politics, Practice and Praxis of Inclusion, the University of Delhi, India, 29 April 2026.


Emily Cockayne gave the presentation ‘Nineteenth-Century Plastics: Alchemy, Alterity and Artificiality’ at the symposium Mining Modernity: Aesthetics with/out Extraction at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Norway, 22 April 2026.


Dario Campisi gave the speed-lecture ‘Life’s ingredients in a molecular universe’ and participated in the stand activity on 'Tid, støv og stjerner' at The Festival of Research, Aarhus University, 22 April 2026.


Malene Friis Hansen is co-author of the article ‘Phylogenetic Patterns in Hunting and Extinction Risk in Primates’ in: Animal Conservation, 15 April 2026. Read the article here


Malene Friis Hansen gave an interview to the Danish newspaper Politiken for the article ‘»Helvede brød løs«: I over 10 år har to grupper chimpanser udkæmpet en voldsom konflikt’,  11 April 2026. Read the article here.


K. Brad Wray is co-editor of the book Hypotheses in Science and co-author of the chapter: 'Introduction: Rethinking Hypotheses, Springer, 2026. More about the book here.


Ester Salgarella was awarded the 2026 Michael Ventris Award in Mycenaean Studies from the Institute of Classical Studies, London. The Award will allow her to develop the first digital edition of the Linear A corpus in close collaboration with researchers in London and Oslo. Awarded: April 2026. Read more here.


Malene Friis Hansen was appointed Co-vice Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Species Survival Commission, Primate Specialist Group,. Section on Human-Primate Interactions, 2026.


Christian Mario Appendini gave an interview to Spanish newspaper El Pais for the article ‘Sargassum is here to stay: the 2026 season is coming early and will be more intense’, 30 March 2026. Read the article here


Andrei Kalinichev gave a talk ‘Toward intelligent 2D luminescence-based imaging for multiparameter chemical mapping’ at EUROPT(R)ODE Conference 2026, Volkshaus Jena, Germany, 30 March 2026.


Dario Campisi gave the invited talk ‘Can Interstellar Adenine Form via Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Templating?’ at the AUNAB Research Meeting on Simulating Life-Like Systems, Aarhus University, 27 March 2026.


Donna Briggs Bødtker gave the talk ‘Making Discovery Public: Thomas Bartholin and the Circulation of Lymphatic Anatomy’ at the Centre of Science Studies Colloquium, Aarhus University, 25 March 2026.


Christian Appendini organised the ‘First Meeting of Schools on Project-Based Learning on Sargassum (ABP-Sargazo): Building Networks,’ Cozumel, Mexico, 24 March 2026.


Federica Cavaletti is co-author of the book chapter ‘Playing VR Against Itself. Immersive Environments between Hypermediation and Remediation’ in: Virtual Reality Exhibited, 2026. 


Federica Cavaletti is co-author of the article ‘Authors Response: Keeping a Weather Eye Open: Not Hasty Truths But Fruitful Doubts’ in: Constructivist Foundations, March 2026. Read the article here.


Federica Cavaletti is co-author of the article ‘Micro-Phenomenology as a Method for Informing Experimental Design: A Case Study Regarding Time Perception’ in: Constructivist Foundations, March 2026. Read the article here.


Dario Campisi is co-author of the article ‘Broadband spectroscopy of astrophysical ice analogues - IV. Optical constants of N2 ice in the terahertz and mid-infrared ranges’ in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 20 March 2026. Read the article here.


Elisabetta Ferrari gave the talk ‘Technologies of solidarity: Mutual aid activism and digital platforms,’ School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, 19 March 2026. 


Magda R. Hamczyk gave the talk 'Lineage tracing uncovers endothelial origin of mesenchymal-like cells in progeroid atheromas’ at the 32nd Annual Scandinavian Atherosclerosis Conference, Krogerup Højskole, Humlebæk, Denmark, 18-21 March 2026.


Donna Briggs Bødtker was awarded a research travel grant to go to the Osler Library to study the McGill dissection room records (1883–1908) and the Richard L. MacDonnell Collection. Awarded: March 2026. Read more about the grant here.


Gordon McMullan is author of the book Cormorant - A Cultural History of Greed and Prejudice, Cambridge University Press, 14 March 2026. More about the book here.


Christian Mario Appendini is co-author of the article ‘Quantifying Drag on Floating Sargassum Patches Under Combined Air and Water Forcing’ in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 11 March 2026. Read the article here.


Federica Cavaletti gave an interview to the AIAS iPerspectives Podcast series for the episode: ‘Time experience, and why it matters’, 11 March 2026. Listen to the episode here.


Christian Mario Appendini gave the talk ‘Empowering schools and communities through citizen science for coastal monitoring and sargassum management in the Mexican Caribbean’ at the ECSA2026: Citizen Science between Centre and Periphery, Oulu, Finland, 3 - 6 March 2026.


Elena-Daniela Ana is the author of the book review 'Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado' in: Ethnos, 3 March 2026. Read the book review here.


Dario Campisi is co-author of the article ‘Quantifying the force regime of pyrene adsorption on anatase’ in: Icarus, 1 March 2026. Read the article here.


Malene Friis Hansen is joint first-author of the article 'Unregulated Human Provisioning of Primates: Advice for Conservation Practitioners' in: The Section on Human-Primate Interactions of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, 2026. Read the article here.


Malene Friis Hansen gave an interview to the Danish broadcast station TV2 on the morning show Go' morgen Danmark on her research in the primate species Long-Tailed Macaque. Watch the interview here (in Danish, under paywall).


Nazik Öğretmen gave a poster presentation ‘A Snapshot of the Early Pleistocene Mediterranean Outflow Water salinity and temperature variation’ at AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Scottish Event Campus, UK, 26 February 2026.


Nazik Öğretmen gave the online talk ‘Deep-sea benthic foraminiferal Na/Ca from warm and saline Mediterranean Outflow Water (Gulf of Cadiz)’ at the FORAMS2026 Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, 26 February 2026.


Magda R. Hamczyk was a facilitator of a Masterclass on Grant Writing and Grant Processing and a co-chair of the oral presentation sessions at the Danish Cardiovascular Academy Winter Meeting, DFDS Oslo Ferry & Norefjell Conference Center, Norway, 24–28 February 2026.


Christian Mario Appendini is co-author of the article ‘The devastating impact of the category 5 hurricane Otis on Mexico’s pacific coast’ in: Natural Hazards, 24 February 2026. Read the article here.


Pierre du Plessis is co-author of the article ‘Infrastructural cascades: Trophic infrastructures of the capitalist “superomnivore” and their ecological ripple effects’ in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 17 February 2026. Read an abstract here.


Malene Friis Hansen is corresponding author of the article 'The evolution of the concepts of ‘primate culture’ in Western science' in: Primates, 13 February 2026. Read the article here.


Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen gave the talk ‘Acoustic rhythms of reading’ at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Australian National University, Australia, 12 February 2026.


Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen gave the talk ‘Social rhythms of digital reading’ at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, Australian National University, Australia 10 February 2026.


Elisabetta Ferrari gave a talk about her research on mutual aid in the community-building event 'Prepared but not a Prepper: Smart emergency planning & mutual aid practice' organized by The Big Hope Project (USA), 5 February 2026. 


Matteo De Dona is author of the article 'What does legitimacy mean within sustainable development? A scoping review´in: Nature, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 23 January 2026. Read an abstract here.


Federica Cavaletti is co-author of the article 'Aesthetics Meets Oncology: A Participatory Design Project to Speed Up Time Passage in Chemotherapy Through Virtual Reality' in: Proof of Concept Project TIMELAPS, 2026. Read the article here.


Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi is the author of the book chapter 'Religious Minorities’ Rights in Shiite Islam A Shift From Institutional Discrimination to Absolute Equality' in: Handbook on Religious Toleration in Comparative Perspective by Jonathan Laurence, Karen Barkey (eds), Springer Nature, 2026. Read the chapter here.


Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi is the author of the book chapter 'Religious Minorities State Relations in Modern Iran from Safavid Era to the Islamic Republic Policies and Implications' in: Handbook on Religious Toleration in Comparative Perspective by Jonathan Laurence, Karen Barkey (eds), Springer Nature, 2026. Read the chapter here.


Christian Damsgaard is first-author and Joanna Kalucka and Catherine Williams are co-authors of the article 'Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten' in: Nature, 21 January 2026. Read the article here.


Bruna Neves de Freitas is corresponding author of the article 'Endocrown and intraoral scanning: a segmented analysis of mesh trueness from six scanners' in: Journal of Dentistry, 16 January 2026. Read the article here.


Christian Mario Appendini is co-author of the article ‘Coastal erosion hazards in northwest Florida due to extreme wind waves generated by tropical cyclones’ in: Coastal Engineering, 15 January 2026. Read the article here.


Racehl Fishberg is co-author of the article 'Convergences and Gaps between Environmental Ethics, Climate Ethics, and Research Ethics: A Scoping Review' in: Science and Engineering Ethics, 12 January 2026. Read the article here.


Malene Friis Hansen is co-author of the article 'Introduction to the Special Issue on Managing and Understanding Synanthropic Primates' in: International Journal of Primatology, 3 January 2026. Read the article here.


Iwona Janicka and Tobias Skiveren are co-authors of the article 'Introduction: Sensorial Tactics in an Era of Socioecological Collapse' in: Theory & Event (Johns Hopkins University Press), January 2026. Read the article here.


Christian Mario Appendini is corresponding author of the article ‘Assessment of synthetic tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Basin’ in: Atmospheric Research, January 2026. Read the article here.


Mariola Pytlikova is corresponding author of the article ‘Migratory responses to air pollution reduction: Evidence from large-scale desulfurization programme’ in: European Economic Review, January 2026. Read the article here.


Ester Salgarella is co-editor of the volume 'The Wor(l)ds of Linear A: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documents and Inscriptions of a Cretan Bronze Age Script' in: ASASA(RAME), Athens University Review of Archaeology (Athens University Press), 2026. Access the volume here.


Anna Maria Langmüller gave the talk ‘Rapid evolution in a changing world’ at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, January 2026.