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IMPACT

A fellowship stay at AIAS provides fellows with a large international network outside their own academic disciplines, leads to new projects and research directions, career grants and career advancement for fellows.

Fellows obtain invaluable skills such as:

  • An interdisciplinary and international research network and mindset
  • Novel ways of thinking and openess to research fields outside their own field
  • Advancing their career in their development from researcher to research group leader

From Stanford to Aarhus via an AIAS Fellowship

“AIAS provides a unique research environment with a focus on advancing research excellence through creativity, freedom, interdisciplinarity, and unparalleled institutional support. My research group has established several research collaborations with other fellows at AIAS.”

Rasmus O. Bak, AIAS-COFUND Fellow 2017-2020 recruited from Stanford University, 2022 ERC Recipient & Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University.

Interdisciplinary collaboration at AIAS, Interdisciplinary ERC project in Aarhus

An interaction at the weekly seminar at AIAS has inspired AIAS Fellows Micah G. Allen and Sâmia Joca into new research directions and collaboration that has led to an ERC funded research project that is now based in Denmark at Aarhus University.

Watch the video above to learn more