The development of research talent is highly prioritized at AIAS. Fellows are offered career developement opportunities and are provided with research support and time and space for advancing their research and grow as a researcher.
The optimal research conditions at AIAS not only allow fellows to advance their career, they also enhance deep-thinking and thinking outside-the-box for the benefit of developing novel and exploratory research projects and directions.
On this page you can see some of the research ideas and results that have awarded the fellows with prestigious career grants, enabling fellows to initiate their own research group or research laboratory.
These research groups will generate new knowledge and results that bring solutions for the benefit of society and humankind. Research span areas such as circular bioeconomy and waste treatment, developing novel genetic tools, and mapping urban evolution and resilience.
Initiated by former AIAS fellows, a network for young group leaders at Aarhus University has been established at AIAS to share experiences, best-practices and to extend network and collaboration across faculties.
Ciara Kierans, 2023 - 2024 AIAS-PIREAU Fellow
ERC Advanced Grant, 2025
FILTERSCAPE
Magdalena Malecka, 2021 - 2024 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2024:
Encoded Knowledge: Epistemology of Computer Technology in Modern Economics (ENCODED)
Iza Romanowska, 2020 - 2023 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Starting Grant, 2023
Drivers and Mechanisms of Long-term Urban Evolution and Resilience (THE MODEL CITY)
Jihan Zakarriya, 2020-2023 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Starting Grant, 2022
Gulf Feminisms: Feminisms and Mobilisation of Law in Gulf Countries
Georgina Born, 2018-2019 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Advanced Grant, 2021
Music and Artificial Intelligence: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies
Rasmus Bak, 2017-2020 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Starting Grant, 2022
Transcriptional Engineering of Hematopoietic Stem Cells using CRISPR
Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, 2014-2017 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2014
Molecular Uptake Mechanisms controlling Plant Growth
Micah Allen, 2019-2022 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Starting Grant, 2020
Modelling the Influence of Cannabinoids on the Embodied Mind
Patrick Biller, 2016-2017 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Starting Grant, 2019
REBOOT- resource efficient biochemical production and waste treatment
Isabelle Torrance, 2016 - 2019 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2018
Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC)
Doug Speed, 2017-2020 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2022
Develop tools that use genetic data to better classify complex human diseases
Christian Damsgaard, 2020 - 2023 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Villum Young Investigator Grant, 2024
Cellular Function at Respiratory Extremes
Zakarias Sjöström Dyrefelt, 2022 - 2025 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Villum Young Investigator Grant, 2024
Effective Testing in Complex Geometry
Corina-Gabriela Ciobotaru, 2021 - 2023 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Villum Young Investigator Grant, 2023
Trees and Central Limit Theorems
Mie Andersen, 2021 - 2024 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Villum Young Investigator Grant, 2021
Descriptor-based modelling of the reactivity of interstellar dust grains
Chao Sun, 2023 - 2025 AIAS-DANDRITE Fellow
Sapere Aude Starting Grant, 2025
Synaptic Energetics That Underlie Memory Formation
Christian Damsgaard, 2020 - 2023 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Sapere Aude Starting Grant, 2025
Resilience to Oxygen Deprivation from a Bird’s Eye Perspective
Lau Møller Andersen, 2020 - 2024 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Sapere Aude Starting Grant, 2023
The (re-)integration of the cerebellum
Alexandra-lulia Otiman, 2022 - 2025 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Sapere Aude Starting Grant, 2023
Conformal geometry: metrics and cohomology
Peter Ebert Andersen, 2019 - 2022 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Sapere Aude Starting Grant, 2019
Molecular mechanics of genetic conflicts
Peter Ebert Andersen, 2019 - 2022 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Acsending Investigator Grant, 2025
PARAGLIDE: how PARAlogs of core transcription factors enable GermLIne DEvelopment and fertility
Bjørn Panyella Pedersen, 2014 - 2017 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Ascending Investigator Grant, 2024
Sugar and auxin transport in plant growth - Controlling selectivity
Magnus Kjærgaard, 2016 - 2019 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Ascending Investigator Grant, 2023
Biomolecular condensates for synthesis of flavonoids in cell factories
Fulvio Mario Reggiori, 2022-2023 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Novo Laureate Grant, 2021
Autophagy in Health and Disease
Joanna Kalucka, 2019-2022 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Tandem Grant, 2022
Vessel Co-option versus Angiogenesis in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases – unraveling Mechanisms and Identifying Novel Targets
Tomonori Takeuchi, 2018-2019 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Young Investigator Award, 2017
Memory selectivity and knowledge updating
Rasmus Bak, 2017-2020 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship, 2017
Gene correction in hematopoietic stem cells
Micah Allen, 2019-2022 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship, 2018
The Visceral Mind: An Embodied Approach to Computational Psychiatry
Joanna Kalucka, 2019-2022 AIAS-COFUND Fellow
Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship, 2019
Heterogeneity of endothelial cells in obesity: gatekeepers of adipose inflammation?
