Cloud formation and what actually happens inside clouds is one of the great mysteries in climate research. The solution to the mystery can be extremely important for climate research, and now a new basic research centre at Aarhus University will find answers by looking closely at clouds.

On 27 January 2022, the position of centre director at iNANO was advertised and could be applied for until 9 March. Acting Centre Director Thomas Vosegaard applied for the position and is appointed new centre director as of 1 June 2022.

Niels Kristian Kjærgård Madsen from the Department of Chemistry receives AUFF's PhD prize, DKK 50,000, for his development of quantum chemistry methods.

Corona prevented chemistry professor Anja-Verena Mudring from using the travel budget from her VILLUM Investigator grant. Now she is instead using the money to pay for a young chemist refugee from Ukraine.

The field of charge density research has evolved tremendously in the last decades, becoming a cornerstone of a field of broader scope – Quantum Crystallography. The ICDM9 will be a vibrant meeting with new themes and interfaces to other fields of science, and at the same time holding on to the core of the field.

Yesterday, Anna Duncan started her new position as assistant professor (tenure track) at the Department of Chemistry.

On Saturday 28 May, Professor Merete Bilde will speak at Bloom Festival in Copenhagen - a festival about nature and science.