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Research centres and projects

Various research centres and projects take place at the Department of Chemistry. Below, you find a selection of them, including affiliated staff and funding organisations.
 

  • Center for Chemistry of Clouds (C3)
    • Professor Merete Bilde, Professor Ove Christiansen, Associate Professor Marianne Glasius, Associate Professor Tobias Weidner and Assistant Professor Jonas Elm
    • Center of Excellence, funded by the Danish National Research Foundation
       
  • Carbon Dioxide Activation Center (CADIAC) 
    • Professor Troels Skrydstrup and Assistant Professor Alonso Rosas-Hernández
    • Center of Excellence, funded by the Danish National Research Foundation
       
  • Danish Center for Ultrahigh Field NMR Spectroscopy 
    • Professor Thomas Vosegaard, Professor Jørgen Skibsted, Professor Niels Christian Nielsen and Associate Professor Frans Mulder
    • Danish Roadmap for Research Infrastructures, funded by the National Committee for Research Infrastructure (Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science)
       
  • Center for Multifunctional Biomolecular Drug Design (CEMBID) 
    • Professor Kurt Vesterager Gothelf 
    • Challenge Programme, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation
       

Major projects:

  • Dynamic Crystallography
    • Professor Bo Brummerstedt Iversen
    • Villum Investigator, funded by the Villum Foundation
       
  • Green Catalysis
    • Professor Karl Anker Jørgensen
    • Villum Investigator, funded by the Villum Foundation
       
  • Imaging the Primary Steps of Chemical Reactions
    • Professor Henrik Stapelfeldt
    • Villum Investigator, funded by the Villum Foundation
       
  • Metal Coordination Complexes in Technology and Biomedicine
    • Lektor Jacob Overgaard
    • NERD, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation
       
  • Signalling and Internalizing Receptor Mimics
    • Professor Alexander Zelikin
    • NERD, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation
       
  • Exploring the Molecular Properties of Atmospheric Freshly Nucleated Particles
    • Adjunkt Jonas Elm
    • ERC Starting Grant, funded by the European Research Council
       
  • Resurrecting the Carboxyl Polyether Ionophores (RECYPION)
    • Professor Thomas B. Poulsen
    • ERC Consolidator Grant, funded by the European Research Council
       
  • Fundamentals of Biological Ice Nucleation
    • Lektor Tobias Weidner
    • ERC Consolidator Grant, funded by the European Research Council

Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO)

Several research groups are associated with iNANO, which collaborate on interdisciplinary research. Each research group contributes their own special expertise in chemistry, physics, molecular biology, medicine, etc. so as to benefit from each other's knowledge and methods.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center (CORC)

Some scientists from the Department of Chemistry is also part of CORC. The centre is working on developing new science within CO2 capture and CO2 conversion for storage or utilisation. The purpose of the centre’s mission driven research is to replace fossil carbon and fossil fuel-intensive processes with sustainable, CO2-based technologies.