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.

HydEM 2022 is a great point of reference for scientists of energy materials science, and the focus is on new hydrogen-containing materials for fuel cells, batteries, hydrogen storage, and conversion of CO2 into fuel. Torben R. Jensen is part of the conference organizers at HydEM 2022, and the Université Catholique de Louvain is a partner with the European University Alliance Circle U.

Most drugs used today have only one mechanism of action and it is both difficult and expensive to manufacture drugs with multiple functions. Researchers at the NNF-funded research center, CEMBID, at Aarhus University have recently found a way to create more stable nanostructures that can assemble biomolecules with different functions, which in combination e.g., can provide more effective cancer medicine.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation ​​​​​​​CO2 Research Center (CORC) invites staff and students at AU for an introduction of the center and its crucial mission to mitigate climate change. The center focuses greatly on collaboration and with the event it aims at creating a strong basis for the exchange of innovative ideas.

Assistant Professor Jonas Elm receives award for his research in cluster formation and atmospheric chemistry.

We are delighted to present Katrine Mikkelsen as the new head of secretariat at the Department of Chemistry.

Global goals in sustainability and efficiency have evolved over the years such that even nanostructure manufacturing must be greener and better. That has led Professor Anja-Verena Mudring and Postdoc Oliver Hammond to review how ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents can be used to solve these sustainability and efficiency issues.

Assistant Professor Maarten Goesten, Assistant Professor Shuai Wei and Postdoc Bernadette Rosati each receive a Young Investigator grant of approximately 6 million Danish Kroner from the Villum Foundation.

Despite recent progress in predicting protein and RNA structure, we are still far from being able to design biomolecular structures that rival the complexity found in Nature. A new consortium, COFOLD, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, aims to elucidate the rules of RNA folding in order to design RNA molecules for applications in medicine and synthetic biology.

Innovation Fund Denmark funds collaboration between the ROCKWOOL Group and Associate Professor Marianne Glasius' research group on industrial postdoc position.

Assistant Professor Jonas Elm receives €1,500,000 from the EU's European Research Council.

Jørgen Skibsted will be appointed as Professor at Dept. of Chemistry 01 January 2022.

Associate Professor Marianne Glasius has been awarded the 2021 Aerosologist Award for her outstanding contributions to chemical molecular level characterisation of atmospheric aerosols, outreach activities and promotion of Nordic aerosol science.

Associate Professor Marianne Glasius, Professor Merete Bilde and Professor Thomas Poulsen have received Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

A large group of Department of Chemistry researchers have received grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Carlsberg Foundation.

AU researchers from Department of Chemistry and iNANO have, in collaboration with the University of Tsukuba, found a way to directly monitor the one-dimensional disordered diffusion channel in a simple chain-like thermoelectric InTe. This work provides a new basis for understanding ultralow, weak-temperature-dependent thermal conductivity in simple crystalline solids.

Professor Mogens Christensen receives DKK 6,190,000 DKK (approx. 960,000 USD) for his new research project, 'Compaction of Magnets, a Property and Structure Study' (COMPASS).

The Danish Center for Ultrahigh Field NMR Spectroscopy with Professor Thomas Vosegaard in the front, is part of an EU funded 4-year and €5 million project.

In a collaborative effort with Birgit Schiøtt’s group, the researchers also used state-of-the-art Molecular Dynamics simulations to support the notion of proton binding employing multiple independent approaches.

Researchers at Aarhus University are working tirelessly on establishing a circular plastic economy for PU, and have now developed a method to deconstruct PU using a catalyst based on earth-abundant metal.

Professor Ove Christiansen receives a Villum Synergy grant of DKK 3 mio in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science.

Among four centres and departments at AU, Professor Kim Daasbjerg and Professor Troels Skrydstrup will participate at the new research centre, Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center.

Grants to Kurt Gothelf and Torben R. Jensen

Commemorative words by Head of Department Birgit Schiøtt.

The contribution of electrostatics to hydrogen exchange in the unfolded protein state

Associate Professor Jacob Overgaard has received a big grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation of approx. 14 million DKK (approx. $2,3 million) for his research in metal complexes and their magnetic properties.

Torben R. Jensen will be appointed as Professor at Dept. of Chemistry on 01 July 2021.

Mogens Christensen will be appointed as Professor at Dept. of Chemistry on 01 August 2021.

Professor Anja-Verena Mudring, who will join the Department of Chemistry this summer, is one of the world's leading researchers in materials development for energy conversion.

In collaboration with industry, researchers from the Skrydstrup group have found a way to deconstruct PU from commercially available products in order for the material to be reused.

Thomas B. Poulsen's research group has found a way to transform a naturally occurring substance class that is toxic for both bacteria and mammals so that it is only toxic for bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

An investment fund has acquired and invested over DKK 100 million in the tech-company, RadiSurf, a spin-out from Department of Chemistry and iNANO.

CETEC project - A new partnership between the Skrydstrup Group, Vestas, Olin, and the Danish Technological Institute.

As a Master's student at Department of Chemistry, Andreas Brunsgaard Laursen and his supervisors Kim Daasbjerg and Steen Uttrup Pedersen, together with a number of companies, developed a special method to produce and customise graphene.

Professor Birgit Schiøtt has been reappointed as Head of the Department on a three-year contract, starting when her current five-year contract expires at the end of this year.

At Department of Chemistry, Christian Jorgensen (starting in Birgit Schiøtt's Biomodelling group next year) receives DKK 2.39 million for his project Computational modelling of the human brain lipidome.

This summer, Anja-Verena Mudring will be taking up her position as professor at Dept. of Chemistry with her VILLUM grant.