Postdoctoral Fellowships

Presentation of selected research projects.

The role of perceptual salience in sound segregation

Postdoctoral Fellowship | 14/11/2018

Sara Miay Kim Madsen | People with a hearing loss often struggle to hear speech at larger gatherings even when wearing hearing aids. To improve hearing aids, more information is needed to understand the processes underlying the ability to perceptually segregate sounds from different sources.

The ethics of the organ shortage: Permissible ways to end the suffering

Postdoctoral Fellowship | 10/10/2018

In 2014 Carlsberg Foundation granted Andreas Albertsen a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship entitled ‘Scarcity of Organs: The Role of Families, Markets and the State in closing the Gap.’ The project provides an ethical discussion of prominent proposal to end or mitigate the current shortage of organs for transplants.

Getting to Know a Deadly Bacteria

Postdoctoral Fellowship | 04/05/2018

Associate Professor Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard nearly died from a bacterial infection. It led her to a project on making a visual encyclopaedia of Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacteria that almost killed her, to advance our understanding of how pneumococcal infections work so we can create better and faster treatment.

Chinese Transnational Education Migration

Postdoctoral Fellowship | 15/02/2018

Anders Sybrandt Hansen | According to the most recent UNESCO estimates there were 801,000 Chinese nationals studying at higher education institutions outside the People’s Republic of China in 2016 . Since the turn of the century this number has seen a fivefold increase. This research project treats questions such as: What can this greatly increased interchange tell us about the generation of Chinese currently coming of age? And how will the students’ foreign experience influence Chinese-foreign relations in the future?

Tropospheric Halogens and Their Impact on Air Pollution

Postdoctoral Fellowship | 17/01/2018

Johan Albrecht Schmidt | This project was aimed at investigating the role of sea salt aerosol and the ocean surface as a source of tropospheric halogens, and at unraveling the impact of halogens on tropospheric ozone and NOx. The project research activities included both further implementation of halogen chemistry in a state-of-the-art global chemical transport model and laboratory chemical kinetics studies targeting the activation of aqueous phase halogens by gas phase oxidants.

New Discoveries Based on Brewer Carl Jacobsen’s Collection of Artefacts from the Neolithic and Bronze Age

Postdoctoral Fellowship | 06/11/2017

Lasse Sørensen | This postdoctoral research generated new knowledge about the provenance and exchange of rare prestigious objects, such as jadeite axes, obsidian artefacts and cinnabar in the Aegean Neolithic and Bronze Age. The investigation centred on brewer Carl Jacobsen’s collection of stone artefacts, together with other prehistoric sites and quarrying places.

Inge Lehmann and the rise of international seismology, 1925-1970

Postdoctoral Fellowship | 15/05/2017

Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) is best known for presenting the first evidence of the Earth’s inner core in 1936. Her active research career as a seismologist began in 1928, continued well into the 1970s, and earned her the reputation as “the grande dame” of modern seismology.

The Evolution of Birds in the Early Cenozoic

Postdoctoral fellowship | 17/01/2017

Estelle Bourdon | This project has focused on 3D-preserved specimens from the Early Eocene Fur Formation (Mo-Clay) of Denmark, which are among the most exquisite Early Cenozoic fossil birds. Researchers report the oldest roller (Coracii), Septencoracias, based on a new fossil from the Fur Formation (about 54 million years ago).

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