Villum Fonden støtter 52 nyskabende forskningsprojekter
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Villum Fonden har uddelt støtte til 52 modige og nyskabende forskningsprojekter gennem Villum Experiment-programmet.
Projekterne spænder bredt og omfatter alt fra gennemsigtige bananfluer og betydningen af babygråd til mikroplastnedbrydning og undersøgelser af, hvorfor flåter bider nogle mennesker mere end andre. Støtten gives på baggrund af idéens originalitet og potentiale, vurderet anonymt, så nysgerrighed og mod får lov at dominere.
Villum Experiment-programmet er designet til at støtte forskere, der tør tænke uden for boksen og tage chancer med deres forskning. Ved at vurdere ansøgningerne anonymt sikrer programmet, at det er idéens kvalitet og potentiale, der er i fokus, og ikke forskerens baggrund eller tidligere meritter.
Med denne uddeling fortsætter Villum Fonden sin tradition for at støtte banebrydende forskning og fremme videnskabelig nysgerrighed og innovation. De 52 projekter, der nu modtager støtte, repræsenterer en bred vifte af discipliner og tilgange, og de har alle potentiale til at skabe nye indsigter og løsninger på komplekse problemer.
Villum Experiment-modtagere 2025:
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
• Zhenghao Liu, postdoc: Feedforward-enabled synthetic dimension photonics, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Brian Seger, professor: CO2 electrolysis to pharmaceuticals, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Nefeli Effrosyni Novak, forsker: Can the two-state theory of water revolutionize aqueous solutions? 2,2 mio. kr.
• Nikolaos Angelou, forsker: Laser-based unmanned aircraft system for wind sensing, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Wenjing Zhang, professor: PlasUp: Rekindle Plastic Waste Upcycling by Microwave Reactor with High-Entropy Catalyst, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Gaoneng Dong, forsker: Unlocking silicon's hidden power: on-chip phase transitions enabled by a new nanocavity, 2 mio. kr.
• Innokentiy Zhdanov, postdoc: Room temperature integrated light-squeezing single-photon detectors for quantum systems, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Yong Liu, postdoc: Watt-class Optical Beam Steering on Silicon Photonics, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Shima Kadkhodazadeh, seniorforsker: Live Band Nanoscopy: Mapping electronic bands in working photoelectrochemical devices, 2,4 mio. kr.
• Weihua Tian, forsker: Engineering an extracellular vesicles-based transfection method for challenging-to-transfect cells, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Emil Hovad, postdoc: Scientific machine learning for advancing the understanding of the 4D microstructural evolution in metals (SciML4D), 2,5 mio. kr.
• Wei Yan, lektor: Tackling the Forever Problem: Thermodynamic Solutions to PFAS Pollution, 2,2 mio. kr.
• Jakob Birkedal Wagner, professor: Sub-Ångström 3D Mapping of Single Impurities in Crystals via Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Riccardo Ragona, postdoc: PAMS; Looking at fusion plasmas with new eyes, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, postdoc: Van der Waals meta-crystal for valleytronics, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Colleen Varaidzo Manyumwa, postdoc: PlastiXterminator: Next-Gen Synergistic Enzyme Complexes for Microplastic Degradation, 2,5 mio. kr.
Københavns Universitet
• Kathrin Rousk, lektor: The symbiotic trinity – the next step in evolution? EvoMoss, 2,4 mio. kr.
• Daniel Hershcovich, adjunkt: Aligning Multi-Agent Interactions for Sustainable Food Behavior (AMAI), 2,5 mio. kr.
• Jannis Straube, postdoc: ESCAPE – Exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying hatching processes in Nannochloropsis, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Bárbara Parreira, postdoc: Back from the brink: experimental de-extinction in a model-organism to restore lost diversity, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Dominique Jeanette Tobler, lektor: Forever gone: degrading per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances with biochar and light, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Vandana Kaushal, postdoc: Let yeast do the tasting: Can RNA barcodes make in-situ tasting a reality? 2,5 mio. kr.
• Jesper Bendix, professor: Xenon capture: addressing the missing-xenon paradox, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Morten Bo Madsen, lektor: Oceans and Plate Tectonics on Early Moon? Danish Instrument for Moon Mission will Help Answer this Question, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Albin Sandelin, professor: Methods for relating spatial patterns of microenvironmental pH and oxygen levels with gene expression of single cells, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Hans Thordal-Christensen, professor: STRUCTURE-STRENGTH: Protect the plant through protein structure insight, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Nan Yang, postdoc: War or Peace: Is There an Ecological Switch in the Microbial World? 2,3 mio. kr.
• Eliza Cook, adjunkt: PFAS in Snow: How much do we know? (Fluoroland), 2,5 mio. kr.
• Phillip Wagner Kastberg Jensen, adjunkt: Quantum Hardware Architecture based on Electron Scattering in Molecules, 2 mio. kr.
• Yong Zhang, lektor: Can bacteria subsist on bacteriophages?, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Alexey Solodovnikov, lektor: Can we build a species discovery factory? 2,5 mio. kr.
• Nikoline Olsen, postdoc: Ageless DNA – the epigenetics of extreme centenarians, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Shuai Zheng, adjunkt: HOST-IT: Tricking pathogens into revealing their toxic secrets, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Johan Fynbo, professor: 4D Tomography of turbulence in the atmosphere, 2,2 mio. kr.
Aarhus Universitet
• Nikolaj Abel, adjunkt: One cryo-ET tag to solve them all, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Michal Budzik, lektor: Ordo ab Chao: Scaling in Fracture of Complex Materials, 2,3 mio. kr.
• Brian Julsgaard, lektor: Optical fingerprinting of electron dynamics in wide-bandgap materials, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Ian Marshall, lektor: AGAMBLE - Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Michael Møller Hansen, professor: The Genetic Load of Plenty: When Too Much Diversity Becomes a Burden, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Hans Gellersen, professor: Measuring Intent in Gaze Attention, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Asger Givskov Jørgensen, postdoc: Molecular Footprints: Monitoring RNA Aptamer–Protein Interactions through Chemical modifications and Nanopore Readout, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Jiawei Xu, postdoc: Making Live Transparent Fruit Fly for Live Tissue Imaging, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Stefanie Zollmann, lektor: Foveated rendering based on a model of eye dominance, 2,5 mio. kr.
IT-Universitetet i København
• Aske Mottelson, lektor: What Do Infant Cries Reveal? A Crowdsourcing Experiment, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Andrzej Wąsowski, professor: From False Certainty to True Confidence: Pose Estimation Beyond Deep Learning, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Alessandro Bruni, lektor: Neuro-Symbolic Federated Learning with Secure Multi-Party Computation, 2 mio. kr.
Aalborg Universitet
• Farshid Naseri, postdoc: Using AI to Discover Battery Anti-Aging and Life-Extending Charging Patterns Based on Dynamic Pulse Modulation, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Yang Wu, postdoc: Next-Generation Controller for Grid-Forming Power Converters through Artificial Intelligence, 2,2 mio. kr.
• Anders Olsen, lektor: Engineering chemical communication between kingdoms, 2 mio. kr.
Syddansk Universitet
• Narcis-Adrian Petriman, postdoc: TIDE: Transforming microalgae in plastic-Degrading vehicles that decontaminate polluted waters, 2,5 mio. kr.
• Mathias Lander Skavenborg, postdoc: Electrifying Manganese Complexes for Stationary Energy Storage, 2,4 mio. kr.
Roskilde Universitet
• Karen Angeliki Krogfelt, professor: Why are some humans more attractive to tick bites than others?, 2,5 mio. kr.
