DFF Grants For DTU Researchers

9 DTU researchers receive DKK 55 million in total from the Independent Research Fund Denmark under the DFF-Research Project2 initiative. With the grant, the researchers have the opportunity to pursue their most innovative ideas and promote innovative Danish research.

Grant recipients from DTU

• Professor Aasa Feragen, DTU Compute, receives the grant for the project "EASE: Explainable AI as a clinical mentor for obstetric ultrasound".
• Professor Esben Thormann, DTU Chemistry, receives the grant for the project "Ion pairing in aqueous polyelectrolyte systems".
• Associate Professor Ivano Eligio Castelli, DTU Energy, receives the grant for the project "Multiscale Modeling of Non-Aqueous Corrosion (MONACO)".
• Associate Professor Jon Spangenberg, DTU Construct, receives the grant for the project "The holistic digital framework for 4D printing of smart sustainable composites".
• Professor Manuel Pinelo, DTU Chemical Engineering, receives the grant for the project "Pioneering Cell-Like Technology to Overpower Traditional Chemical Synthesis: Engineering Intelligent Microenvironments with Innovative Materials for Sequential Enzyme Reactions".
• Senior Researcher Morten Nørholm, DTU Biosustain, receives the grant for the project "DisCoTech: A high-throughput synthetic biology platform for identifying and optimising bioactive disulfide-rich peptides".
• Professor Stephan Sylvest Keller, DTU Nanolab, receives the grant for the project "Mucosal ImmuNE Response through buccal microinjection of mRNA VAccines (MINERVA)".
• Professor Thomas Bolander, DTU Compute, receives the grant for the project "Attention in Epistemic Planning".
• Professor Thomas Willum Hansen, DTU Nanolab, receives the grant for the project "Controlled Local Generation of Quantum Emitters in 2-Dimensional Materials".