Research projects

Research projects with external funding.

New research project about statistical inference

2020.03.03

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) supports the development of new robust statistical methods for analyzing large and complex volumes of data. Professor Susanne Ditlevsen is to lead the four-year research … »
Novo Nordisk supports research in mathematical biology

2020.03.02

Mathematical tools and methods can lead to breakthroughs in medical research. That’s recognized in the Novo Nordisk Foundation, who is funding another research project at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. … »
Carlsberg Internationalisation Fellowship to MATH PhD

2020.01.22

PhD Kevin Aguyar Brix is on his way to the University of Wollongong in Australia, where he will continue his research in the project “Fine structure of C*-algebras associated to topological dynamics”. … »
World leading mathematicians to solve mysteries at the interface of geometry and topology

2019.10.23

An array of fundamental and unanswered questions in mathematics lie at the intersection of geometry and topology. With a 60 million kroner grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to establish a new research … »
Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

2019.09.27

Simon Gritschacher, postdoc at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which he will carry at our department. … »
International postdoctoral grant to Martin Speirs

2019.08.21

The Independent Research Fund Denmark is investing just under DKK 22 million this year in 16 younger researchers' careers and original ideas, which have the potential to grow significantly in an international research … »
DKK 2.8 million for research into extreme value theory

2019.06.11

Professor of Insurance Mathematics Thomas Mikosch has received a grant from the Danish Free Research Foundation (DFF) for the project "A large deviations approach to heavy-tailed time series". … »
Understanding Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

2019.02.01

Elisenda Feliu, associate professor in mathematics, receives a 1.3 million DKK research grant for the project “Understanding bistability underlying acute and chronic infections in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa“. … »
Albert H. Werner receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

2019.01.23

Albert H. Werner, Postdoc in quantum information at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 10 million DKK from the VILLUM Young Investigator Program. … »
Prestigious research grant for quantum mathematician

2018.12.05

Professor Matthias Christandl of the Department of Mathematical Sciences has just received the European Research Council's Consolidator Grant, awarded to outstanding scientists with a promising scientific career. … »

Funding

The Department’s research projects have received funding from (among others):

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Carlsberg Foundation
Danish National Research Foundation
European Research Council
Independent Research Fund Denmark
Innovation Fund Denmark
Lundbeck Foundation
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (EU)
Novo Nordisk Foundation
VILLUM Foundation