Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research projects

Research projects with external funding.

Giovanni Pantuso granted 10 million DKK from NNF NERD

The Novo Nordisk Foundation’s programme “New Exploratory Research and Discovery” (NERD) aims to support research projects “based on wild and unorthodox ideas that can produce new knowledge”. Giovanni Pantuso, associate…

Marie Curie grant to Adela Zhang

Postdoc Adela (YiYu) Zhang has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which she will carry at our department during the next two years.

Albert H. Werner receives additional grant from Villum Foundation

Albert H. Werner’s new research project is called “Standard operating procedures for robust characterization and calibration of quantum hardware”.

Robert Burklund receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Robert Burklund, a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received DKK 7 million from the VILLUM Young Investigator Program.

Semper Ardens grants to Bladt & Osajda

Martin Bladt and Damian Osajda receive The Carlsberg Foundation’s Semper Ardens Accelerate grant. Bladt will find statistical tools that can provide more accurate risk assessment for catastrophic events. Osajda will…

Marie Curie grants to Spaas and Olivieri

Two postdocs - from Italy and Belgium - have won a competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which they will carry at our department during the next two years.

Independent research funds for number theory and combinatorics

Independent Research Fund Denmark has awarded two projects to the department, a total of DKK 9 million. Joachim Kock, Jamin Matz, and Morten S. Risager will receive funding for their research into combinatorial…

MATH is partner in Digital European Quantum Master

24 organisations from 10 countries are changing the way that Quantum Technologies are taught across Europe.

Leading mathematician wants to solve the riddle of a million quantum particles

One of Europe’s leading mathematicians - Professor Søren Fournais of the University of Copenhagen – is dedicating the next five years trying to understand a mysterious quantum phenomenon through extremely complex…

Actuarial scientist publishes in Nature

It rarely happens: A mathematician publishes on the front page of the renowned scientific journal Nature. However, that has just happened to Jesper Lund Pedersen and Peter Johnson, who have delivered calculations to…

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