Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research projects

Research projects with external funding.

ERC Starting Grant for Laura Mančinska

Associate Professor Laura Mančinska has received a € 1.5 million Starting Grant from the European Research Council for her project “Quantum Information Processing with Interacting Parties”.

Elisenda Feilu receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

The sought-after grant from ERC is given to groundbreaking and excellent research, and this time the honour goes to Elisenda Feliu from MATH.

Researchers will enlighten us about insurance and pensions

With DKK 45 million (€6M) over the next 12 years, the University of Copenhagen has landed a historically large agreement for additional research and educational programming in the insurance and pension field that will…

Carlsberg research grants to number theory and geometric analysis

Associate Professors Jasmin Matz and Niels Martin Møller both receive the Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowships.

Fund support for the research project FAIR

“Actuarial mathematical modelling adapted to the individual's juridical status”, in Danish abbreviated FAIR, is a new research project that has received support from the Foundation Fynske Købstæders Fond.

Green Transition: Optimization of the logistics for car sharing

Operational Research and advanced stochastic optimization techniques can help make car-sharing more widespread and easier to use.

Developing a unified statistical framework for analyzing microbiome data

Assistant professor Niklas Pfister has received a 9.8 million DKK Data Science Emerging Investigator grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for his research project CausalBiome.

Marie Curie grants to Moon, Schmidt and Kock

Two postdocs and an associate professor have each won a competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, which they will carry at our department during the next two years. They will research in spectral gap stability,…

International Postdoctoral Grant to three young mathematicians

The Independent Research Fund Denmark makes it possible for three researchers, educated at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, to do research on arithmetic statistics in Paris, graphs and operator algebra in…

New research project combines social and mathematical sciences

How do past life events affect the future life trajectory of Danish individuals? That is the theme for a cross-disciplinary project awarded a DATA+ grant from the University of Copenhagen.

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