Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research projects

Research projects with external funding.

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

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

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

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

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

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

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.

DFF funds research in mathematical population genetics

Carsten Wiuf, professor in statistics at Department of Mathematical Sciences, has received a research grant of DKK 5,4 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Marie Curie grant to research in secure communication

Giacomo De Palma from the QMATH Centre has received one of the very rare Individual Fellowships from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme (MSCA).

He will tackle the impossible: learning causality from data

Jonas Peters, Associate Professor in Statistics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 8.2 million DKK from VILLUM Young Investigator Program. It will enable him to form a…

Research project will ensure pension savings

Department of Mathematical Sciences participates in a new IT-research project aimed at providing tools for better solvency and risk management. Innovation Fund Denmark invests DKK 9 million in the project.

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