Research centres and projects at CHEM

The Department of Chemistry has several different ongoing research centres and projects. Below you can see a selection of larger grants over 10 million, as well as who from the Department of Chemistry is affiliated and who has granted support.

Grant holder Foundation Title mill DKK Period
Dimitrios Stamou The Novo Nordisk Foundation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Systems 59.9 2018-2026
Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen
The European Research Council Live Tapings of Material Formation: Unravelling formation mechanisms in materials chemistry through Multimodal X-ray total scattering studies (MatMech) 10.5 2019-2025
Jan Rossmeisl The Danish National Research Foundation Center forHigh Entropy Alloy Catalysis (CHEAC) 61.4 2020-2026
Gemma Solomon The European Research Council Challenging The Limits Of Molecular Quantum Interference Effects - QLIMIT 14.9 2020-2025
Bo Wegge Laursen The Novo Nordisk Foundation New light on proton transfer 13.7 2020-2027
Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Synthesis-Driven Development of New Two-Dimensional Materials - Redox-Active Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Sheets 10.0 2020-2027
Thomas Just Sørensen
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Creating new probes for redox biology through groundbreaking lanthanide coordination chemistry and photophysics 13.4 2022-2028
Mikael Bols The Novo Nordisk Foundation State-of-the-art NMR instrumentation for synthetic chemistry research in the new Niels Bohr building 14.9 2022-2027
Stergios Piligkos The Novo Nordisk Foundation Copenhagen Pulse-EPR Facility 15.0 2022-2026

Jiwoong Lee 
(co-PI)

The Novo Nordisk Foundation The Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center 19.5 2022-2028
Junsheng Chen The Novo Nordisk Foundation Subcellular multiplex imaging with ultrabright fluorescent nanoparticles 10.0 2023-2027
Tom Vosch The Novo Nordisk Foundation DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters as new emitters in the tissue transparent NIR-II region 14.0 2023-2029
Christian Marcus Pedersen
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Taming Cations in Natural Product Synthesis: Methods and Mechanisms 13.7 2022-2029
Nikos Hatzakis
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for 4D cell dynamics: Lattice light sheet microscopy for imaging in live cells and tissues deciphering internalization and trafficking pathways 12.6 2023-2028
Jesper Bendix The Novo Nordisk Foundation Electron diffraction for structure elucidation of micro- and nano-crystalline materials 16.9 2023-2028
Stephan Sauer
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Hybrid Quantum Chemistry on Hybrid Quantum Computers 40.0 2023-2026
Junjun Tan The Novo Nordisk Foundation Recreating dynamic behaviors of life through systems chemistry 13.9 2023-2030
Knud Jørgen Jensen
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Peptide Foundry 8.5 2023-2028
Jan Rossmeisl European Research Council Directed Evolution of Metastable Electrocatalyst Interfaces for Energy Conversion

10.0 (EURO)

2024-2029
Jan Halborg Jensen The Novo Nordisk Foundation Computational Molecular Catalyst Discovery

13.9

2024-2030
Stegios Piligkos The Novo Nordisk Foundation Electric Field addressing and Photon Interfacing of Molecular Spins

13.9

2024-2030
Nikos Hatzakis The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Optimized Oligo Escape and Control of Disease

59.9

2024-2030
Dimitros Stamou The Lundbeck Foundation (NeuroSim) Single molecule Neuroscience

20.0

2024-2029

Younger researchers with their own grants

Postdoc Freja From Østerstrøm, Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF), 2021-2024

Postdoc Laura Kacenauskaite, Villum International Postdoc, 2022-2025

Postdoc Maria Storm Thomsen, DFF International postdoc, 2023-2025

Postdoc Cathrine Nordgaard Christensen, Postdoc fellowship for research abroad – Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine, The Novo Nordisk Foundation, 2023-2027

Postdoc Michael Martin Nielsen, Reintegration Fellowship – The Carlsberg Foundation, 2024-2026