AU’s Lecturer of the Year has now been awarded the title three years in a row at her department

Each year, Aarhus University Anniversary Foundation Teaching Prize is awarded to a lecturer in recognition of “excellent and groundbreaking teaching at Aarhus University”.

This year, Magdalena Pyrz, lecturer at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, will receive the prize, according to news from Natural Sciences. The award comes with DKK 60,000. She comments on the honour in the news:

“I feel humbled, proud and touched. Basically, I’m just very grateful for the recognition. It’s an honour I would like to share with my many colleagues, for whom teaching is also a joy," says Magdalena Pyrz to Nat. 

This is not the first time she has received a teaching award. She has thus been named Lecturer of the Year at her department for 2022, 2023 and 2024, Nat reports.

Magdalena Pyrz holds a PhD from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and has also conducted postdoctoral research at the department, where she has taught for more than ten years. 

She leads the teaching laboratories at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and has, among other things, initiated the establishment of the department's Student Committee. Here, the department's student association, tutor association and Friday bar meet with her as department representative. At these meetings, the focus is on teaching, well-being and the study environment.

This text is machine translated and post-edited by Lisa Enevoldsen.