Aarhus University awards PhD prizes to five research talents
Five new PhDs at Aarhus University have received the AU Research Foundation's annual PhD prize and DKK 40,000 each. The talent prize is given to young researchers who have delivered remarkable research results.
The Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) has awarded this year's PhD prizes to five young researchers at AU who, within their subject, "have attracted extraordinary attention for their results and their dissemination of them."
The award, which has been presented annually since 2003, comes with DKK 40,000 in recognition of the effort. This year, the award goes to researchers who have researched alternative news media, political psychology, bladder cancer, synthetic biology and ruminant nutrition. The five PhDs receive the award for their efforts during the PhD programme and are all currently employed in postdoc positions, AU announced in an employee news release.
One PhD student from each of AU's five faculties receives the award each year. AU's PhD schools nominate candidates from their respective faculties, and the senior management team and the research foundation then select the final recipients.
Prize winners
Miriam Brems from Arts receives the prize for her research into the impact of alternative news media on democracy. In her PhD, she shows that in a Danish context, there is reason to calm concerns about the use of alternative news media.
Lea Pradella from Aarhus BSS has researched whether you can show empathy while maintaining disagreement. Among other things, she has been able to show that if you try to understand the reasons behind the other person's views, you become less hostile and sometimes more agreeable.
Sia Viborg Lindskrog from Health has researched bladder cancer and uses a molecular approach to create a better understanding of bladder cancer. The potential is to develop more personalised treatment than now, where only a more uniform treatment for patients with early-stage bladder cancer is provided.
Ane Bretschneider Søgaard from Natural Sciences has helped advance research in a subfield of synthetic biology that uses non-natural building blocks to mimic nature and create new functions in cells, particularly in terms of cell modification.
Morten Maigaard from Technical Sciences has researched how Bovaer (a feed additive, ed.) can effectively reduce cows' production of methane. In his PhD project, he conducted the first major Danish trials with feed additives to reduce the methane that cows burp.
The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 28th May at 11 am in the Main Hall of AU. The recipients of the prizes will also present their research at the ceremony.
This text is machine translated and post-edited by Cecillia Jensen.