AU PhD wins Forskerfesten 2025
Nanna Møller Jensen, PhD and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biomedicine at AU, won Forskerfesten – formerly known as the PhD Cup – on Friday.
On Friday evening, Nanna Møller Jensen from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University claimed victory at this year’s Forskerfesten, formerly known as PhD Cup (a competition for early-career researchers, broadcast on DR1 and jury-assessed, red). She was one of five early-career researchers competing to present their work in just three minutes. All participants had completed their PhDs within the past year.
Nanna Møller Jensen was awarded her PhD in May 2024 and now works as a postdoctoral researcher at DANDRITE, based at Aarhus University. Her research investigates the causes of Parkinson’s disease and could help pave the way for earlier and more accurate diagnosis. In 2024, she also received the Young Researcher Prize from the Danish Parkinson’s Association.
Forskerfesten is organised by the newspaper Information, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), and the Lundbeck Foundation. The event was broadcast on DR1 on Friday evening. This year’s jury comprised Anja C. Andersen, professor of astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, astronaut Andreas Mogensen, and Minister for Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund. The judges highlighted Nanna Møller Jensen’s engaging presentation style, praising her ability to communicate her research with humour, curiosity and enthusiasm. In addition to the recognition, she was awarded a prize of DKK 50,000.
The other finalists were Christina Baun from the University of Southern Denmark, Jonathan Wenstrup and Rasmus Skov Olesen from the University of Copenhagen, and Parnuna Petrina Egede Dahl from Aalborg University.
This text is machine translated and post-edited by Cecillia Jensen.