2022

Carbon, soot and particles from combustion end up in deep-sea trenches

New research shows that disproportionately large amounts of carbon accumulate at the bottom of deep-sea trenches. The trenches may thus play an important role for deep-sea storage of organic material - and thus for the atmospheric Co2 balance.

When was the first time life began to predate on each other?

In the early oceans billions of years ago organisms lived peacefully side by side. Today, there are predators among us - when and how did this change happen? New research indicates that our single-celled ancestors began to feed on each other almost a billion years earlier than previously thought.

Litteraturen skildrer et omsorgsfattigt velfærdssamfund

Den nyere litteratur skildrer ofte et velfærdssystem, der efterlader den enkelte i en søgen efter omsorg. Værkerne er vigtig læsning, for ifølge litteraturprofessor Anne Marie Mai er litteraturen en seismograf over vores samfund, som kan føre til både ny forståelse og politiske forandringer.

Former President of the European Research Council enters DIAS’ Advisory Board

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Nicolaas Kuiper honorary professor at IHES, is a new member of the Danish Institute of Advanced Study’s advisory board

”Where is Academia heading?” - an Interdisciplinary discussion between this year’s Doctors of Honour at SDU

On behalf of DIAS and this year’s nominators, we invite you to a joint event with our Doctors of Honour from all five of SDU’s faculties.

Be curious about the dogmas in your research field

DIAS challenges the dogmas that have a great impact on research

New collaboration between the Nordic Institutes of Advanced Study

An interdisciplinary approach to global issues and joint research funding are some of the possible activities for the new Nordic IAS.

SDU expert briefs the UN Security Council

The use of military drone technologies by terrorist groups is a threat to the world community. That was the main message in the speech that Associate Professor James Rogers has just given to the UN Security Council, where he was invited to share his knowledge about the terrorist use of drones.

Abuse and eugenically sterilization policies – “Once you’re in the middle of it, its difficult to lower the ambition”

DIAS Chair Klaus Petersen, professor of welfare history, has completed a comprehensive report for the Ministry of Social Affairs on the treatment of mentally and physically disable persons in Danish institutions 1933-1980.

Recruitment of postdoctoral researchers to SDU through DIAS

In the 2021–2022 academic year, DIAS fellow Anthony Vincent Fernandez established a program to recruit postdoctoral researchers to SDU.

The 2022 National Conference of Danish Historians

On May 19th the 2022 National Conference of Danish Historians was held at DIAS

Agnes Callamard: Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Implications for the World

Guest Lecture by Dr. Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International May 11th 11:15-12:15 in DIAS Auditorium (V24-501a-0). Open to All.

Edward Baggs On the mind and climate change

Edward Baggs, Assistant Professor, and new DIAS Fellow, argues that cognitive scientists should look at climate change from a collective point of view. He has written the following essay to explain why.

Arctic sea ice is melting - Could the Arctic Ocean become an oasis for life?

Karl Attard, Fellow of Marine Science at DIAS, wants are more nuanced discussion of the con-sequences of melting ice in the Arctic Ocean.

Having the freedom to follow my ideas in an analytical way is a great privilege

Newly named DIAS fellow Lasse Aaskoven wishes for his research to have the potential to better inform public debates about policy issues.

Anthony Fernandez wants to use philosophy to gain new in-sights into patients’ experiences

DIAS Fellow Anthony Fernandez is interested in the philosophical understandings of experience – and he hopes that his work can create new insights for researchers in fields beyond philosophy

New book "Et Aldrende Danmark" published with contributions from DIAS affiliates

"Et Aldrende Danmark" by Torben M. Andersen og Jan Rose Skaksen is the newest publication from the Rockwool Foundation with contributions from DIAS Chairs, Kaare Christensen and the late James Vaupel, and DIAS Senior Fellow, Pieter Vanhuysse.

Challenging Ideas and Scientific Curiosity: How to Inspire Interdisciplinary Research

For the past fifteen years professors Anne-Marie Mai and Klaus Petersen have collaborated on interdisciplinary research, merging their expertise within literature and history. As chairs at Danish Institute of Advanced Study, they now have a platform from which they can inspire younger colleagues to seek out interdisciplinary opportunities.

How can you best measure the impact of interdisciplinary research? Pantelis and team want to find out

Hopefully, the project will lead to a better understanding of how interdisciplinary research works.

Examples of cherry-picking of diagrams can be found in medieval Greek manuscripts

A DIAS research team wishes to get a better understanding of how medieval people thought – and how some of the mechanisms of cherry-picking of diagrams, we know from today, can be detected in texts from a thousand years ago.

Armed with history and Big Data, James and Carolin are looking for answers to Climate Change

By combining the history of warfare with long data series of climate change DIAS-researchers hope to create a model for understanding and predicting climate induced conflict. If it wasn’t for DIAS, our project wouldn’t be happening, says James Rogers, assistant professor in War Studies at SDU.

DIAS Chairs amongst top scientists ranking

Research.com has published a top scientists ranking for Business and Management. Nicolai Foss and Kannan Govindan rank at number 1 and 2 in Denmark respectively.

Gareth Millward joins DIAS as Fellow of History

As of February 1st, Dr. Gareth Millward has joined Danish Institute for Advanced Study as Fellow of History with Chair of Humanities Klaus Petersen as mentor.

How do population changes influence democracies?

Pieter Vanhuysse participated in the Third Exploratory Meeting between European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Suica and 13 leading scholars to discuss current European policy challenges on democracy, demography, & demographic resilience.

Light footprint - heavy destabilising impact in Niger: why the Western understanding of remote warfare needs to be reconsidered

A new article by DIAS Fellow Dr. James Rogers has recently been published in International Politics. The article focuses on Western intervention in Niger, a nation heavily impacted by climate change, conflict, and terrorism.