2020

CONNECTIONS – Sculpture Exhibition by Steinunn Thórarinsdottir

This summer, 10 sculptures by the award-winning Icelandic artist Steinunn Thórarinsdottir will be exhibited at SDU as a part of DIAS Fellow Dr James Rogers’ interdisciplinary project on war and art. The CONNECTIONS exhibition is possible thanks to the Albani Fonden, that has supported the project with 200,000 DKK.

Four DIAS Chairs Recognized as ‘Highly Cited Researcher’

This year, four of our Chairs have been recognized for producing multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.

Measuring the Experienced Burden of Disease

Since March 2020, PhD Angela Y. Chang has been a DIAS Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical Research at SDU. She is committed to reducing health and wealth inequalities globally through her research and is motivated by the belief that research can provide the inputs needed to inform policies and improve resource allocation, and ultimately, impact population health

Joel Cox receives prestigious “Sapere Aude” grant

Today, DIAS Fellow Joel Cox receives the prestigious “Sapere Aude” grant of 6.192,000 DKK from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for his research project “Towards single-photon nonlinear optics in atomically-thin materials”.

DIAS presenting: Virtual U.S. Election Briefings

This U.S. election has the potential to seismically alter both U.S. and global politics. It is billed to be “the most important election for a generation”. But what does this really mean? And how will the election result influence international affairs? What should Europe be ready for?

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters admits DIAS Director as member

DIAS Director Marianne Holmer enters an unique organisation with an agelong tradition and former members such as Niels Bohr, H. C. Ørsted, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

Welcome to Ane – new administrative coordinator at DIAS

We are happy to share with all – from September 1st Ane Kristine Coster is DIAS’ new academic coordinator.

New Advisory Board in DIAS

We are very happy to welcome onboard a very competent team of resources; Henrik Tvarnø, Bente Klarlund Pedersen, Robbert Dijkgraaf and Peter Baldwin.

DIAS researcher is #4 on TwiLi Index for Denmark

You probably already know the h-index; measuring the productivity and citation impact of a scholar. The TwiLi Index measures the social media impact of researchers and has three DIAS-affiliates on the list – with a DIAS Fellow in top five!

Professor Klaus Petersen elected member of Academia Europaea

Experienced Associate Professor in cognitive AI joins DIAS

Associate Professor Marco Ragni has a keen interest in the specifics of how the human mind process information and how this differs from formal and computational approaches. With the goal to push the development of true predictive cognitive models for the individual reasoner by methods from AI and Cognitive Science forward, he enters DIAS this summer.

DIAS and CWS researchers provide evidence to major new UN report

Dr. James Rogers, DIAS Assistant Professor in War Studies within the Centre for War Studies, at University of Southern Denmark, and Dr. Dominika Kunertova provided evidence to the latest UN report on drone warfare and targeted killing.

Newly appointed Professor (mso) in Humanities and Technology joins DIAS as Senior Fellow

The relationship between technology and humanities has interested the literary scholar Kathrin Maurer for a long time. How does the aesthetic field (literature, visual art) represent and interpret technical inventions? How does technology affect human communities? How does technology impact the human sensorium?

Interdisciplinary Professor with vast experience enters DIAS as Senior Fellow

Paul Richard Sharp is an industrious and dynamic Professor appointed at Department of Business and Economics at SDU, and now also Senior Fellow at DIAS. With him he brings extensive resume and a number of responsibilities.

New grant: DIAS Fellow secures NATO funding success

Dr. James Rogers, DIAS Fellow in War Studies, and member of SDU’s Centre for War Studies, has been awarded 380,000 DKK (EUR 51,000.00) for the project ‘The Vulnerabilities of the Drone Age: Strategic Foresight Planning out to 2035’.

Industrious Professor in History appointed as Senior Fellow at DIAS

Jeppe Nevers is the latest addition of excellent researches at DIAS. He has made himself noticed as a dedicated researcher and teacher, and in 2016 by the age of just 37 he achieved the title as Professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

Professor and world citizen is now affiliated with DIAS

His resume testifies to a great engagement in the global social debate and shows an impressive academic work in Leuven, London, Budapest, Haifa and Vienna. Yes, Pieter Vanhuysse has left excellent marks. We are therefore pleased to announce that he has now also joined Danish Institute for Advanced Study as Senior Fellow.