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DFF grants for DTU researchers

Independent Research Fund Denmark awards a total of DKK 318 million to 52 researchers with innovative and excellent research projects.

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Monday 12 May 2025

Freja E. Klippmann

10 DTU researchers receive DKK 61 million in total from the Independent Research Fund Denmark under the DFF-Research Project2 initiative. With the grant, the researchers have the opportunity to pursue their most innovative ideas and promote innovative Danish research.

Grant recipients from DTU

  • Professor David R. Fuhrman, DTU Construct, receives the grant for the project ’MARSH: Marine advection and dissipation in the vegetated coastal environment’.
  • Professor Jesper Henri Hattel, DTU Construct, receives the grant for the project ’Controlling TURBulence in Metal gas Atomization for precise Powder engineering (TURBMAP)’.
  • Associate Professor Johan Lind, DTU Health Tech, receives the grant for the project ’Stretchable Micro-Electrode Arrays for Cardiac Precision Medicine’.
  • Professor Karsten Rottwitt, DTU Electro, receives the grant for the project ’Generation of optical quantum states in silicon core optical fibers’.
  • Professor Kristoffer Almdal, DTU Chemistry, receives the grant for the project ‘Towards Multiscale Free-Form Manufacturing employing Tomograpic Polyspectral Reconstruction (ToMaTo)’.
  • Professor Piotr de Silva, DTU Energy, receives the grant for the project ‘StableGenius: Design of stable organic flow battery electrolytes supported by computational intelligence’.
  • Professor Stefan Røpke, DTU Management, receives the grant for the project ‘Learning-guided optimization’.
  • Associate Professor Søren Kramer, DTU Chemistry, receives the grant for the project ’Enantioselective Direct C-H Functionalization with CO2’.
  • Professor Thomas Sand Jespersen, DTU Energy, receives the grant for the project ’Breaking inversion symmetry by controlling crystal curvature’.
  • Associate Professor Toke Reinholt Fosgaard, DTU Management, receives the grant for the project ’Who are the Tax Evaders? Understanding, Predicting, and Decreasing Tax Evasion’.

Read more at the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Contact

David R. Fuhrman

David R. Fuhrman Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Phone: +45 45251975

Jesper Henri Hattel

Jesper Henri Hattel Head of Section, Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Phone: +45 45254710 Mobile: +45 51801499

Johan Ulrik Lind

Johan Ulrik Lind Group Leader, Associate Professor Department of Health Technology

Karsten Rottwitt

Karsten Rottwitt Group Leader, Professor Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering Phone: +45 45256384 Mobile: +45 21543154

Kristoffer Almdal

Kristoffer Almdal Professor Department of Chemistry Phone: +45 45258144 Mobile: +45 20915852

Piotr de Silva

Piotr de Silva Professor Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +45 93510819

Stefan Røpke

Stefan Røpke Professor Department of Technology, Management and Economics Phone: +45 45254554

Søren Kramer

Søren Kramer Associate Professor Department of Chemistry Phone: +45 45252150

Thomas Sand Jespersen

Thomas Sand Jespersen Professor Department of Energy Conversion and Storage Mobile: +45 28570164

Toke Reinholt Fosgaard

Toke Reinholt Fosgaard Associate Professor Department of Technology, Management and Economics Phone: +45 45256585