Professors Troels Skrydstrup and Kim Daasbjerg participate in a new, unique research centre, which has just been launched. The Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center is established with a grant of DKK 630 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) and based at Aarhus University. The new centre will ensure cross-disciplinary collaboration to reduce the amount of the greenhouse gas, CO2, in the atmosphere through researching and implementing new technology. The centre will be collaborating with a number of Danish and international partners.

Congratulations to Professor Jeppe Vang Lauritsen, Professor Kurt Gothelf, Professor Torben René Jensen, and all the other researchers at Faculty of Natural Sciences, who each have been granted a Villum Experiment Grant of DKK 2 million. Lauritsen, Gothelf, and Jensen will investigate topological insulators in electrocatalytic reactions, small molecule DNA rotaxanes, and novel trivalent cation conductors for future batteries.

When studying stability and folding of proteins hydrogen exchange substitution is a very important technique. However, the interpretation of the data is complicated by electrostatic effects and the magnitude of these has not been accounted for until now. Mulder et al. have now shown a way to better foretell these effects and thereby provide a key link between experiment and computational modeling of proteins.

Nanoscience student, Cathrine Abild Meyer has been selected as a strong and promising research talent at Aarhus University. She will receive the HM Queen Margrethe II Travel Grant 2021, which will allow her to go study abroad.

Cathrine Abild Meyer is presently a Master's student and earned top marks for her Bachelor's project at Brigitte Städler's Laboratory at iNANO. Her project is about co-cultivation of artificial cells and liver cells to form bionic tissue.