The Research Data Office
The Research Data Office provides support to AU’s researchers about research data management broadly speaking. To offer comprehensive and consistent advice, the office consolidates the administration's expertise in various areas under one roof. The office comprises the former Data Protection Unit, the Open Science Coordinator, the data management advisory services, as well as URIS and export control advisory services. Additionally, the office facilitates contact from researchers to both DeiC and the external Data Protection Officer (DPO), and also serves as the secretariat for the Research Ethics Committee.
You can contact the office at researchdata@au.dk.
Read more about the tasks and find contact information for specific research fields and for staff on this page.
Data Protection in Research
The Data Protection Unit assists with questions regarding the register, inquiries from data subjects, personal data breaches, general data protection law questions and contact with the Danish Data Protection Agency, including requests for authorisation fordisclosure requiring authorisation from the Danish Data Protection Agency.
- Information about GDPR in research
- Information about the record and how to register your research project.
- Information about security breach and how to report it.
Contact - for questions about the record: fortegnelse@au.dk
Contact - for questions about security breach: data-brud@au.dk
For other inquiries: legal adviser, Christian Hougaard Kristensen
URIS and export control
The research data office supports the implementation of the national URIS (international research and innovation cooperation) guidelines at AU as well as inquiries about export control/dual use.
Contact - for questions about export control: dualuse@au.dk
Adviser on critical research and export control: John Westensee
Senior consultant on URIS in general: Jakob D. Sørensen
Secretariat for the Research Ethics Committee
The research data office serves as the secretariat for the Research Ethics Committee, which functions as Institutional Review Board (IRB) when researchers document that the institution has approved the ethical aspects of the research.
Read about research ethical approval and apply for approval.
For questions about the approval process, please contact the Research Ethics Committee: researchdata@au.dk
Open Science and Data Management
The Open Science unit works to promote the conditions for Open Science at AU. The team helps raise awareness of Open Science and provides technical support, including the implementation of ERDA/SIF. The unit also promotes good research data management at AU.
- The unit provides secretarial services for the Open Science Forum.
- Information about Research Data Management.
Contact - for questions about Open Science and data sharing: AskOS@au.dk
Contact - for questions about Data Management: datamanagement@au.dk
Open Science Coordinator, Kaare Aagaard
Special Consultant, Sara Marie Westh
DeiC front office
Through the DeiC (Danish e-infrastructure Consortium) front office, researchers at AU can access additional supercomputing power from local, national and international HPC resources. Depending on the specific resource, interested researchers must send an application - in some cases, this is only possible when there are calls.
Contact external DPO
AU has an external Data Protection Officer (DPO). Contact to the person goes via the research data office.
For inquiries to the DPO, please contact the office: dpo@au.dk.
Employees in the research data office
| Name | Job title | Phone | Building | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aagaard, Kaare | Open Science Coordinator | kaag@au.dk | +4520735238 | 3210, 05.091 |
| Andersen, Sofie Maul | Administrator | soan@au.dk | +4530183121 | 3210, 05.093 |
| Aschou Johannesen, Claus | Senior legal advisor | cla@au.dk | +4524528734 | 3210, 05.093 |
| Aziz, Maya | Hourly-payd other TAP | maaz@au.dk | 3210 | |
| Brøcker, Victor | Member of Administrative Staff | vbr@au.dk | +4520623298 | 3210, 05.093 |
| de Fønss, Peter Severin | Special Consultant | peter.de.fonss@au.dk | +4540502099 | 3210, 05.093 |
| Hartanto, Brigita Janice | Student Worker | jhar@au.dk | 3210 | |
| Kristensen, Christian Hougaard | Legal adviser | chkr@au.dk | +4522237952 | 3210, 05.093 |
| Nielsen, Søren Broberg | Head of Research Data Office | soren.broberg@au.dk | +4587153198 | 3210, 05.167 |
| Sørensen, Jakob D. | Senior consultant | jds@au.dk | +4529454023 | 3210, 05.091 |
| Westensee, John | Advisor | jwe@au.dk | +4551371183 | 3210, 05.091 |
| Westh, Sara Marie | Special Consultant | samawe@au.dk | 3210, 05.091 |
