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

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.

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.

Information about access to HPC resources via DeiC.

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 Email 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
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