Five talented researchers win the AUFF PhD Award
How can we date sediment layers more precisely? What does it mean to be well functioning? And how can we study the creation of food components in real time? These are some of the questions that this year’s five PhD award recipients have explored in their research projects. The Aarhus University Research Foundation will confer the PhD awards at a ceremony in the Main Hall on Wednesday 27 May.
The Aarhus University Research Foundation’s PhD awards go to five new PhD graduates who have delivered groundbreaking research within their respective fields.
The 2026 award recipients are:
- Margrethe Birkler (Arts): Theology can function as a living language in dialogue with the world
- Lennart Kiel (BSS): Personality functioning is key to improving our functional capacity
- Solvej Videbæk Bueno (Health): Support for new mothers can help improve public health
- Aske Lohse Sørensen (NAT): A new method enables the precise dating of sedimentary layers
- Dionysios D. Neofyfos (TECH): A new way to visualise the hidden structure formations in our food
Read more about the prize winners’ research and watch videos about them
The Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD Award
The Aarhus University Research Foundation first awarded its annual PhD prize in 2003 in connection with the university’s 75th anniversary.
The award includes a cash prize of DKK 40,000
The PhD awards will be conferred on Wednesday 27 May in the Main Hall, where the Holst-Knudsen Research Talent awards will also be given to Professor Dorthe Ravnsbæk and Professor Lars Wiuff Andersen. Register for the awards ceremony