Professor of Anthropology Nils Ole Bubandt receives the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research for his innovative research into the interaction between humans and other species in the Anthropocene era and for his studies over many years of the relationship between power, magic, politics and religion in contemporary Asia.

Nils Ole Bubandt holds a Master’s degree from Melbourne University and a PhD degree from the Australian National University from 1996. He was appointed associate professor in anthropology at Aarhus University in 1999 and has been a professor with special responsibilities (MSO) since 2010. In 2016, Nils Bubandt was appointed professor at the School of Culture and Society as well as being the first person at Aarhus University to be awarded a higher doctoral degree in anthropology (dr.scient.anth.). His doctoral dissertation, The Empty Seashell. Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island, which is based on more than 20 years of fieldwork, is an in-depth study of witchcraft in South East Asia, which – based on an impressive theoretical overview – unfolds a radically new take on the study of modernity, witchcraft, and doubt and faith.

Bubandt is also being honoured for his large-scale interdisciplinary research project, AURA, which focuses on the Anthropocene era. The project is a pioneering collaboration between biologists, philosophers and anthropologists aimed at creating a cross-disciplinary understanding of man as a new and dominant ‘force of nature’ and partly of the new landscapes which humans and other species produce together and impact in the Anthropocene era.  The success of AURA is a testament to Nils Ole Bubandt’s status as a visionary scientist who knows how to rethink and further develop the ‘state of the art’ within his field of research.

Further information:

• Professor Nils Ole Bubandt
• Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology
• Mobile: +45 6094 0266
• Email: bubandt@cas.au.dk

Professor Bo Ernø Honoré is one of the real ‘heavyweights’ in the field of econometrics research, and he has worked closely with Nobel Prize winners Dale T. Mortensen (2010) and James Heckman (2000). Heckman was Bo Ernø Honoré’s PhD supervisor in 1987.

Since then, he has made a name for himself based on a large number of publications in leading international journals such as Econometrica and Review of Economics Studies as well as Journal of Econometrics and Economic Theory.

Bo Ernø Honoré’s research has focused primarily on the so-called time duration models, choice models and panel data models. His methods have been applied in fields as diverse as price fixing, equal pay, unemployment, cancer treatment and child research.

Even though most of Bo Ernø Honoré’s academic career has been based in the USA, he has not forgotten his roots at Aarhus University. He has often visited the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus BSS, he has been a member of professorship assessment committees at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, and he has often hosted PhD students from Aarhus University during their stays in the USA.

Bo Ernø Honoré left Denmark after his (equivalent to) BSc in Mathematics-Economics from Aarhus University in 1983 to pursue his studies and career at the University of Chicago. He was an assistant professor and subsequently associate professor at Norhtwestern University, before being appointed professor at Princeton University in 1994 at the age of 34. Since 2012, he has been Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University.

In 2008-2015, Bo Ernø Honoré was a member of Danish National Research Foundation.

Further information:

• Professor Bo Ernø Honoré
• Princeton University, Department of Economics
• Princeton, NJ 08544-1021
• Telephone: +1 (609) 258-4014
• Email: honore@Princeton.EDU