Awards & Grants 

Current Funding & Grants Held

  • 2020-2025: Carlsberg Foundation: LCMS Ion-Trap based research towards climate resilient crop plants (0.2 M €)
  • 2019-2024: Novo Nordisk Foundation, Distinguished Grant: “Black Holes in the Plant Universe” (1.3 M €)
  • 2018-2020: VILLUM Experiment (0.26 M €)
  • 2016-2020: Novo Nordisk Foundation Synergy Grant: Desert-loving therapeutics (2 M €)
  • 2016-2019: Lundbeck Foundation: Brewing diterpenoids (1.4 M €)                      

Previous Grants

  • 2016-2018: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (0.14 M €)
  • 2015-2017: Innovation Fund Denmark, Innobooster: SUNWORKS (0.8 M €)
  • 2013-2019: ERC Advanced Grant: Lightdriven P450s (2.5 M €)
  • 2013-2018: UCPH Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research: bioSYNergy (3.5 M €)
  • 2012-2020: 3 ARC Linkage Grants with Melbourne, Monash and Queensland Universities (0.3 M €)
  • 2010-2014: UNIK Synthetic Biology, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (16 M €)
  • 2008-2019: VILLUM Centers for Pro-active Plants and Plant Plasticity (8 M €)
  • 2008-2012: UNIK Synthetic Biology: The total grant is 16 million € for the period. Of these 4.8 million € is assigned to projects, instrumentation and infrastructure within plant biology. My research group receives 90.000 €/year for studies on light driven hydroxylations obtained by linking Photosystem I to cytochrome P450 enzymes
  • 2012: Villum Foundation Post Doc Block Stipend

Other granting agencies: The Danish Council for Independent Research, Human Frontier Science Programme, EU LifeSciHealth STREP, EU Marie Curie, Australian Research Council, Spanish Research Council, Carlsberg Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Danish National Research Foundation, Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation, Danish Research Councils and DANIDA.

Research Awards

  • 2014: Awarded Order of the Dannebrog. Knight 1st Class
  • 2013: Awarded title of Honorary Professor at University of Queensland
  • 2009: Appointed Honorary Doctor at the University of Umeå, Sweden
  • 2010-2013: Invited Visiting Professor at University of Melbourne and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia during the month of May
  • 2007: Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Prize (2.5 M DKK or 350,000 €). The largest Danish research award
  • 2004: The Academy of Future Research, “The Future Prize” (17,000 €)
  • 2003: Societas Physiologia Plantarum Scandinavica “Popularization Prize” (17,000 €)
  • 1995: Promoted by the Queen of Denmark as Knight of the Dannebrog
  • 1994: “Director Ib Henriksens Research Prize” (33,000 €)
  • 1994: Carlsberg Research Prize Award (18,000 €)
  • 1991: “Fabrikant Ulrik Brinch og hustru Marie Brinchs Legat” Technical University of Denmark (14,000 €)
  • 1988: Pedersholm Legat ( 36,000 €)
  • 1985: Hans Gram Medal, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.