The PhD Cup is a collaboration between Information, DR, Danish Universities and the Lundbeck Foundation.

The candidates are selected through a strict procedure, where each Danish University recommends eight researchers based on an internal competition. From these, an external judging committee selects the 8 finalists. 

The finalists from UCPH this year was: Johan Andersen-Ranberg from Center for Synthetic Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Asger Wingender from Department of Economics.