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DTU researchers receive grant from the Villum Foundation

6 DTU researchers, divided into 4 projects, receive a Villum Synergy grant to strengthen the research opportunities that lie at the interface between computer science and other disciplines.

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Thursday 23 October 2025

Freja E. Klippmann

This year, the Villum Foundation has selected 13 projects, each receiving more than DKK 4 million. All projects are data-driven, but the partner depends entirely on the nature of the problem to be addressed.

Villum Synergy grant recipients

  • Associate Professor Alexander Bagger, DTU Physics, receives, in collaboration with Line Clemmensen, Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, DKK 4.5 million for the project ‘Catalysis Informatics’.
  • Senior Researcher Carlos Acevedo-Rocha, DTU Biosustain, receives, in collaboration with Professor Søren Hauberg, DTU Compute, DKK 4.5 million for the project ‘Orienteering: Constructing protein fitness landscapes via epistasis-aware machine learning methods’.
  • Associate Professor Sanshui Xiao, DTU Electro, receives, in collaboration with Zheng-Hua Tan, Professor at Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, DKK 4.5 million for the project ‘Leveraging Machine Learning for Developing On-Chip Quantum Sources with 2D Materials Integration’.
  • Associate Professor Christian Majenz, DTU Compute, receives, in collaboration with Associate Professor Jonatan Bohr Brask, DTU Physics, DKK 4.5 million for the project ‘SEQReT – Symmetry-Enhanced Quantum Cryptography with Representation Theory’.

Read more at the Villum Foundation.

Villum Foundation

The Villum Foundation is a private foundation founded in 1971. In 2021, the non-profit foundation granted approximately DKK 1.5 billion to technical and scientific research as well as environmental, social, and cultural purposes in Denmark and abroad.

Villym Synergy

Villum Synergy aims to strengthen interdisciplinary, data-driven research and is targeted at researchers in computer science, statistics, or applied mathematics in collaboration with researchers from a wide range of other disciplines.

The program was established in 2019 to connect computer science with other fields and to strengthen excellent interdisciplinary research in Denmark.

Contact

Alexander Bagger

Alexander Bagger Associate Professor Department of Physics

Carlos G. Acevedo-Rocha

Carlos G. Acevedo-Rocha Senior Researcher Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability

Søren Hauberg

Søren Hauberg Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Phone: +45 45253899

Sanshui Xiao

Sanshui Xiao Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering Phone: +45 45256362 Mobile: +45 91988888

Christian Majenz

Christian Majenz Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Jonatan Bohr Brask

Jonatan Bohr Brask Associate Professor Department of Physics Mobile: +45 30248892