Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies

Jens Christian Skou Senior Fellowships

Active Aarhus University faculty members with a distinguished track record in research, who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas, are eligible to apply for a Jens Christian Skou Fellowship and to become Jens Christian Skou Senior Fellows.

AIAS Fellows are expected to be physically situated in AIAS’ buildings on campus, to participate in AIAS programmes and events, and to organize activities such as workshops, public talks, or speakers' series in order to contribute to the intellectual life at the Institute and at Aarhus University.

AIAS offers senior fellowships of a duration from six to eighteen months with the opportunity to fully devote time to research, completely unrestricted by teaching obligations and administrative functions. The applicant should plan the duration of the fellowship according to his/her requirements. Fellows are free to decide how much to engage in teaching or clinical work, if at all, but their main concern should go towards the development of their chosen research area.

Support for Jens Christian Skou Fellows consists of a qualified substitute professorship for the home institute (normally at postdoc level, for a period of 6-18 months). Additionally, the senior fellows will be allotted full financial support for their research project: for travel costs, organization of workshops, materials, assistant(s) etc. Fellows will be given a maximum degree of freedom as to how they utilize these funds (administered by AIAS) and their time.

Applications should consist of:

• a CV with a list of major publications • a thorough description of the planned research project (up to five pages) including any ideas for events to enhance the Institute's intellectual environment • a letter of agreement from the head of the home department.

Deadline: Please send recommendations/applications to institute secretary at AIAS; Pia Leth Andersen, [email protected] no later than 3 December 2012. Documents should be sent as PDF files, and preferably as one PDF file.

For further information, please contact institute secretary at AIAS; Pia Leth Andersen, [email protected].

This fellowship is named after Aarhus University Professor Jens Christian Skou (b. 1918) who in 1957 published the first paper describing the sodium- potassium pump, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1997.

Other AIAS fellowships available are Jens Christian Skou Junior Fellowships (also for AU researchers) and Dale T. Mortensen Junior and Senior Fellowships (for applicants outside of AU). All fellowships will be announced separately.

See also http://aias.au.dk for an overview of AIAS types of fellowships.