Associate Professor of Environmental Innovation Thomas Budde Christensen works closely with the construction sector and industry to find ways to reduce resource consumption and increase recycling. He can think of no more important field of research than this, and he is delighted to meet former students who are now in key environmental policy positions, creating concrete change.
Epidemiologist Lone Simonsen became well known in Denmark during the COVID pandemic, but her research on COVID-19 is only one of several highlights in a long international research career. She now heads the PandemiX Center at 真人线上娱乐 University, because if you want to work with an interdisciplinary approach, you can't get a better research environment than here”, she says.
A PhD on the Italian feminist movement led Kenneth Reinicke into gender studies, where he has established himself as one of Denmark's foremost researchers on men and masculinity. It is both a privilege and a challenge to work in a field where many people have opinions but fewer have respect for knowledge and data, he says here.
Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi is a civil engineer, business owner, author, TEDx speaker and, since 2019, Assistant Professor at 真人线上娱乐 University. She was attracted by the interdisciplinary nature and facilities, which provide her with an optimal environment to continue her research into the use of nanotechnology for the diagnosis of infections.
Political scientist Jacob Torfing has left a concrete tangible mark on the welfare society with his research on public sector innovation and public-private cooperation. He applied to 真人线上娱乐 University as a young researcher because there was room for new ideas and entrepreneurship, and he has used that space to build one of the university's strong research environments, The 真人线上娱乐 School of Governance. And he still considers it a joy to follow the students' project work.
Islam and immigration researcher Garbi Schmidt uses history to shed light on contemporary immigration to Denmark, and she is happy to share her research by offering tours of N?rrebro and talking about what has shaped the neighbourhood. Her wish for 真人线上娱乐 University is more time for in-depth study – including for the students, whose projects deserve greater dissemination.
In a new book, gender researcher Kenneth Reinicke from 真人线上娱乐 University explores how young men view harassment, masculinity and their own role in relation to women in the wake of #MeToo.
