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Committee for the Natural and Technical Sciences

The committee for the Natural and Technical Sciences implements granting decisions on behalf of the Board of the Foundation in support of fundamental research within the natural and technical sciences in Denmark.

The Board establishes an annual budget for granting via the programmes Project Grants in the Natural and Technical Sciences and NERD – New Exploratory Research and Discovery Programme.

The Committee was established in 2020 and currently has nine members consisting of a Chair and eight other members. The Board of the Foundation selects the members in accordance with the general rules covering the Foundation’s committees.

Heiner Linke

Chair

Professor, Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and Physics Department, Lund University, Sweden
Member since 2024

Sonia Coriani

Member

Professor, Department of Chemistry
Center for Quantum Technologies, Technical University of Denmark
Member since 2025

Susanne Ditlevsen

Member

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Member since 2024

Knud Jørgen Jensen

Member

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Member since 2020

Patricia Bassereau

Member

Professor, Institut Curie, France
Member since 2022

Olle Eriksson

Member

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden
Member since 2026

Jonathan Finley

Member

Professor, Quantum Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Member since 2026

Henrik Stapelfeldt

Member

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
Member since 2026

Claudia Höbartner

Member

Professor, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Julius Maximilian University of Wurzburg, Germany
Member since 2026