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Committee on Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme 2020 – Natural and Technical Sciences

The Committee implements the Board of the Foundation’s decision to award the Foundation’s Challenge Programme grants that supports research within annually decided research themes. In 2020 the theme within Natural and Technical Sciences is Quantum simulators for unravelling complex processes in nature.

The Board has established a grant budget of DKK 480 million for the entire Challenge Programme in 2020, for large programme grants, each of DKK 30-60 million.

The Board selects the committee members among international experts in the fields of the annual research theme in accordance with the general rules covering the Foundation’s committees.

The current members of the Committee are listed below.

Tommaso Calarco

Chairman

Professor, Head of Institute, Quantum Control, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Daniel Loss

Member

Professor, Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

Vivien Kendon

Member

Reader, Department of Physics, Durham University, United Kingdom

Enrique Solano

Member

Professor, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

Winfried Hensinger

Member

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Hugues de Rietmatten

Member

Professor, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain