Principal investigator (PI)
01/2024-12/2026: EliteForsk Prize by the Danish Council for Independent Research 134 k.€ or 1 mil. Dkr.-
09/2022-08/2027: ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council: Conductive minerals as electrical conduits in methane cycling, 2 mil. € or 15 mil. Dkr.-
07/2021-06/2025: Danish Research Council for Independent Research – collaborative research project type 2 (collaboration with Bo Barker Jørgensen as co-PI at AU): Seabed methane cycling by reversible electron transfer between archaea and bacteria. 6.2 mil Dkr.-
05/2021-04/2026: Novo Nordisk Foundation Ascending Investigator in biotechnology-based synthesis & production for the Nordic region: Harnessing microbes to store electricity and capture carbon dioxide in sustainable chemicals. 9.8 mil. Dkr.-
02/2015-12/2019: Sapere Aude research leadership grant Danish Research Council: Feeding on electrons. 7 mil. Dkr-
10/2015-09/2018: Novo Nordisk fellowship: Microbial chemical plants: harnessing microbial metabolism for the production of valuable chemicals. 2.5 mil.Dkr.-
10/2013-09/2015: FNU MOBILEX fellowship from the Danish Research Council: Electric interspecies interactions under methanogenic conditions. 2 mil. Dkr.-
Co-investigator & other roles
12/2014-10/2019: Innovation fund Denmark grant (work package leader, Co-I): Electrogas: the e-power buffer. 20 mil. Dkr.-
11/2013 – (declined): Dale T. Mortensen fellowship