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"The idea is to use friction and compression to create spatial structures with no mortar. Simply blocks that are held together by the laws of physics," says Assistant Professor Valentina Beatini. Photo: Lars Kruse / AU Foto.

2019.11.06 | Department of Engineering

Creating anticlastic architecture using Newton’s laws

Valentina Beatini, architect from the University of Genoa and PhD from the University of Parma, is a new assistant professor at the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University. Her research is focused on building strange shape constructions using high friction masonry.

The new revolutionary technology allows for unprecedented efficiency in measuring many different atomic components outside the laboratory. This is the first time that NMR technology has been used in the agricultural sector, but a great future is predicted for the technology. Photo: Tavs Nyord

2019.11.05 | Department of Engineering

Danish-developed, award-winning slurry sensor to make agriculture more sustainable

Researchers from the Department of Engineering have helped develop a sensor to measure the nutrient content in manure using NMR technology. The technology has just won a major, international award and has been lauded as one of the 40 most important agricultural inventions of the year.

Woutijn Johannes Baars is a new assistant professor at the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University. Throughout his PhD and research in the US and Australia he has focused on fighter jet noise - and in particular how to reduce it. Photo: Jesper Bruun.

2019.10.22 | Department of Engineering

Turbulence and noise expert at Aarhus University to research fighter jet thunder

The Department of Engineering at Aarhus University, has recruited Assistant Professor Woutijn Baars, who has been working on noise from supersonic jets with US-based collaborators, and who comes with many years of research expertise on how best to avoid this fighter jet noise.

Events

Mon 02 Dec
11:45-14:00 | INCUBA Pier Venue, Navitas, Inge Lehmanns Gade 10, 8000 Aarhus
Join the Sustainable Energy Days at Department of Engineering
THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE & BUSINESS. The extended Science Lunch program on Sustainable Energy, this time with a Guest Speaker from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Ted Zoller.
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