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“True innovation is taking your invention and making it useful,” says Special Consultant Christian Nielsen (right), who will boost business collaboration for the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, along with his colleague Andy Drysdale.

2017.06.01 | AU Engineering

Business duo: business collaboration will strengthen engineering research

Aarhus University and the business sector should work together even more in the future if it is up to Andy Drysdale and Christian Nielsen – two new staff members at the university, both of whom have a history in which innovation and technology-based business development are paramount.

Centre Director Ib Johannsen is responsible for the new centre’s research and development activities, and he invites collaboration with companies and researchers in Denmark and abroad.

2017.05.22 | AU Engineering

Danish engineers at the forefront of advancing biorefinery from theory to practice

A new biorefinery centre will bridge the gap between the laboratory, research and industrial application.

2017.05.19 | AU Engineering

Engineers at Aarhus University awarded prestigious prize

In its annual profile analysis, the Danish journal Ingeniøren (The Engineer) has awarded Aarhus University the title ‘high jumper of the year’. The university hereby advances 26 places altogether compared with last year.

Associate Professor Zheng Guo (left) and Associate Professor Peter Kristensen hope to be able to use microalgae to create organic plastic on an industrial scale in the future.

2017.05.11 | AU Engineering

Danish engineers develop method to create bioplastics

Imagine a future in which plastic is sustainable, 100 per cent biodegradable, and produced without the use of chemistry. This is exactly what researchers at Aarhus University are working on right now.

Daniel Lucani Rötter was educated at the Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela and later moved to the USA, completing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2017.05.02 | AU Engineering

New associate professor will strengthen research in cloud technology

Daniel Lucani Rötter – CEO of Chocolate Cloud and educated at institutions including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA – is a new associate professor in electronic and computer engineering at the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University.