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Jonas Juul wins the H.C. Ørsted Research Talent Prize

On August 14 2025, our Jonas Juul was awarded the 2025 H.C. Ørsted Research Talent Prize.

Every year, the H.C. Ørsted society celebrates Danish physicist and father of electromagnetism H.C. Ørsted’s birthday with a grand party in Rudkøbing Langeland. At the party, the society hands out two prizes to talented researchers. This year, Jonas received one of these prizes in recognition of his outstanding research, its societal impact, and its potential for addressing security threats such as misinformation and epidemics.

At the party, Jonas was celebrated along with Nobel Prize winner Professor Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen), who was awarded the main H.C. Ørsted Research Prize, Associate Professor Luisa Sinischalchi (Technical University of Denmark), who won the other H.C. Ørsted Research Talent prize, and several university students and school pupils who won monetary awards in recognition of excellence.

Congratulations, Jonas!

ITU also wrote about Jonas’ award here: https://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/News-from-ITU/2025/Jonas-Juul-receives-the-HC-Orsted-Research-Talent-Award-2025

Jonas receiving the prize

Photo credit: Vedran Sekara

Jonas Juul is a new member of the Danish Young Academy

The Danish Young Academy is a scientific academy for talented young researchers in Denmark under the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. This year, 9 new members – one of them our Jonas – join the Young Academy the purpose of which is to strengthen Danish basic research and interdisciplinarity. According to the Young Academy, all members are “prominent profiles with strong international experiences and interesting views on research and society.”

Jonas provides more of his thoughts here: https://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/News-from-ITU/2025/Jonas-Juul-has-been-accepted-into-the-Young-Academy

Jonas at the Young Academy’s Summer Party. The party took place at the Carlsberg Academy and was the first official event with the new Young Academy cohort participating.

Call for PhD and Postdocs: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness

We are looking for PhDs and Postdocs to join Jonas Juul improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. The application deadline is May 1st and you can apply here.

The project (funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation) will improve epidemic preparedness in several ways, for example:

  • By studying a unique data set of hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 genomes. Studying these nation-scale data in combination with the Danish collection of registers, we hope to understand the details of COVID-19 propagation and mitigation impact in Denmark.
  • By quantifying the effectiveness and efficiency of mitigation strategies analytically and numerically, we will get a better understanding of how mitigation strategies should adapt as an epidemic unfolds,
  • By improving the statistical foundation for the projection of epidemic case numbers we hope to save lives and money when the next pandemic hits.

The positions come with attractive opportunities for conference participation, travel, etc., and Copenhagen offers a world-class research community in network science, epidemiology, and data science.

Interested in large-scale data analysis, applied statistics, and/or analytical methods for studying epidemics in networks? Read more and apply here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181783&DepartmentId=3439&MediaId=1282  and feel free to reach out to Jonas Juul if you have any questions (deadline May 1st 2025)

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