Call for applications for visiting professorships 2020

The Danish Diabetes Academy (DDA) calls for applications for up to four visiting professorships in 2021 and 2022. These grants include salary costs, travel and accommodation expenses for international diabetes researchers visiting Danish research groups for a period of three to six months (up to a maximum of DKK 500,000 in total). Applications can be in any field of diabetes research.

Read more about the grants and submit your application here. 

These grants offer a unique opportunity to strengthen your network and work closely together with highly profiled Danish diabetes researchers in all fields of diabetes research at hospitals, universities or industry.

But why hear it from us, when these scientists have already seen the benefits of these professorships!

Current visiting professor is Glenn McConell, Institute of health and Sport, Victoria University, Australia working at University of Copenhagen:

Glenn McConell mentions the new techniques he has worked with alongside experiencing Copenhagen and the Danish cycling culture – and that rush hour in Denmark means packed bicycle lanes. To see Glenn McConnell talk about his experience tap the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGnFjQVlEAE

Host principal investigator Erik Richter from University of Copenhagen:
“My collaboration with Professor Glenn McConell has been scientifically very successful. In addition, having an international scholar in the lab always brings in new ideas and inspirations which are very important for scientific innovation. International collaborations are very common for many Danish labs in the diabetes field but having your collaborator in the lab for months brings the collaboration to a new scientific and personal level which I can highly recommend.”

A former visiting professor at Aarhus University is Dr. Rebecca Simmons, Riverlane, Cambridge, United Kingdom, chairman of the DDA International Advisory Board.

Dr. Rebecca Simmons says that “Denmark has world-class labs and collaboration opportunities, protected time while you are here as there is no teaching and very little administrative work”. Dr. Rebecca Simmons herself managed to submit two grant applications with Danish colleges during her stay in Denmark and several papers.  Some advice includes: “Do not let Danish put you off as everyone speaks perfectly English and it is a wonderful country to live in and do research”.

To hear Rebecca Simmons expand on her experience tap the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mprUJMvgtsQ