FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 21 CHRISTINA KKONA AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, previously Department of English, Hellenic American University, Greece Area of research: Comparative literature and Cultural Theory Project title: The unexpected: toward a politics and aesthetics of discontinuity Examining different literary and cinematic works, the project challenges dominant discourses depicting the past and the present in terms of a future proclaimed as determinate, such as the promissory political narratives of a better world displaced onto a continually differed future. Alternatively, a politics that is no longer a future-oriented promise, but a present-oriented action embracing unpredictable events is theorized. The project approaches social exclusion from the perspective of temporal consciousness and posits the unexpected as the locus from which the present is organized as space-time of openness to the other. CHRISTOS TSIROGIANNIS AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, previously Antiquities Unit, University of Cambridge, UK Area of research: Forensic Archaeology Project title: Monitoring the Trade in Illicit Antiquities By monitoring the publications and websites of companies proven to have handled illicit archaeological material from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, I am recording the appearances of cultural objects in the market over the last decade. Comparing such records with provenances given at the latest point of sale, significant omissions become apparent, and patterns in the collecting histories of unprovenanced/ illicit material. All these are, importantly, proofs of malpractice created by the market itself and, through them, I am mapping the interactions of those involved in international antiquities trafficking. CICI ALEXANDER AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, previously Department of Life and Environment Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK Area of research: Remote Sensing Project title: Innovative remote sensing techniques for developing green infrastructure strategies to support biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration My project at AIAS will use innovative, and complementary, remote sensing techniques for assessing and monitoring green infrastructure. Airborne Laser Scanning, using the technique of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), has advantages over other remote sensing techniques for characterising the three-dimensional structure of vegetation. The main objectives are to develop indices for the quality of urban green networks, methods for the rapid assessment of changes in woody vegetation cover and for the identification of forests of High Nature Value, using multi-spectral imagery in addition to the Danish national LiDAR datasets. AARHUS INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 Photo: Ida Marie Jensen. CONTENTS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 CONTENTS 4 Why AIAS? The Directors Account 2019-2020 6 Advanced Studies and the Life of the Mind 8 Interdisciplinary Perspectives 10 Disentangling the causes of cardiovascular diseases in obese patients to develop new therapies 12 Cultural heritage pr 4 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 DIRECTORS ACCOUNT WHY AIAS? THE DIRECTORS ACCOUNT 2019-2020 Each year, a large number of researchers throughout the world apply for fellowships at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. The total number of applicants since our first COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie Photo: Søren Keiding. By: Melissa Bach Yildirim We know that AIAS brings an exceptional number of talented international researchers to Aarhus, and we know that AIAS is the melting pot where they meet Aarhus University and establish long lasting collaborations. Photo: AIAS Acting Director Søren Ke 6 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 ADVANCED STUDIES AND THE LIFE OF THE MIND ADVANCED STUDIES AND THE LIFE OF THE MIND By: Anne Marie Pahuus, philosopher, and vice-dean for research, the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University THE USE OF REFLECTION Understanding the life of the mind in psychological terms Photo: Vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts Anne Marie Pahuus. By: Lars Kruse. entire counsel for the wisdom and counselling of the ageing, the senate. However, skholḗ denotes the time you have to yourself and to reason with peers, where you are uninterrupted and unobligated. School is a kind of suspen 8 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES By: Cici Alexander, AIAS Fellow and Jennifer Galloway, AIAS Former Fellow, Research Scientist at Geological Survey of Canada, Canada Putting their minds together, Fellows Jennifer Galloway, a palaeontol INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 9 An interdisciplinary bi-annual magazine edited by Fellows at AIAS, with contributions from both current and former AIAS Fellows. aias.au.dk/research/iperspectives-magazine ISSUE 1-2020 CO NTE NTS 04 Foreword 07 Editors Note Søren 10 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 DISENTANGLING THE CAUSES OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES IN OBESITY TO DEVELOP NEW THERAPIES DISENTANGLING THE CAUSES OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES IN OBESITY TO DEVELOP NEW THERAPIES By: Joanna Kalucka, AIAS Fellow and Assistant Professor, previously VIB Center for Cancer 11 Photo: AIAS Fellow Joanna Kalucka in the lab at Biomedicine at Aarhus University. By: Lars Kruse. to maximize the chances of achieving success. AIAS offers a multidisciplinary research platform and creates a unique opportunity for researchers to gain freedom and independence to further advance 12 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION INVESTIGATING THE ILLICIT TRADE OF ANTIQUITIES CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION INVESTIGATING THE ILLICIT TRADE OF ANTIQUITIES By: Christos Tsirogiannis, AIAS Fellow and previously Antiquities Unit, University of Cambridge, UK Fellow Chr AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 Photo: Dr Christos Tsirogiannis examining the fragmented repatriated Apulian vases at the Aarhus University Museum of Ancient Art. Dr Vinnie Nørskov and the Aarhus University Museum of Ancient Art. I have identified more than 1,100 illicit antiquities so far, contribu 14 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 STUDYING THE EUROPEAN SINGLE MARKET IN TURBULENT TIMES STUDYING THE EUROPEAN SINGLE MARKET IN TURBULENT TIMES By: Sandra Eckert, AIAS Fellow and Associate Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt Main, Germany Political scientist Sandra Eckert takes us on a journey Photo: Sandra Eckert in her office at AIAS. By: Lars Kruse, AU Foto. Image: Thomas Müller/ 2019 Beltz & Gelberg 16 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 WASTEWATER TREATMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT USING RECYCLED AGRICULTURAL BIOMASS IN CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS FOR SUSTAINABLE HIGH-RATE NITROGEN REMOVAL By: Shubiao Wu, AIAS Fellow and Associate Professor, previously China Agricultural University, China Constructed wet WASTEWATER TREATMENT AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 17 Image: The process of constructed wetlands. By: Shubiao Wu. My project at AIAS has demonstrated the mechanism of an intensified nitrogen removal process in wastewater treatment by using new agricultural biomass-based constructed wetlands. The FELLOWS 2019-2020 In the academic year of 2019-20, AIAS has hosted 41 fellows who have arrived at AIAS from 35 different research institutions from around the globe. In this group of fellows, more than 36 different academic research areas and 20 nationalities are present, shaping the international and multi-disciplin 20 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS ANNA B. NEUHEIMER AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Area of research: Marine Ecology Project title: Timing is everything: Developing a mechanistic understanding of fish timing strategies a FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 21 CHRISTINA KKONA AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, previously Department of English, Hellenic American University, Greece Area of research: Comparative literature and Cultural Theory Project title: The unexpected: toward a politics and aesthetics of di 22 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS CRISTINA ESTEVA FONT AIAS COFUND Fellow Postdoc, previously University of California San Francisco, USA Area of research: Health and medical sciences Project title: Targeting prostaglandins in chronic kidney disease PGE2 regulates the kidney function throu FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 23 FREDRIK CHRISTIANSEN AIAS COFUND Fellow Assistant Professor, previously School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia Area of Research: Bioenergetics/ Ecophysiology Project title: Understanding the population consequences of human di 24 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS ISABELLE TORRANCE AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, previously Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame, USA Area of Research: Classical Reception and Irish Studies Project Title: Greek Tragedy and Irish Politics My research at AIAS demonstrat FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 25 JENNIFER GALLOWAY AIAS COFUND Fellow Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Canada Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of 26 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS JOANNA KALUCKA AIAS COFUND Fellow Assistant Professor, previously VIB/KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium Area of research: Biomedicine, Cell biology Project title: Endothelial cell heterogeneity during obesity As a molecular biologist, my FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 27 LAURE GUIRGUIS AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, Institute for Research on the Arab and Muslim World, Aix-Marseilles, France Area of research: Social History, Cultural History, Transnational History Project title: The New Left in the Arab East: Entang 28 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS MARTIN THOMSEN Jens Christian Skou Fellow Associate Professor, Dept. of Clinical Medicine and Dept. Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark Area of research: Medical Sciences Project title: In vivo cancer models based on CRISPR/Cas9 The focus of my research FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 29 NIELS CHR. HANSEN AIAS COFUND Fellow Assistant Professor, previously MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Australia Area of research: Psychology, Empirical Musicology, Cognitive Neuroscience Project title: Why humans make music: uncovering missing li 30 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS PETER DALSGAARD Jens Christian Skou Fellow Professor, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark Area of Research: Interaction design Project title: Digital Idea Archives in Creative Work Creative processes revolve around fostering, syn FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 31 RENEE VAN DER SLUIS AIAS COFUND Fellow Assistant Professor, previously the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Australia Area of research: HIV, dendritic cells, immunomodulation, therapeutic vaccine Project title: Evaluating 32 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS SÂMIA JOCA AIAS COFUND Fellow Associate Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Brazil Area of research: Behavioral pharmacology Project title: Investigation on the rapid and sustained antidepressant-like eff FELLOWS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 33 TIJEN TUNALI AIAS COFUND Fellow Postdoc, previously Le Studium/ Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tours, France Area of research: Visual Sociology and Cultural Criticism Project title: Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neolibera FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES 36 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTER PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL ARTICLES Sâmia Joca is author of the book chapter Cannabidiol in mental health disorders in: Cannabis as Medicine by Wedman-St Louis, B FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Sâmia Joca is co-author of the article Reduced P2X receptor levels are associated with antidepressant effect in the learned helplessness model in: PeerJ, 21 October 2019. Jennifer M. Galloway is co-author of the article Widespread drying of European peatlands in FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Photo: Welcome Lunch in the AIAS Hall, October 2019. By: Ida Marie Jensen. Frants H. Jensen is co-author of the article Whistling is metabolically cheap for communicating bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in: Journal of Experimental Biology, 6 January 2020 FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Joanna Kalucka is co-author of the article Single-Cell Transcriptome Atlas of Murine Endothelial Cells in: Cell, 20 February 2020. Lisa M. Wu is co-author of the article Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Bright Light Intervention in Ovarian and Endometria 40 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Joanna Kalucka is co-author of the article Role of the GLUT1 Glucose Transporter in Postnatal CNS Angiogenesis and Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity in: Circulation Research, 14 May 2020. Anna Neuheimer is co-author of the article E FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Sandra Eckert gave the talk Regulation in Europe. A political science perspective at the conference Regulation in Germany, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany, 1 October 2019. AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 41 Laure Guirguis gave the talk Excavatin 42 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 Kei Hiruta gave the invited talk The Legacy of 1956: Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin on the Hungarian Revolution in the Research Unit for the History of Political and Economic Ideas, the Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, Aarhus University, 26 Februa FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 43 Photo: AIAS Fellow Michael Voldsgaard giving the 5-minute talk at Monday Lunch, October 2019. By: Ida Marie Jensen. Rasmus O. Bak has received a research grant of DKK 1,700,000 from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project Gen 44 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 Fredrik Christiansen gave an interview to the newspaper The Daily Mail about his research on the right whale body mass for the article Wild whales can now be weighed with DRONE footage: Scientists use flying cameras to measure the ocean giants to study their health FELLOWS PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 45 Fredrik Christiansen gave an interview on his global right whale study to The National Geographic for the article These endangered whales are disturbingly thinwhy that matters on: nationalgeographic.com, 20 May 2020. Christos Ts EVENTS AT AIAS Explore a selection of the events organized by the AIAS Fellows and by Aarhus University faculty or external collaborators in the year of 2019-2020. As a meeting place and ground for discussion between and across disciplines, AIAS is always open to academic events organized by Aarhus University facu Photo: Farewell Reception for former AIAS Director Morten Kyndrup, September 2019. By: Ida Marie Jensen. EVENTS AT AIAS AIAS Fellows Seminar: Cancer models: In vivo cancer models based on CRISPR/ Cas9 by AIAS Fellow Martin Thomsen, 9 September 2019. UIC Event: University International Club event: o EVENTS AT AIAS AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 49 AIAS FACILITIES OPEN TO ALL AIAS is a unique place with excellent facilities to host conferences, symposia and other academic events. It is a meeting place for researchers from diverse disciplines, and is open to all institutes, departments and centr Photo: Talk in the lecture theatre at NoRCS19, The Nordic Remote Sensing Conference, in September 2019. By: Ida Marie Jensen. Conference: ROPH20: Research on Online Political Hostility. International two-day conference with roundtables, presentations and posters. Organized by AIAS Former Fellow, Pr Photo: NoRCS19, The Nordic Remote Sensing Conference and poster presentations in the Hall, September 2019. By: Ida Marie Jensen. AIAS Former Fellow talk at the IMC: Using behavioural science to promote sustainability by AIAS Former Fellow Jessica Barker, The Behavioural Insights Team, UK. Organized ORGANISATION, STAFF AND FUNDING 54 AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 ORGANISATION, STAFF AND FUNDING ORGANISATION, STAFF AND FUNDING BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADVISORY BOARD Jørgen Frøkiær Professor, Head of Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Chair Bertil Andersson Professor, Nanyang Technological Uni ORGANISATION, STAFF AND FUNDING AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 SELECTION BOARD STAFF Heide Schulz-Vogt Professor. Dr., Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany Søren Rud Keiding Acting Director of AIAS, Professor, keiding@aias.au.dk Li Bennich-Björkman Professor, Uppsala Universitet, S 56 Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies Aarhus University Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark PHONE: +45 8715 3692 E-MAIL: info@aias.au.dk TWITTER: @AIAS_dk WEB: aias.au.dk AIAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020