By David Graff, AAU Communication and Public Affairs. Photo: Kristoffer Juel Poulsen

Throughout its more than 280-year history, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters has had members such as H.C. Ørsted, Niels Bohr and August Krogh. As of this year, Professor Mads Albertsen will be counted among them.

As much bacteria as we are human

As a member, you become part of a society that works actively to strengthen the position of science and interdisciplinary understanding in Denmark. The society is a meeting place for researchers from all areas of basic scientific research.

"I hope to broaden my scientific horizon and be inspired by other branches of science. Both professionally, but also how to lead large scientific projects and missions. I also want to help communicate science and influence our society in a direction that sees basic science as creating value for us all,” says Professor Mads Albertsen.

Mads Albertsen's contribution to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters will be about DNA analysis, specifically in relation to bacteria:

Mads Albertsen is the only AAU researcher to be elected as a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters this year.

Read about the Ministry of Higher Education and Science's Elite Research Prize and Queen Margrethe II's Science Prize, which Mads Albertsen received earlier this year.