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Mads Clausen Institute - Innovation across borders

Mads Clausen Institute - Innovation across borders

漏 Fotojournalist Nils Lund Pedersen

Excellence in research and teaching within nanotechnology, photonics and materials science.

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About the institute

MCI focuses on key societal challenges of the 21 century such as climate, health and innovation. With our centres in Odense and S酶nderborg we cover competences within nanotechnology, photonics, mathematics and materials science, and we have a very strong cooperation with the surrounding industry.

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Research and education

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News

DKK 13 million for SDU researcher

18.12.2025

AI to make quantum physics more accessible and sustainable

Line Jelver, a newly appointed assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), has received DKK 13.3 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. By integrating advanced language models with supercomputers, she aims not only to accelerate the development of materials with tailor-made quantum mechanical properties but also to address the research world鈥檚 enormous energy consumption.

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22.10.2025

Microalgae and artificial intelligence come to the rescue of the Baltic Sea

Using microalgae as living sensors, an ambitious Danish-German research project aims to build a digital twin of the Baltic Sea 鈥� and give politicians and citizens a democratic tool to test which solutions work against oxygen depletion and algal blooms.

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14.08.2025

Spider silk could replace elastane: Danish research spins greener threads

Researchers 麻豆社区 will soon print a small piece of high-tech, plastic-free future. They are aiming to replace elastane with artificial spider silk. This could mean saying goodbye to microplastics from our sportswear and underwear.

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05.08.2025

From lab bench to living skin: SDU researchers pave the way for the artificial skin of the future

Two engineers from the Faculty of Engineering have solved a crucial challenge in developing artificial skin鈥攖he result: a new microchip capable of growing human skin 鈥� and perhaps one day saving lives.

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Sapere Aude 2025

24.06.2025

SDU researchers receive prestigious Sapere Aude grants

Four excellent researchers from SDU have been awarded DKK 6 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark for groundbreaking research in quantum technology, solar cells, heart disease and the deep sea. Read more about their projects.

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Award

23.05.2025

Prestigious European price for Danish innovation programme

Europe needs to invest more in research and innovation to cope with global competition. Spin-outs Denmark is already underway and supports young researchers in translating their research into solutions that benefit society. The programme - run by the eight Danish universities - has been awarded the ASTP Impact Awards.

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28.03.2025

Light can detect cancer in seconds 鈥� SDU researchers behind new technology

The future of cancer diagnosis could become faster and more precise thanks to a research team led by the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), which uses invisible light and artificial intelligence to detect diseases before symptoms appear.

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27.03.2025

Dr Elli Stamatopoulou receives international award for outstanding PhD research

Dr Elli Stamatopoulou, a former PhD student at the Mads Clausen Institute, has been awarded the prestigious Gian Paolo Brivio Award for her outstanding research in the physics and chemistry of advanced materials.

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20.03.2025

Danish researchers help set world record: Transparent solar cells could turn future buildings into power plants

An international research project involving the University of Southern Denmark has developed transparent solar cells with record-breaking efficiency. These new windows allow light to pass through while simultaneously generating electricity鈥攁 technology that could transform buildings in cities worldwide.

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Grant

24.01.2025

Young physicist receives prestigious grant and returns to SDU

How do light and matter behave at the nanoscale? This is one of the key questions physicist P. Andr茅 D. Gon莽alves will investigate as he returns to the Faculty of Engineering 麻豆社区, supported by a Villum Young Investigator grant of 9 million DKK.

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Grants

17.12.2024

DKK 88 million for researchers 麻豆社区

As many as 28 SDU researchers have just received Carlsberg grants to create ground-breaking research results within their respective fields.

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16.12.2024

Newly hired SDU Professor with a passion for developing advanced materials for the generation of solar fuels

Professor Mirabbos Hojamberdiev (Khujamberdiev) has been appointed at the Mads Clausen Institute 麻豆社区 in S酶nderborg. He researches how sunlight can transform water into green fuel鈥攚ithout any CO鈧� burden鈥� in the presence of photocatalytic materials.

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Funding

05.11.2024

Panagiota Elli Stamatopoulou receives a grant from the Villum Foundation

Villum Foundation awards over 16 million DKK to seven excellent female researchers in technical and natural sciences. One of them is Panagiota Elli Stamatopoulou.

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FUNDING

26.09.2024

From scented mobiles to optical gears: Three MCI researchers receive million-krone grants

With million-kroner grants from the Villum Foundation, three researchers from the Mads Clausen Institute will challenge the boundaries of science with projects on scent transmission via mobile phones, affordable, flexible solar cells, and optical gears in future computers.

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Funding

26.09.2024

The phone of the future can send scents

The TeleScent project 麻豆社区 has just received a grant from the Villum Foundation's Experiment programme. The researchers aim to add the sense of smell to our digital communication so that future phone calls will involve sound, video, and scent.

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Research breakthrough

03.09.2024

Research breakthrough in the development of stretchable flat screens

A collaboration between the University of Southern Denmark and Polyteknik AS has led to a groundbreaking breakthrough in stretchable flat screens. The new method opens up various innovative product possibilities, such as more durable and flexible screens for smartphones and tablets that can withstand bending and stretching.

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25.04.2024

META-HiLight recognized at SPIE Photonics Europe

The META-HiLight project, a pioneering collaboration between the University of Southern Denmark, SINTEF, and the University of Oulu, has been awarded 2nd place for "Best Innovation by a Multilateral Project, Organisation, or Company" at the 20th anniversary of SPIE Photonics Europe held in Strasbourg. The project aims to develop a faster, more detailed analysis of tissue samples, which is crucial for the early detection and treatment of diseases such as cancer.

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Career

04.04.2024

From physics to finance 鈥� quantum physicists are in demand in the financial sector

Theis Pilegaard Rasmussen has just defended his Ph.D. in quantum physics, but will not continue his academic career. Instead, he has taken a job at Danske Bank. But why are physicists attractive to the financial sector, and what can they contribute?

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21.03.2024

SDU MCI at the forefront of NANOCHEM - a unique national infrastructure for imaging chemical information at the nanoscale

The Mads Clausen Institute 麻豆社区 in S酶nderborg is spearheading NANOCHEM, a new national infrastructure that enables a greater understanding of how chemistry works at the nanoscale. Understanding these chemical processes is important as they are crucial in both the biological and electronic worlds. NANOCHEM is a collaboration between leading Danish universities with the University of Southern Denmark at the centre.

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STARTUP

15.03.2024

New indoor solar cell technology could lay AA batteries to rest

Researchers 麻豆社区 have developed solar cell technology that will make AA, AAA, and button cell batteries redundant. The prototype is ready, and the researchers aim to produce 5,000 units daily within a year. They are now seeking entrepreneurs who can help bring it to market.

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What's next?

Upcoming events and current announcements
Seminar

29 April

Join the seminar by Xinwei Wang from Imperial College London, which takes place at 14:00 in room M301 and online via Teams. The topic of her talk is Semiconductor Defect Physics for Energy Materials: From First Principles to Machine Learning. Read the abstract for further details.
Abstract

100% Climate Neutrality 2026 Conference 28-29 September

The international climate conference 100% Climate Neutrality will take place on 28鈥�29 September at Alsion in S酶nderborg. The conference offers an opportunity to learn from the climate forefront about political challenges, best practice integrated technical solutions and what really makes a difference at local municipal and community level. Meet, share and discuss your knowledge, improve your understanding, extend your network and become inspired to make climate neutrality a reality. Read more about the conference.

Planetarium talks

Planetarium talks is a lecture series beyond astronomy that is arranged in cooperation with the science centre Ph盲nomenta in Flensburg and the University of Applied Sciences Flensburg. Discover the Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026 programme.

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Mads Clausen Institute University of Southern Denmark

  • Alsion 2
  • Sønderborg - DK-6400
  • Phone: +45 6550 1690
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Last Updated 30.03.2026