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Aarhus Universitet

Geoscience newsletter

No. 1/2021 - January 2021

Calendar

  • Welcome to 2021

Corona/covid-19

Manual settlements are being phased out

Manual travel settlements will be phased out during the first quarter of 2021.

This will have an impact on e.g. partners, assessors and lecturers at Summer University.

Settlements for persons who are not employed at AU and do NOT have a Danish CPR number must already be made via an electronic form.

Link to electronic travel settlement form (in Danish)
(login using 2-step authentication)

Settlements for persons with a Danish CPR number who are not employed by AU must use a digital solution that is implemented in RejsUd in the first quarter of 2021.

Link to more information on phasing out manual travel settlements (in Danish)

This will also mean that students who have expenses in connection with field trips, canteen operations, etc. can no longer get money refunded by handing over receipts to the secretariat.
All expenses in connection with teaching to be held by AU must therefore be paid for using an AU credit card or via EAN invoice.

awards and appointments

Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz

Following a recommendation from Aarhus University Professor Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz has been reappointed by the Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities to GEUS' Board of Directors for the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024.

Research and publications

Andrew Murray & Mads Faurschou Knudsen

Professor Andrew Murray and associate professor Mads Faurschou Knudsen, together with colleagues from DTU and the universities of Oslo, Uppsala, Moscow, Novosibirsk and Dushanbe (Tajikistan), have received NOK 15 million to study the first presence of both prehistoric and anatomically modern humans in Central Asia.

Link to description of the project

Anders Damsgaard

Postdoc Anders Damsgaard has in collaboration with Liran Goren, University of the Negev (Israel), and Jenny Suckale, Stanford University (California, USA) published a new article on sediments under the ice in Communications Earth & Environment.

Link to news and article

Mads Faurschou Knudsen

Mads Faurschou Knudsen has published a news & views article in the journal Nature Geoscience, which discusses how carbon-14 can be used to determine the Sun's activity over the last 1000 years.

Link to news and article

Christoffer Karoff

On 12 January 2021, Lector Christoffer Karoff participated in the radio program Kraniebrud on Radio4 on the topic of satellites, which eventually end up as waste material in space.

Link to news

Link to radioprogram (in Danish)

Vivi Pedersen & Mads Faurschou Knudsen

On 7 January 2021, assistant professor Vivi Kathrine Pedersen and associate professor Mads Faurschou Knudsen participated in the radio program Kraniebrud on Radio4 for a talk about melting ice.

Link to news

Link to radio program (in Danish)

Changes in the HR phd specialist team

Helle Karvonen has changed her name to Helle Mitzi Thomsen Reichl. Her email is still hk@au.dk.

Liselotte Heller has taken over Camilla Mikkelsen's position. She can be reached at heller@au.dk.

Helle and Liselotte must be contacted in connection with PhD students' sick leave and maternity leave.

Find CWT on the staff portal

It is now possible to log in to CWT's new booking portal via GEO's staff portal.

Link to the travel page on the staff portal

The partner office has moved to 1672-123

The partner office has been relocated to 1672-123.

Communication employee Ann Eg Mølhave will also be in 1672-123.

Replacing access card

Information about the plans for replacing access cards will be available in the next newsletter.

New employees

On 11 January, Karin Mehl Pedersen started in the secretariat in a 4-week internship and subsequently acts as a communication and education employee when Kathrine Eg Lindgaard goes on maternity leave.

Karin has previously worked with development, communication and marketing in the tourism industry.

Office hours / ST and AU partners

 

Partners with office hours, room 1672-123:

  • Dan Guldborg, IT support | aarhus.st.it@au.dk | 9350 8294 
    Monday 9-12
  • Mette Møller Larsen, controller, Finance | mmla@au.dk | 6057 1105
    Wednesday 8.30-15.30 
  • Jakob Steen Olesen, Project Finance Administrator, Finance | jakob.steen.olesen@au.dk | 9352 1027
    Wednesday 8-15 and Friday 8-14
  • Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen (Stine), AU Research Support and External Relations - Research Support Office (FSE) | aclk@au.dk | 9352 2209
    Thursday
  • Tina Stenshøj Kaysen, PhD partner, PhD-administration | rjl@au.dk | 9352 2310
     

Other partners:

  • Henriette Withen Hansen, AU Research Support and External Relations - Technology Transfer Office (TTO) | hwh@au.dk | 4189 3290
  • Torkil Bukkehave Hansen, AU Research Support and External Relations - Technology Transfer Office (TTO) | tbh@au.dk | 9352 1166
  • Maiken Dazelle Nielsen, studies/ courses & exams | maiken@au.dk 
  • Morten Hjorth Gad, AU Library | mhga@kb.dk
  • HR-related questions should be adressed to Nat Tech HR Team 1 | HR.ST.team1@au.dk
  • Questions regarding absence due to sickness, maternity leave or jobs on special terms should be sent to Nat Tech HR Specialist team | HR.ST.team.specialist.dk

 

Thomas Ulrich's office hours for students:
Tuesday 12-14 and Thursday 16-17


The above information is also available at: geo.medarbejdere.au.dk/en/

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