

Overview
Welcome! The JSPS Alumni Club in Denmark (ACD) was established in 2015 by the initiative of former JSPS fellows, with the support of the JSPS Stockholm Office. The ACD organizes symposia on various themes, the Japan Alumni Researcher Assembly, the annual General Assembly and Board Meetings. The ACD also has its own newsletter, which is sent to all members by e-mail. The ACD has since its establishment grown; the first BRIDGE fellow was awarded in 2016, and the first activity seminar was organized in 2017 on the theme “Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art in Japan and Denmark”.
ACD Activity Plan FY2020 | |
2020 | |
April | ・Announcement of the decision on BRIDGE Fellowship FY2020 |
May | |
June | |
July | ・Jul. 6: Board Meeting |
August | ・Call for ACD Activity Seminar FY2021 (via website and newsletter) (Cancelled due to COVID-19) ・August 17-18: ACD Activity Seminar at University of Copenhagen (Postponed to June 2021) ・Aug. 31: Board Meeting |
September | ・Sept. 9: JSPS Pan Nordic Alumni Club Chair Meeting (zoom) |
October | ・Oct. 5: Board Meeting ・Oct. 31: ACD Activity Seminar FY2021 application deadline (Cancelled due to postponement of ACD Activity Seminar FY2020) |
November | |
December | ・Dec 17: Board Meeting ・Call for BRIDGE Fellowship applications FY2021 (via website and newsletter) (DELAYED) |
2021 | |
January | ・Jan. 29: JARA 2021 |
February | ・Feb. 5: General Assembly (online) |
March |
- Overview of ACD
- Establishment: 2015
- Number of Members: 33
- Chair: Leila Lo Leggio
- Main Activities: ACD Activity Seminar, Japan Alumni Researcher Assembly, General Assembly, Board Meetings, Newsletter
- Rules and Regulations: Stipulated in the Articles of the Club
Upcoming Events
Call for Applications
Newsletter

Leila Lo Leggio
Chair, JSPS Alumni Club in Denmark (ACD)
Message from ACD Board Chair
As new elected chair for 2020, I would like to encourage you to join the JSPS Alumni Club Denmark or, if already a member, participate more actively. JSPS ACD is a club of researchers and scholars at all levels, from students to senior scientists and professors, from humanities to hardcore technical sciences, joined by a common strong interest in collaboration with Japan. May be you already have collaborated with Japanese researchers, been on a study visit in Japan, hosted a guest or student from Japan. Then please join the club and help keeping Danish-Japanese exchanges alive.
The purpose of the JSPS ACD is to promote and facilitate long-lasting scholarly collaboration between Japan and Denmark, with a special focus on the means offered for this purpose by JSPS, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. As the word “Alumni” says, regular members of the club are previous recipients of JSPS grants. Regular members of the ACD are eligible for a number of earmarked scholarships and grants, an extra incentive to join the club, but perhaps more importantly we also regularly advertise seminars and open grants offered by JSPS and send newsletters on a number of activities. Since everyone is welcome to attend the events we organize, we want to encourage anyone with an interest in academic collaborations and exchanges with Japan to apply for associate membership. In this way you will be part of a network, and be kept in the loop of future activities open to everybody. I hope to see you at the next event!
The board members of ACD
Chair:
Leila Lo Leggio

Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry
Field of research: Structure and function of proteins
E-mail: leila@chem.ku.dk
Vice-Chair:
Mollie Brooks

Title: Senior Researcher
Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Field of research: Quantitative population ecology
E-mail: molbr@aqua.dtu.dk
Board member:
Mette Sandbye

Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
Field of research: The history, practice, culture and theory of photography as well as photography in contemporary art.
E-mail: sandbye@hum.ku.dk
Board member:
Maher Abou Hachem

Title: Professor MSO
Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Field of research: Interplay of the gut microbial community with glycans and applications of fungal oxidoreductases in biomass processing and bioremediation
E-mail: maha@bio.dtu.dk
Board member:
Annette Skovsted Hansen
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Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Aarhus University, Global Studies and History
Field of research: Japanese and Global History (Japanese ODA and its global networks as social history, Asian Studies in Africa, Ports and Shipping as Global History, and Japanese lexicography in the 19th and early 20th century)
E-mail: ostash@cas.au.dk
Board member:
Eugen Stamate

Title: Senior Researcher, Group leader
Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DTU NANOLAB
Field of research:
E-mail: eust@dtu.dk