With such different research areas as gender differences in the effect of antidepressant medicines, children’s bedwetting and metabolic MRI scans of the brain, this year’s finalists in the Fogh-Nielsen competition had a very wide range.

Three specially selected research talents competed in the traditional researcher battle at the Health Science faculty’s annual PhD Day. Each candidate had ten minutes in which to present their research in front of a packed lecture theatre, after which a panel of judges decided how to allocate the total grant of DKK 125,000.

Cecilie Siggard Jørgensen of the Department of Clinical Medicine received the honour and the main Fogh-Nielsen prize of DKK 75,000. She delivered an impressive, precise and vivid presentation of her research into the causes and treatment of bedwetting in children.

PhD student Shokouh Arjmand took joint second place with Nikolaj Hvidt, both of whom received DKK 25,000. Both PhD students are also from the Department of Clinical Medicine and conduct research into the effects of antidepressant treatment and MRI scans of the brain, respectively.

Here you can watch videos of the three research talents and see them present their research projects in just over one minute each.

The scholarship must be used for research purposes, and is intended to support projects involving new studies that build upon research results achieved during the PhD degree programme.

Contact

PhD student Cecilie Siggaard Jørgensen
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine
E-mail: cecilie.siggaard@clin.au.dk

PhD student Nikolaj Hvidt bøgh
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine
E-mail: nikolaj.boegh@clin.au.dk

PhD student Shokouh Arjmand
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine
E-mail: shokouh@clin.au.dk