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Fellowship Evaluation Committee
The DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee evaluates and nominates the candidates for the DDSA PhD and Postdoc Fellowships. Comprising a national chair, 5 national members and 6 international members, the Committee ensures that the diverse areas and sub-disciplines of data science are adequately represented. The members have data science as a core element of their research and have supervisor experience.
DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee I (2021-July 2024)
Aalborg University
Kåre Lehmann Nielsen (Chair)
Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience
Cambridge University, UK
Anna Korhonen
Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the Department of Computer Science and Technology
IT University of Copenhagen
Barbara Plank
Professor of Natural Language Processing and Head of Data Science Study Programme
University College London, UK
Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri
Professor at the Institute for Global Health
Copenhagen Business School
Dolores Romero Morales
Professor at the Department of Economics
Aalto University, Finland
Arno Solin
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University, Skejby Hospital
Jakob Skou Pedersen
Professor at Bioinformatics Research Centre, AU, and the Department of Molecular Medicine, Skejby Hospital
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Aurélien Garivier
Professor at Département de Mathématiques
Technical University of Denmark
Jes Frellsen
Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Luxembourg
Luis Leiva
Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science
University of Southern Denmark
Peter Schneider-Kamp
Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Uppsala University, Sweden
Matteo Magnani
Professor at Department of Information Technology
DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee II (August 2024 – December 2026)
Aalborg University
Kåre Lehmann Nielsen (Chair)
Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience
Cambridge University, UK
Anna Korhonen
Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the Department of Computer Science and Technology
University of Southern Denmark
Melih Kandemir
Associate Professor
University College London, UK
Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri
Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Bissan Ghaddar
Professor
LMU Munich, Germany
Barbara Plank
Professor
University of Copenhagen
Sebastian Weichwald
Assistant Professor at MATH Department, Copenhagen Causality Lab
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Luis Leiva
Assistant Professor and Senior Research Scientist
Aarhus University
Ioannis Caragiannis
Professor
University of Seville, Spain
Emilio Carrizosa
Full Professor
University of Copenhagen
Tugce Karaderi
Assistant Professor / Group Lead
Aalto University, Finland
Arno Solin
Assistant Professor
About the DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee
The DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee evaluates both methodological and applied data science applications aligning with the DDSA research scope. The Committee also provides feedback and input on the evaluation process to the DDSA Board of Directors.
The Committee is comprised of a national chair, 5 national members and 6 international members ensuring that the diverse areas and sub-disciplines of data science are adequately represented. National members are defined as being employed in Denmark. The international members also serve to mitigate any local biases in the assessment of the applications.
Applications for the DDSA PhD and Postdoc Fellowships are invited on a yearly basis via open competition calls. The main evaluation activities for the Committee take place from March to June. Some of the main activities for the members are:
Individual activities:
- Screening PhD and Postdoc applications to express interest to review or declare conflict of interest
- Individual review of applications (each application is scored by up to four committee members) over a period of approx. 3 weeks
Meetings:
- Virtual kick-off meeting
- Physical meeting in Denmark spanning 2-3 days, selecting 20 PhD candidates and 12 Postdoc candidates for interviews
- International members only: Virtual meetings spanning 2-3 days interviewing candidates and nominating the final 10 PhD and 6 Postdoc candidates for Fellowship awarding
- Virtual meeting: FEC evaluation meeting
A Committee member can still apply for DDSA grants.
The Committee works in accordance with DDSA Conflicts of Interest.
Honorarium
DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee members will receive a fixed yearly honorarium for their commitment to the fellowship evaluation process according to the table below:
FEC Honorarium (DKK) |
2025 |
2026 |
Chair |
50.000 |
45.000 |
International Member |
40.000 |
35.000 |
National Member |
30.000 |
25.000 |
There will be an open call for applications for 6 Postdoc and 10 PhD Fellowships in 2025 and an open call for applications for 10 PhD Fellowships in 2026.