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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 II (August 2024 – December 2026)
Kåre Lehmann Nielsen (Chair)
Professor
Aalborg University, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience
Anna Korhonen
Professor
Cambridge University, UK, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Melih Kandemir
Associate Professor
University of Southern Denmark
Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri
Professor
University College London, UK, Institute for Global Health
Arno Solin
Assistant Professor
Aalto University, Finland
Tugce Karaderi
Assistant Professor / Group Lead
University of Copenhagen
Bissan Ghaddar
Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Barbara Plank
Professor
LMU Munich, Germany
Sebastian Weichwald
Assistant Professor
University of Copenhagen, MATH Department, Copenhagen Causality Lab
Louis Leiva
Assistant Professor and Senior Research Scientist
University of Luxemborg, Luxemborg
Ioannis Caragiannis
Professor
Aarhus University
Emilio Carrizosa
Full Professor
University of Seville, Spain
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.
DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee I (2021-July 2024)
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Kåre Lehman Nielsen (Chair) Professor Aalborg University, the department of Chemistry and Bioscience |
Anna Korhonen Professor at the institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Cambridge University, UK, Department of Computer Science and Technology |
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Barbara Plank Professor of Natural Language processing and Head of Data Science Study Programme IT University of Copenhagen |
Arno Solin Assistant professor Aalto University, Findland, the Department of Computer Science |
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Jakob Skou Pedersen Professor at Bioinformatics Research Centre and the Department of Molecular Medicine Aarhus University, Skejby Hospital |
Aurélien Garivier Professor Ècole Normale Supérieure de lyon, France, Départment de Mathématiques |
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Jes Frellsen Associate Professor Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science |
Louis Leiva Associate Professor University of luxemborg, Department of Computer Science |
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Peter Schneider-Kamp professor University of Southern Denmark, Department og Mathematics and Computer Science |
Matteo Magnani Professor Uppsala University, Sweden, Department of Information Technology |
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Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri Professor University College London, UK, the institute for Global helath |
Dolores Romero Morales Professor Copenhagen Business School, the Department of Economics |