On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Brewer J.C. Jacobsen in 2011, the Carlsberg Foundation established two Research Prizes – one is presented to a scientist within the natural sciences, and one is awarded to a scientist within the humanities or social sciences. The prizes are awarded once a year, and each prize is worth 1 million Danish Kroner. The prize is divided between further research work (750.000,-) and a personal award (250.000,-).

The two prizes are awarded to active scientists who have contributed considerably to basic research and are widely recognized in the scientific environment.

The prizes will be presented by Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary at a ceremony at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen on Wednesday 31 August, 2022.

Nominators and nominees

• Candidates must be active scientists of any nationality employed in a Danish research institution or Danish scientists living and working abroad
• Research institutions in Denmark and scholars in Denmark and abroad may nominate a candidate
• Candidates who have been nominated on earlier occasions may be nominated again
• Self-nominations are not accepted
• Neither nominator nor nominee needs to be a member of the Royal Danish Academy or to be a Carlsberg Foundation grant holder

Award criteria 

The outstanding candidates have/must be:

• Demonstrated outstanding impact and sustained performance in research over many years
• Transformed, changed, moved, or challenged disciplines
• Contributed to science by rethinking or changing data, theories and/or methods
• A role model for younger scholars

The recipients of the prizes are selected by an international prize committee set up by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Carlsberg Foundation.

Please fill in the form (CLICK HERE) and attach one full PDF with 1) a motivation for the nomination (3 pages maximum) and 2) a CV, preferably including a list of publications, in the order mentioned. The nomination must be in English.

All nominations must have been submitted by Thursday 10 March 2022 at 12.00 noon.

For further information, please contact Birgit Olsen on bo@videnskabernesselskab.dk.