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WildCRU Research Fellow Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen honoured at Science Festival in Denmark
Celebrating the upcoming Nobel Prize announcements of 2023, Politiken, the largest national newspaper in Denmark, has arranged a Science Festival in Copenhagen taking place on the 23rd of September.
Four academics have been invited to communicate their research at this event, representing the elite of Danish research, two highly esteemed professors and two early career researchers identified as “shooting stars” who the newspaper anticipates will one day sparkle most brightly in the firmament of the scientific future, and they have nominated Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen, Research Fellow at the WildCRU, in the University of Oxford’s Department of Biology.
WildCRU is very proud that Sophie’s dedication to conservation and her inspired research – which spans a dazzling diversity of topics from hedgehog ecology to ancient DNA – has been acknowledged in this way by the Danish scientific community.
The two distinguished professors being lauded at this memorable event are Morten Meldal, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” and Jens Juul Holst, who has recently been named a potential Nobel Prize laurate due to his discovery of the hormone GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1), which eventually led to the invention of the drug Wegovy.
The two “shooting stars”, early career researchers selected by the newspaper as potential candidates to receive the life-changing phone call from the Nobel Prize committee at some point in their career are astrophysicist Albert Sneppen, who has been named the Mozart of physics and WildCRU’s Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen, who has achieved publication in high profile journals such as Science and Nature within a few years of receiving her PhD on hedgehog ecology and conservation. More than 1,200 international media features have covered her research in 2023 alone!
