Strategic projects/platforms

To strengthen and develop basic research the faculty has introduced several interdisciplinary so-called research platformswhere research collaborations that reach across University, Department and subject boundaries are developed.

The programme includes strategic efforts to stimulate research across Department borders within ten areas:

• Ecotoxicology − environmental toxins and their effects on the environment
• Integrative physiology − how climate change affects the aquatic environment
• Chemical biology − processes and functions inside cells
• Quantitative biology − how the control system of a cell can be linked to diseases
• Marine chemical ecology − how natural substances are utilised in the interaction between animals and plants
• Mathematics/physics − mathematical structures behind physical phenomena
• Molecular skin research − how drugs, chemicals, particles and radiation affect the skin
• Nanoparticles in interactive environments − nanotechnology's properties, applications and risks
• The Tellus platform − our planet as a system including processes in oceans, in the atmosphere and on land, as well as how these processes relate to the climate and the environment
• Theoretical biology − evolutionary issues from a theoretical mathematical perspective