From submission to decision

Evaluation process in DARA

Applications eligible for a DARA fellowship are evaluated by at least two international experts within the natural, medical, and technical sciences. Reviewers are appointed based on subject expertise and have no formal institutional affiliation with any Danish research institution. The reviewers are grouped in four fellowship committees, aligned with the scientific streams in the academy. Each committee is led by a chair and vice-chair.
The evaluation process, based on international reviewers, is designed to permeate the DARA selection process with integrity, applying academic rigor and fairness to all evaluations.

The process involves discrete steps as depicted in the figure below:

1. The secretariat screens applications for eligibility and assign applications to reviewers.

2. Reviewers assess and score the assigned applications independently.

3. The top performing applications are selected in agreement with the committee chair and vice-chair for discussion and ranking at a committee consensus meeting.

4. Chairs and vice-chairs of the four committees jointly rank the applications recommended for funding at across-committee consensus meeting.

5. The Board of Directors appoints grantees based on the recommendations from the cross-committee assembly.

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DARA reveiwers

The DARA Fellowship Committees

The committees in DARA are composed of the following international experts

Bioscience & Biomedicine

Chair Timothy Osborne, Professor, John Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (USA)

Vice-chair Professor Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Professor, University Medical Center Göttingen (Germany)

Alex Bateman, Senior Team Leader, EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)

Benjamin Davies, Professor, University of Oxford (UK)

Arnold J. M. Driessen, Professor, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Francesca Finotello, Group Leader, University of Innsbruck (Austria)

James Granneman, Professor, Wayne State University (USA)

Kingston Mills, Professor, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

Michael Sattler, Professor, Technical University of Münich (Germany)

Anne Gjøen Simonsen, Professor, Oslo Univeristy Hospital (Norway)

Ludger Wessjohann, Professor, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Germany)

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Data & Computer Science

Chair Annalisa Buffa, Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

Vice-chair Frank Glorius, Professor, University of Münster (Germany)

Polina Bayvel, Professor, University College London (UK)

Laura Greene, Chief Scientist, National MagLab (USA)

Georg Gübitz, Professor, Boku University (Austria)

Anita Maguire, Professor, University College Cork (Ireland)

Shelley Minteer, Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology (USA)

Yamir Moreno, Professor, University of Zaragoza (Spain)

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Biotechnology

Chair Peter Neubauer, Professor, Technische University Berlin (Germany)

Vice-chair Hal S. Alper, Professor, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Eric Maréchal, Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research (France)

Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis, Professor, University of Delaware (USA)

Christoph Wittmann, Professor, Saarland University (Germany)

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Data & Computer Science

Chair Philip Wadler, Professor, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

Vice-chair Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Professor, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia)

Attila Gürsoy, Professor, Koc University (Turkey)

Anna Korhonen, Professor, University of Cambridge (UK)

John-Jules Meyer, Professor, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

Roberto Navigli, Professor, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Dino Pedreschi, Professor, University of Pisa (Italy)