Research of the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center is at the interface between life sciences and chemical sciences to develop new fundamental understandings and early technology platforms for capturing and converting CO2 for storage and utilisation.
Supported by extensive systems analyses, the center focuses in early research phases on the scalability of technology solutions via extensive conversations with relevant industrial partners and policy makers. Research activities also include basic collaborative research with companies on specific research aspects.
The research center is distinctive in its cross-disciplinary approach by combining and integrating the best of life and of chemical sciences, supported by systems modeling. Thus, the CO2 research center will also be a leader in educating and training the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers tackling the big societal problems that cannot be solved by a single discipline.
Organized in a hub and satellite structure, CORC has also excellent test facilities at Aarhus University’s Foulum site to develop and conduct pilot-scale technology demonstrations.
The major research approaches that integrate life and chemical sciences include, but are not limited to:
These core elements of the center’s chemical and life sciences are complemented by a strong systems analyses. Moreover, various teams of interdisciplinary center researchers have formed around diverse subtopics of CO2 capture and conversion, combining uniquely the above expertise.