Ditte Demontis is a new professor of psychiatric genetics at the Department of Biomedicine, where she works to identify genetic risk factors for childhood externalizing psychiatric disorders.

Despite the fact that the faculties have quite enough to do with dealing with inflation, energy crises and declining year groups – not to mention a plethora of political initiatives – it must not be at the expense of the work and study environment, emphasises Dean of Health Anne-Mette Hvas in her column in Omnibus.

Armed with a postdoc grant, Kristian Juul-Madsen travelled to Berlin to study the brain’s immune cells and Alzheimer’s disease. But he does not believe that spending a year abroad should be decisive for a career as a researcher.