New Prorector: UCPH will be even more innovative, value-creating and internationally leading

On 1 March, the then Prorector for Research and Innovation, David Dreyer Lassen, took over as Rector of the University, leaving his former position vacant. Now his successor has been appointed.

The new Prorector for Research and Innovation at UCPH is an internationally recognised researcher at the highest level. Eva Hoffmann earned her DPhil/PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford in 2002. She worked for more than 10 years in the UK before returning to Denmark to take up a professorship on an NNF Young Investigator Award. Among other things, she has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant and completed a BioInnovation Institute programme. In the past five years alone, she has been senior author on several research articles in Nature and Science, among others.

Eva Hoffmann's research is aimed at understanding how genomes change when we pass them on to our children and how this affects fertility, pregnancy loss and congenital disorders in children.

“Eva has a keen eye for both strategy and how cultural aspects come into play in different contexts. She is a top researcher with a passion for innovation, and throughout her career, she has demonstrated the ability to deliver excellent results by involving and engaging people. Eva will complement the Rectorate and the University Leadership in the best possible way. With Eva as Prorector, we will have even stronger capabilities championing the University's necessary and strategic ambition to be solution-oriented, innovative and the best place for the best ideas,” says Rector David Dreyer Lassen.

Experience of university leadership

Eva Hoffmann has extensive experience in university leadership. Not least from her current position as acting head of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine over the past three years, with 45 group leaders and approximately 300 staff members.

Reporting to the Rector, Eva Hoffmann will chair the University's two core academic management forums, Research Management and Innovation Management. Together with the University Director, she will also have management responsibility for the deputy directors of two group units within the University Administration: UCPH Research and Information Security, and UCPH Innovation and External Partnerships.

“I look forward immensely to taking on the job as Prorector and to bringing my knowledge of Danish and international research and research politics into play. As part of the University Leadership, I will make every effort to make research and innovation at the University of Copenhagen ever more value-creating and internationally leading. At the same time, I will work to ensure it’s embedded in Danish research culture,"  Eva Hoffmann says.

She will take up her position on 1 July. Eva Hoffmann is appointed for a five-year term, running until the end of June 2030, with the possibility of a three-year extension.