In her PhD thesis, Evelyne Beatrix Cleff studies the market for SMS advertising to find out how adequately European and American users are protected against SMS spam. She puts forward a number of proposals for improving legislation by combining self-regulation, legislation and technological options.

Dr Cleff was subsequently appointed postdoctoral scholar in company law at the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University.

As a result of his research into the clotting ability of blood, Christian Fenger-Eriksen’s PhD thesis demonstrates that the fluid replacement therapy often used for massively bleeding patients actually inhibits the coagulation of blood. His thesis also demonstrates that adding the plasma protein fibrinogen to fluid therapy can improve the blood’s ability to coagulate and thereby reduce the risk for the patient.

Dr Fenger-Eriksen was subsequently appointed to a position of specialist training in anaesthesia at the Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus Hospital.

With his PhD thesis, Søren Bertelsen enters a very competitive field, namely medical chemistry. Here he creates molecules that cause chemical reactions to proceed better and with fewer impurities, and as far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, this makes it possible to produce medicine with fewer side effects. During the course of his research project, Dr Bertelsen created more than 100 molecules that have never been seen before.

He was subsequently appointed postdoctoral scholar at the Centre for Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University.

Carsten Jensen’s PhD thesis focuses on services in the Danish welfare state, and studies the impact of a government’s political party ideology on developing these services. His thesis qualifies the received understanding of the Social Democratic Party as the staunchest supporter of the welfare state, and examines how right-wing governments have also introduced welfare services.

Dr Jensen was subsequently appointed assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

Uffe Schjødt works with neurological studies of religion, and has carried out brain scans of religious believers in connection with his PhD thesis. His results show that when they pray to God, Christians activate areas in their brains that can normally only be activated when people communicate with other people.

Dr Schjødt was subsequently appointed postdoctoral scholar at the Section for the Study of Religion, Aarhus University.

Laura Winther Balling is a psycholinguist. In her PhD thesis, she studies what happens when adults who are native speakers of Danish recognise words. She employs experimental methodologies that have not previously been used in Danish, and her results have applications in areas such as reading skills acquisition, foreign language acquisition, dyslexia and translation.

Dr Balling was subsequently appointed assistant professor at the Copenhagen Business School.