New deputy head of research at the Department of Computer Science
Professor Lars Birkedal is from mid October new Deputy Head of Research at the Department of Computer Science.
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Lars Birkedal came to the University of Aarhus from the IT-University in January 2013 to start up a new research group in "Logicstics and semantics". At the IT- University, he was for several years part of the department management as section leader and was responsible for one of four smaller institutions.
- With this position I can help to keep focus on and enhance research efforts in Computer Science, Lars Birkedal says.