Academic Council

(Updated 4 July 2024)

Each faculty at the University of Copenhagen has its own academic council.
The Academic Council advises the dean on the internal distribution of grants and on research, education and plans for knowledge exchange. It also makes recommendations to assessment committees and confers PhDs, doctorates and prizes.

The dean chairs the Academic Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences. In addition to the dean, the Council has five members drawn from academic staff – representing the faculty’s academic sub-division into five departments – and three students. Three members of the technical and administrative staff attend as observers.

Members of the council

Dean Vibeke Koushede
E-mail: dekan@samf.ku.dk

Associate dean Sara Hagemann
E-mail: prodekan-uddannelse@samf.ku.dk

Academic staff members

Professor Randi Starrfelt (chair person)
Department of Psychology
E-mail: randi.starrfelt@psy.ku.dk

Associate professor Cecilie Rubow
Department of Anthropology
E-mail: cecilie.rubow@anthro.ku.dk

Professor Martin Marcussen
Department of Political Science
E-mail: mm@ifs.ku.dk

Professor Christian Borch
Department of Sociology
E-mail: chb@soc.ku.dk 

Professor Claus Thustrup Kreiner 
Department of Economics
E-mail: ctk@econ.ku.dk

Student members

Student members also have a chair in the student dialogue forum

List S – 'SAMF-Rådet'

Peter Witfelt Larsen
qvf507@ifs.ku.dk

Sofie Kay Hulgaard
czk598@alumni.ku.dk

List A – 'Frit forum'

Asta Mathilde Mølstrøm
pxj551@alumni.ku.dk

Representative for PhD scholars, scientific assistants and postdocs.

Marilena Hohmann  
marilena.hohmann@sodas.ku.dk  

Observers (administrative staff)

Torsten Andreasen 
Pre-award, Department of Polical Science
E-mail: torstenand@ifs.ku.dk 

Pernille Bang
Department of Economics
E-mail: Pernille.Bang@econ.ku.dk

Andreas Egelund Christensen
Department of Anthropology 
E-mail: aec@ign.ku.dk

Alternates for academic staff members

Department of Anthropology: None
Department of Political Science: Henrik Larsen
Department of Sociology: Mathias Wullum Nielsen
Department of Economics: Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen
Department of Psychology: Anders Petersen

Alternates for student members

Alternates list S - 'SAMF-rådet'

1. Emma Ramgil Christensen
2. Sørine Meusling Gadegaard
3. Natasja Liv Peterson Porst

Alternates list A – 'Frit forum'

  1. Laura Shkoza
  2. Kasper Dlugatch Stisen
  3. Solveig Katarina Røndal-Liniger
  4. Thomas Holst Padkjær

Alternates for Observers (administrative staff)

None

Contact

Senior consultant
Signe Bjerre Nørskov
Faculty Administration
E-mail: sij@samf.ku.dk