Academic Council

(Updated 3 March 2025)

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 for Research Mads Meier Jæger
E-mail: mads.jaeger@samf.ku.dk 

Associate Dean for Education Signe Allerup Vangkilde
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

Professor Henrik Vigh
Department of Anthropology
E-mail: hv@anthro.ku.dk 

Associate professor Karina Kosiara-Pedersen
Department of Political Science
E-mail: kp@ifs.ku.dk 

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

Professor Torben Heien Nielsen
Department of Economics
E-mail: thn@econ.ku.dk 

Student members

Student members also have a chair in the student dialogue forum

Emma Johanne Henriksen Due
vsq505@alumni.ku.dk  

Anton Stubbe Teglbjærg
tjm984@alumni.ku.dk  

Asmus Oliver Lewis
vqd580@alumni.ku.dk 

Representative for PhD scholars, scientific assistants and postdocs.

PhD Fellow Frederik Burhøj Jerris
Department of Political Science
E-mail: fbj@ifs.ku.dk  

Alternate for Frederik:
PhD Fellow Anne Heiberg Goor
Department of Sociology
E-mail: ahg@soc.ku.dk 

Observers (administrative staff)

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

Kristina Dünweber
Faculty Administration
E-mail: mkd@samf.ku.dk  

Kirsa Sørensen
Faculty Administration
E-mail: kir@samf.ku.dk 

Alternates for academic staff members

Department of Anthropology: Lars Richard Rasmussen
Department of Political Science: Clara Johan E Vandeweerdt and Peter Dahler-Larsen
Department of Sociology: NN
Department of Economics: Miriam Wüst
Department of Psychology: Karen-Inge Karstoft and Anders Petersen

Alternates for student members

Alternates list S - 'SAMF-rådet'

Anna Katrine Windt Courbin

Emil Skaarup Blichmann

Thea Visby Bjørklund

Alternates for Observers (administrative staff)

None

Contact

Martin Bukh Vestergaard
Faculty Staff
E-mail: mbv@samf.ku.dk