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But some well-paid top profiles take home a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post has put together a list of the highest-paid researchers. One of the things you can see is that professor and state-appointed forensic pathologist Jytte Banner, who was ranked first the last time we reported, has been surpassed by two others.<\/p>\n<p>The amounts displayed on the list are the actual total salary for the year 2021, understood as basic salary, pension, fixed allowances, temporary allowances and one-off bonuses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">This is what we did<\/p>\n<p>The salary information has been obtained via a Freedom of Information request. The amount is the actual salary sum for the year 2021. This means: basic salary, pension, fixed allowances, temporary allowances and one-off bonuses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/university-of-copenhagen-rector-and-management-salaries\/\">University of Copenhagen rector and management salaries<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>1) <strong>Professor, researcher in ageing, Rudolf G. 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But some well-paid top profiles take home a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post has put together a list of the highest-paid researchers. One of the things you can see is that professor and state-appointed forensic pathologist Jytte Banner, who was ranked first the last time we reported, has been surpassed by two others.<\/p>\n<p>The amounts displayed on the list are the actual total salary for the year 2021, understood as basic salary, pension, fixed allowances, temporary allowances and one-off bonuses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">This is what we did<\/p>\n<p>The salary information has been obtained via a Freedom of Information request. The amount is the actual salary sum for the year 2021. This means: basic salary, pension, fixed allowances, temporary allowances and one-off bonuses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/university-of-copenhagen-rector-and-management-salaries\/\">University of Copenhagen rector and management salaries<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>1) <strong>Professor, researcher in ageing, Rudolf G. Johannes Westendorp, Department of Public Health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,598,452<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Professor, DNA researcher, Jesper Svejstrup, research group head, Svejstrup Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,551,010<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Professor and state-appointed pathologist <\/strong>[Job includes a 24-hour on-call obligation to the Danish national police] <strong> Jytte Banner, Department of Forensic Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,547,853<\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>Professor, zoologist, Carsten Rahbek, centre director, Centre for Macroecology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,467,117<\/p>\n<p>5) <strong>Professor Ian David Hickson, head of research group ICMM (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,461,212<\/p>\n<p>6) <strong>Professor Torben Hansen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,448,926<\/p>\n<p>7) <strong>Professor Guillermo Montoya, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,427,688<\/p>\n<p>8) <strong>Professor Michael Jonathan Davies, Department of Biomedical Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,426,388<\/p>\n<p>9) <strong>Professor Morten Bennedsen, Department of Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,399,155<\/p>\n<p>10) <strong>Professor Ole Kiehn, Integrative Neuroscience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKK 1,355,916<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/salaries-at-the-university-of-copenhagen-2022\/\"> Salaries at the University of Copenhagen 2022<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":3160,"name":"People","slug":"people","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3160,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":58,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":5814,"name":"Salaries","slug":"salaries","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5814,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11492,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[{"term_id":5468,"name":"Optional","slug":"optional-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5468,"taxonomy":"translation_priority","description":"","parent":0,"count":674,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/loenhistorie2_0-1280x811.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145278,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144735\/revisions\/145278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}