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If anyone understands the value of a beautiful\u00a0integral<\/secret>, it is Max Fischer-Rasmussen (16).<\/p>\n

He has been aware of his particular interest in mathematics since the fifth grade of primary school, and today he is by far the youngest student at UCPH with the next youngest at 18. He started at the Department of Mathematical Sciences on 1st September.<\/p>\n

My ambition is to do research in mathematics. [..] Whether I end up as associate professor or something else, this is not so important, so long as I have space to do research<\/p>\n

Max Fischer-Rasmussen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Starting in fourth grade he spent his free time doing courses in quantum mechanics 1 and 2 at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. So he has had the time to figure out a response to fellow students that ask him why he is in their group, when he is so young.<\/p>\n

“I just say how it is, and try to avoid long explanations. I study here because I like mathematics. It has become easier to explain now that I have done it so many times,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen<\/secret>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he is a mathematical genius, but he does not like the stereotype, because he is so much more than that. He does not hide that he is something unusual.<\/p>\n

“When I followed the courses in quantum mechanics, the others in class wondered how I could understand so much of it beforehand being so young. Quantum mechanics 1, for example, was superfluous as I knew it all already, but quantum mechanics 2 was really interesting,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

The struggle for identity<\/h2>\n

He has been ready to go to university since he was 11 or 12 years old.<\/p>\n

“When I was 10, I thought about differential calculus, and one day I suddenly realized that I had found the formula to resolve arbitrary derivative equations. I thought this was brilliant, but I had just found a well-known result,” he says, saying that this experience helped shift his initial interest in physics toward mathematics.<\/p>\n

“It showed me that I’m so interested in going ‘behind the formulas’ with the proofs, and that I’m more into mathematics. Much of physics follows simple mathematical rules, and I think it’s beautiful that you can deduce everything else from them, and that’s mathematics,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.
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\nSince then, he has just been waiting to be able to move on with his life. This has been a problem, as he has a deep need to be with others who share his interest. If he could not do what he is doing at the Department of Mathematics, he reckons he would have social problems.<\/p>\n

“I saw it when I was in primary school. I got a full-blown obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). At one point I washed my hands for nine hours. I cannot really know where this came from, but I suspect I was just so motivated at the time, and I felt so bored, and felt I had nowhere where I was comfortable. This may have triggered my OCD,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

He never learned the multiplication tables in school \u2013 he was not motivated because he was not happy. He still does not know them by heart, but manages without.<\/p>\n

“I have learned that my well-being is linked to doing something where I am both motivated, learning a lot and being able to develop my professional skills. Then I feel my social skills move also,” he says.<\/p>\n

That’s why he likes university, because here he can be almost sure that others share his interests, and he can reflect himself in, and develop through, other people.<\/p>\n

The good and the bad of intelligence<\/h2>\n

Max Fischer-Rasmussen gets many questions from other students about his young age, and they are particularly surprised that he already grasps so much of the mathematics.<\/p>\n

He does not, for example, follow the introductory subjects, MatIntro and DisRus, on the first semester. This is in agreement with his instructors, as he knows all the material beforehand. He just has to go to the exam in December. Instead, he follows the subjects Analysis 2, Complex Analysis and Algebraic Topology, normally subjects for second, third and fourth year students.
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\nHe does not like to be stereotyped as a genius, as though he were an “object of others’ fantasies of intelligence.”<\/p>\n

“I do not want to be seen as someone who is good at everything, and much better than everyone else, because I do not think this is a healthy way to see yourself or others. I think you should be able to work together with other people, as one thing I know for sure. Intelligence means different things to different people,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

It is a trait that has its downside. “You soon get bored with stuff because they become trivial, and the value of intelligence is often overstated, because there are other things that are also important for your performance. Like how interested you are in a task, and how much time you put in to it. In some ways, intelligence is not something you can use in isolation, and it can often be a bigger problem than a benefit,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

During primary school he learned that, for him, there is a kind of mental treadmill. He should try to avoid it.<\/p>\n

“Because I have a relatively good memory, I can understand it all and remember it, and then it just gets boring and I suddenly feel that I’m not interested in it, because if it’s so boring it’s not interesting,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

Fast-track graduate<\/h2>\n

The Danish high school gymnasium<\/em> took him just over three months.<\/p>\n

\u00bbMost of the time was just waiting for the exam to be held. I did not go to class at all. I had made up my mind, that going to gymnasium would suit me really badly, as I would be pushed back in my development because I did not have anyone to reflect myself in. I was somewhere else,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen, who himself found the loophole in the law, that enabled him to get his diploma with a 11.9 grade average on the Danish scale.<\/p>\n

He passed on the traditional Danish intro \u2018rus\u2019 tour for the maths department.<\/p>\n

“I thought I’m very young compared to the others, and it’s probably a lot of alcohol, and I’m not interested and I prefer to stay at home, and this decision I have not regretted,” says Max Fischer- Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

Article continues under the picture<\/em>
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A beauty within<\/h2>\n

The joy of his mathematics he describes in terms of a kind of intrinsic beauty.<\/p>\n

“It’s the beauty that I and many others find in mathematics \u2013 not being able to use it for anything real,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

He has just described, for example, what the subject of Algebraic Topology Algebraic Topology<\/secret> contains. It is very abstract and nerdy. Researching university mathematics does not have much to do with the mathematics that other people use to build bridges or skyscrapers, says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

Because I have a relatively good memory, I can understand it all and remember it, and then it just gets boring<\/p>\n

Max Fischer-Rasmussen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mathematics is not an art form, he reckons, but he would not be able to study math at university without thinking about the meaning of the subject.<\/p>\n

“Some mathematicians will tell you that pure or theoretical mathematics can be used for something in reality, but they lie,” he says.<\/p>\n

“Mathematics has a kind of intrinsic value for many. A coffee cup has a value because you can drink coffee from it, but some things have a value contained in itself,” he says.<\/p>\n

Even on a scale of ‘intrinsic values’ mathematics is the least useful:<\/p>\n

“You can say that a diamond piece of jewelry has an intrinsic value because it can be used for something. You can look at it, it’s beautiful, and you can therefore sell it. A diamond has therefore a true intrinsic value. In mathematics, it’s even more abstract, because here it’s just yourself that perceives something as interesting,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen, adding that mathematical proofs are not even kept secret, because mathematicians rush to share them with others.<\/p>\n

Mathematics is something you only do for the sake of mathematics, he believes, and you have to see \u2013 or feel \u2013 the beauty of it.<\/p>\n

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MAX FISCHER RASMUSSEN<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/picture>16<\/strong> years of age. Studying mathematics<\/strong> first semester at the University of Copenhagen. Interests apart from mathematics \u2013philosophy<\/strong>, chess, language subjects, etymology, Latin, Ancient Greek, history, political science and programming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wants to do research in math<\/h2>\n

Since his first years in primary school, Max Fischer-Rasmussen has primarily educated himself through self-study.<\/p>\n

Now it has led him to the university and the theoretical mathematics that he is sure will be his future.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy ambition is to do research in mathematics. I’m just interested in getting to a stage where I can do research myself, have time for it and be able to say, ‘well, now I can explore and find some new mathematics’. Whether I end up as associate professor or something else, this is not so important, just so long as I have the space to do research,\u201d says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.
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There are no 17-year-old students. There are just under two hundred 18-year-olds."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Education","text":"As a kid, he never learned the multiplication tables. But he caught on to quantum mechanics in fourth grade, and it took him three months to finish his Danish secondary school. Now Max Fischer-Rasmussen is the youngest student at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) \u2013 and for the first time surrounded by people who also see the beauty of mathematics.","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>If anyone understands the value of a beautiful\u00a0<secret text=\"An integral assigns numbers to functions in a way that can describe displacement, area, volume, and other concepts that arise by combining infinitesimal data. Source: Wikipedia\">integral<\/secret>, it is Max Fischer-Rasmussen (16).<\/p>\n<p>He has been aware of his particular interest in mathematics since the fifth grade of primary school, and today he is by far the youngest student at UCPH with the next youngest at 18. He started at the Department of Mathematical Sciences on 1st September.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My ambition is to do research in mathematics. [..] Whether I end up as associate professor or something else, this is not so important, so long as I have space to do research<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Max Fischer-Rasmussen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Starting in fourth grade he spent his free time doing courses in quantum mechanics 1 and 2 at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. So he has had the time to figure out a response to fellow students that ask him why he is in their group, when he is so young.<\/p>\n<p>“I just say how it is, and try to avoid long explanations. I study here because I like mathematics. It has become easier to explain now that I have done it so many times,” says <secret text=\"Max Fischer-Rasmussen coincidentally shares his name with the main character in Wes Andersons movie Rushmore, which follows a 15 year old student (and eccentric wunderkind) named Max Fischer. Rasmussen is named after his great-great-great-grandfather, a merchant, who took the name Fischer because the widely used Rasmussen didn't stand out\">Max Fischer-Rasmussen<\/secret>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he is a mathematical genius, but he does not like the stereotype, because he is so much more than that. He does not hide that he is something unusual.<\/p>\n<p>“When I followed the courses in quantum mechanics, the others in class wondered how I could understand so much of it beforehand being so young. Quantum mechanics 1, for example, was superfluous as I knew it all already, but quantum mechanics 2 was really interesting,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<h2>The struggle for identity<\/h2>\n<p>He has been ready to go to university since he was 11 or 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>“When I was 10, I thought about differential calculus, and one day I suddenly realized that I had found the formula to resolve arbitrary derivative equations. I thought this was brilliant, but I had just found a well-known result,” he says, saying that this experience helped shift his initial interest in physics toward mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>“It showed me that I’m so interested in going ‘behind the formulas’ with the proofs, and that I’m more into mathematics. Much of physics follows simple mathematical rules, and I think it’s beautiful that you can deduce everything else from them, and that’s mathematics,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":56539,"id":56539,"title":"Max Fischer-Rasmussen tager sig til panden","filename":"danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small.jpg","filesize":63245,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/han-har-vaeret-klar-til-universitetet-siden-han-var-11\/photographer-daniel-hjorthmax-fischer-for-uniavisen-fall-2017-3\/","alt":"Max Fischer-Rasmussen tager sig til panden","author":"8","description":"Max Fischer-Rasmussen tager sig til panden","caption":"","name":"photographer-daniel-hjorthmax-fischer-for-uniavisen-fall-2017-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56281,"date":"2017-10-06 08:29:22","modified":"2017-10-06 08:30:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1000,"height":568,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small-480x273.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":273,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small-768x436.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":436,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":568,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":568,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":568,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small-290x165.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":165,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small-700x398.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":398,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/danielhjorthuniavisenmaxfischerhighres016small-990x562.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":562}},"style":"full","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Since then, he has just been waiting to be able to move on with his life. This has been a problem, as he has a deep need to be with others who share his interest. If he could not do what he is doing at the Department of Mathematics, he reckons he would have social problems.<\/p>\n<p>“I saw it when I was in primary school. I got a full-blown obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). At one point I washed my hands for nine hours. I cannot really know where this came from, but I suspect I was just so motivated at the time, and I felt so bored, and felt I had nowhere where I was comfortable. This may have triggered my OCD,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p>He never learned the multiplication tables in school \u2013 he was not motivated because he was not happy. He still does not know them by heart, but manages without.<\/p>\n<p>“I have learned that my well-being is linked to doing something where I am both motivated, learning a lot and being able to develop my professional skills. Then I feel my social skills move also,” he says.<\/p>\n<p>That’s why he likes university, because here he can be almost sure that others share his interests, and he can reflect himself in, and develop through, other people.<\/p>\n<h2>The good and the bad of intelligence<\/h2>\n<p>Max Fischer-Rasmussen gets many questions from other students about his young age, and they are particularly surprised that he already grasps so much of the mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>He does not, for example, follow the introductory subjects, MatIntro and DisRus, on the first semester. This is in agreement with his instructors, as he knows all the material beforehand. He just has to go to the exam in December. Instead, he follows the subjects Analysis 2, Complex Analysis and Algebraic Topology, normally subjects for second, third and fourth year students.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Quote","quote":"Some mathematicians will tell you that pure or theoretical mathematics has an application in the real world, but they are lying\r\n","quotee":"Max Fisher-Rasmussen","style":"extended"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>He does not like to be stereotyped as a genius, as though he were an “object of others’ fantasies of intelligence.”<\/p>\n<p>“I do not want to be seen as someone who is good at everything, and much better than everyone else, because I do not think this is a healthy way to see yourself or others. I think you should be able to work together with other people, as one thing I know for sure. Intelligence means different things to different people,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p>It is a trait that has its downside. “You soon get bored with stuff because they become trivial, and the value of intelligence is often overstated, because there are other things that are also important for your performance. Like how interested you are in a task, and how much time you put in to it. In some ways, intelligence is not something you can use in isolation, and it can often be a bigger problem than a benefit,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p>During primary school he learned that, for him, there is a kind of mental treadmill. He should try to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p>“Because I have a relatively good memory, I can understand it all and remember it, and then it just gets boring and I suddenly feel that I’m not interested in it, because if it’s so boring it’s not interesting,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<h2>Fast-track graduate<\/h2>\n<p>The Danish high school <em>gymnasium<\/em> took him just over three months.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbMost of the time was just waiting for the exam to be held. I did not go to class at all. I had made up my mind, that going to gymnasium would suit me really badly, as I would be pushed back in my development because I did not have anyone to reflect myself in. I was somewhere else,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen, who himself found the loophole in the law, that enabled him to get his diploma with a 11.9 grade average on the Danish scale.<\/p>\n<p>He passed on the traditional Danish intro \u2018rus\u2019 tour for the maths department.<\/p>\n<p>“I thought I’m very young compared to the others, and it’s probably a lot of alcohol, and I’m not interested and I prefer to stay at home, and this decision I have not regretted,” says Max Fischer- Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article continues under the picture<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":56383,"id":56383,"title":"Max Fischer-Rasmussen sidder og grubler","filename":"fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler.jpg","filesize":416725,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/han-har-vaeret-klar-til-universitetet-siden-han-var-11\/photographer-daniel-hjorthmax-fischer-for-uniavisen-fall-2017-2\/","alt":"Max Fischer-Rasmussen grubler","author":"8","description":"Max Fischer-Rasmussen grubler","caption":"","name":"photographer-daniel-hjorthmax-fischer-for-uniavisen-fall-2017-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56281,"date":"2017-10-05 08:15:31","modified":"2018-01-09 13:50:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2000,"height":2281,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-480x547.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":547,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-768x876.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":876,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-1280x1460.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1460,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler.jpg","1536x1536-width":1347,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler.jpg","2048x2048-width":1796,"2048x2048-height":2048,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-290x331.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":331,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-700x798.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":798,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fotomaxfischerrasmussensidderoggrubler-990x1129.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":1129}},"style":"screen","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h2>A beauty within<\/h2>\n<p>The joy of his mathematics he describes in terms of a kind of intrinsic beauty.<\/p>\n<p>“It’s the beauty that I and many others find in mathematics \u2013 not being able to use it for anything real,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p>He has just described, for example, what the subject of Algebraic Topology <secret text=\"Branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. Source: Wikipedia\">Algebraic Topology<\/secret> contains. It is very abstract and nerdy. Researching university mathematics does not have much to do with the mathematics that other people use to build bridges or skyscrapers, says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because I have a relatively good memory, I can understand it all and remember it, and then it just gets boring<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Max Fischer-Rasmussen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mathematics is not an art form, he reckons, but he would not be able to study math at university without thinking about the meaning of the subject.<\/p>\n<p>“Some mathematicians will tell you that pure or theoretical mathematics can be used for something in reality, but they lie,” he says.<\/p>\n<p>“Mathematics has a kind of intrinsic value for many. A coffee cup has a value because you can drink coffee from it, but some things have a value contained in itself,” he says.<\/p>\n<p>Even on a scale of ‘intrinsic values’ mathematics is the least useful:<\/p>\n<p>“You can say that a diamond piece of jewelry has an intrinsic value because it can be used for something. You can look at it, it’s beautiful, and you can therefore sell it. A diamond has therefore a true intrinsic value. In mathematics, it’s even more abstract, because here it’s just yourself that perceives something as interesting,” says Max Fischer-Rasmussen, adding that mathematical proofs are not even kept secret, because mathematicians rush to share them with others.<\/p>\n<p>Mathematics is something you only do for the sake of mathematics, he believes, and you have to see \u2013 or feel \u2013 the beauty of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">MAX FISCHER RASMUSSEN<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-56548\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/and6617dxoweb-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Max Fischer-Rasmussen\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/and6617dxoweb-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/and6617dxoweb-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/and6617dxoweb-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/and6617dxoweb-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/and6617dxoweb-990x660.jpg 990w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/and6617dxoweb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><strong>16<\/strong> years of age. Studying<strong> mathematics<\/strong> first semester at the University of Copenhagen. Interests apart from mathematics \u2013<strong>philosophy<\/strong>, chess, language subjects, etymology, Latin, Ancient Greek, history, political science and programming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Wants to do research in math<\/h2>\n<p>Since his first years in primary school, Max Fischer-Rasmussen has primarily educated himself through self-study.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has led him to the university and the theoretical mathematics that he is sure will be his future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy ambition is to do research in mathematics. I’m just interested in getting to a stage where I can do research myself, have time for it and be able to say, ‘well, now I can explore and find some new mathematics’. Whether I end up as associate professor or something else, this is not so important, just so long as I have the space to do research,\u201d says Max Fischer-Rasmussen.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":49752,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2017-05-18 10:22:15","post_date_gmt":"2017-05-18 08:22:15","post_content":"<span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>n formiddag i 2012 sidder Ahlam Chemlali ved havnefronten i Benghazi i Libyen og spiser frokost.\r\n\r\nHun er taget til Libyen for at indsamle data. Ahlam skriver speciale p\u00e5 den nyoprettede sundhedsfaglige kandidat p\u00e5 K\u00f8benhavns Universitet og skal dokumentere, hvor udbredt tortur er i det nordafrikanske land efter Muammar Gaddaffis fald. [secrettext face=\"Hun er udsendt af DIGNITY \u2013 Dansk Institut Mod Tortur\" text=\"En menneskerettigheds-organisation, der forsker i \u2013 og behandler ofre for \u2013 tortur og organiseret vold.\"]. Hendes kolleger hjemme i Danmark har givet hende strenge formaninger om at blive p\u00e5 Tibesti Hotel bag skudsikre vinduer. Selv om borgerkrigen er slut, bek\u00e6mper stridende militser b\u00e5de hinanden og det skr\u00f8belige nye styre, og Udenrigsministeriet frar\u00e5der alle rejser til Libyen.\r\n\r\n\u00bbJeg skulle skrive hjem til Danmark hver dag og fort\u00e6lle, at jeg havde det fint, holde mine m\u00f8der og blive p\u00e5 hotellet. Men jeg var rastl\u00f8s, og min intuition sagde mig, at jeg skulle ud, s\u00e5 jeg ringede til min lokale logistikmand og spurgte, om han kunne finde et sted, jeg kunne spise,\u00ab siger hun.\r\n\r\nTibesti Hotel ligger ned til en stor lagune, der f\u00f8rer videre ud i Benghazis industrihavn og derfra ud i Middelhavet. Ahlam sidder p\u00e5 den anden side af lagunen og spiser en kebab, da hun f\u00e5r \u00f8je p\u00e5 en r\u00f8gs\u00f8jle. Snart efter kan hun se flammer og h\u00f8re skud. Hendes sikre hotel er blevet angrebet.\r\n<h2>En urealistisk ambition<\/h2>\r\nFem \u00e5r senere inviterer Ahlam Chemlali os inden for i DIGNITYs lokaler i en anonym kontorbygning p\u00e5 Bryggervangen i den mindre mond\u00e6ne ende af \u00d8sterbro ude ved Helsing\u00f8rmotorvejen. Hun har v\u00e6ret afsted p\u00e5 over 45 missioner siden den f\u00f8rste i Libyen, og hun er blevet en fast stemme i debatten om menneskerettigheder og tortur herhjemme, men hun har ikke inviteret os p\u00e5 bes\u00f8g for at dele krigshistorier.\r\n\r\nN\u00e5r Ahlam holder foredrag om sit arbejde og missioner for studerende, sp\u00f8rger de hende tit, hvad man skal l\u00e6se for at komme til at arbejde med det, hun g\u00f8r. Og svaret p\u00e5 det sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5l indeholder en vigtig lektie, mener hun. Det var nemlig ikke grundig karriereplanl\u00e6gning og \u00e6dle ambitioner om at k\u00e6mpe for menneskerettigheder, der efter gymnasiet guidede Ahlam Chemlali ind p\u00e5 en videreg\u00e5ende uddannelse.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n\u00bbI gymnasiet var jeg st\u00e6rkt p\u00e5virket af[secrettext face=\" tv-serien CSI. \" text=\"(Amerikansk tv-serie, hvor tungt bev\u00e6bnede retsgenetikere opklarer forbrydelser, red.)\"]De havde v\u00e5ben, spr\u00f8jter og kanyler, deres arbejde var en blanding af lab work og Sherlock Holmes, og jeg t\u00e6nkte: \u2019Jeg skal v\u00e6re CSI-agent\u2019,\u00ab siger hun.\r\n\r\nAhlam Chemlali s\u00f8gte ind som bioanalytiker p\u00e5 professionsh\u00f8jskolen Metropol. Mens hendes medstuderende stilede mod job i medicinalindustrien, ville Ahlam specialisere sig inden for retsgenetikken. Her fandt hun efterh\u00e5nden ud af, at der var langt fra forestillingerne om detektivarbejde og rejsehold til den virkelige verdens lange dage med dna-analyser.\r\n\r\n\u00bbDet er et meget s\u00e6rligt milj\u00f8, retsmedicinerverden. Det er sp\u00e6ndende, at man taler de d\u00f8des sag, og jeg var fascineret af menneskekroppen og anatomi \u2013 men dagene er meget ens, og der er ikke meget interaktion med andre mennesker,\u00ab siger hun.\r\n\r\nEfter et halvt \u00e5rs praktikophold p\u00e5 et lighus i London \u2013 hvor Ahlam ogs\u00e5 fandt ud af, at det heller ikke lige var hende \u00bbat st\u00e5 i gummist\u00f8vler og bruge kliniske motorsave og blive spr\u00f8jtet til med legemsv\u00e6sker\u00ab \u2013 skiftede hun retning.\r\n<h2>Afrika<\/h2>\r\nAhlam ville v\u00e6k fra det kliniske milj\u00f8 og tog noget atypisk for sit studie et valgfag i Global Health. Som en del af sit bachelorprojekt arrangerede hun selv en rejse til Ghana, hvor hun blandt andet hjalp lokale NGO\u2019er med at holde workshops og hiv-teste befolkningen i sm\u00e5 landsbyer.\r\n\r\n\u00bbSkal man pege p\u00e5 et omdrejningspunkt i min karriere, s\u00e5 var det at komme til Ghana,\u00ab siger hun. \u00bbKernen og omdrejningspunktet for rejsen var sundhed \u2013 men jeg l\u00e6rte at sundhed ikke bare er sundhed. Det er ogs\u00e5 menneskerettigheder, skr\u00f8belige stater, ulige adgang til services, k\u00f8nsdiskrimination, politik.\u00ab\r\n\r\nTuren til Ghana gav Ahlam det m\u00f8de med levende, \u00e5ndende mennesker, hun havde savnet i laboratoriet og lighuset, og \u00e5bnede samtidig hendes \u00f8jne for, hvor komplekst det var at hj\u00e6lpe de enkelte kvinder og b\u00f8rn ude i landsbyerne. For eksempel hvor vanskeligt det kunne v\u00e6re at forebygge hiv i landsbysamfund, hvor h\u00f8vdingen bevidst ignorerede information og hj\u00e6lp, fordi den kom fra hende \u2013 en kvinde.\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\nAhlam blev vred over uretf\u00e6rdigheden \u2013 \u00bbsocialt indigneret\u00ab siger hun \u2013 men hun vidste hverken, hvad hun skulle g\u00f8re med sin indignation, eller hvad hun skulle lave, n\u00e5r hun var f\u00e6rdiguddannet. Til geng\u00e6ld var hun sikker p\u00e5, at hun m\u00e5tte vide mere:\r\n\r\n\u00bbGhana trykkede p\u00e5 noget med globalt udsyn og perspektiv, og jeg f\u00f8lte, det kr\u00e6vede indblik i andre fag at komme videre.\u00ab\r\n\r\nTilbage i K\u00f8benhavn h\u00f8rte hun om en ny sundhedsfaglig kandidatuddannelse, som K\u00f8benhavns Universitet ville starte op, og som skulle vise sig at passe godt til hendes s\u00f8gende, tv\u00e6rfaglige tilgang.\r\n<h2>\u00bbEr du g\u00e5et forkert?\u00ab<\/h2>\r\nSet i bakspejlet tror Ahlam ikke det var helt skidt, at hun kom ind p\u00e5 det allerf\u00f8rste hold p\u00e5 den sundhedsfaglige kandidatuddannelse.\r\n\r\n\u00bbTingene l\u00e5 ikke i s\u00e6rligt faste rammer, og man kunne pr\u00e6ge sin kandidat i den retning, man ville.\u00ab\r\n\r\nHun var lidt the odd one out p\u00e5 holdet. Gennemsnitsalderen var 38 (hun var 22), og hendes medstuderende var afdelingssygeplejersker, forskere og afdelingsledere, som havde job og karrierer og vidste, hvad de skulle bruge uddannelsen til. Det gjorde Ahlam ikke. Til geng\u00e6ld udnyttede hun den l\u00f8se struktur til fulde:\r\n<blockquote>Min tanke var, at hvis jeg skulle arbejde med sundhed i Afrika, m\u00e5tte jeg kende konteksten. S\u00e5 jeg lavede mit eget pensum.<\/blockquote>\r\n\u00bbJeg shoppede rundt og supplerede med kurser i menneskerettigheder p\u00e5 Jura og l\u00e6ste socialmedicin p\u00e5 Antropologi.\u00a0 Jeg havde fag p\u00e5 Afrikastudier om skr\u00f8belige afrikanske stater, hvor de andre studerende ikke kunne forst\u00e5, hvad jeg lavede der. \u2019Er du g\u00e5et forkert?\u2019 spurgte de, og jeg svarede \u2019Nej, jeg skal bare have fagene de n\u00e6ste par m\u00e5neder\u2019. Jeg synes selv, der er en r\u00f8d tr\u00e5d i alt, jeg laver, men det kan folk ikke n\u00f8dvendigvis se. Men min tanke var, at hvis jeg skulle arbejde med sundhed i Afrika, m\u00e5tte jeg kende konteksten. S\u00e5 jeg lavede mit eget pensum.\u00ab\r\n\r\nAhlams pensum inkluderede ogs\u00e5 et intensivt kursus i internationalt diplomati. Hendes bachelor havde givet hende f\u00f8rsteh\u00e5ndserfaring med sundhedsarbejdet i sm\u00e5, isolerede ghanesiske landsbyer, men hun havde begr\u00e6nset indblik i en anden ende af spektret \u2013 nemlig i det politiske og diplomatiske arbejde, der regulerer den globale sundhedsindsats. Derfor s\u00f8gte \u2013 og fik \u2013 hun et praktikophold p\u00e5 Den Danske FN-mission i Geneve, som varetager Danmarks forhold til de FN-baserede organisationer i byen.\r\n\r\n\u00bbNu var jeg kommet fra landsbyen i Afrika til de bonede gulve i verdens humanit\u00e6re hovedstad. Og det ramte en nerve, at man kunne arbejde internationalt med menneskerettigheder og store humanit\u00e6re kriser uden at give slip p\u00e5 ens sundhedsfaglige baggrund. Men jeg savnede det h\u00e5ndgribelige, det praktiske.\u00ab\r\n\r\nBroen mellem de to poler, det globale og det lokale, det geopolitiske og det konkrete m\u00f8de med mennesker, der havde brug for hj\u00e6lp, fandt hun hjemme i Danmark.\r\n<h2>Br\u00e6ndpunktet<\/h2>\r\nUnder sine studier var Ahlam faldet over det danske Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims\u00a0(som nu har skiftet navn til DIGNITY), en selvejende og politisk uafh\u00e6ngig organisation, som i 70\u2019erne var udsprunget af Amnesty International.\r\n\r\n\u00bbDen er grundlagt af l\u00e6ger, kernen er sundhedsfaglig, og den arbejder for at tortur- og voldsofre skal rehabiliteres og hj\u00e6lpes tilbage til det virkelige liv. Og den mener, der er brug for en holistisk, tv\u00e6rfaglig tilgang for at klare opgaven. S\u00e5 jeg skrev til dem og spurgte, om vi kunne lave et projektsamarbejde.\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\nSvaret l\u00f8d, at der var plads til, at hun kunne skrive sit speciale hos dem. De havde to forslag: Hun kunne v\u00e6re med til at f\u00e6rdigg\u00f8re et projekt, hvor de allerede havde indsamlet data \u2013 eller hun kunne tage til et af verdens br\u00e6ndpunkter, hvor der i k\u00f8lvandet p\u00e5 borgerkrig og NATO-bombninger var mistanke om udbredt brug af tortur, og indsamle data selv.\r\n\r\nAhlam valgte Libyen.\r\n<h2>\u00bbLige nu er det sindssygt, hvad der foreg\u00e5r\u00ab<\/h2>\r\nDet var instinkt, der fik hende til at trodse sikkerhedsanbefalingerne den dag i Benghazi, og n\u00e5r hun ser tilbage, kan hun godt se, hvad der havde fodret hendes instinkt. At hun sandsynligvis havde lagt m\u00e6rke til nogle af de Toyota-ladvogne \u2013 militsernes foretrukne k\u00f8ret\u00f8j \u2013 der var begyndt at sv\u00e6rme omkring hotellet. Og at hun havde v\u00e6ret bevidst om, at en event for internationale diplomater dagen f\u00f8r havde gjort hotellet til et attraktivt m\u00e5l for terrorister.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">6 vendepunkter i Ahlam Chemlalis karriere<\/p>\r\n<strong>TV-serien:<\/strong> Krimiserien CSI \u2013 hvor tungt bev\u00e6bnede og temmeligt atletiske retsgenetikere opklarer forbrydelser \u2013 inspirerer Ahlam Chemlali til sat s\u00f8ge ind som bioanalytiker p\u00e5 Metropol i 2006.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lighuset:<\/strong> Et praktikophold p\u00e5 et lighus i London i 2008 l\u00e6rer hende, at hun hellere vil arbejde med de levende \u2013 og med at forebygge d\u00f8d.\r\n\r\n<strong>Ghana:<\/strong> Et valgfag i Global Health sender Ahlam til Ghana i 2009, hvor hun med egne ord \u00bbf\u00e5r globalt udsyn\u00ab - og ogs\u00e5 f\u00e5r \u00f8jnene op for de komplekse politiske, \u00f8konomiske og menneskeretslige sammenh\u00e6nge, der p\u00e5virker folks\r\nsundhed i landet.\r\n\r\n<strong>Eksperimentet:<\/strong> Ahlam kommer ind p\u00e5 f\u00f8rste \u00e5rgang af den nystartede sundhedsfaglige kandidatuddannelse Master of Health Science, cand.scient.san. p\u00e5 KU i 2010.\r\n\r\n<strong>FN-missionen:<\/strong> Et praktikophold p\u00e5 den danske FN-mission i Gen\u00e8ve i 2011 sporer Ahlam ind p\u00e5 arbejdet med menneskerettigheder i en international kontekst.\r\n\r\n<strong>DIGNITY:<\/strong> \u00a0Ahlam f\u00e5r studiejob og skriver speciale hos DIGNTY - Danish Institute Against Torture i 2012. Hun har siden v\u00e6ret p\u00e5 over 45 missioner for at dokumentere brugen af tortur i blandt andet Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Jordan, Egypten, Libyen, Uganda, Kenya, Filippinerne, Sydafrika og Liberia.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nDe n\u00e6ste par dage boede hun hos lokale, indtil det lykkedes at skaffe hende en plads p\u00e5 et fly ud af landet (hvilket i sig selv var en bedrift, fordi militserne kontrollerede lufthavnen og havde travlt med at pakke flyene med familiemedlemmer).\r\n\r\n\u00bbI Danmark var de forbl\u00f8ffet over, hvor rolig jeg var. Personligt f\u00f8ler jeg, at det var en slags test eller pr\u00f8velse. Jeg fandt ud af, at jeg godt kunne klare den type arbejde \u2013 og at det var vigtigt for mig at v\u00e6re der og fort\u00e6lle om det.\u00ab\r\n\r\nAhlam begyndte at medvirke i danske tv-programmer som Deadline p\u00e5 DR2, hvor hun fortalte om situationen i Libyen. Hun arbejde on-and-off i landet indtil 2014, hvor borgerkrigen blussede op igen, Islamisk Stat gjorde sit indtog, og DIGNITY var n\u00f8dt til at afbryde deres arbejde. Det piner hende, at hun ikke kan g\u00f8re noget, og at medierne synes at have glemt konflikten.\r\n\r\n\u00bbLige nu er det sindssygt, hvad der foreg\u00e5r. I DIGNITY har vi m\u00e5ttet s\u00e6tte vores projekter p\u00e5 stand by, for det er s\u00e5 farligt, men jeg bliver holdt orienteret af venner og informanter. Situationen har aff\u00f8dt en flygtningekrise, som medierne taler om, men de fort\u00e6ller ikke om de grundl\u00e6ggende \u00e5rsager som for eksempel den ustabile situation i Libyen.\u00ab\r\n<h2>Det, der bliver i kroppen<\/h2>\r\nAhlam afleverede sit speciale i 2012 og har siden arbejdet for DIGNITY som Program Manager. Hun har v\u00e6ret p\u00e5 over 45 missioner for at dokumentere tortur og organiseret vold i blandt andet Sierra Leone, Liberia, Jordan, Uganda og Bangladesh.\r\n\r\nUndervejs har hun set ting, der stadig sidder i kroppen. I Liberia hjalp hun til under Ebola-epidemien, som h\u00e6rgede et land, der allerede var forkr\u00f8blet af en brutal borgerkrig.\r\n\r\n\u00bb[secrettext face=\"Jeg har sammen med lokale partnere arbejdet med genbegravelser\" text=\"\u00bbGenbegravelser er b\u00e5de en m\u00e5de at f\u00e5 den d\u00f8des krop og \u00e5nd hjem p\u00e5, men ogs\u00e5 et vigtigt element i forsoning og tilgivelse. B\u00e5de med sig selv og de afd\u00f8de. At begrave de d\u00f8de, ordentligt, og at tage afsked, er af stor betydning. Det er en m\u00e5de at forene, rekonsiliere stridende parter samt skabe fred og sameksistens i ellers splittede post-konflikt samfund\u00ab\"]. P\u00e5 grund af krigen havde folk ikke n\u00e5et at begrave deres efterladte, og n\u00e5r de kom tilbage til landsbyerne fra flygtningelejrene, stak der knogler op af jorden\u00b9. Man samler resterne og anbringer dem i et mindesm\u00e6rke, en Memorial Hut \u2026 Det er sv\u00e6rt at forklare. Jeg har pr\u00f8vet at skrive om det flere gange, men det er ikke lykkedes endnu. Det er det t\u00e6tteste, man kommer p\u00e5 liv, d\u00f8d og sorg. Jeg har m\u00f8dt fantastiske mennesker i Liberia, og deres modstandskraft har inspireret mig.\u00ab\r\n\r\nN\u00e5r hun kigger tilbage, er det den store forskel p\u00e5 hendes arbejde nu og de tidligere studier og praktikopholdet p\u00e5 lighuset i London:\r\n\r\n\u00bbAt m\u00f8de mennesker driver mig. At komme ud af kitlen og de kliniske forhold og m\u00f8de mennesker, hvor de er. Jeg kan ikke bare sidde og l\u00e6se b\u00f8ger \u2026\u00ab\r\n\r\n- Hvorfor?\r\n\r\n\u00bbFordi det ikke bare bliver tal, statistik, figurer i en rapport \u2013 fordi der kommer et menneske bag tallene. Man kommer ned og ser, at det er en person, ligesom mig, med samme h\u00e5b og dr\u00f8mme. Det giver en humanisering af arbejdet. Og s\u00e5 giver det mig meget mere mening at komme ud og se virkeligheden end bare at sidde her p\u00e5 Bryggervangen.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<em>Artiklen forts\u00e6tter under billedet<\/em>\n<!-- end of module 4 -->\n<h2>Den alt andet end lige vej<\/h2>\r\nAhlam Chemlali ser stadig CSI, men hun savner ikke laboratoriearbejdet.\r\n\r\n\u00bbJeg f\u00f8ler, jeg er det helt rigtige sted. Nu arbejder jeg tv\u00e6rfagligt og multidisciplineret. I vores teams er vi l\u00e6ger, sociologer, antropologer, socialr\u00e5dgivere, forskere \u2026 N\u00e5r du arbejder med komplekse ting som vold og rehabilitering af torturofre, kr\u00e6ver det en pluralistisk, akademisk tilgang. Globale udfordringer som flygtningekrisen kr\u00e6ver samarbejde mellem migrationseksperter, politologer, antropologer \u2026 Det er ikke bare \u00f8konomiske og politiske problemer.\u00ab\r\n\r\nOg s\u00e5 er vi fremme ved de pointer, Ahlam gerne vil have frem til de studerende, der sp\u00f8rger hende, hvordan man kan komme til at arbejde med det hun g\u00f8r.\r\n\r\nDer er ikke \u00e9n vej til at uddanne sig til at arbejde inden for et felt som hendes, der fordrer en tv\u00e6rfaglig tilgang \u2013 der er mange. Selv har hun ikke haft en plan med sin uddannelse og karriere. Hun er g\u00e5et efter nysgerrighed og mavefornemmelse. Hun har skiftet retning, skiftet uddannelser, t\u00f8vet, famlet, satset.\r\n\r\nUndervejs har hun l\u00e6rt, hvad der driver hende, og hvad hun vil arbejde med. Og det bekymrer hende, at de studerende nu \u2013 som hun ser det \u2013 ikke f\u00e5r de samme muligheder, som hun gjorde:\r\n\r\n\u00bbJeg synes, det er trist at se, hvordan fremdriftsreformen forvandler universitet til en p\u00f8lsefabrik. De f\u00e6rreste her p\u00e5 centeret vidste, hvad de skulle, da de var 18-19 \u00e5r. Det er vigtigt, at man som studerende kan fordybe sig i det, der interesser og driver \u00e9n \u2013 og ikke bare p\u00e5 arbejdsmarkedet. Man f\u00e5r ikke n\u00f8dvendigvis virkeligheden med af at klare studiet p\u00e5 normeret tid. Min uddannelse tog n\u00e6sten syv \u00e5r inklusive udlandsophold og praktik, og jeg synes kun, det har gavnet mig b\u00e5de fagligt og personligt.\u00ab\n<!-- end of module 5 -->\n","post_title":"Den alt andet end lige vej","post_excerpt":"Hvordan kommer en matematisk student og aspirerende retsgenetiker til at arbejde med torturofre? Ahlam Chemlali, kandidat fra KU, har b\u00e5de famlet, skiftet kurs og stolet p\u00e5 sin mavefornemmelse. 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