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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen interviewed for Uniavisen on AI and Asylum Law

How can artificial intelligence help strengthen legal certainty in asylum decisions—without replacing human judgment?
That’s the focus of a new research project led by Professor of Law Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen from the Faculty of Law and the Nordic Asylum Law and Data Lab.

In a recent interview with Uniavisen, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen discusses the project Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Credibility in Asylum Decision-making, developed in collaboration with Professor Thomas Moeslund (Aalborg University).
Supported by a DKK 12 million grant from the Villum Foundation, the project aims to build a transparent AI model that can identify bias and improve fairness in asylum case assessments.

The research draws on a unique dataset of over 800,000 asylum decisions from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden—made possible through strong Nordic collaboration.

Read the full interview.

Podcast: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen on the West's lack of migrants

MOBILE's head of center, Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, appeared as a guest on Højtryk (engl. "High Pressure") – a podcast from Denmark's leading news service delving into the most important world events. He spoke about how the West is experiencing a lack of migrants in a wide range of work sectors in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic.

Listen now (in Danish) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or your chosen podcast app.

A Legal Revolution: Interview with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen by the Danish National Research Foundation

Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, head of MOBILE – Center for Global Mobility Law, shares in a new interview about the center's work in rethinking the role of law in migration and mobility. MOBILE explores how legal decisions shape the possibilities for cross-border mobility. Gammeltoft-Hansen, together with his team, aims to create new societal value through research that bridges law and other fields. Together with researchers and collaborators, the center is developing data-driven and AI-based tools to support fairer and more efficient decisions in asylum cases and migration policy.

Read the full interview with Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen here.

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Interview with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen in Science Report

Science Report published an interview with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen for their series "Mit største forskermøde" (engl. my biggest researcher meeting), where researchers talk about the researcher meetings and encounters that shaped their path. In the interview, he talks about how he struggled to find a supervisor back in 2005 for his PhD topic in refugee studies and how the supervisor he found, law-professor Jens Vedsted-Hansen, became an important mentor not only for his PhD, but also for opening a whole new field of research.

You can read the full article in Danish here.

What limits your freedom of movement?

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen was a guest in the podcast series Videnskab fra vilde hjerner, on the topic of “What limits your freedom of movement?”. There he takes a look at how law regulates our access to mobility, how e.g. asylum decisions can be studied with interdisciplinary computational methods and what can be learnt from this research.

You can listen to the full episode in Danish under this link.