Nature, Numbers & Technology

Technology

2017.06.14

Process Analytical Technology creates smart production

Many manufacturing companies still base their production on a few seasoned employees who have a high level of knowledge about how the process should be in order to ensure that the final product is in order. This results…

Learning

2017.06.13

Exercise improves learning retention for kids

University of Copenhagen study demonstrates that exercise immediately after learning improves learning retention among children.

New basic research center:

2017.04.19

New astronomy center will reveal the cosmic dawn

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is a new basic research centre funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in close collaboration with DTU Space.

X-ray microscopy:

2017.04.12

An important step towards new malaria medicine

An international research team, led by Sergey Kapishnikov and Jens Als-Nielsen from the X-ray and Neutron Science section at the Niels Bohr Institute, has developed new techniques in analyzing malaria infected red blood…

New funding

2017.03.23

Ice core-researcher, astrophysicist and computer scientist honoured by VILLUM FONDEN

Professors Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jens Hjorth and Mikkel Thorup of the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science, are among 11 Danish research heavyweights to receive up to 40 million kroner each from the VILLUM FONDEN…

Vaccines

2017.03.23

New vaccine concept to eradicate dreaded bacterial disease in fish

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new type of vaccine in collaboration with a Danish biotech company to participate in eradicating the unpleasant bacterial disease furunculosis amongst both…

Good advice

2017.03.20

Universities want to help companies benefit from materials research of the future

How might Danish firms large and small make use of the world’s most powerful neutron and X-ray microscopes for product development? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the Technical…

Food Quality

2017.03.09

Surprise: Transport proteins evolved long before their compounds emerged

Danish scientists from the DynaMo Center, University of Copenhagen, bridge an important gap that changes our understanding of the evolution of plant transport proteins.

Prize

2017.02.27

Elite Research Prize won by a mathematician in a league of his own

On February 23, Professor Søren Galatius of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences received one of five Elite Research Prizes presented annually by the Minister for Higher Education and…

Fermentation

2017.02.20

Fermentation creates sustainable growth in the West African food sector

In West Africa, spontaneously fermented foods are deeply embedded in the food culture and the population has a great deal of knowledge about how these foods should be produced. This knowledge has been handed down over…

Climate

2017.02.06

World renown climate expert to become professor

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen to take up professorship at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute on March 1st. As an internationally recognized expert and one of the main authors of a UN Climate Change…

Annual Award

2017.01.23

Danish astronomer to receive major research award

Jens Hjorth, professor and director of the Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen, will receive the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in Science and Technology on January 23, 2017. The 5 million kroner…

Video

2017.01.16

The Indonesian fermented food tempe in Scandinavian context

Head Chef at the Nordic Food Lab, University of Copenhagen, Roberto Flore on how the lab is exploring the traditional Indonesian food tempe in a Scandinavian context. Research Intern Anna Loraine Hartmann on the…

WEIGHT LOSS AND PSORIASIS

2016.12.22

Weight loss reduces psoriasis symptoms

Weight loss has a significant and prolonged positive impact on psoriasis symptoms and quality of life. The findings stem from a study conducted by Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, in collaboration with the University of…

dairy engineer

2016.12.14

Dairy engineer heads leading biotech center

The managing director of the research and innovation consortium BIOPRO, Jesper Bryde-Jacobsen, is educated as a dairy engineer. The education gives him a solid background for making strategic decisions, which are rooted…

origins of agriculture

2016.12.05

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication

Recent archaeological studies have suggested that the cultivation of morphologically wild plant species (pre-domestication cultivation), a precursor of agriculture, developed across southwest Asia around 11,600-10,700…

AWARD

2016.11.21

FOOD Professor Rasmus Bro receives the first Nils Foss Excellence Prize

The first recipient of the Nils Foss Excellence Prize is Professor Rasmus Bro, who works with advanced data analysis at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen. Rasmus Bro has worked tirelessly to…

AWARD

2016.11.21

Bekzod Khakimov received the first Nils Foss Talent Prize

Bekzod Khakimov, from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, is the first recipient of the Nils Foss Talent Prize. He has a PhD in Metabolomics from 2013 and is continuing building the Foodomics…

WHALE SHARK DNA

2016.11.21

Whale shark genetics revealed by water samples

How many whale sharks can fit into a liter of water? From just a few water samples collected off the coast of Qatar, scientists at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Qatar Ministry of Environment and…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

New interdisciplinary research group at FOOD sees food science as a path to better health

In recent years, the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen has had an increased research focus on how food affects human health. This focus cuts across department disciplines, so FOOD has…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

Food scientists hunting for biological “blood trail” left by muscles

Already at the age of 50, we begin to lose muscle mass (called sarcopenia), which increases our risk for diseases, resulting in a loss of quality of life and costing society dearly. But if we easily can screen all older…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

Food research prevents illness in infants

Associate Professor Dereck Chatterton at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen has spent more than 15 years carrying out research in order to improve infant formula for children who cannot be…

arctic diet

2016.11.08

Earliest greenlanders had whale for dinner

Test pit in the midden at Fladstrand, East Greenland, with bone remains and a clearly visible stratigraphy. Copyright and credits: Jens Fog Jensen (jens.jensen@snm.ku.dk), Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum…

Pancreatitis

2016.11.08

Blood fats equals risk of pancreatitis

New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that mild to moderate levels of blood fats equals an increased risk developing acute pancreatitis. It is far more serious than we previously believed it to be,…

New times

2016.11.07

Danish research centre on threshold of quantum revolution

Within a few decades, quantum physics will reshape society as we know it. This will include the quantum computer, among other things, now being developed by researchers worldwide. The Villum Foundation has provided 30…