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Can AI help us design better and safer RNA-based pesticides?

New biopesticides are designed to target only harmful pest organisms and leave other beneficial insects unaffected. Explainer by PhD fellow Lorenzo Favaro.

Student Assistant for NQCP

About us We are a talented and diverse international team working at the forefront of quantum science, based in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. At the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen—where the…

A common diabetes drug may slow the progression of atrial fibrillation

By using horses as a translational animal model, researchers from the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences have shown that metformin, a known diabetes drug, can slow the progression of atrial fibrillation (AF).

Copenhagen researchers make the front page of Nature: Solving the mystery of the universe's ‘little red dots’

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the world. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have explained these enigmatic…

Copenhagen researchers make the front page of Nature: Solving the mystery of the universe's ‘little red dots’

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the world. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have explained these enigmatic…

Daisy Newsletter No. 43 is Online

Read about the latest updates in Daisy, this year’s PhD course taking place in August at the University of Bayreuth, and the upcoming Daisy user lunch meetings. All this and more in the latest edition of the semi-annual…

NQCP Engineer on Silicon Quantum Emitters

Role description You will be part of a thriving quantum eco-system at the Niels Bohr Institute interacting with international/national collaborators, participating in leading research efforts in the development of…

Demo/workshop: ZEISS Lattice SIM 5

CAB is happy to announce that from the 20th to 23rd of January and 3rd to 6th of February, we host a demo/workshop at Frederiksberg campus, where ZEISS will present their Lattice SIM 5 microscope, offering gentle super…

How Many Ghost Particles All the Milky Way’s Stars Send Towards Earth

Every second, a trillion of the elusive ghost particles, the neutrinos, pass straight through your body. Now, astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen have mapped how many ghost particles all the stars in the…

How Many Ghost Particles All the Milky Way’s Stars Send Towards Earth

Every second, a thousand billion of the elusive ghost particles, the neutrinos, pass straight through your body. Now, astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen have mapped how many ghost particles all the stars…

Development History of the Universe is Being Rewritten Based on a Bachelor’s Project from NBI

The largest structures in the universe are galaxy clusters—groups of galaxies held together by gravity. Their developmental history is now being rewritten—thanks to a student’s bachelor project.

Martin Pessah receives a Semper Ardens Accomplish grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

One of the central open problems in gravitational-wave astrophysics is identifying the environments in which black hole binaries form, evolve, and eventually merge to produce the events we detect. This research program…

Danish chemist's invention could make counterfeiting a thing of the past

Every year, companies lose billions of kroner when goods are copied or illegally resold. But a new digital and legally binding fingerprint developed at the University of Copenhagen makes products impossible to…

PERMA Full-Scale Methane Eradication Photochemical System (MEPS)

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and partners are developing a Danish photochemical technology that can remove up to 90% of methane, ammonia, and odor, from barn air—paving the way for low-methane milk…

PhD Project in Laser Enhanced Fabrication of Quantum Devices

NQCP invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in Laser Enhanced Fabrication of Quantum Devices. Start date is 01.06.2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The project State-of-the-art quantum devices will need…

From Archived Brains to Future Psychiatry: Revealing the role of infection in mental health

One of five projects under the new SUND Collaborates initiatives by the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH goes to Associate Professor Sandra Breum Andersen from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics. Her…

Professor Benedikte Brincker awarded DFF grant for Arctic project on Greenlandic youths’ views on climate change

From 2026 and over a four-year period, Professor Benedikte Brincker from Department of Sociology will lead a research project examining how Greenlandic youths experience and perceive climate change. The project has just…

UCPH Chemistry receives DKK 19 million grant from the new "Villum Infrastructure Programme"

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Kirsten Marie Ørnsbjerg Jensen, Assistant Professor Rebecca Pittkowski, and Assistant Professor Sara López Paz with the DKK 19 million grant from the new…

Danish-led space mission to map the lunar surface

The University of Copenhagen will lead Denmark’s first lunar mission. The mission aims to map the Moon’s surface in unprecedented detail to make it safer to land on the Moon and construct bases in the future.

Danish-led space mission to map the lunar surface

The University of Copenhagen will lead Denmark’s first lunar mission. The mission aims to map the Moon’s surface in unprecedented detail to make it safer to land on the Moon and construct bases in the future.

Double degree PhD student Ludovica Preite

Ludovica Preite has started as a new PhD student at the University of Sydney and University of Copenhagen, in a double PhD degree position.

Welcome to Allan Jønsson

Allan Jønsson is the new project manager for CHEM’s relocation to NBB. With more than 10 years of experience, he will serve as the key liaison ensuring that research groups’ needs are reflected in the new building.

Christmas at the Øresund Aquarium

It's Christmas again, and we've got lots of fun planned for the whole of December.

Luigi Pigna

Luigi Pigna is a PhD candidate in Public, Comparative and International Law at Sapienza University of Rome.