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Daisy User meetings - Spring 2025

This spring, we will host Daisy User Lunch meetings every first Wednesday of the month from 12.30-13.30. The meetings will take place physically at PLEN, in room T532, Thorvaldsensvej 40, and online. For a link to the…

Interdisciplinary research team wins NNF award for their teaching

Professor Liza Rosenbaum Nielsen and Associate Professor Nathalia Brichet from the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences have been awarded the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Prize for Interdisciplinary Educators for…

New paper: "Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis"

DISTRACT researcher Hjalmar Bang Carlsen and co-author Jonas Toubøl have just published the article “Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis” in the journal Social Media…

Nyt nationalt center skal styrke ansvarlig brug af kunstig intelligens

Som led i et strategisk initiativ for kunstig intelligens har regeringen taget et banebrydende skridt: Et nationalt center for kunstig intelligens i samfundet – CAISA – er sat i søen, og Københavns Universitet får samme…

Phd Course August 2025

This years PhD course on Daisy will take place 25/08 - 29/08 at Copenhagen University. See the flyer here and register for the course through the PhD. course catalogue of Copenhagen University. If you have any…

Junior Qubit Characterization Engineer at the NNF Quantum Computing Programme

NQCP is looking for a junior qubit characterization engineer to support our qubit characterization efforts. In this role, you will participate in the development, characterization and calibration of particularly our…

Social media, democracy, and the labor movement: How battles for control on Facebook affect unions

In a new article in Journal of Industrial Relations Mark Friis Hau and Nana Wesley Hansen explores the transformative power of social media communication in the labor movement.

We are facing a technological revolution, and Denmark can lead the way

Morten Axel Pedersen is one of the authors of the recently published opinion piece entitled “Forskere: Vi står over for en teknologisk revolution, og Danmark kan vise vejen” (EN: “Researchers: We are facing a…

James Webb discovers earliest sign of the Universe becoming transparent

The first galaxies in the Universe were born enshrouded in a “foggy” gas, and could not be seen clearly until they had cleared up this fog. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by astronomers…

János Takátsy and Lorenz Zwick receive EU MSCA Fellowships

2 EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

Lecturer creates app to help his non-coding students

Throughout both Farhad Panah’s Ph.D. and during his 3 years as a lecturer on the Microbiome Analysis course, he has longed for a better tool to perform the analyses than the ones on offer. Last summer, he built that too…

Major bird study could help us fight the next pandemic

New study uncovers the intricate factors that drive the evolution of genomes.

Major bird study could help us fight the next pandemic

New study uncovers the intricate factors that drive the evolution of genomes.

Major bird study could help us fight the next pandemic

New study uncovers the intricate factors that drive the evolution of genomes.

Behavioral genetic analysis on dogs

The aim of this study is to describe personality traits in eight dog breeds using the Behaviour and Personality Description in Dogs (BPH) test, and subsequently to assess their heritability.

How much do people really care about animal welfare?

Professor Peter Sandøe participated in the Animal Welfare Seminar 2025 - 'Animal ethics and animal welfare - values informing outcomes' organized by RSPCA Australia. Peter gave a talk on peoples attitudes to animals and…

Morten Axel Pedersen in CPHDOX debate: AI and art in focus

On the 30th of March, Morten Axel Pedersen will participate in a conversation with Rasmus Kloster Bro, Janet Frances Rafner and Kristoffer Ørum about how AI is changing artistic creation. The debate is hosted as part of…

PhD Defence Jonas Thomsen

Congratulations to Jonas Thomsen on the successful defense of his PhD.

Postdoctoral position in biological modelling for quantum computing

NQCP and the Lindorff-Larsen Group at the Department of Biology are looking for a motivated postdoc to work across the two groups with modelling biological systems with a view to applications for quantum computing. The…

Core samples from Greenland's seabed provide first historical overview of plastic pollution

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have obtained the first historical record of plastic pollution in Greenland. The new data…

Daisy 7 available for all platforms

The new Daisy version 7 is now available for all platforms 🌼 featuring a new SOM-turnover-parameterization, a new ammonium-sorption parameterization, new standard definitions for colloids and tracers and a new option to…

Galaxies do not affect black hole spectroscopy

When a black hole is disturbed, it “rings” like a bell before settling down - a phenomenon known as black hole ringdown. The study of the vibration modes of black holes is called spectroscopy, in analogy with atomic…

Strong students write paper in ´Lenshouse´

A group of the Strong PhD students, Juno Chan, Conor Dyson, Jaime Redondo-Yuste, and Luka Vujeva, along with a master's student, Matilde Garcia, set out on a research retreat in order to produce a paper in just one week

European Research Award to Johan Samsing

Johan Samsing receives the European MERAC award 2025 for "Best Early Career Researcher" from the European Astronomical Society for his groundbreaking contribution to Gravitational Wave Astrophysics.