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Master defense by Matilde Garcia

On June 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM in room HB1 at the Niels Bohr Institute, Matilde Garcia will defend her master thesis supervised by Associate Professor Jose Maria Ezquiaga.

Presentation to the Ministry of Climate and Energy

The Coastal Conflicts project presented the findings of the research to the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy.

Tshifhiwa Bernard Magoro

Bernard is a LLM student from the North Sea Energy Law Program under the supervision of Beatriz Martinez Romera.

Emilie Victoria Nørgaard Elkjær

Emilie specializes in climate and energy law, holding an LL.M. from the University of Groningen and currently studying at the University of Copenhagen.

Emilie Victoria Nørgaard Elkjær

Emilie holds an LL.M. in Energy and Climate Law and is now pursuing a second master’s in climate and energy law at the University of Copenhagen.

Tshifhiwa Bernard Magoro

Bernard is a LLM student from the North Sea Energy Law Program under the supervision of Beatriz Martinez Romera.

Zvi Bern receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2024

Zvi Bern is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute of Honour for his remarkable list of scientific achievements in theoretical physics. His association with the Niels Bohr Institute goes back more than 40 years.

Call for abstracts: Extreme heat and health in the context of climate change

The goal of this symposium is to highlight a global health emergency: The impact of extreme heat on public health due to climate change.

Annual BBQ 2025

The annual BBQ was held again this year on Constitution day, the 5th of June. The theme for this year was Mexico.

Climate crisis pressures the ‘Arctic giant’: Habitats risk disappearing completely

Climate change poses a serious threat to the habitats of the bowhead whale, which may shrink by up to 75 percent by the end of the century.

A 1960s idea inspires NBI researchers to study hitherto inaccessible quantum states

Scientists have created a new way to study the highly volatile quantum states in superconducting vortices, whose existence has been known since the 1960s, but it has been very difficult to verify them directly, until…

Interview with Rico Kongsager

COPE interviews Rico Kongsager, Associate Professor at University College Copenhagen and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His research focuses on climate resilience in Nordic communities, and…

All you wanted to know about black hole spectroscopy

Black holes vibrate, like stars, or guitar strings. The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential.

The USE Center seeks visionary leader to transform university science teaching

The USE Center is looking for an experienced discipline-based education researcher to lead the mission of strengthening science education.

Whitsun holiday at the Øresund Aquarium

Come and enjoy fun and exciting activities during the Whitsun holiday and experience sea creatures up close.

Veterinarians to comment on veterinary issues outside their area of expertise

Ethical question of the month, March 2025 Is it ethical for veterinarians to use their credentials to act as an “expert” despite having limited or no knowledge of the issues in another aspect of veterinary medicine? Thi…

Look up in June

Read here (in Danish) about the star trinity in the bright June night sky.

Environmental Dynamics in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

With the upcoming launch of the LISA mission, scientists will detect gravitational waves at lower frequencies than ever before, and this will bring new data on galactic centres and the monstrous black holes that reside…

Cosmic Waltz

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters shows that electromagnetic observations of stars

Galaxies Best Paper Award

The paper "Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope” by the ngEHT collaboration, where Vitor Cardoso was Working Group leader and Yifan Chen Topic Leader, was selected as the winner of the…

Green transition to be “the new normal” for future farmers

The FEAST research project has received DKK 4.75 million from Innovation Fund Denmark, AgriFoodTure and NextGenerationEU to anchor sustainability theory and practice in agricultural education institutions through…

Important: Import/Export Services Unavailable June 23 – July 18

Important Notice: AEM's Import/Export Unit is closed from June 23rd to July 18th due to the summer holiday.

New species named after CMEC researcher

New species of skink has been named in honor of Harith Farooq for his work on reptile fauna.

Center Coordinator retreat 2025

From September 1, 2025, the new Center of Gravity funded by the Danish National Research Foundation will officially start.