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Magdalena Maria Otap

Title: Creating and Testing Astronomy Teaching Packages for an Online Ressource Supervisors: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo, Marianne Achiam

Quantum-entangled light from a vibrating membrane

Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,…

Sarah Pearson receives the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship

Former Niels Bohr Institute student, Sarah Pearson, has just been awarded one of the most prestigious research fellowships in astrophysics, the so-called Hubble Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded annually by NASA…

SODAS-project to study social networks by using data from mobile payment transactions

SODAS researchers David Dreyer Lassen and Sune Lehmann have received DKK 19.7 million from VILLUM FONDEN for their project 'Nation-scale social networks'. Using population data and data about mobile payment transactions…

SODAS researchers to be part of team studying our social behavior during the Covid-19 epidemic

As a direct result of the spread of the Corona virus and the acute health crisis in Denmark and the rest of the world, the Carlsberg Foundation grants DKK 25 million to a new Semper Ardens project to investigate behavio…

Jan de Boer

Forward Physics and Scintillating Fibre Trackers at the Large Hadron Collider Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Work on the CLIMACCESS survey has begun

After the last round of fieldwork in November, we have now begun formulating the questions for the CLIMACCESS survey and plan the data collection strategy. Click to read more.

New Ice Core Storage facility at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Official inauguration on 11 March

The researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, are world leading in climate research based on ice cores. The ice core research at the institute dates back slightly more than 50 years and takes it…

Isabella Chi Gieseler Cortzen

A view into the interstellar medium of galaxies across cosmic time Supervisors: Associate Professor Georgios Magdis and Professor Sune Toft

Quantum technology in fibre-optic networks will protect against hacks

A new research project and nearly DKK 18 million (€2.4 million) from Innovation Fund Denmark will transform 15 years of quantum research at the University of Copenhagen into commercial products for unhackable encryption…

Size does matter: People with longer thumbs mistype on their phones more often

People with long thumbs have a tougher time hitting the right phone keys. According to a recent study from the University of Copenhagen, thumb length accounts for 12 percent of touch errors on smart phones.

Coincidences influence the onset and ending of ice ages

An analysis of the so called climate spectrum shows why the ice ages have not behaved precisely as the models predict. A large element of coincidence is involved when an ice age begins or ends, the analysis shows. Peter…

New scientific paper on the spatial extension of the Accra agglomeration

Data on the size and extension of Accra is important for assessing the mobility and accessibility consequences of flooding. This CLIMACCESS paper compares different estimates from literature, discusses the differences i…

Janani Venkatesh

An improved Gas-CFA system for methane measurements and preliminary results from the Dye-3 ice core Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Three young scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Three young scientists, Mauricio Bustamante, Amin Doostmohammadi and Johan Samsing get to boost their research in particle physics, self-pumping fluids and gravitational waves in the Universe.

Anna Maria Klüssendorf

Studies Of Dansgaard-Oeschger Climate Events From Greenland Ice Cores Supervisor: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

CHIRAG MURENDRANATH PATIL

Experiments on Glide-Symmetric Photonic-CrystalWaveguides Supervisor: ALBERT SCHLIESSER

The core of massive dying galaxies already formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang

The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of these systems had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang…

Vojtech PACÍK

Investigation of azimuthal anisotropy using multi-particle correlations of identified hadrons at the LHC with ALICE detector

Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesell¬schaft (DPG) have named OSA Fellow Eugene S. Polzik, the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, the 2020 recipient of the Herbert Wather Award.…

Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies far beyond previous beliefs, says new study from the Niels Bohr Institute

Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This is the…

Mapping the digital impact of interest groups on politicians and the public

Professor of Political Science Anne Rasmussen is set to receive a DKK 15 million ERC Consolidator Grant to study how interest groups’ use of digital forms of communication (e.g. tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook posts an…

Professor Charles Marcus awarded the Industrial Award 2019 from The Danish Academy of Natural Sciences

This year’s recipient of the Industrial Award is Charles Marcus, Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute and Scientific Director of Microsoft Quantum – Copenhagen.

Suk Joo Ko

Spectroscopy of red Quasars Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo