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Tommaso Pregnalato

Deterministic quantum photonic devices based on self-assembled quantum dots Supervisors: Professor Peter Lodahl & Assistant Professor Nir Rotenberg

Vincent Elfving

Quantum Information Processing with Quantum Optical Systems Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Farmers to use insects as their new livestock

From 2008-2013 the idea developed and since it has been met with great interest from farmers and especially the media. Nanna Roos wants to create a food production of insects and her first endeavors to achieve this took…

Johann Sebastian Kollath-Bönig

Cavity-based quantum memory for light with inhomogeneously coupled atoms Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

CLIMACCESS project initiation

All participants from the three partner institutions are ready to start working. Preparations for the Kick-off/Inception workshop takes place in Accra and Copenhagen. Click to read more about the planned activities of…

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives a Villum Young Investigator grant on 7.350.000 DDK for…

Giorgos Leloudas receives 10 million DKK to investigate the “blackest” of black holes in the Universe

The research in the black holes in the center of galaxies gets a boost on 10 million DKK with a Villum Young Investigator grant to assistant professor Giorgos Leloudas at DARK Cosmology Centre.

Lars Egstrøm Kristensen receives 9.3 million DKK to look for the building blocks of life in the Universe

From dead molecules to life – but how? Lars Egstrøm Kristensen, associate professor at the Astro and Planetary research section, has received 9.368.760 DKK from the Villum Young Investigator programme.

Mark Rudner receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s teaching award 2017

At the Niels Bohr Institute's annual kick-off meeting on January 25, 2018, the Jens Martin Prize was awarded to Mark Spencer Rudner for his education at the bachelor's degree "Condensed Matter Physics 1 (CMP1)".

Adam S. Knorr & Ida L. Stoustrup

Locking an Optical Cavity using a Microcontroller Academic supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Technical Brief #5 Nutrition

GREEiNSECT Technical Brief #5 on Nutrition of insects as food released

Technical Brief #4 Gastronomy

GREEiNSECT Brief #4 on insect gastronomy released

Congratulations to Signe Hillerup Larsen

Congratulations to Signe Hillerup Larsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Thursday 14 December 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Climate research receives a 4.5 million DKK grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

Carlsberg Foundation supports a climate project with 4.5 million DKK grant, that will provide new knowledge about the mechanisms of the sudden climate change of the past, improving our ability to handle the risk of the…

Sissel Bay Nielsen

Prospects of Sterile Neutrino Search with the FCC-ee Supervisor: Mogens Dam

Jack Christopher Hutchinson Rolph

Measurement of the total p-p cross section using the ALFA detector at √s = 13 TeV Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen

Jan Haerter receives DKK 10 million for research on atmospheric complexity

Jan Haerter from the Atmospheric Complexity Group at the Niels Bohr Institute receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of DKK 10 million for research on cloud-cloud interaction and for better understanding of the climate…

Qubits put into reverse

A group of scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, has figured out how to make spin qubits perform controlled backward rotations. This has never been shown before.

Women in Physics Prize 2017 awarded to up and coming astrophysicist Sarah Pearson

Together with the well-deserved KIF prize of 5000 Danish crowns, Christina Nis, Professor MSO at Roskilde University and member of the KiF Prize award committee, delivered these fine words to the Columbia-based Phd…

From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team measuring neutrino interaction at energy levels 1000 times higher than what can be attained in man-made particle…

Jürgen Schukraft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2017

Jürgen Schukraft, one the world’s leading physicists in the study of the Quark Gluon Plasma, has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2017. He is a member of the DISCOVERY (DNRF) center of excellence…

Eugene Polzik receives DKK 10 million for fundamental research and innovation in quantum optics

QUANTOP at the Niels Bohr Institute has attracted DKK 10 million funding from two funding agencies, the John Templeton Foundation (USA) and EUREKA – the European framework targeting cooperation between SMEs and research…

Anja C. Andersen has been awarded the Danish Authors' Society Literary Prize 2017

The prize has previously been awarded, among others, to Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, Tor Nørretranders, Jørn Lund, Peter Øvig Knudsen, Jens Andersen, Ulrik Langen and Søren Ryge. This year, the prize is shared between Anja C.…

Ink from ancient Egyptian papyri contains copper

Until recently, it was assumed that the ink used for writing was primarily carbon-based at least until the fourth and fifth centuries AD. But in a new University of Copenhagen study, analyses of 2,000-year-old papyri…