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Jesper Nygård appointed professor of experimental solid-state physics

The University of Copenhagen has appointed Jesper Nygård from the Niels Bohr Institute to a new professorship in experimental solid-state physics.

Partner meeting in Copenhagen

The first regular partner meeting has been held in Copenhagen. On the agenda were general discussions and plans for the way forward, the final selection of field sites and initial methodological training activities.

Christian Zhou Raahauge

Cavity Enhanced Molecular Clocks and Their Applications Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Mathias Bouchacourt

Towards Continuous Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy on Cold Atoms Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Mikkel Tang

Modeling Lasing in a Thermal Strontium Ensemble Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Carlos Reyes

The crustal and sedimentary structure of the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean, derived from seismic Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

New observations link gigantic star collisions to homeless short duration gamma ray bursts

Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have been involved in detecting a beam of light that provides a link between neutron star mergers and short duration gamma ray bursts. The result is no…

Mikkel Jensen

Environmentally induced neutrino decoherence in IceCube Advisors: Dr. David Jason Koskinen and Dr. Thomas Simon Stuttard

Milky Way type dust particles discovered in a galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth

An international research team, with participation from the Niels Bohr Institute, has found the same type of interstellar dust that we know from the Milky Way in a distant galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth.

Sociologist Deborah Lupton to be awarded honorary doctor

Professor Deborah Lupton will be awarded with an honorary doctorate at the University of Copenhagen. Lupton was nominated by the Department of Sociology.

Kick-off/Inception workshop in Accra

The Kick-off workshop was organized by the Ghanaian partners. It took place at the Alisa Hotel in Accra with participation from a number of stake holders and all project partners. Click to read more...

Partner meeting and excursions in Accra

In connection with the Inception workshop, all partners met in Accra for project meetings and excursions to flood prone areas.

Jesper Rask Pedersen

No slip lateral boundary conditions for Veros Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Thorsten Bæk and Ryan Yde

Optical magnetometry - Exploration of an optical caesium vapor magnetometer and the possibilities for unshielded measurements Supervisor: Kasper Jensen

Carlos F. D. Faurby

DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTION ANALYSIS IN COUPLING OF LIGHT TO SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS Supervisors: Anders S. Sørensen and Sumanta K. Das

Michael Zugenmaier

Towards a room temperature single photon source based on atomic vapour Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have recently provided the scientific community with a much-needed computer model.

Charles Marcus elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Charles Marcus on being elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Charles Marcus is a professor and Center Director of the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr…

From musician to professor of quantum physics

Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen has had a meteoric career in a complex area of research and after only a relatively short period of time in the world of physics, and he can now call himself a professor of quantum physics.

Nyfødt reagensglaskalv

Nyfødt reagensglaskalv kan blive starten på en revolutionering af dansk kvægavl.

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives grant of 4.4 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for Microphysics of the…

Project web site and data repositories established

Project activities and outcomes will be documented at a web site hosted by the University of Copenhagen. A shared OneDrive repository will be used to facilitate exchange and dissemination of project material between the…

Eugene Polzik receives ERC Advanced Grant for the second time, this time for 16.2 million DKK

Since the ERC Advanced Grant was established ten years ago in 2008, 50 of these special grants have been awarded to Danish researchers. Eugene Polzik is the first researcher from Denmark who has been awarded this grant…

Tower Talks with Soeren Brunak

The general public is showing increasing interest in the health and medical sciences. DR has named 2018 ‘science year’ and is e.g. currently airing the series Din geniale krop (Your Brilliant Body), to which several…