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CLIMACCESS presentation at Geomatic and Geospatial Technology

Preliminary results concerning the suitability of methods for urban spatial mapping and for analyzing how flooding of individual roads may impact daily commuting from the fringe areas of Accra areas was presented at the…

Estelle L. Ngoumtsa

A new reconstruction of climatic impurities in the Sub-Antarctic region - Continuous Flow Analysis of the SubICE firn cores: Mertz, Siple, Bouvet, Peter-First, Young Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Paul Vallelonga

Mikkel Stockmann

Genesis of Giants - Massive Galaxy Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years Supervisor: Prof. Sune Toft

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

Researchers from the section Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth (PICE) have succeeded in making a method to enlighten an otherwise dark period in climate history.

Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies, linking dark matter to galaxy formation

An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion light years away using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes in Hawaii.

New discoveries map out CRISPR-Cas defence systems in bacteria

For the first time ever, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have mapped how bacterial cells trigger their defence against outside attacks. This could affect how diseases are fought in the future.

Quantum Alchemy: Researchers use laser light to transform metal into magnet

Pioneering physicists from the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a way to get non-magnetic materials to make themselves magnetic by way of laser light.

3 researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive grants from Villum Fonden

VILLUM FONDEN awards DKK 98.5 million in grants to 52 bold research projects within the technical and natural sciences. For the third year running, VILLUM FONDEN has selected innovative research projects to receive…

Ida Torkjellsdatter Storehaug

Improving the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Estimation in IceCube Supervisor: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen

Mia-Louise Nielsen

Transient Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube-DeepCore Supervisors: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen and Dr. Morten A. Medici

Steffen Ole Randrup Kristensen

Extending the Veros climate simulator with biochemistry - Model design and AMOC collapse Supervisors: Brian Vinter & Markus Jochum

THOMAS S. HALBERG

Low Energy Neutrino Reconstruction in IceCube and the ICU Advisor: D. Jason Koskinen Co-advisor: Tom Stuttard

Lea Halser

Neutrino Fluence of Gamma-Ray Bursts for Arbitrary Viewing Angles Supervisor: Assi. Prof. Markus Ahlers

Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

Associate Professor Irene Tamborra at the Niels Bohr Institute receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award. The prize was presented to her during the opening ceremony of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC)…

Martin Romme Henriksen

Optical Frequency References

UAV/Drone-based Lidar data collection in Accra

UAV-based Lidar data collection has taken place as planned in three selected areas for a period of 10 days following extensive preparations involving equipment, training, location scouting and legal aspects. The joint…

Leonardo Krapp

Multispecies Dynamics in Weakly Ionized Dusty Protoplanetary Disks Supervisor: Oliver Lothar Gressel

Cecilie Sand Nørholm

The Effect of Protoclusters on the Properties of Lyman-Alpha Emitters Supervisors: Francesco Valentino, Georgios Magdis, and Sune Toft

Probing the beginning of the Universe can soon be done more accurately

As many as 200 telescopes will be erected, in order to achieve the highest possible precision in measuring the radiation from the Universe.

Stefan Alaric Schäffer

Cavity-enhanced optical clocks Supervisor: Prof. Jan W. Thomsen

Eva María González Ruiz

Study of InGaAs quantum dots as single-photon sources for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Pol Llopart Mirambell

Fidelity characterization of spin-photon entangled states Supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

NSF Awards Funding for the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is about to get a significant upgrade. The World's largest neutrino telescope, located at the South Pole, is run by an international team of more than 300 scientists, including a group a…

A New Upgrade for the IceCube Detector

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica is about to get a significant upgrade. The purpose of this huge installation is to detect neutrinos, the “ghost particles” of the Universe.