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Maria Cavallius

Dark energy parametrization driven bias in cosmological parameter estimation Academic Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen and Stefania Pandolf

Florentin Reiter

Dissipative preparation of entanglement in quantum optical and solid state systems

ERC grants for two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Two researchers from NBI, Albert Schliesser, Assistant Professor in Quantum Optics and Oliver Gressel, Assistant Professor in Astrophysics and Planetary Science has received grants totalling more than 21 million kroner…

Allison Man

Galaxy Evolution Over the Past Eleven Billion Years: Mergers and Quiescence Advisor: Sune Toft Co-advisor: Andrew Zirm

Heng Shen

Spin squeezing and entanglement with room temperature atoms for quantum sensing and communication Academic supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Malte Nordmann Winther

Continous measurements of Nitrous Oxide isotopomers produced by nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria

INTERNATIONAL TEAM MAPS "BIG BANG" OF BIRD EVOLUTION

The genomes of modern birds tell a story of how they emerged and evolved after the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and almost everything else 66 million years ago.

Green light for construction of the E-ELT

The ESO Council has now decided to start building the new large European telescope E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) on 1 January 2015. This begins the first phase of construction of the world’s largest…

Congratulations to Antje Fitzner

Congratulations to Antje Fitzner from Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended her PhD thesis on December 1st. 2014 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Asger Grønnow

Mergers produce outliers from the fundamental metallicity relation Academic Supervisors: Kristian Finlator and Lise Christensen

Maria Arvaniti

Title: Application of Contactless Conductivity Detection to Ice Core Analysis

Jérôme Chappellaz receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s Medal of Honour

Jérôme Chappellaz is a glaciologist and the director of LGGE in Grenoble, France. He researches ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland and analyses the atmospheric composition in order to reconstruct past natural…

Stefan L. Christensen

Generation of exotic quantum states of a cold atomic ensemble Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik Additional supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Jürgen Appel and Assoc. Prof. Jörg H. Müller

Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. Research from DARK shows that precise distances can be measured using supermassive black holes. The results are now published in…

Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now research from the Niels Bohr Institute demonstrates that…

Eugene Polzik receives Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award

Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute has received the 2014 Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award for Science and Technology.

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious pheno- menon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space in connection with two galaxies colliding. This may be due to gravitational waves from the…

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious phenomenon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space in connection with two galaxies colliding. This may be due to gravitational waves from the…

Scientists model the formation of the oldest known star in the Milky Way

Scientists have modelled the formation of the oldest known star in the Milky Way using high-resolution computer simulations.

Ancient genomes show the European meta-population

DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and the deep shared ancestry of Europeans.

Johannes Borregaard

Quantum repeaters and atomic ensembles

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General. She will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years.

Jesper Mirsa Skottfelt

Improving Lucky Imaging Photometry Using the Two-Colour EMCCD Instrument at the Danish 1.54m telescope Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Charlotte Ditlevsen

Title: Electrical Conductivity Measurements (ECM) of Greenland ice cores