News about Science

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data processing facilities at CERN, so that in the future we can increase our knowledge about the early state of the Universe.

Congratulations to Johannes Lohmann

Congratulations to Johannes Lohmann at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis Monday 5 November 2018.

Laís Ozelin de Lima Pimentel

Charged-particle multiplicity distributions in p-Pb collisions at √ sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE

Abraham Pais Prize awarded to Helge Kragh

The American Physical Society has awarded the 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh.

CLIMACCESS workshop at CSIR-INSTI

Undertaking the role of a partner in an internationally funded research and capacity building project is a relatively new and promising role for CSIR-INSTI. The aim of the workshop was to increase the general knowledge…

Caroline M. Nielsen

Dispersion Measurements of AlGaAs Microring Resonators Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Stefan M. Rathmann

Studies of collective spontaneous emission Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Doubts and dialogue may alter public perceptions of science

Science projects within controversial fields such as synthetic biology could benefit from experimenting with communication settings in which experts share their thoughts and feelings with each other and the public. This…

Biomarker in ovarian cancer patients linked to longer survival

High levels of the protein CT45 is associated with longer survival in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. The discovery published today in the scientific journal Cell is made by researchers from Germany, the USA and…

Microsoft and University of Copenhagen are building the world’s first, scalable quantum computer in Lyngby

Minister of Higher Education and Science, Tommy Ahlers (V) is cutting the ribbon today when the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab opens in Lyngby in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of…

CLIMACCESS presentation at Open-Day (CSIR-INSTI)

The overall objectives, work packages and methodologies of the project was successfully presented to participants at the annual Open-Day event at CSIR-INSTI.

David Cirauqui Garcia

OPTOMECHANICAL QUANTUM MEMORY FOR PHOTON STORAGE Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Official opening of Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q)

The official opening of the new Center of Excellence, Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) was celebrated on September 17 in Festauditoriet at the Faculty of Science.

Hubble searches for the origin of the first galaxies

How did the first galaxies come to be? The Buffalo project, a new Hubble Frontier Fields Program to study the first galaxies with the The Hubble Space Telescope has started to conduct a large survey.

Dóra Kovács

Title: Characterizing the ice-ocean interaction at the Upernavik Glacier using in-situ and satellite observations Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Congratulations to Marius Simonsen

Congratulations to Marius Folden Simonsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday 31 August 2018.

Two PhD students are enrolled

Two of the expected three students have been enrolled for the 4 year PhD program at the University of Ghana. The project partners welcome Abubakari Abdallah who will focus primarily on work package A and Prince Gyekye…

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…