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Catching a glimpse of the gamma-ray burst engine

A gamma-ray burst registered in December of 2017 turns out to be “one of the closets GRBs ever observed”. The discovery is featured in Nature – and it has yielded valuable information about the formation of the most…

In VR boys learn best when the teacher is a drone – girls learn better from virtual Marie

The teacher is just as important in a virtual learning environment as in a normal classroom, but a new study shows that boys and girls differ greatly in terms of how they learn best.

Christian Terkelsen Holme

Stable water isotope variability as a proxy of past temperatures Supervisor: Bo M. Vinther

Emilie Capron receives international Early-Career Scientist Award

Emilie Capron received the IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) Early Career Scientist Award for her outstanding research in Earth Sciences and her international research cooperation. She is currently…

Andreas Barg

Optomechanics with soft-clamped silicon nitride membranes and carrier-mediated forces in coupled quantum wells Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Department of Computer Science main driver of two new STEM educations

From the summer of 2019, two new STEM bachelor educations will be available at the University of Copenhagen: 'Machine learning and data science' as well as 'Computer Science and Economy'. Hopefully, this will satisfy th…

Linking to the VEWEC project

Paul Yankson and Lasse Møller-Jensen participated in final workshop of the project: Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events in Cities: Implications for Infrastructure and Livelihoods (financed by the British Academy,…

Congratulations to Nicholas Rathmann

Congratulations to Nicholas Rathmann at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis Monday 26 November 2018, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Nicholas will continue to work as…

CLIMACCESS News coverage

Thomas Balstrøm is interviewed about the flood screening methodology under development and its planned application in Accra as part of the CLIMACCESS project in the Danish paper Jyllands Posten.

Congratulations to Diana Vladimirova

Congratulations to Diana Vladimirova at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended her PhD thesis Friday 23 November 2018, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Eugene Polzik appointed Knight of the Dannebrog

Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the research group QUANTOP (Quantum Optics Laboratory) at the Niels Bohr Institute, has been conferred the Knight’s Cross of the Order Dannebrog.

New edible cricket species discovered in Kenya

Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya, have discovered a new, previously undescribed edible cricket with great promise for mass production for human…

Helle Gormsen

Search for right-handed neutrinos with 79.8 fb-1 of data collected at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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.