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Jan W. Thomsen receives the award Teacher of the Year, SCIENCE 2016

“Jan W. Thomsen captivates the physics students when he takes them into the world of quantum optics and with his great enthusiasm and energetic demeanour he manages to create a learning atmosphere where students can…

Congratulations to Anne-Katrine Faber

Congratulations to Anne-Katrine Faber who succesfully defended her PhD thesis at Centre for Ice and Climate on June 2nd., 2016 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philisophy.

Site on Mars named after Mars researcher Jens Martin Knudsen

The Danish Mars researcher Jens Martin Knudsen has had an area on Mars named after him. The site has been named Knudsen Ridge and has a very beautiful location by Endeavour Crater near the equator.

Albert Schliesser appointed professor of optical quantum physics

Albert Schliesser is a young top researcher who received his PhD in 2009 and now – only seven years later, has been appointed professor. Albert Schliesser works with quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the…

Older people should have better food: Malnutrition costs billions

Every second older person loses weight unintentionally when living in a nursing home or during hospitalization, and 20% of frail, dependent older people weigh too little. This reduces the quality of life for older peopl…

Quantum photonic researchers start new company, Sparrow Quantum

Researchers in the research group Quantum Photonics at the Niels Bohr Institute have formed a new company, Sparrow Quantum, which will produce photonic chips that could be used for quantum technology based on light.

William H. P. Nielsen

antum Cavity Optomechanics with Phononic Bandgap Shielded Silicon Nitride Membranes Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz receives Niels Bohr Professorship

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, will be a Niels Bohr Professor at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz receives Niels Bohr Professorship for exploring the universe

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, will be a Niels Bohr Professor at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

Tau Bernstorff Lehmann

Single-Photon Technologies based on Quantum-Dots in Photonic Crystals: from sources to application Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lodahl

Rasmus A. Pedersen

Modelling interglacial climate – investigating the mechanisms of a warming climate Academic advisor: Bo M. Vinther

Rasmus Anker Pedersen

Modelling interglacial climate - Investigating the mechanisms of a warming climate Academic advisors: Bo M. Vinther and Peter L. Langen

Vasileios Mandrakis

Stable Isotopes of Atmospheric Water Vapor in Copenhagen, Denmark Supervisor: Bo Møllesøe Vinther

Gustav Collin Rasmussen

Structural and dynamical properties of dark matter halos Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen and Martin Sparre

Star with different internal driving force than the Sun

Astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a distant star in the constellation Andromeda with a different positioning of sunspots and this indicates a magnetic field that is driven by completely…

Jan Thomsen in a new EU project on ultra-precise atomic clocks

Jan Thomsen, Associate Professor and head of the Ultracold Atoms research group at the Niels Bohr Institute is part of a grant of 14 million kroner to participate in an EU project to develop ultra-precise atomic clocks…

John E. Niclasen

World and Science Supervisor:

Bjarke Takashi Røjle Christensen

Laser Stabilization With Laser Cooled Strontium Academic advisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Insulating layer of air above the Greenland ice sheet reduces precipitation

The Earth’s climate has been warming, but even though the Greenland ice sheet is melting rapidly in the coastal regions, there are large parts of the ice sheet where there has hardly been any melting on the surface.

Salts in the brain control our sleep-wake cycle

Danish research is behind a new epoch-making discovery, which may prove decisive to future brain research. The level of salts in the brain plays a critical role in whether we are asleep or awake. This discovery may be o…

Superfast light source made from artificial atom

New research results from the Niels Bohr Institute show that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle that was predicted theoretically in 1954. Superfast light sources can be used, for example, in lase…

Massive investment: From theoretical quantum physics to usable quantum technology

In a major new effort to translate quantum physics into practical quantum technology, the Innovation Fund Denmark has therefore invested 80 million kroner in a nationwide project involving three universities.

Biotech breakthrough: Sunlight can be used to produce chemicals and energy

New publication in Nature Communications

Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, a professor of particle physics and head of the Subatomic research group at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has been elected as vice president of the CERN Council.