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Six-legged livestock – sustainable food production

Farming crickets for human consumption is less of a burden on the environment than other livestock production systems according to a new study by the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and…

KU researcher with bad climate news won the Danish Research Result of the Year

Gary Shaffer, Professor Emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, and Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen from DTU have made the year’s most important scientific discovery, according to the users of Videnskab.dk.

New Ice core drilling in North Eastern Greenland

The first crew of researchers, technicians and students has arrived at the EastGRIP research camp on the Greenland ice cap, flown in by ski-equipped American Hercules planes, where they during the next 4 months will....

Undervisnings- og Forskningsminister Søren Pind besøger CERN

Minister Søren Pind og en dansk ministeriel delegation besøger CERN, tirsdag d. 25. April. Søren Pind får herved lejlighed til at tage et af verdens største forskningsanlæg i direkte øjesyn. Et anlæg som Danmark og Niel…

Huge grant to quantum research

Danish National Research Foundation is willing to donate up to 62 million kroner to a new research centre at the Niels Bohr Institute. The new Centre of Excellence will be named Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy – Q).

New astronomy center will reveal the cosmic dawn

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is a new basic research centre funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in close collaboration with DTU Space.

Mike Lauge

dE/dx Measurements in the ATLAS Decector Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Iason Tsiamis

Continuous Wave Single Photon Transistor with Rydberg Atoms Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

New centre of excellence in algorithms research in Copenhagen

With a grant of DKK 40m from the VILLUM Investigator Programme, four international leading algorithms researchers from University of Copenhagen and IT University of Copenhagen will establish a new research centre: Basic…

Erik Bærentsen

Acquiring Accurate State Estimates For Use In Autonomous Flight Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Ida Vægter Rasmussen

Gravitational redshift in galaxy clusters with photometric surveys Supervisors: Jens Hjorth and Radoslaw Wojtak

Michael F. Hansen

Strong Lensing in Galaxy Clusters Supervisor: Claudio Grillo

Troels Bøgeholm Mikkelsen

Ice Sheets & Ice Cores. Data Analysis & Stochastic Modeling Academic advisor: Peter D. Ditlevsen

Congratulations to Malte Nordmann Winther

Congratulations to Malte Normann Winther at Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Tuesday 31 January 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Caroline Heneka

Cosmological Structure Formation: From Dawn till Dusk From Reionization to galaxy clusters Supervisors: Dr. David Rapetti & Prof. Steen H. Hansen

Thomas Søndergaard Eriksen

Determining the driving processes of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation from CCSM data Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Carlsberg supports Danish Mars research

Morten Bo Madsen, head of the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of 2.5 million kroner from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project: A Field Trip 250 million km from home – Salary for Essentia…

First step towards photonic quantum network

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have now developed the first building blocks needed to construct complex quantum photonic circuits for quantum networks. This rapid development in quantum networks

Parisah Akrami

Ultra stable laser sources based on molecular acetylene Supervisors: Jan W. Thomsen and Martin R. Henriksen

Sara Buur Svendsen

A Search for Lepton Flavour Violation in Z → π μ decays at √ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector Supervisor: Stefania Xella

Simon Holm Stark

Study of forward elastic pp'>pp pp scattering at s=8 TeV'>s √ =8 TeV s=8 TeV with the ALFA detector

The Sound of Quantum Vacuum

Quantum mechanics dictates sensitivity limits in the measurements of displacement, velocity and acceleration. A recent experiment at NBI probes these limits, analyzing how quantum fluctuations set a sensor membrane

Ivan Iakoupov

Enhancement of optical nonlinearities with stationary light Academic advisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Malte Normann Winther

Title: Trace gas evolution in the present and past atmosphere Supervisor: Thomas Blunier