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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

Application of Contactless Conductivity Detection to Ice Core Analysis Supervisors: Anders Svensson and Paul Vallelonga

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

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 Academic advisor: Anders S. Sørensen

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 Supervisors: Anders Svensson and Christoph Kort

Ida Margrethe Ringgaard

The impact of near-inertial waves on the Arctic halocline Supervisor: Markus Jochum

New Danish telescope for researching stars and Earth-like exoplanets

The first telescope in the Danish led telescope network will be officially opened on 25 October, 2014 on Tenerife. This will launch a worldwide stellar research project that will bring us even closer to the stars and…

Comet headed for Mars

On Sunday evening, 19 October 2014 at 20:30, a comet will come closer to colliding with Mars than we have ever seen. When the comet, Siding Spring, was discovered in January 2013 it initially appeared that it might be o…

Charles Marcus receives American research prize

Charles Marcus, who is a professor and head of the Center for Quantum Devices at NBI has been awarded the prize for ’Research Excellence in Nanotechnology’ by the nanoscience centre, NBIC at the University of…

Rising sea levels of 1.8 meters in worst-case scenario

The climate is getting warmer, the ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising – but how much? Now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and their colleagues have calculated the risk for a worst-case scenario.…

Over 12 million kroner to two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Astrophysicist Lise Bech Christensen from the DARK Cosmology Centre and particle physicist Stefania Xella from the Discovery Center have both received grants of approximately 6-6½ million kroner from YDUN under the…

More investment needed to reach international biodiversity targets by 2020

Despite some progress, more needs to be done to reach the internationally agreed set of biodiversity targets by 2020. New Science study out today.

Martin Sparre

Galaxy formation: observations and simulations of galaxies Supervisor: Prof. Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo