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Twenty years on, biodiversity struggles to take root in restored wetlands

While the restoration of natural areas is high on political agendas, a comprehensive new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that – after more than two decades – biodiversity growth has stalled in restored…

Professor Carl Winsløw steps down as president of ERME

Professor Carl Winsløw has stepped down as president of ERME. PhD student Derya Diana Cosan becomes a new board member of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education.

Soil microbiome inoculation could enhance forest restoration on post-agricultural lands

Researchers from the Silva Nova Project explore how soil microbiome inoculation could accelerate forest recovery on former agricultural land.

PhD defense by Daniele Pica, NBI/Perugia

On February 20, 2025 at 14.00, in Aud. A. Daniele Pica will defend his PhD thesis supervised by Marta Orselli (University of Perugia) and Troels Harmark (NBI). The thesis defense will be in English.

Master defense by Miao Shang

On Monday January 13, 2025 at 13:15 in room Hb1 at Blegdamsvej, Miao Shang will defend her master thesis supervised by Jose Ezquiaga. Censor will be Marta Orselli (University of Perugia). The thesis defense will be in…

Strong at Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna

From December 9-13, 2024, the gravitational-wave explorers of the Strong group at the Niels Bohr Institute attended a conference on Lensing and Wave optics in Strong gravity at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna.

Interview with Nick Baumgart

COPE interviews Nick Baumgart, PhD fellow at the Global Health Section and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His PhD focuses on heat-related vulnerabilities in Kenya and is part of the Climate Chang…

Jennifer Lundin Rydh

Jennifer Lundin Rydh is a doctoral student at Linköping University, focusing on Swedish environmental regulations in public procurement, influenced by EU law.

Ethicists' commentary on disagreements in course of treatment

Ethical question of the month, November 2024 You and a colleague are disagreeing on a policy matter in your practice regarding a senior horse treatment. Many senior horses suffer from a pituitary disorder, pituitary par…

Conservation strategies aided by assessment of global genetic diversity

In Nature News & Views by Nogués-Bravo, D. and Rahbek, C. (2025)

Danish researchers develop algorithms for mental health

With DKK 20 million in funding from the Lundbeck Foundation, a group of researchers will test how effective algorithms based on artificial intelligence are at addressing real-world challenges in managing citizens with…

Julia Yeomans and Charles Marcus join NBIA's Scientific Advisory Board

We warmly welcome Julia Yeomans (Oxford University) and Charles Marcus (University of Washington & Niels Bohr Institute) who will join NBIA's International Science Advisory Board. They will participate in their first…

New international climate project in the North Atlantic

University of Copenhagen will lead a new international research project to improve knowledge of melting glaciers and ice sheet in the North Atlantic, its impact on global climate and ecosystems, and to support local…

New Multiphoton confocal FLIM microscope at CAB

The second instrument funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation for CAB has now been installed: a new multiphoton, confocal fluorescence lifetime microscope at the North Campus. The Leica Stellaris 8 DIVE/FALCON.

1 year of VOLT: a review of 2024

2024 was the first full year running for VOLT, and what a year it has been! We started strong with external visitors already from January: Arnaud Praplan, atmospheric chemist from the Finnish Meteorological Institute,…

2024 VOLT Publications Highlights

2024 was the first full year running for VOLT Center, and and there have been many exciting activities, collaborations, new people joining, cool instruments arriving and promising data being generated. This has also bee…

Aarne Puisto

Aarne Puisto is writing a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of legal remedies under Finnish public procurement rules at the University of Lapland under the supervision of Professor Kirsi-Maria Halonen.

Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area

Associate Professor Emmanuel Raju and PhD Fellow Nick Baumgart from COPE and the Global Health Section join their peers in this new study (featured on the Guardian) titled "Climate change increased the likelihood of…

AI creates new winners and losers in the labour market

Demand for professional skills has changed significantly since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, according to a new international study.

Villum Young Investigator grant for Yi Jiao from VOLT

Yi Jiao, former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoc at VOLT was just awarded a prestigious Young Investigator grant from the Villum Foundation. The official award ceremony took place in January at the Queen's Hall,…

CLSM with Coherent Raman Scattering modalities installed at Frederiksberg campus

We are excited to announce that the new Leica Stellaris 8 CRS microscope for confocal and Coherent Raman Scattering imaging is now installed at Frederiksberg campus. The instrument was funded by the Novo Nordisk…

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Kristoffer Albris in the news commenting on the migration from Tiktok to Rednote

DISTRACT researcher Kristoffer Albris was in an article on TV2.dk, where he commented on the American trend of users migrating from Tiktok to the Chinese social media platform “Rednote.” He also participated in a …

A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare

The paper presents a proposed definition of positive animal welfare: ‘PAW can be defined as the animal flourishing through the experience of predominantly positive mental states and the development of competence and…