News about The University

Bastian Felter Vaucanson gives guest lecture in Montréal

Bastian Felter Vaucanson will be giving an invited lecture at the seminary of the Groupe de recherche en histoire des sensibilités at the University of Montréal on 14 November 2024. His lecture will address the…

Borderland Field Course 2024

During the past month of July, 28 students from around the world arrived in Chiang Mai for the summer course Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research and Engagement in the Global South. Watch the video from the…

Change for PhD supervision: rules and regulations

No need to complete it more than once until end of 2027 The Deanery has decided that the requirement for principal PhD supervisors to complete the online course PhD supervision: rules and regulations every fifth year…

For the first time ever: A joint team of students from two universities win DM in AI

For the first time ever, a team of students from both the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been crowned the winner of the Danish National Championship in AI for students…

Green electricity requires flexible consumers

Denmark faces a significant challenge when we transition to an electricity system powered solely by renewable energy by 2030. ‘Wind and solar, which are our primary renewable energy sources, are fluctuating by nature,…

HUM:Global Annual Report out now

HUM:Global came into being in January 2024 and since then we have successfully launched initiatives that support the dissemination of research from both UCPH and international scholars and more.

Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis [TicToC]: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis

A new project has just been awarded 1.5 million euro with Andreas Bandak as Project Leader.

High school students promoted to real researchers

Besides helping to collect samples or spot butterflies for research projects — non-professionals can now conduct actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. Together with Danish high schools, the…

Noah Ghebremichael joins CMP

Noah joins the EPITOPE team

Visiting CIP: Insights and Experiences

In September 2024, CIP had the pleasure of hosting two guests: Dr. Reginald D’Silva, Associate Dean from The University of British Columbia, and Catherine Mu-Hua Chen-Fliege from Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen.

Independent Research Fund Denmark supports five social science projects

Researchers in Psychology, Economics and Sociology are among the recipients of the October 2024 grants from Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Conference: Finansielle ungdomskulturer på tværs af gaming, gambling og investering

Anne Mette Thorhauge, Jacob Ørmen and Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen from the Center for Tracking and Society and the Department of Communication will hold a conference titled “Finansielle ungdomskulturer på tværs af…

Danish Open Acces Week

In week 43, the national Open Access Week will be held with a series of free webinars. Danish Open Access Week 2024 | 21 Oct -25. Oct. The Danish Network for Open Access can now present the third Danish Open Access…

Professor Ben Boyd receives the Dale E. Wurster Research Award

The prestigious award is given by AAPS, American Association of Pharmaceutical Science, to recognize an internationally renowned researcher.

William Byrne Receives NordForsk Grant of 702.656 NOK

NordForsk has awarded Assistant Prof. William Byrne (UCPH), along with Postdoc Runar Lie (UiO) and Prof. Thomas Troels Hildebrandt (UCPH), a grant of 702.656 NOK to support work within the project "Nordic Refugee…

Congratulations to CCS PIs Eva Hoffmann, Niels Mailand, and Ying Liu

on being awarded DFF-Research Project 1 grants

Congratulations to Isa Amalie Olofsson

on being awarded a DFF–Research Project 1 (thematic) grant.

Free research funding for researchers at the Department of Biology

Independent research has amazing conditions at the Department of Biology! Ten excellent research projects can now see the light of day, due to support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Every year, DFF-Research…

SUND researchers receive more than DKK 100 million from research fund

38 research projects at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receive funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

“I want to ensure that researchers have access to the best cellular models”

Zehra Abay-Nørgaard is a translational neuroscientist developing human stem cell models for disease modelling and drug discovery.

Study finds racism—and resistance to it—beneath the surface in high school physics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen wanted to understand how high school students interacted with a physics learning game. However, the observations contained so many examples of problematic behavior that it…

SUND receives funding for patient-centric research

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receives DKK 30 million in funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for 11 projects.

BARC Retreat 2024 to Austria

The BARC group visited Innsbruck in Austria on the yearly retreat.

BARC welcomes Théo Fabris

BARC welcomes new PhD student Théo Fabris to the team