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Prof. Scott Hughes visits Strong

The Strong Group was visited by Prof. Scott Hughes, MIT for the period May 21-28, 2023. Scott Hughes is a world-leading expert on gravitational-wave physics and extreme-mass ratio binaries. He was visiting Strong and is…

5 young researchers visited Strong in May

We have had a lively May 2023, with a number of guests from abroad visiting the Strong group. In addition to Leonardo Gualtieri, Professor at University of Pisa and Scott A. Hughes, Professor at MIT, we also had 5…

Promising building blocks for photonic quantum simulators

Deterministic single photon light sources, creating quantum bits at extreme rates and speed are now coupled to specially designed, integrated photonic circuits, capable of processing quantum information with adequate…

Elisa Maggio joins Strong

Elisa Maggio from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI) in Potsdam will visit the Strong Group from July to December 2024 as a secondment for her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. The…

Gillian Keiko Lin Drake

Title: The Reality of Time Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Prof. Leonardo Gualtieri visits Strong

The Strong Group was visited by Prof. Leonardo Gualtieri from May 14-22, 2023. Prof. Leonardo Gualtieri is a Full Professor at The University of Pisa. He is well known in the community for his work in gravitational-wave…

James Webb’s “too massive” galaxies may be even more massive

The first results from the James Webb Space Telescope have hinted at galaxies so early and so massive that they are in tension with our understanding of the formation of structure in the Universe.

IST Distinguished Professor

Vitor Cardoso was appointed as IST Distinguished Professor, a distinction awarded by the President of Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. The honour is confered upon faculty and researchers whose work had a profound…

Strong PhD Day

The Strong Group held a vibrant PhD Day May 12, at the Arbejdermuseet / The Workers Museum in central Copenhagen. The event joined the entire group and a number of visitors, and the day was filled with talks by all the…

Leading mathematician wants to solve the riddle of a million quantum particles

One of Europe’s leading mathematicians - Professor Søren Fournais of the University of Copenhagen – is dedicating the next five years to understanding a mysterious quantum phenomenon through extremely complex equations.…

Two Visiting Professors in May

We have the pleasure of welcoming two visiting professors: Leonardo Gualtieri, Professor at University of Pisa, who will visit the Strong Group from May 14-22, 2023, and Scott A. Hughes, Professor at MIT, who will visit…

Dags Olsteins

Cryogenic On-Chip Multiplexing Using SAG Nanowires Academic advisor: Thomas Sand Jespersen

Nearby galaxies help astronomers understand distant galaxies

In a newly published study researchers show how the amount of light that escapes from a galaxy is connected to its physical properties. The result has implication for how we interpret observations of galaxies in the…

ERC Advanced Grant on Bohr for Guido Bacciagaluppi from Utrecht University

An ERC Advanced Grant on Bohr has been awarded to Guido Bacciagaluppi from Utrecht University.

Nils Valentin Hauff

Topological Waveguides and Symmetrical Droplet Quantum Dots for Scalable Photonic Quantum Technology Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lodahl

First ever asteroid hit by spacecraft could save the Earth from impact

Humanity’s first attempt to re-direct asteroids that could collide with Earth, the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test satellite (DART), successfully impacted the 150 meter large moon Dimorphos orbiting the 760 m…

Conference in Paris on OUP Handbook “History of Quantum Interpretations”

A conference celebrating the publication of the OUP Handbook on the History of Quantum Interpretations, co-edited by Christian Joas from the Niels Bohr Archive, was held in Paris from 14–15 April, 2023.

Rebecca Schmieg

Ph.D. thesis: Collective Spin-Oscillators for Light-Atom Interfaces Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik

Dorthe Dahl Jensen awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

Congratulations to Dorthe Dahl Jensen for being awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

Lana Zupancic

Title: Shallow Subsurface Imaging: A Geophysical Investigation using Integrated Methods Supervisors: Mohammad Youssof and Klaus Mosegaard

Mikkel Tang

Superradiant Lasers Based on Strontium-88 Supervisors: Jörg Helge Müller

Katarzyna Magdalena Dutkowska

Tracing star formation at high redshift using the Milky Way as a template Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Lars E. Kristensen Assessment Committee: Prof. Jes K. Jørgensen (chair), Assoc. Prof. Angela Adamo, Dr. Mario…

Anne Noer Kolborg

On the origin of metals - Understanding the role of mixing in galactic chemical evolution Supervisors: Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and Prof. Steen Harle Hansen

Ivan Galinskiy

Ph.D. thesis: Counting the uncountable: Non-Gaussian quantum optomechanics Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik