News about Physics

Does ice in the Universe contain the molecules making up the building blocks of life in planetary systems?

If you want to build a habitable planet, ice, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur. These elements are part of the atmosphere around planets and part of molecules like sugar, alcohols and simple amino acids as…

Josephine Gondán Kande

Title: An analysis of weather systems under certain flow patterns in the atmosphere for our latitudes. Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Camille Papon

Photonic circuits with multiple quantum dots -Towards scalable operation of deterministic single-photon sources Supervisors: Prof. Peter Lodahl & Assoc. Prof. Leonardo Midolo

Early galaxy formation caught in the act with James Webb

Astronomers from the Cosmic Dawn Center have unveiled the nature of the densest region of galaxies seen with the James Webb Space telescope in the early Universe.

Danish quantum physicists make nanoscopic advance of colossal significance

In a new breakthrough, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum, have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now…

Sune Halkjær & Jonathan Ortved Melcher

Title: Understanding millennial-scale climate change with simple dynamical systems. Supervisor: Sune Olander Rasmussen

The highest Greenland temperatures in 1000 years

Recent high temperatures on the ice sheet in central and northern Greenland lies are unique, when compared to 1000 years of reconstructed climate conditions on the ice sheet.

Anna Maria Klüssendorf

Title: Bipolar Phasing of Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Glacial Period Supervisor: Anders Svensson

Eva Maria Gonzalez Ruiz

Single-photon sources as a key resource for developing a global quantum network Supervisor: Prof. Anders S. Sørensen

Anna Ida Katharina Kirchner

Title: North Atlantic Circulation Variability and Teleconnections to Surface Climate Conditions in CMIP6 Models Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Christian Michelsen

Biological Data Science - Ancient genomics, anesthesiology, epidemiology, and a bit in between Principal Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen, NBI Co-supervisor: Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Globe Institute

Cells use mechanical principles to integrate within existing tissues, new study shows

A new interdisciplinary study reveals how new cells join a tissue by reading mechanical information from the neighboring tissue. They use cellular fingers called filopodia to touch the neighboring cells to open up the…

Maja Skafsgaard

2020hgw: Properties of an Unusually Bright Type II Supernova Supervisors: Charlotte Angus & Christa Gall

Edis Devin Tireli and Mads Mølbak Hyttel

Exploring a common solution to Dark Matter, Neutrino oscillations and Baryogenesis of the Universe Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy

Hanna Krystyna Salamon

Title: Novel nanophotonic interface for droplet GaAs quantum dots Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Alexey Tiranov

Astronomers discover enigmatic cosmic explosion

Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute played an important role in the study that may lead us to revise our theories about these violent events.

Zuzana MORAVCOVÁ

Partonic collectivity in large and small systems at the LHC Supervisor: Assoc. prof. You Zhou

Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen

Ph.D. thesis: OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS FROM MICRO RING RESONATORS Supervisors: Jan W. Thomsen and Helge Müller

Ditlev Frickmann

Investigating the Morphologies of Stars, Gas and Dust in Star­forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon Supervisors: Francesco Rizzo & Sune Toft

Earth’s many new lakes

The number of lakes on our planet has increased substantially in recent decades, according to a unique global survey of 3.4 million lakes that the University of Copenhagen has taken part in. There has been a particular…

Dorthe Dahl Jensen 2022 Balzan prize winner

Congratulations to Dorthe Dahl Jensen for being awarded the 2022 Balzan prize

Christoffer Østfeldt

Ph.D. thesis: Quantum Optomechanics for Hybrid Spin–Membrane Entanglement Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik

Farthest galaxy candidate yet known discovered by James Webb

These galaxies seem to be so massive that they challenge our understanding of how structure forms in the Universe.

Denmark’s first quantum-secured fibre-optic link established between NBI and DTU

On 22 November, DTU and the Niels Bohr Institute successfully demonstrated an absolutely secure connection – a video connection that cannot be hacked.