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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.

Anna Puggard

Title: Greenland snow accumulation estimates from Sentinel-1 Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Jon Arrizabalaga Iriarte & Lide Lejonagoitia Garmendia

Master's project: Firn densification under arbitrary stresses Supervisors: Aslak Grinsted, Christine S. Hvidberg, Nicholas M. Rathmann

Jiamei Lin

Global volcanism as seen in ice cores during the last glacial cycle Supervisor: Anders Svensson

Congratulations to Jiamei Lin

Congratulations to Jiamei Lin at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 18 November 2022, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

New Discovery: A missing link of cancer defence

Danish scientists have revealed a mechanism, crucial to DNA repair in cells. This can fundamentally impact our understanding on how the genome is guarded and thereby be a vital part of the human body’s anti-cancer…

New Frontcovers from experimental biophysics

Coverpages on Nanoscale and Biochemical Society Transactions

Niels Bohr Lecture 9th Nov.: Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

Niels Bohr Lecture by Sharon Weiner and Zia Mian from Princeton University

IceCube neutrinos give us first glimpse into the inner depths of an active galaxy

For the first time, an international team of scientists including collaborators at the Niels Bohr Institute have found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from an active galaxy (NGC 1068) in the constellation Cetu…

Albert Sneppen

The Spherical Symmetry of the Kilonova AT2017gfo Supervisor: Darach Watson

World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

World-class research into Greenland's oldest ice and the Universe's densest stars win very large EU grants

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

Marina Koukouvaou & Ioannis Mageiras

Applying Machine Learning on Quasar Selection Supervisor: Johan P. U. Fynbo

Ian Padilla Gay

Neutrino Flavor Conversion in Dense Astrophysical Environments Supervisor: Prof. Irene Tamborra

John R. Weaver

COSMOS2020: Insights into Galaxy Assembly and Evolution over the First 10 Billion Years Supervisor: Professor Sune Toft

Edis Devin Tireli and Mads Mølbak Hyttel

Title: Exploring a common solution to Dark Matter, Neutrino oscillations and Baryogenesis of the Universe: Displaced Heavy Neutral Lepton searches at the Large Hadron Collider Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy

Sophie Lund Schrøder

Drag in Binaries - Addressing the role of hydrodynamics in stellar binary evolution Supervisors: Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and Prof. Jens Hjorth

Gergely Friss

Chemical effects of episodic accretion Supervisor: Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Jonathan Leon Schubert

Title: Interference Between Majorana States in the "Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay" at Colliders Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy

Arun Krishna Ganesan

Title: Matter-Neutrino Resonance in Binary Neutron Star mergers Supervisor: Irene Tamborra

Major investment for developing Denmark’s first fully functional quantum computer

Denmark’s first fully functional generally applicable quantum computer will be available in 2034. This is the objective of the ambitious Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme that is being launched in…