News about Physics

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

New professor wants to make history of physics useful for physics research 

The history of physics can help physicists understand their work and their place in society, says Professor Richard Staley, who is giving his inaugural lecture on March 31st.

The brightest explosion ever seen

A particularly bright Gamma-ray burst was recently detected by several space telescopes, and a team of scientists led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center measured the exact distance to the burst.

Kristoffer Kvist

Title: Transport Properties and Derived Effects of Neutrals in Turbulent Edge Plasma Supervisor: Troels Haugbølle

Martin Asbjørn Krehbiel

Title: Single photon sources and applications Supervisors: Leonardo Midolo, Mikkel Mikkelsen, Beatricie da Lio

Bjarke Brask Nielsen

Title: Propagtion of blobs in NORTH - A study of NORTH Using Langmuir probes Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen, Stefan Kragh Nielsen

Intergalactic gas brings supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies to life

Black holes become active and grow by consuming gas captured from other galaxies. This is the finding of a new study from University of Copenhagen researchers, and shows a clear connection between the evolution of…

Intergalactic gas brings supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies to life

Black holes become active and grow by consuming gas captured from other galaxies. This is the finding of a new study from University of Copenhagen researchers, and shows a clear connection between the evolution of…

Sarah Pearson to join DARK

After spending 10 years abroad Sarah Pearson is returning to the Niels Bohr Institute.

Jonas Dornonville de la Cour

Title: A Massively Parallel Lockstep Pipeline For Full Isomerspace Optimisation Supervisors: Markus Jochum and James Avery

New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise

The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and University of Copenhagen that meltwater in tunnels beneath…

Astrophysicists discover the perfect explosion in space

When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new…

Astrophysicists discover the perfect explosion in space

When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new…

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