News about Physics

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…

International science journalist visits the Niels Bohr Institute

With an international Maria Leptin journalist scholarship behind him, science journalist Jens Degett will contribute in the coming months by disseminating stories from the Niels Bohr Institute. Until December, he will…

Martin Cramer Pedersen receives Villum Experiment Grant

Active matter systems such as cells, bacteria, and living organisms are characterized by the continuous injection or conversion of energy by its constituents. Such systems are not in thermodynamic equilibrium and…

Troels Petersen joins as Denmark's scientific delegate at CERN

On October 1st 2024 Troels Christian Petersen, a NBI researcher in particle physics for many years, will join as Denmark's CERN scientific delegate.

Strong at TEONGRAV

Last week, Sept 16-20, La Sapienza University of Rome hosted the first TEONGRAV international workshop on the theory of gravitational waves. TEONGRAV is a collaboration of 11 research groups from across Italy, all…

Blockbuster of the Blok - Ala Trusina

The NBI teaching committee has decided to highlight a teacher four times a year to recognize outstanding teaching at the institute. In Blok 4 i 2024 it's Ala Trusina.

Strong hosted Ringdown Inside and Out

This summer the Strong group hosted the Ringdown Inside and Out meeting. The event took place in Copenhagen from August 22-24, 2024, inside the glass conference room of the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), directly…

Spin Qubits

Spin Qubits: Characterization and Integration of Low-noise Building Blocks

Master Project Description At NQCP, we aim at developing quantum technology that can enable solving life-science relevant problems. Practical quantum computing will require millions of interacting and high-quality…

Laura Bassi award for Maggio

Elisa Maggio received the Laura Bassi Prize for early-career women in physics by the Italian Physics Society. She received the prize on September 9th at the national congress of the Italian Physics Society in Bologna…

Weak Leaks of Wave Dark Matter

Extensions to the Standard Model suggest the existence of new ultralight fundamental fields, potentially describing dark matter, that are up to 10^28 times lighter than the electron. In a Physical Review Letters,…

Azzurra d’Alessandro

Exoplanetary atmospheres, spectrum computations, and temperature inversions Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Black hole binaries may unveil new particles

Gravitational waves emitted by the merger of black holes could carry information about the existence of new particles in nature. The mechanism that makes this possible is called “superradiance”. In this process,…

Beatriz Maria Campos Estrada

From dusty tails to cloudy skies - Exploring exoplanetary environments through self-consistent modelling Supervisors: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen and Christiane Helling

Charlotte Mason receives large ERC grant

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Nanna Bach-Møller

Exoplanet atmospheres in high-energy radiative environments Supervisors: Christiane Helling & Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Welcome to 142 new physics students

We are pleased to welcome everyone with an introduction program consisting of a voluntary kickstart course, welcome days on campus and a cabin trip.

Black holes everywhere!

Black holes in Kongens Nytorv, black holes in the Black Diamond, Black holes everywhere! Black holes came to Copenhagen in August 2024. The Strong Group & The Niels Bohr Institute celebrated 50 years of Hawking radiatio…

Black Hole Week at NBI

This August we are celebrating black holes in Copenhagen! There are many reasons to be excited. We celebrate 50 years of Hawking radiation, and since that seminal work, so much has happened.

Black holes are coming to Copenhagen in August 2024

The Niels Bohr Institute is celebrating 50 years of Hawking radiation and a decade of amazing developments in black hole science. Worldwide experts will gather at the Black Diamond and at the Copenhagen Planetarium, to…

Matthias Wilhelm receives Sapere Aude grant from Denmark's Independent Research Fund

Associate Professor Matthias Wilhelm has been awarded a Sapere Aude Starting Grant from Denmark's Independent Research Fund for his project titled “Leveraging Algebraic Geometry for High-Precision Fundamental Physics.”…

Kasper Skjold Tølløse

Prediction of Atmospheric Dispersion on All Scales for Emergency Preparedness Supervisors: Eigil Kaas (NBI) & Jens Havskov Sørensen (DMI)

Blockbuster of the Blok - Saulius Vaitikenas

The NBI teaching committee has decided to highlight a teacher four times a year to recognize outstanding teaching at the institute. The first one is Saulius Vaitikenas in Blok 3 in 2024.