News about Physics

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

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…

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…

Rami Al-Belmpeisi and Vito Tuhtan

Title: Simulated analogues using Deep Learning Supervisors:Troels Haugbølle, Rajika Kuruwita

Congratulations to Tamara Gerber

Congratulations to Tamara Gerber at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis 15th of September, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…

Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…

Jonathan Schubert

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

Tamara Annina Gerber

Ice flow signatures on small and big scales Supervisors: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Sune Olander Rasmussen

Master student discovers a group of galaxies clustered together in the early Universe

While developing and testing astronomical software on existing data, a master student in astronomy fortuitously discovered a group of galaxies in the very early Universe.