News about The University

StemScreen network shares knowledge to accelerate drug screening projects

The StemScreen Center for Stem Cell-based Disease Modeling and Drug Screening held its first workshop from September 2-5 at Panum, University of Copenhagen.

BARC welcomes Magnus Rahbek Hansen

BARC welcomes new PhD student Magnus Rahbek Hansen to the team.

Congratulations to Jesper Svejstrup

with the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize 2024.

Flea toads, dwarf pygmy goby fish and bumblebee bats: Researcher aims to solve the riddle of miniature animals

Just seven millimetres long, flea toads are among the smallest vertebrates on Earth. Despite their diminutive size, their organs and functions hardly differ from animals a thousand times larger. While examples of extrem…

Project on the dual role of lobbying supported by ERC grant

Do lobbyists equip politicians with valuable information, or do they entice our elected representatives to look after special interests? Probably both, is the assumption behind an upcoming research project by Wiebke…

Scholar Francis Benyah Joins PRIVACY and CAS

This month, we have welcomed Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah to the University of Copenhagen, where he will hold the position of Assistant Professor in African Studies at Centre for Privacy Studies, as well as at the…

Six one-month fellowships

The Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS) advertises up to 6 one-month fellowships connected to its ongoing Who are We? research project. Fellows accepted into the program will be offered the opportunity to spend one…

CAS graduates attend The Third European Students' Conference on African Studies

Three recent graduates from the African Studies MA program presented their MA theses at the conference hosted by the University of Basel

Christoffer Hauch joins CMP

Christoffer joins the DISCOVERY team

Ines dos Santos joins CMP

Ines joins the SURFACE team

Jan Bisenberger joins CMP

Jan joins the OF-CANCER team

Konrad Lüdecke joins CMP

Konrad joins the EPITOPE team

Lydia Boyle joins CMP

Lydia joins the SURFACE team

Nicolai Hansen joins CMP

Nicolai joins the DISCOVERY team

Panagiota Panagopoulou joins CMP

Panagiota joins the VLPVAC team

Alicja Szepietowska joins CMP

Alicja joins the BIVAC team

All 14 LEAD fellows have now been recruited

To mark this milestone, the three cohorts spanning two years of recruitment joined the project manager for a lively kick-off lunch and an escape room activity. The gathering sparked cross-cohort connections and…

Lisa Gottlieb Becomes a Branco Weiss Fellow

Lisa, BRIDGE and Danish Cardiovascular Academy fellow and postdoc in the Jespersen Group, has received DKK 4.6 million from the Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science for her project "Crosstalk in the Whole Heart:…

Mapping concerns about rising seawater

How do citizens living on the coasts of four countries in the North Sea region worry about future sea level rise and storm surges? This is the question Kristoffer Langkjær Albris will investigate in a project that DFF i…

Welcome to new students

Welcome to Copenhagen University Library, South Campus which is library for Humanities, Law and the IT University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen University Library has several campus libraries and students are welcome to us…

Historic grant will supply Denmark with the world's best science educators

With excellent international research supported by DKK 125 milion from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark will teach us how to best delive…

The Graduate School opens later 28 August 2024

The Graduate School opens later Wednesday 28 August 2024. Until 10:30 telephone calls and emails will not be answered. Your enquiry will be answered as soon as possible.

Join the 21st International Medical Doctoral Conference November 20-22, 2024

It is now possible to register for the 21st international Medical Doctoral Conference held in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. The theme for this year’s conference is: "Empowering PhD research: New Challenges and…

Open call: Workshop about literary translation in a Europe between crisis and hope

We invite you to a workshop on the translation of current German-language literature with the German-Ukrainian-Jewish writer, journalist and musician Dmitrij Kapitelman (1986, Kyiv). The workshop takes place on Friday …