News about The University

Professor Juleen Zierath awarded prize for trailblazing work on physical activity and diabetes

Professor Juleen R. Zierath has demonstrated the profound therapeutic potential of exercise through 30 years of research. The scientist from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the University of Copenhagen is the…

Submit your film to Global Health Film Days

Global health film makers are encouraged to submit their films now - either for programme selection or inclusion in the Global Health Film Database.

The Graduate School opens later 22 August 2024

The Graduate School opens later Thursday 22 August 2024. Until 11:00 telephone calls and emails will not be answered. Your enquiry will be answered as soon as possible.

Two SUND-researchers receive the Jahre Award for Young Researchers

The annual Anders Jahre Award for Young Researchers is this year awarded to two SUND researchers, with research areas within cardiometabolic diseases, bacteria and proteins.

Cecilie Storgaard joins CMP

Cecilie joins the DISCOVERY team

Madalena Raposo joins CMP

Madalena joins the DRUGS team

Sociology to find new head of department

After five years as Head of Department, Benedikte Brincker will step down when her contract expires on 31 January 2025.

Are you writing your thesis this fall?

At Copenhagen University Library, South Campus we can help you find relevant literature for your projects. We offer a one-hour personal session in information retrieval when you are about to write your BA-thesis or your…

Maj Ørum Madsen joins CMP

Maj joins the OF-BIOMARKER team

Presentation of First Results at the Danish Police

Photo: Streaming for Talents After a first year of joint research, we met with the Danish and Lower Saxony police forces on 29 May 2024 for a work exchange at the Danish Police Academy in Brøndby. The day began with…

Carmen García Sánchez receives scholarship to study at the Danish Institute in Rome

Picture from Arashiyama Yusai-tei 嵐山祐斎亭, Kyoto © Carmen García Sánchez We are thrilled to announce that Carmen García Sánchez, affiliated scholar at the Centre for Privacy Studies, has been awarded a scholarship to…

The telephone closes early 14 August 2024

The Graduate School's telephone closes early Wednesday 14 August. From 14:00 telephone calls will not be answered. The line is open again Thursday 15 August from 10:00.

“Scientists are a bit like artists, they are very passionate about what they do”

Claudia Vitrani from Italy worked as a pianist and opera coach before she decided to make a career change. Now, Claudia is a laboratory technician for the Single-Cell Omics Platform (SCOP) at CBMR.

DALOSS welcomes Niyousha Sattari

DALOSS welcomes Niyousha Sattari as an affiliate researcher. Niyousha Sattari is a PhD student in Theatre Studies at the University of Tehran, in the Department of Music and Performing Arts. Her work primarily focuses o…

Kristian Karlson new professor at the Department of Sociology

Kristian Karlson was appointed full professor at the Department of Sociology on 1 July. His research focuses on social inequality and mobility in education.

New funding for Silk Ribbons In Museum Amager

In late June, the research project "Silk Ribbons at Museum Amager - A Window to Europe'' received 75.000 kr. from Manufakturhandlerforeningen i Kjøbenhavns Almene Fond.

Henriette Stoy receives an EMBO fellowship

Henriette Stoy has received DKK 1.340.000 as an EMBO postdoctoral Fellowship for the project “DNA structural elements in the genome-wide regulation of transcription”. This collaborative project between the Møllegaard la…

Martin Bardenfleth joins CMP

Martin joins the EPITOPE team

A practical introduction to holo-omics

The study of holobionts, which is an animal and plant species in association with all of their microorganisms, is complex and therefore often challenging. A new methodology paper highlights critical decision points…

Esteemed colleagues from reNEW elected members of EMBO

CEO and Executive Director of reNEW, Professor Melissa H. Little and Principal Investigator at reNEW’s Copenhagen node, Professor Joshua Brickman, have this year been elected members of the prestigious European Molecula…

4M euros for research into nuclear metabolism

Associate Professor Jan Żylicz has been awarded an MSCA Doctoral Networks Grant for project; NUCLEAR - metabolic regulation of genome function and cell identity.

Cleaning of furniture

On Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 of July we will have the chairs in the reading room on the first floor and the leather sofas cleaned. The reading room (and the sofas will therefore not be able to be used for those two…

HUM:Global awards seed money to four projects at the Humanities

We are delighted to announce that HUM:Global is awarding four humanities projects 17,500 DKK in seed money in 2024.

Jelena Bakic gives lecture on Paratext and Privacy

Jelena Bakic In June we had the pleasure of welcoming Jelena Bakic to the centre. Jelena is a researcher at the Free University of Bolzano and affiliated with the University of Porto, Transdisciplinary Research Center…