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Interview with Nick Baumgart

COPE interviews Nick Baumgart, PhD fellow at the Global Health Section and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His PhD focuses on heat-related vulnerabilities in Kenya and is part of the Climate Chang…

Jennifer Lundin Rydh

Jennifer Lundin Rydh is a doctoral student at Linköping University, focusing on Swedish environmental regulations in public procurement, influenced by EU law.

Ethicists' commentary on disagreements in course of treatment

Ethical question of the month, November 2024 You and a colleague are disagreeing on a policy matter in your practice regarding a senior horse treatment. Many senior horses suffer from a pituitary disorder, pituitary par…

Conservation strategies aided by assessment of global genetic diversity

In Nature News & Views by Nogués-Bravo, D. and Rahbek, C. (2025)

Danish researchers develop algorithms for mental health

With DKK 20 million in funding from the Lundbeck Foundation, a group of researchers will test how effective algorithms based on artificial intelligence are at addressing real-world challenges in managing citizens with…

Julia Yeomans and Charles Marcus join NBIA's Scientific Advisory Board

We warmly welcome Julia Yeomans (Oxford University) and Charles Marcus (University of Washington & Niels Bohr Institute) who will join NBIA's International Science Advisory Board. They will participate in their first…

New international climate project in the North Atlantic

University of Copenhagen will lead a new international research project to improve knowledge of melting glaciers and ice sheet in the North Atlantic, its impact on global climate and ecosystems, and to support local…

New Multiphoton confocal FLIM microscope at CAB

The second instrument funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation for CAB has now been installed: a new multiphoton, confocal fluorescence lifetime microscope at the North Campus. The Leica Stellaris 8 DIVE/FALCON.

1 year of VOLT: a review of 2024

2024 was the first full year running for VOLT, and what a year it has been! We started strong with external visitors already from January: Arnaud Praplan, atmospheric chemist from the Finnish Meteorological Institute,…

2024 VOLT Publications Highlights

2024 was the first full year running for VOLT Center, and and there have been many exciting activities, collaborations, new people joining, cool instruments arriving and promising data being generated. This has also bee…

Aarne Puisto

Aarne Puisto is writing a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of legal remedies under Finnish public procurement rules at the University of Lapland under the supervision of Professor Kirsi-Maria Halonen.

Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area

Associate Professor Emmanuel Raju and PhD Fellow Nick Baumgart from COPE and the Global Health Section join their peers in this new study (featured on the Guardian) titled "Climate change increased the likelihood of…

AI creates new winners and losers in the labour market

Demand for professional skills has changed significantly since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, according to a new international study.

Villum Young Investigator grant for Yi Jiao from VOLT

Yi Jiao, former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoc at VOLT was just awarded a prestigious Young Investigator grant from the Villum Foundation. The official award ceremony took place in January at the Queen's Hall,…

CLSM with Coherent Raman Scattering modalities installed at Frederiksberg campus

We are excited to announce that the new Leica Stellaris 8 CRS microscope for confocal and Coherent Raman Scattering imaging is now installed at Frederiksberg campus. The instrument was funded by the Novo Nordisk…

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Kristoffer Albris in the news commenting on the migration from Tiktok to Rednote

DISTRACT researcher Kristoffer Albris was in an article on TV2.dk, where he commented on the American trend of users migrating from Tiktok to the Chinese social media platform “Rednote.” He also participated in a …

A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare

The paper presents a proposed definition of positive animal welfare: ‘PAW can be defined as the animal flourishing through the experience of predominantly positive mental states and the development of competence and…

Million support from Villum for research talents at BIO

The Villum Foundation has just awarded more than DKK 150 million to 19 young, talented researchers who have the potential to make a significant independent contribution to technical and natural science research. Six of…

Clara Celeste Qvotrup

Nanomechanical Slot Waveguide Phase Shifters for Integrated Quantum Photonics Supervisor: Ass. prof. Leonardo Midolo

Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

As a student, Professor Eske Willerslev had an idea: He wanted to extract DNA directly from the soil. This has led to major scientific breakthroughs and an entire new research field, eDNA, for which he now receives one…

Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

As a student, Professor Eske Willerslev had an idea: He wanted to extract DNA directly from the soil. This has led to major scientific breakthroughs and an entire new research field, eDNA, for which he now receives one…

Professor Rasmus Pagh Receives International Recognition as ACM Fellow

Professor Rasmus Pagh has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a prestigious honor awarded to leading researchers in computing. This recognition highlights his significant…

Video instructions: Köhler illumination

In transmitted light microscopy, positioning the condenser according to Köhler is a prerequisite for achieving optimal resolution and illumination. This video demonstrates how to achieve proper alignment of the…