News about The University

Helle Bundgaard is Teacher of the Year at the Department of Anthropology

At the Department Day on 13 September, Associate Professor Helle Bundgaard was honoured as Teacher of the Year 2024.

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun Assesses Recipients of Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Prizes 2024

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun was the Chair of the Carlsberg Foundation Prize Committee which selected the two candidates for this year’s Carlsberg Foundation Research Prizes. The year the Carlsberg Foundation’s…

BARC welcomes Egor Bakaev

BARC welcomes new PhD student Egor Bakaev to the team.

BARC welcomes Tuukka Korhonen

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Tuukka Korhonen to the team.

“We should all train like athletes”

Professor Juleen Zierath has demonstrated the profound therapeutic potential of exercise, receiving the NNF EASD 2024 Diabetes Prize for Excellence.

Associate Professor Jordi Merino awarded EFSD/NNF Future Leaders Award

The award will support Associate Professor Jordi Merino’s research into developing personalized strategies for diagnosing and treating type 2 diabetes.

BARC welcomes Amik Raj Behera

BARC welcomes new PhD student Amik Raj Behera to the team.

SAVE THE DATE for 5th Nordic RWE and AI conference in Helsinki 28-29.1.2025

SAVE THE DATE: The University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University will organize the 5thNordic RWE and AI conference in Helsinki 28-29.1.2025 in collaboration with relevant stakeholders in the region.

The Graduate School closes early 16 September 2024

The Graduate School closes early 16 September 2024. From 13:00 telephone calls and emails will not be answered. Your enquiry will be answered as soon as possible.

DALOSS is excited to welcome Dr. Matt Mahmoudi as an affiliate researcher

Dr Matt Mahmoudi is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, with a research focus on digital urban infrastructures.

Developing your Research Design with Qualitative Research Methods (register 15 September)

Developing your Research Design with Qualitative Research Methods - A Methodological Toolbox Course for PhD Researchers 24 September – 4 October, 2024 This course is for PhD researchers from all disciplines who work wit…

Video: Watch DidMat Seminar on the future of ATD

Yves Chevallard, University of Aix-Marseilles, delivers the final address on this DidMat Seminar on the future of Anthropological Theory of Didactics (ATD).

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