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Resonance

Dimitris Theocharis, a visual artist and one of the artists in residency at Strong in 2024, inaugurated today his beautiful art installation entitled Resonance (2024). Resonance is an artwork designed to react to the…

Trees are key to better nutrition and climate in Malawi

Today, poor quality diets are the largest contributors to global morbidity, with one in three people suffering from a form of malnutrition. In countries like Malawi, where a large percentage of households depend on…

1K clicks in a month

Our webpage recently achieved a milestone of 1,000 clicks from Google Search within a span of 28 days. On average, we received 36 clicks per day redirected from Google's search engine. It possibly shows the impact of…

Gravity Seminar: Nicola Gaspari

Gravity Seminar: Nicola Gaspari

Gregorio Carullo moves to Birmingham

Starting later this year, Strong member Gregorio Carullo will join the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Full of excitement for this new…

How is Human Socioeconomic Position Linked with Dog Ownership Practices? A Study from Denmark

This study examined associations between family and neighborhood levels of SEP and dog ownership, dog acquisition factors (purchase price and breed characteristics), and the purposes of owning a dog based on data from a…

Shilpa joins Saha as Associate Professor

Strong postdoc Shilpa Kastha will join the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in India as an Associate Professor at the end of the year. Thankful to all her mentors and friends for being the giants on whose shoulders sh…

New article from our collaborators at Leiden University

During early afforestation stages, biotic and abiotic soil characteristics change at different paces.

New researcher at CLIMA - Meng Zhang

Dr. Meng Zhang is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the RIGHydro project, focused on promoting green hydrogen deployment through regulatory innovation to support the green transition in Denmark, the EU, and beyond.

The complexity of moss-cyanobacteria symbiosis

When people hear of symbiosis, they tend to think of it as an inherently positive term describing an equally benefiting relationship. However, symbiosis is traditionally defined as different species living together in…

Unveiling the Muddy Realities in Earth's Rapid Transformations

Unveiling the Muddy Realities in Earth's Rapid Transformations

Webinar on CliCNord - the Main Findings: Full Recording

On June 6 2024, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, along with University College Copenhagen and University of Copenhagen hosted a presentation of the main findings of the CliCNord project.

New paper out on flood screening in Accra

The results from the hydrologic screening indicate that the developed screening tool provides an efficient and simple alternative to using advanced hydrodynamic software for identifying flood-prone locations

We are all Storytellers: Art and Narrative as a tool for climate and humanitarian communication at the Red Cross Climate Centre

Raramai is a former MSc Global health student at University of Copenhagen. She specialised in Disaster Risk Management as part of her studies and now works as a consultant at The Alliance of Bioversity International and…

Ethicists’ commentary on sending referrals

Ethical question of the month, May 2024 Another general practitioner in your area has recently begun to accept referrals for specialized orthopedic procedures. One of your clients has a dog that you diagnosed with a…

Look up in August

Read here (in Danish) what's visible in the stellar sky in August.

Superconducting Resonators and Quantum Bits: Simulation and/or Cryogenic Measurements

Bachelor/Masters Project Description Quantum computing is receiving much attention these years with various platforms competing to demonstrate superior properties. This project focuses on the superconducting platform an…

Noise Disturbances

The building management at Panum (CAS) has informed us that there will be noise disturbances during the next couple of weeks, specifically in calendar weeks 31 and 32. The construction work will take place at Panum leve…

Review by Prof Jensen et al assessing the future of treating ulcerative colitis with a cellular therapy published in iScience

Professor Kim Jensen, his team at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, University of Copenhagen, and colleagues have provided considerations around the use of intestinal epithelial organoids as …

“Milla Baldo Ceolin” National Prize for Marta Cocco

Marta Cocco has been awarded the prestigious “Milla Baldo Ceolin” National Prize of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) for the year 2023. This prize, entitled “Woman in Theoretical Physics”, is assigned t…

New Horizons for Psi

In recent years, there has been significant advancement and a notable surge in the exploration of fundamental field in regions with strong gravity. In light of this expanding and evolving community, the New Horizons fo…

Health in Greenland - local and global perspectives

On 28 June 2024, University of Copenhagen's Department of Public Health, Globe Institute, and the School of Global Health hosted an enlightening afternoon symposium about health in Greenland.

Characterization of Quantum Bits and Their Building Blocks

Bachelor/Masters Project Description At NQCP we are developing quantum bits. Besides characterizing the qubits themselves, a big part of that work is to characterize the materials and components which together make the…

Engineering High-Performance Microwave Resonators for Superconducting Quantum Computers

Masters Project Description Superconducting quantum computers hold immense potential but rely on microwave resonators for qubit control. These resonators, which are made up of superconducting material on silicon, use…