News about Physics

Breakthrough of the year

Our team at the Quantum Optics group (QUANTOP) at the Niels Bohr Institute has applied the basic principle behind these achievements for quantum entanglement between very distant and different quantum objects,” says…

Cecillie P. Knudsen

Simulated Mars Environments Supervisors: Uffe Gråae Jørgensen, Morten Bo Madsen, Anders Priemé

Congratulations to Iris Fernandes

Congratulations to Iris Fernandes at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 21 December 2021, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Yannick Seis

Ultra-Coherent Electro-Mechanics in the Quantum Regime Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Congratulations to Sissal Vágsheyg Erenbjerg

Congratulations to Sissal Vágsheyg Erenbjerg at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 15 December 2021, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Katinka Wandall-Christensen

Title: Tau decay mode identification in a liquid argon electromagnetic calorimeter at the FCC-ee Supervisor: Mogens Dam

A novel way of investigating star-forming gas in the early Universe

Combining observations of exploding stars and observations of galaxies, astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center have found a novel way to estimate the amount of the otherwise invisible, cold gas in some of the first…

Alexander Friisnæs

Measurements of δ15N and δ 40Ar of NEEM air with oxygen removal from a perovskite membrane Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Buyuan Luo

Title: Selection Rules of a simple model of a Quantum Dot Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Michael D. Hansen

Stratigraphy and origin of geologic units in Jezero crater, Mars Supervisor: Kjartan M. Kinch

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies billions of light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies…

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies billions of light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies…

Dina Rapp

Title: Ice Flow and Machine Learning Supervisors: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg, Anne Munck Solgaard

Katrine Frantzen

Spectral Analysis of the Kilonova AT2017GFO using Tardis and X-shooter Data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Katrine Høier Frantzen

Title: Spectral analysis of the kilonova AT2017gfo using TARDIS and X-shooter data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Mads Juhl Storr-Hansen

Title: Improvement of Photon PID through Machine Learning Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Nikki Arendse

Cosmic Dissonance - Addressing tensions in modern cosmology Supervisors: Prof. Jens Hjorth and Dr. Radosław Jan Wojtak

Julien Westhoff

Visual Stratigraphy of the EastGRIP Ice Core Supervisors: Prof Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Prof Ilka Weikusat

Ultracoherent mechanical devices

Similarly, a phononic crystal is a fabricated object with a repeating pattern that gives it a particularly useful property – a bandgap that forbids the propagation of motion at certain frequencies. This allows us to…

Innovative chip built by UCPH physicists resolves quantum headache

Quantum physicists at the University of Copenhagen are reporting an international achievement for Denmark in the field of quantum technology. By simultaneously operating multiple spin qubits on the same quantum chip,…

Innovative chip built by UCPH physicists resolves quantum headache

Quantum physicists at the University of Copenhagen are reporting an international achievement for Denmark in the field of quantum technology. By simultaneously operating multiple spin qubits on the same quantum chip,…

Kick-start of a new generation of climate scientists

The training of 15 PhD international students at 17 European research institutions begins this week, with a kick-off meeting in Denmark, hosted by Critical Earth partner the University of Copenhagen (Department of…

Birgitta Nordström receives the KIF Lifetime Achievement Award

The board of KIF has decided to give this special Lifetime Achievement Award to Associate Professor Emerita Birgitta Nordström for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.

Georgios Garidis

Title: Offshore wind power modeling and forecasting with very high-resolution weather forecasts Supervisors: Troels Christian Petersen, Pierre Pinson