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'The Social Life of Health Data': Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana

Guest Researcher at CAS and Marie Curie fellow at the IT University Alena Thiel has published a new book examining 'The Social Life of Health Data'

Black Hole Week at NBI

This August we are celebrating black holes in Copenhagen! There are many reasons to be excited. We celebrate 50 years of Hawking radiation, and since that seminal work, so much has happened.

Black holes are coming to Copenhagen in August 2024

The Niels Bohr Institute is celebrating 50 years of Hawking radiation and a decade of amazing developments in black hole science. Worldwide experts will gather at the Black Diamond and at the Copenhagen Planetarium, to…

Matthias Wilhelm receives Sapere Aude grant from Denmark's Independent Research Fund

Associate Professor Matthias Wilhelm has been awarded a Sapere Aude Starting Grant from Denmark's Independent Research Fund for his project titled “Leveraging Algebraic Geometry for High-Precision Fundamental Physics.”…

New member of Global Wetland Center

The Global Wetland Center is thrilled to welcome the newest member of the team, Navid Ahmadi!

Kasper Skjold Tølløse

Prediction of Atmospheric Dispersion on All Scales for Emergency Preparedness Supervisors: Eigil Kaas (NBI) & Jens Havskov Sørensen (DMI)

Blockbuster of the Blok - Saulius Vaitikenas

The NBI teaching committee has decided to highlight a teacher four times a year to recognize outstanding teaching at the institute. The first one is Saulius Vaitikenas in Blok 3 in 2024.

Do you want to organise Global Health Film Days 2026?

Would you like to learn how to curate films and debates about the most urgent global health challenges of our time? Global Health Film Days are looking for student volunteers.

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.

New course explores the role of democracy in the climate crisis

Are the world's democracies equipped to handle the climate crisis? This is the focal point of a new, free online course developed by a group of researchers from the Department of Political Science.

New podcast with Riikka Rinnan

New podcast with Riikka Rinnan VOLT's centerleder, Professor Riikka Rinnan, var for nylig inviteret til at deltage i en dansk podcast "Videnskab fra Vilde Hjerner", hvor hun diskuterede centerets formål samt…

The elephant in the room

Presentation at the WAWC conference 2024 by Peter Sandøe and Clare Palmer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Texas A & M University, USA)

World Biodiversity Forum in Davos: The potential for nature-based solutions

FutureArcticLives' Maria Pettersson presented Work Package 4 research at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos in June 2024.

Impact of 700 years of Inuvialuit subsistence hunting on beluga whales

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of Copenhagen and University of Toronto, analysed beluga whale bones retrieved from archaeological sites in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest…

Romain Chuffart

Romain Chuffart is the Nansen Professor in Arctic Studies (2024 and 2025) at the University of Akureyri in Iceland where he specializes in the rights of Indigenous peoples, international human rights law, international…

Discovery of key protein that helps cells maintain their identity

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have found that a protein called Mrc1 plays a crucial role in ensuring that cells keep their identity as they divide and grow. The discovery could have significant…

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…

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…

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