News about The University

William Byrne Receives NordForsk Grant of 702.656 NOK

NordForsk has awarded Assistant Prof. William Byrne (UCPH), along with Postdoc Runar Lie (UiO) and Prof. Thomas Troels Hildebrandt (UCPH), a grant of 702.656 NOK to support work within the project "Nordic Refugee…

Free research funding for researchers at the Department of Biology

Independent research has amazing conditions at the Department of Biology! Ten excellent research projects can now see the light of day, due to support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Every year, DFF-Research…

SUND researchers receive more than DKK 100 million from research fund

38 research projects at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen receive funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

“I want to ensure that researchers have access to the best cellular models”

Zehra Abay-Nørgaard is a translational neuroscientist developing human stem cell models for disease modelling and drug discovery.

Study finds racism—and resistance to it—beneath the surface in high school physics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen wanted to understand how high school students interacted with a physics learning game. However, the observations contained so many examples of problematic behavior that it…

SUND receives funding for patient-centric research

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receives DKK 30 million in funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for 11 projects.

BARC Retreat 2024 to Austria

The BARC group visited Innsbruck in Austria on the yearly retreat.

BARC welcomes Théo Fabris

BARC welcomes new PhD student Théo Fabris to the team

Five new ISIM BRIDGE Fellows 2024-2026

We are proud to announce that 5 fellows out of 14 are from Department of Immunology and Microbiology. Here you can read more about the Bridge Fellows, including their names, background, affiliations, project description…

NQCP Education & Outreach Group

Building the Quantum Workforce: A profile of the Education and Outreach team at NQCP.

Meet Andrea – New PhD in the UHV Tech Group

Andrea has been at NQCP as a student assistant since September 2023 She is now stepping into a new role as a PhD student here at NQCP in our UHV Tech Group.

Dates for the next Nordic POP workshop on mucus are set!

We now have dates for the traditional mucus workshop, a training event co-organized by The UiT Arctic University of Norway and and UiO The university of Oslo. The event is set as a lunch-to-lunch event and will take…

Talk for PhD students and PhD supervisors: #pleasedontstealmywork

Time and date: 22 October 2024, 15.30-17.00 Deadline for registration: 16 October 2024 Who can come? This talk is for PhD supervisors and PhD students at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Other faculty members…

Make your influence count! - UCPH elections 2024 : Sign up as a candidate for the PhD Study Board

Now you have the chance to sign up as a candidate for the PhD Study Board at SUND. Meet Janne Graarup-Hansen Lyngby - one of the former PhD student representatives on the PhD Study Board. In this short video, you can…

Open postdoc position on the AI-UNI project

Do you have a PhD specialising in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics or similar, you might be the perfect candidate for the postdoc position as part of the research project AI-UNI.

Dustin Neighbors gives lecture at Czech Academy of Sciences

On October 8, Dustin Neighbors, former postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies, gave a lecture at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. The lecture was titled "Notions of Privacy and the Private at…

Interview with Natacha Klein Käfer about researching health and privacy from a historical perspective

Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer is leading the HEALTH theme at the Centre for Privacy Studies, and she is a board member of the University of Copenhagen School of Global Health. In this interview from the Schoo…

New blog post: cross-pollination of ideas and perspectives between PRIVACY-projects

A new blog post on home and healthcare has been published at the PRIVACY blog. In the blog post, centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun and editor, Emma Klakk reflect on the cross-pollination of ideas and perspectives…

New project will develop the use of artificial intelligence for interviews

With support from the Villum Foundation, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, SODAS, will help develop the use of artificial intelligence for scientific interviews.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen receives Villum Synergy Grant of 6M DKK

The grant will fund the project: ”Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Credibility in Asylum Decision-making” (XAI-CRED) as it explores the use of explainable AI models in legal decision-making related to asylum…

Math and Mushrooms 2024

We have an autumn tradition here at BARC and that is to go foraging for mushrooms.

Danish Open Access Week 2024

In week 43, the national Open Access Week will be held with a series of free webinars. Danish Open Access Week 2024 | Oct 21 - Oct 25 The Danish Network for Open Access is now presenting the third Danish Open Access…

BARC welcomes Mads Vestergaard Jensen

BARC welcomes new PhD student Mads Vestergaard Jensen to the team.

Congratulations to Eva Hoffmann

with the new DNRF Center of Excellence "Center for Fertility and Inheritance (CFI)".