News about Physics

Anders Søndberg Sørensen awarded Optical Society of America Fellow

Optical Society of America awards a number of scientists the honor of a fellowship. The award honors the individual new fellow and the contribution he/she has made to the field of optics and photonics or achievements…

Junxin Chen

Quantum Correlations Generated by a Soft-Clamped Membrane-in-the-Middle System Academic supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Climate change resulting in bigger and more destructive hurricanes in the USA

During the last 100 years hurricanes have become more frequent and more destructive, new research from the University of Copenhagen shows.

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded the Mohn Prize for her important role in climate change research

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen together with former Minister of Education and Research Tommy Ahlers in Greenland. The Scientific Committee wrote in their recommendation: “By ranking Dorthe Dahl-Jensen first, the committee…

The final piece in the puzzle of the origin of the elements

For the first time, an element heavier than iron has been clearly detected in the collision of two neutron stars, resolving one of the fundamental questions about the history of the universe.

The Niels Bohr Institute to Research Particle with Great Potential in the Construction of the Quantum Computer

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Lund University have with a European Research Council Synergy Grant, become able to do the necessary fundamental research needed for affirming the potential the researchers…

Yeghishe Tsaturyan

Ultracoherent soft-clamped mechanical resonators for quantum cavity optomechanics

Estelle L. Ngoumtsa

A new reconstruction of climatic impurities in the Sub-Antarctic region - Continuous Flow Analysis of the SubICE firn cores: Mertz, Siple, Bouvet, Peter-First, Young Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Paul Vallelonga

Mikkel Stockmann

Genesis of Giants - Massive Galaxy Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years Supervisor: Prof. Sune Toft

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

Researchers from the section Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth (PICE) have succeeded in making a method to enlighten an otherwise dark period in climate history.

Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies, linking dark matter to galaxy formation

An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion light years away using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes in Hawaii.

Quantum Alchemy: Researchers use laser light to transform metal into magnet

Pioneering physicists from the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a way to get non-magnetic materials to make themselves magnetic by way of laser light.

3 researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive grants from Villum Fonden

VILLUM FONDEN awards DKK 98.5 million in grants to 52 bold research projects within the technical and natural sciences. For the third year running, VILLUM FONDEN has selected innovative research projects to receive…

Ida Torkjellsdatter Storehaug

Improving the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Estimation in IceCube Supervisor: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen

Mia-Louise Nielsen

Transient Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube-DeepCore Supervisors: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen and Dr. Morten A. Medici

Steffen Ole Randrup Kristensen

Extending the Veros climate simulator with biochemistry - Model design and AMOC collapse Supervisors: Brian Vinter & Markus Jochum

THOMAS S. HALBERG

Low Energy Neutrino Reconstruction in IceCube and the ICU Advisor: D. Jason Koskinen Co-advisor: Tom Stuttard

Lea Halser

Neutrino Fluence of Gamma-Ray Bursts for Arbitrary Viewing Angles Supervisor: Assi. Prof. Markus Ahlers

Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

Associate Professor Irene Tamborra at the Niels Bohr Institute receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award. The prize was presented to her during the opening ceremony of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC)…

Martin Romme Henriksen

Optical Frequency References

Leonardo Krapp

Multispecies Dynamics in Weakly Ionized Dusty Protoplanetary Disks Supervisor: Oliver Lothar Gressel

Cecilie Sand Nørholm

The Effect of Protoclusters on the Properties of Lyman-Alpha Emitters Supervisors: Francesco Valentino, Georgios Magdis, and Sune Toft

Probing the beginning of the Universe can soon be done more accurately

As many as 200 telescopes will be erected, in order to achieve the highest possible precision in measuring the radiation from the Universe.

Stefan Alaric Schäffer

Cavity-enhanced optical clocks Supervisor: Prof. Jan W. Thomsen