News about Physics

Emilie Capron receives international Early-Career Scientist Award

Emilie Capron received the IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) Early Career Scientist Award for her outstanding research in Earth Sciences and her international research cooperation. She is currently…

Andreas Barg

Optomechanics with soft-clamped silicon nitride membranes and carrier-mediated forces in coupled quantum wells Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Congratulations to Nicholas Rathmann

Congratulations to Nicholas Rathmann at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis Monday 26 November 2018, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Nicholas will continue to work as…

Congratulations to Diana Vladimirova

Congratulations to Diana Vladimirova at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended her PhD thesis Friday 23 November 2018, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Eugene Polzik appointed Knight of the Dannebrog

Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the research group QUANTOP (Quantum Optics Laboratory) at the Niels Bohr Institute, has been conferred the Knight’s Cross of the Order Dannebrog.

Helle Gormsen

Search for right-handed neutrinos with 79.8 fb-1 of data collected at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data processing facilities at CERN, so that in the future we can increase our knowledge about the early state of the Universe.

Congratulations to Johannes Lohmann

Congratulations to Johannes Lohmann at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis Monday 5 November 2018.

Laís Ozelin de Lima Pimentel

Charged-particle multiplicity distributions in p-Pb collisions at √ sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE

Abraham Pais Prize awarded to Helge Kragh

The American Physical Society has awarded the 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh.

Caroline M. Nielsen

Dispersion Measurements of AlGaAs Microring Resonators Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Stefan M. Rathmann

Studies of collective spontaneous emission Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Microsoft and University of Copenhagen are building the world’s first, scalable quantum computer in Lyngby

Minister of Higher Education and Science, Tommy Ahlers (V) is cutting the ribbon today when the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab opens in Lyngby in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of…

David Cirauqui Garcia

OPTOMECHANICAL QUANTUM MEMORY FOR PHOTON STORAGE Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Official opening of Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q)

The official opening of the new Center of Excellence, Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) was celebrated on September 17 in Festauditoriet at the Faculty of Science.

Hubble searches for the origin of the first galaxies

How did the first galaxies come to be? The Buffalo project, a new Hubble Frontier Fields Program to study the first galaxies with the The Hubble Space Telescope has started to conduct a large survey.

Dóra Kovács

Title: Characterizing the ice-ocean interaction at the Upernavik Glacier using in-situ and satellite observations Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Congratulations to Marius Simonsen

Congratulations to Marius Folden Simonsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday 31 August 2018.

Jesper Nygård appointed professor of experimental solid-state physics

The University of Copenhagen has appointed Jesper Nygård from the Niels Bohr Institute to a new professorship in experimental solid-state physics.

Christian Zhou Raahauge

Cavity Enhanced Molecular Clocks and Their Applications Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Mathias Bouchacourt

Towards Continuous Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy on Cold Atoms Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Mikkel Tang

Modeling Lasing in a Thermal Strontium Ensemble Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Carlos Reyes

The crustal and sedimentary structure of the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean, derived from seismic Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

New observations link gigantic star collisions to homeless short duration gamma ray bursts

Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have been involved in detecting a beam of light that provides a link between neutron star mergers and short duration gamma ray bursts. The result is no…