News about Physics

Congratulations to Søren Borg Nielsen

Congratulations to Søren Borg Nielsen at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended his PhD thesis Tuesday 19 March 2019, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Long-distance quantum information exchange - success at the nanoscale

At the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, researchers have realized the swap of electron spins between distant quantum dots. The discovery brings us a step closer to future applications of quantum…

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, receives scientific prize

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives the 2019 MERAC Prize from the European Astronomical Society for the Best Early Career Researcher.

Mikkel Bloch Lauritzen

Spin-photon Entanglement Realised by Quantum Dots Embedded in Waveguides

Gorm Galster

The Central Trigger Processor of the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC and its Monitoring

Carlos Francisco Castro Soto Reyes

The crustal and sedimentary structure of the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean, derived from seismic reflection and refraction data

Four young scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Four young scientists, Matthias Wilhelm, Christa Gall, Michele Burrello and You Zhou recieves Villum Young Investigator grants.

Congratulations to Mads Bruun Poulsen

Congratulations to Mads Bruun Poulsen at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended his PhD thesis Wednesday 16 January 2019, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Mads will continue to work…

Catching a glimpse of the gamma-ray burst engine

A gamma-ray burst registered in December of 2017 turns out to be “one of the closets GRBs ever observed”. The discovery is featured in Nature – and it has yielded valuable information about the formation of the most…

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

Junang Wang

Superfluid Stiffness of Disordered Superconductor Supervisor: Brian Møller Andersen

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