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Nikolaos Karampatzos

Nikolaos Karampatzos is a PhD candidate at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

CMS Researcher Tobias Liebetrau publishes the article "Critical maritime infrastructure protection: What’s the trouble?"

Since the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, critical maritime infrastructure protection has become a top political priority. Curious to know what is at stake in this revised maritime agenda? What critical…

CERTIZENS PhD research stay at CAS

CERTIZENS PhDs from Ghana and Uganda visited CAS this Spring

FutureArcticLives conducts fieldwork in East Greenland

FutureArcticLives has conducted field work in East Greenland and interviewed two seasoned hunters.

Henrik Vigh features on popular danish science podcast “24 Spørgsmål til Professoren”

Head of Centre at CGC, Henrik Vigh, recently featured on the popular danish podcast “24 Spørgsmål til Professoren” (“24 Questions for the Professor”).

“Super Mixtures”: Adding Delicious Flavors to Alcohol-Free Beer

If non-alcoholic beer tasted better, it would probably make up a larger proportion of total beer sales and therefore improve public health. A group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen want to make this a…

Professor Helle Porsdam med i podcast fra Folkemødet 2023 (In Danish)

Professor Helle Porsdam med i podcast fra Folkemødet 2023.

Professor Helle Porsdam participates in New Books Network podcast

Professor Helle Porsdam is interviewed about Science as a Cultural Human Right for a New Books Network podcast.

Anja Møller Pedersen defended her Ph.D thesis

On 7 June 2023, Anja Møller Pedersen successfully defended her PhD Thesis on ‘The Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in the EU Legal Order: Reconciling privacy rights and rationales’.

University of Copenhagen Offers New Education in Plant-Based Foods

The Danish food sector is at the forefront globally, and as part of maintaining and preferably improving this position during the green transition, the University of Copenhagen has established a new specialization, a…

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Nurbanu Hayir

15 August 2023 - 30 June 2023

Researchers will explore and develop a new ecological ethics

With support from VELUX FONDEN, a collaboration between anthropologists and theologians will pave the way for a new ecological ethics that focuses on the interaction between nature and human interests.

CEPRI researcher attends Annual Meeting of UN Special Procedures mandate holders in Geneva

Dr Sorcha MacLeod, CEPRI Associate Professor and a member of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries recently attended the 29th Annual Meeting of Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts and Chairs of Working…

Danes underestimate inequality - both rich and poor

A new Danish study is the largest to date to examine people's understanding of and attitudes towards inequality.

Double grant success for waste and circular economy law research

Dr Katrien Steenmans, postdoc on the Circular Supply Chains – identifying legal risks (CirCus) project, has been awarded two small grants.

Interview with Professor Sarah Igo

Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sarah Igo Professor of History at Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, Sarah Igo visited Centre for Privacy Studies in May 2023. She gave a lecture on the U.S. Social Security number and ho…

Orientering Udsyn: Towards a new European foreign policy in Africa?

On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Orientering Udsyn, Associate Professor at CAS, Karen Lauterbach examines the latest European state visits to African countries and how these point to a shift in European…

The Fight for Nature and Biodiversity

Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen examines the recent trends in nature management and protection of biodiversity in Denmark and African states.

Infants are not egocentric: Trust other people's attention more than their own

Babies rely on other people to look after them. New research from the Department of Psychology shows that eight-month-old infants also rely more on other people’s attention than on their own observations.

Flexicurity and the future of work - Lessons from Denmark

Anna Ilsøe and Trine Pernille Larsen analyse how the Danish flexicurity model can be adjusted to the future of work, where flexible hiring and firing practices is increasingly supplemented by contractual flexibility

"The Festival Feeling"

Research assistant Emilie Munch Gregersen has recently featured in a video, explaining some findings from DISTRACT's research at the People's Meeting (Folkemødet). In the video, Emilie talks about "the festival feeling"…

Eva Iris Otto defends PhD thesis

On the 22nd of June, 2023, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto successfully defended her thesis entitled Coding [values]: App-making in the Danish digital attention economy. On the committee of Eva's defence was Professor Ayo…

New visitor at CeBIL - Chih-hsing Ho

7 August - 12 August

Crisis response: Who do volunteers on social media prioritise?

Informal volunteering organised in Facebook groups plays an increasing role during crisis situations. But who are the volunteers helping – and why? A project funded by VELUX FONDEN will investigate this question.