News about Physics

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…

Mikkel Jensen

Environmentally induced neutrino decoherence in IceCube Advisors: Dr. David Jason Koskinen and Dr. Thomas Simon Stuttard

Milky Way type dust particles discovered in a galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth

An international research team, with participation from the Niels Bohr Institute, has found the same type of interstellar dust that we know from the Milky Way in a distant galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth.

Jesper Rask Pedersen

No slip lateral boundary conditions for Veros Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Thorsten Bæk and Ryan Yde

Optical magnetometry - Exploration of an optical caesium vapor magnetometer and the possibilities for unshielded measurements Supervisor: Kasper Jensen

Carlos F. D. Faurby

DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTION ANALYSIS IN COUPLING OF LIGHT TO SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS Supervisors: Anders S. Sørensen and Sumanta K. Das

Michael Zugenmaier

Towards a room temperature single photon source based on atomic vapour Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have recently provided the scientific community with a much-needed computer model.

Charles Marcus elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Charles Marcus on being elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Charles Marcus is a professor and Center Director of the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr…

From musician to professor of quantum physics

Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen has had a meteoric career in a complex area of research and after only a relatively short period of time in the world of physics, and he can now call himself a professor of quantum physics.

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives grant of 4.4 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for Microphysics of the…

Eugene Polzik receives ERC Advanced Grant for the second time, this time for 16.2 million DKK

Since the ERC Advanced Grant was established ten years ago in 2008, 50 of these special grants have been awarded to Danish researchers. Eugene Polzik is the first researcher from Denmark who has been awarded this grant…

Anton L. Andersen

The Effect of Different Potentials for Paul Traps and it’s Application as a Quantum Simulator Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Marius Folden Simonsen

Title: Interglacial ice core dust from Greenland Supervisors: Paul Vallelonga and Anders Svensson

Anders Simonsen

Sensitive electro-optical transduction Through resonant electro- and optomechanics Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Polzik

Andrius Popovas

Planet formation. The roles of pebble accretion, radiative and convective energy transport Supervisor: Prof. Åke Nordlund