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Green Solution Centre pilot project grant

A pilot project under GSC living lab – “Our plant-based future”.

Lærke Halkjær

Title:Analysis of water-, landspouts and tornadoes in Denmark Supervisors: Aksel Walløe Hansen and Sebastian Pelt

Niels Schøtt Hvidberg

Title: Anatomy of Abrupt Climate Change Supervisors: Sune Olander Rasmussen og Aslak Grinsted.

Tobias Born Clausen

Title: Multi-terminal Josephson Junctions Supervisor: Charles M. Marcus

Wild foods contribute to women’s nutrition during the lean season

Around the world poor people struggle with food insecurity. In some countries, food that grows naturally in forests and on common land (wild food) is relied upon to supplement the daily caloric intake. Researchers from…

Mette Baungaard

Title: High Spin Scattering Amplitudes Supervisors: Prof. Lars Buchhave & Dr. Hannah Diamond-Lowe

New Ph.D.-fellow: We should utilize the body to learn programming 

When working with computers, we must remember that we are human beings, says new Ph.D.-fellow Fridtjof Ronge Gjengset.

Amalie Beate Albrechtsen

Title: Sensitivity to the Neutrino Mass Ordering in the IceCube Upgrade Supervisor: David Jason Koskinen

Centennial Conference “Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries of Physics”

A Centennial Conference celebrating the centenaries of the Niels Bohr Institute (founded in 1921) and Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in Physics (awarded to him in 1922) will take place in Copenhagen from 7–11 August 2023

Hao Zhang

Title: Spectral analysis of the CASSOWARY 31 lensing system Supervisor: Lise Bech Christensen

Maiken Kristiansen Revheim

Title: Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Water Vapour Fluxes from Automatic Weather Station Records. - A Study of Surface Water Vapour Fluxes in a Changing Climate Supervisors: Christine S. Hvidberg, Jason Box (GEUS)

Perceptions of the rabbit as a low investment ‘starter pet’ lead to negative impacts on its welfare

This paper shows that many rabbits live in unsuitable conditions, and owners who perceive rabbits as low investment ‘children’s pets’ are more likely to not provide recommended resources.

Earth was created faster than we thought. This makes the chance of other habitable planets in the Universe more likely

Over the past decades, researchers thought Earth was created over a period of more than 100 million years. However, a new study from UCPH suggests that the creation of Earth was much more rapid, and that water and other…

Emily Hajigeorgiou

Title: Quantum point contacts with complex gate geometry in high-mobility GaAs Supervisor: Anasua Chatterjee

New vice-dean at University of Copenhagen SCIENCE

Professor Jesper Wengel is a high-profile researcher, inventor and business owner. From 1 September 2023, he will also be the new Vice-Dean for Innovation and External Relations at SCIENCE – the University of…

Robert Garbrecht Larsen

Title: Exploring complex quantum Hall interferometers in high mobility GaAs Supervisors: Anasua Chatterjee & Charles Marcus

Sune Skelgaard Forchhammer and Anas Youssef Idiab

Title: Efficient Simulation of Quantum Trajectories for Multiple Qubits in a Resonator Cavity Under Continuous Heterodyne Detection Supervisor: Klaus Mølmer

Associate Professor Mariaceleste Aragona has been awarded a Leo Foundation Grant

The Leo Foundation has granted Professor Aragona and her team a 4 million DKK grant for their work on identifying factors that improve stem cell self-renewal. The fund is awarded for a period of three years.

Eva Lopez Rojo

Tilte: Charge bond order in kagome metals Supervisor: Brian M. Andersen

Jonas Vinther

Title: Robust Quantum Optimal Control via The Adjoint Method Supervisor: Karsten Flensberg

Jorge Prado González

Title: Event Selection for the IceCube Upgrade Supervisor: David Jason Koskinen

Andreas Skriver Olsen

Title: Quantum Phase Transitions in Josephson Junction Arrays Supervisor: Charles Marcus

Daniel Hans Munk

Title: B-Physics and Gradient Boosted Decision Trees - Identifying B0->K*0ee Decays using GBDTs for the Study of Lepton Flavour Universality Violation at the ATLAS Detector, CERN Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Holobionts and Hologenomics: past, present and future

In late May the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics in collaboration with Penn State University’s One Health Microbiome Center hosted a two-day symposium on “Holobionts and Hologenomics: past, present and future” with…