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“Super-Earth” in planetary system shedding new light on planetary evolution

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, including an ultra-short period planet with one of the highest densities ever measured.

Major project launched: improving climate models with historical data

How can climate history help us create a more accurate picture of the future climate? A major European consortium, consisting of 24 partners, will spend the next four years working intensively to answer this question.

Jacob Bourjaily receives Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize 2025

At an award ceremony on February 24. former NBIA Associate Professor Jacob Bourjaily received the Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize for 2025

Filippo Leveraro

Title: Novel Techniques for Fast and Precise Estimation of Qubit Decay Rates Supervisors: Jacob Hastrup and Morten Kjaergaaard

New insights into galaxy growth and dark matter from James Webb

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, has released a comprehensive study on how galaxies and their dark matter have evolved across most of the history of the…

Paper selected for Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2024

The paper "Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to All Orders" by Poul H. Damgaard and Kanghoon Lee has been selected to be one out of six papers in the Physical Review Letters section of Particles and…

PhD defense by Daniele Pica, NBI/Perugia

On February 20, 2025 at 14.00, in Aud. A. Daniele Pica will defend his PhD thesis supervised by Marta Orselli (University of Perugia) and Troels Harmark (NBI). The thesis defense will be in English.

Master defense by Miao Shang

On Monday January 13, 2025 at 13:15 in room Hb1 at Blegdamsvej, Miao Shang will defend her master thesis supervised by Jose Ezquiaga. Censor will be Marta Orselli (University of Perugia). The thesis defense will be in…

Strong at Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna

From December 9-13, 2024, the gravitational-wave explorers of the Strong group at the Niels Bohr Institute attended a conference on Lensing and Wave optics in Strong gravity at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna.

Julia Yeomans and Charles Marcus join NBIA's Scientific Advisory Board

We warmly welcome Julia Yeomans (Oxford University) and Charles Marcus (University of Washington & Niels Bohr Institute) who will join NBIA's International Science Advisory Board. They will participate in their first…

New international climate project in the North Atlantic

University of Copenhagen will lead a new international research project to improve knowledge of melting glaciers and ice sheet in the North Atlantic, its impact on global climate and ecosystems, and to support local…

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Clara Celeste Qvotrup

Nanomechanical Slot Waveguide Phase Shifters for Integrated Quantum Photonics Supervisor: Ass. prof. Leonardo Midolo

Niels Fabrin Nymand

Radar investigation of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream - Deriving the crystal orientation fabric Supervisors: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Christine S. Hvidberg

Journal cover to Ph.D. student for encapsulating Ibuprofen

PhD student, Charalampos Tsekeridis in the X-ray and Neutron Science group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has got a journal cover for his work on creating microantibubbles to encapsulate Ibuprofen.

Siri Stenstrup Hjermind

Title: Numerical Simulations of Superconducting Qubits Supervisor: Morten Kjaergaard

Amin Doostmohammadi receives Carlsberg Foundation Infrastructure Grant

Amin Doostmohammadi receives Carlsberg Foundation Infrastructure Grant

Gonzalo Prieto-Lyon

The emergent properties of the first ionizers - Lyman-Alpha and ionizing photon production at the edge of reionization Supervisor: Charlotte Mason

Quantum sensor for MRI mentioned by Erhvervsstyrelsen in new publication

Quantum sensor for MRI mentioned by Erhvervsstyrelsen in new publication

Carlos F. D. Faurby

FUSION-BASED QUANTUM COMPUTING WITH QUANTUM EMITTERS AND PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lodahl

Benny Lautrup In Memoriam

With great sadness we have learned that Benny Lautrup passed away last Friday. Benny Lautrup was an important figure at the Niels Bohr Institute and he was one of the founders of the theoretical particle physics group a…

Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice

It is expected that the 2,800 meter deep ice core drilling down to the bedrock under the Antarctic ice sheet for the first time will reveal crucial details about the earth's climate and the history of the atmosphere mor…

Webb provides a new detailed look into the formation of the first galaxies

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, have published the first, large-scale study of more than 600 galaxies observed within the first billion years after the…

Weria Pezeshkian receives 2024 Frank Blaney Award

Weria Pezeshkian receives 2024 Frank Blaney Award