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New member of Global Wetland Center

The Global Wetland Center is happy to welcome our newest PhD student Sarah Franze!

CLUVEX VIRTUAL EXCHANGE WEEK ANNOUNCEMENT

CLUVEX VIRTUAL EXCHANGE (1 ECTS) 12—16 May 2025

Nitrogen fixation on marine particles is important in the global ocean

Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans, however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine life. Some bacteria found in marine waters can…

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…

Hanzhi Wang awarded for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

Hanzhi Wang awarded the 2024 China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Changes in management of owned cats in the countryside

This study investigates changes in the management of owned domestic cats (Felis catus) in a rural area of Denmark, at two points in time separated by 24 years.

Soil microbiome inoculation could enhance forest restoration on post-agricultural lands

Can soil microbiome inoculation accelerate forest recovery on former agricultural lands? Researchers from the Silva Nova Project explore this innovative approach in a newly published opinion paper.

Tremendous funding success for VOLT Center!

Last week was filled with great news, as four(!) of our Center postdocs were awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowships! From left to right: Yunyao Ma, Wanying Zhang, Mehrshad Foroughan, and…

Climate Law Journal

Beatriz Martinez Romera, CLIMA's Head of Centre, is the new Editor-in-Chief of Climate Law, a peer-reviewed journal covering climate change law and its interaction with other legal fields.

Twenty years on, biodiversity struggles to take root in restored wetlands

While the restoration of natural areas is high on political agendas, a comprehensive new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that – after more than two decades – biodiversity growth has stalled in restored…

Professor Carl Winsløw steps down as president of ERME

Professor Carl Winsløw has stepped down as president of ERME. PhD student Derya Diana Cosan becomes a new board member of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education.

Soil microbiome inoculation could enhance forest restoration on post-agricultural lands

Researchers from the Silva Nova Project explore how soil microbiome inoculation could accelerate forest recovery on former agricultural land.

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…

Notification of noisy work

Noisy work in Panum building 4, 6, 10, 12 and 16 (31.01.25)

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.

Interview with Nick Baumgart

COPE interviews Nick Baumgart, PhD fellow at the Global Health Section and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His PhD focuses on heat-related vulnerabilities in Kenya and is part of the Climate Chang…

Jennifer Lundin Rydh

Jennifer Lundin Rydh is a doctoral student at Linköping University, focusing on Swedish environmental regulations in public procurement, influenced by EU law.

Conservation strategies aided by assessment of global genetic diversity

In Nature News & Views by Nogués-Bravo, D. and Rahbek, C. (2025)

Danish researchers develop algorithms for mental health

With DKK 20 million in funding from the Lundbeck Foundation, a group of researchers will test how effective algorithms based on artificial intelligence are at addressing real-world challenges in managing citizens with…

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 Multiphoton confocal FLIM microscope at CAB

The second instrument funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation for CAB has now been installed: a new multiphoton, confocal fluorescence lifetime microscope at the North Campus. The Leica Stellaris 8 DIVE/FALCON.

1 year of VOLT: a review of 2024

2024 was the first full year running for VOLT, and what a year it has been! We started strong with external visitors already from January: Arnaud Praplan, atmospheric chemist from the Finnish Meteorological Institute,…