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Ethnote test-event held at SODAS

Last week a test-event exploring new users' first meeting with digital fieldnote appe app Ethnote was held at SODAS

Clara Giménez Arteaga

Resolving Stellar Populations in Galaxies Across 13 Billion Years of Cosmic Time Supervisor: Gabriel B. Brammer

Large nitrous oxide emissions from flooded fields suggests action

New research from IGN reveals unexpectedly large nitrous oxide emissions from the flooded fields on Zealand. The results have recently been published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

Matthias Herth Professor of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry

From the beginning of January 2024, Matthias Manfred Herth will be our new Professor of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry here at the Department.

New Faces 2023

BARC and the AC-section welcomed lots of PhD's and Postdocs in 2023!

Researchers invent "methane cleaner": Could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns

In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air. The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases…

Thesis award to black hole spectroscopy measurements

Strong member Gregorio Carullo received a prize from his Alma Mater, the University of Pisa, for the best PhD thesis in the field of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science and Geoscience, defended in 2022. The prize wa…

Anthropologist to explore “out of the way” places’ dreams of becoming tech landscapes

What does it mean for “out of the way” places to build technological futures, and how can these futures reproduce or reconfigure social and economic inequalities? This is what Samantha Dawn Breslin will explore thanks t…

Student creates green investment tool

A student at University of Copenhagen has developed a method for optimizing profit relative to risk while also including sustainability and social responsibility concerns. The tool is relevant to both professional and…

Deyang receives Innoexplorer grant

New grant to explore rapeseed cake as a novel food

Fighting for Biodiversity in Africa

In an article published in Danish Journal Udenrigs, Associate Professor Stig Jensen, details the fight for biodiversity in Africa. With an increasing threat of extinction to multiple animal species on the continent,…

A new field-experiment, 11 December 2023

The project is moving forward and it is now time for some testing in the field.

Communication transforms surveillance into quality control

Students at University of Copenhagen analysed the adoption of an AI-backed tracking system recently installed by university hospital Rigshospitalet.

Hans Stærkind

Optical Magnetometry for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik, Assoc. Prof. Esben T. Petersen and Research Fellow Vincent O. Boer.

New TEM at CAB

CAB has received grants from the governmental research infrastructure roadmap, which allowed to invest in a state-of-the-art Scanning / Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The Talos system allows full control of the…

An updated floristic map of the world

In Nature Communications by Liu, Y., ..., Borregaard, M.K., ... Rahbek, C. and Wang, Z. (2023)

BARC welcomes two new Faculty in 2023

BARC has had a great year - partly because we got to welcome terrific new researchers to the team. Read more about two of them here.

Diversification of flowering plants in space and time

In Nature Communications by Dimitrov, D., ..., Nogués-Bravo, D., ..., C, Rahbek & Wang, Z. (2023)

Dissemination and Outreach Workshop Report is now available

Stakeholders, including researchers, community leaders, local political interest groups, and planners, discussed the project's findings

Eirik Finserås

Eiriks research is related to a comparative assessment of national licensing procedures for offshore wind in the North Sea Basin. Currently entitled `A Comparative Legal Analysis of North Sea Offshore Wind Licensing…

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents Ethnote at Maastricht University Ethnography group's monthly sessions

During the latest monthly session of the Maastricht University Ethnography Group, Emilie Munch Gregersen presented digital fieldnote app Ethnote

Barbara keynote speaker at Planteværket

State of the union talk by Professor Barbara Ann Halkier

JEG HAR SMAGT PÅ BITTER RAPSKAGE. DET KOMMER DU NOK OGSÅ TIL I FREMTIDEN

The potential of rapeseed cake as a novel plant based food product

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Videnskab fra vilde hjerner’

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest in the Danish podcast Videnskab fra vilde hjerner (Science from Wild Minds) hosted by Professor of astrophysics at University of Copenhagen, Anja C. Andersen.…