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Change of leadership within the reNEW Copenhagen Node

On January 8, Professor Kim Jensen has stepped into the position of Node Director of the Copenhagen Node of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine – reNEW in place of Professor Melissa Little.

Doing your field work abroad?

Rikke Louise Jensen and Nanna Schødt Hansen were offered the opportunity to do their field work for their MSc thesis in Kenya - an adventure beyond their wildest dreams.

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern. Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz.

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.

Alexander Buhl

Title: Development and Testing of ASIC Based Readout and Control System for Large Silicon Photomultiplier Arrays Supervisors: Ian Bearden

Jade Omotoyosi Nina Brauns

Title: Investigating the dynamics of cusp bifurcations: A conceptual model for glacial-interglacial cycles Supervisor: Peter Ditlevsen

Jesper Larsen

Title: Automated Analysis and of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems Found in Spectra of Background Quasars Supervisor: Lise Bech Christensen

Moust Oskar William Holmes

Title: Inelasticity reconstruction for IceCube neutrino observatory upgrade Supervisor: David Jason Koskinen

New study pinpoints the weaknesses in AI

ChatGPT and other solutions built on Machine Learning are surging. But even the most successful algorithms have limitations. As the first in the world researchers from University of Copenhagen has proven mathematically…

Yannick Elias Heiser

Title: The role of grain size on ice properties and deformation Supervisors: Anders Svensson

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the plant’s notorious toxicity, no one has yet succeeded in exploiting it effectively. Researchers from the University of…

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the plant’s notorious toxicity, no one has yet succeeded in exploiting it effectively. Researchers from the University of…

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to five European pioneers who discovered the link between greenhouse gases and rising global temperatures enclosed within the polar ice. Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen from PICE at th…

Vili's Ph.D. defense

Vili-Taneli Salo successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Investigation of Atmospheric Gas-Phase Reaction Using Multireference Electronic Structure Methods", on the 10th of January at the University of Helsinki.…

A delicious surprise: Vertically farmed greens taste as good as organic ones

Consumer skepticism about the taste of vertically farmed greens is widespread. But the first scientific taste test from the University of Copenhagen and Plant Food & Research, New Zealand shows that respondents rate…

ERSILIA GUARINI

Exploring the High-Energy Transient Universe with Neutrinos Supervisor: Prof. Irene Tamborra

How did the bushpig cross the strait? A great puzzle in African mammal biogeography solved by genomics

Africa has a huge diversity of large mammals, but their evolutionary relationships and movement across the continent over time often remain a mystery. A new scientific study led by researchers from the University of…

Marcia Tiemi Saito visiting from Brazil

Marcia Tiemi Saito (Federal Institute of Paraná, Brazil) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from February 2024 to January 2025.

Assistant Professor Jose Ezquiaga brings NBIA into the LIGO Collaboration

Assistant Professor Jose Maria Ezquiaga has led NBIA to become a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. This represents the first LIGO group in Denmark and will join an international association with more than 150…

A grassroot movement fighting for sustainability grown big

CPR Goes Green started as a grassroot initiative at CPR almost four years ago. Now the initiative has spread to many places at SUND and the “Goes Green”-teams are learning from each other’s initiatives to help labs to…

Deyang Xu receives new NNF grant

Project description: Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is the world’s third largest oilseed crop. The press cake that remains after oil pressing contains 30-40% protein with an excellent amino acid composition. The press cake i…

Morten Axel Pedersen gave talk at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of working quantitatively in anthropology at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

Ethicists’ commentary on current considerations when advising on destroying honeybee colonies

Ethical question of the month, October 2023 You are a veterinarian who advises on the care of honeybees. You have a client with a colony that is suspected to be infected with American foulbrood, a reportable disease in…

2023 Publications Highlights

VOLT center started this year and there have been many exciting activities, collaborations, new people joining, cool instruments arriving and promising data being generated. While most of the new data still needs to be…

Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark

Postdoc Inge-Merete Hougaard has recently published the article 'Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark' in the journal Environmental Science and Policy.