News about The University

Starch from plants is key to bioplastic that is actually degradable

Professor Andreas Blennow’s research group experiments with bioplastics, nutritionally healthy crops and antibiotic multiresistance, but sustainability is the bond that ties Starch together.

Introducing the CERTIZENS Podcast

A podcast connecting scholars and practitioners working on ID systems in diverse global settings.

Diploma Award to Dustin Clausen

Associate Professor Dustin Clausen has received the Hartmann Foundation's Diploma Prize 2022 for his work on developing and understanding the deep connection between geometry and number theory, two basic fields in…

New prorector: "Measure me by how many who turn up in a UCPH T-shirt"

Associate dean at the Faculty of Law Kristian Cedervall Lauta will assume the role as Prorector for Education at the University of Copenhagen, and he has a dream.

Nine young SUND-researchers receive millions to ignite career

Lundbeck Foundation Postdocs research grants are aimed at young, highly qualified scientists working in the field of biomedical sciences. SUND receives nine out of total of 31 Postdoc grants for 2022.

Professor Lennart Bunch, our new professor in medicinal chemistry

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology have welcomed Lennart Bunch as Professor of Medicinal Chemistry.

Physical meeting in Copenhagen

FutureArcticLives held its first physical meeting and workshop in Copenhagen hosted by the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO).

Anna Klawonn and Alexander Hauser new members of Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network

The Lundbeck Foundation has admitted assistant professors Alexander Hauser and Anna Mathia Klawonn into their recently established network of researchers, LFIN, Lundbeck Foundation Investigators Network.

Daniel Bar-Shalom appointed as Fellow of CRS, Controlled Release Society

The Controlled Release Society, CRS, has inducted Associate Professor Daniel Bar-Shalom to the Controlled Release Society College of Fellows.

Engaging with students from Utrecht University

Engaging with students from Utrecht University

Stephan Pless, our new professor in chemical biology of ion channels

Friday before Easter Stephan Pless was inaugurated as Professor within Chemical Biology of Ion Channels at Department of Drug Design and Pharmacy.

International Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

Competition for The 2022-23 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships is open for applications. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides $70,000 per year for two years. The program is open to both Canadian and…

Spotlight on researchers in Uganda and Ghana

Video interviews with PhD researchers Milcah Abasabyona and Isaac Owusu Nsiah.

Professor inspired by housewives and schoolchildren

University of Copenhagen professor Dennis Sandris Nielsen has been awarded SCIENCE’s Dissemination Award 2022 for his willingness and ability to communicate research about the broader societal perspectives of bacteria,…

Department of Psychology involved in new project on the ‘Big Two’

Researchers from the University of Mannheim and UCPH will lead a new project asking why the so-called ‘Big Two’ in human psychology – agency and communion – are so fundamental to us.

New research on how to quantify quantum effects on black holes

Professor in Physics, Vitor Cardoso from the Niels Bohr Institute, NBIA, has received a DNRF Chair grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to study and quantify quantum effects on astrophysical black holes

AREF funds Frederica Partey

Frederica (postdoc on the MAVARECA-II) have been awarded a grant from AREF

Does altitude-like cognition training strengthen brain function?

Researchers at the Department of Psychology will now investigate whether simulated altitude cognition training can strengthen the brain function.

Research project about deterrence is rewarded an ERC Grant

What influence does deterrence have on international politics? The topic is highly relevant at the moment and is now being supported by the European Research Council.

The abstracts submitted for the Annual Meeting 2022 may be updated

Due to changes in date of the Annual Meeting 2022, rescheduled to August 10-12, 2022, the abstracts that were submitted under the registration period may be updated. Since the Annual Meeting was shifted by 6 months, the…

Two CBMR Group Leaders join the BioInnovation Institute’s Venture Lab program

Scientists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) study metabolic health and disease in the hope that their discoveries will lead to new prevention and treatment strategies.

Frikk wins cesifo affiliate award

Scientific originality, policy relevance and the quality of exposition of his paper results in ward to Frikk Nesje

Programmer by day, author by night

When Sofie Riis Endahl tells people that she works as an author and studies machine learning and data science, she is being met with great surprise. But for Sofie it makes good sense to combine her interest in artificia…

Professor Ben Boyd, our new expert in self-assembled materials

Friday 25th of February, the Department of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences said a warm welcome to Professor Ben Boyd at his inauguration ceremony.