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Earth was created faster than we thought. This makes the chance of other habitable planets in the Universe more likely

Over the past decades, researchers thought Earth was created over a period of more than 100 million years. However, a new study from UCPH suggests that the creation of Earth was much more rapid, and that water and other…

New vice-dean at University of Copenhagen SCIENCE

Professor Jesper Wengel is a high-profile researcher, inventor and business owner. From 1 September 2023, he will also be the new Vice-Dean for Innovation and External Relations at SCIENCE – the University of…

Sune Skelgaard Forchhammer and Anas Youssef Idiab

Title: Efficient Simulation of Quantum Trajectories for Multiple Qubits in a Resonator Cavity Under Continuous Heterodyne Detection Supervisor: Klaus Mølmer

Associate Professor Mariaceleste Aragona has been awarded a Leo Foundation Grant

The Leo Foundation has granted Professor Aragona and her team a 4 million DKK grant for their work on identifying factors that improve stem cell self-renewal. The fund is awarded for a period of three years.

Jorge Prado González

Title: Event Selection for the IceCube Upgrade Supervisor: David Jason Koskinen

MSc Defense: Jorge Expósito Patiño

On Friday June 9 2023 at 10.00 in auditorium B at Blegdamsvej, Jorge Expósito Patiño will defend his master thesis supervised by Thomas Baumgarte (Bowdoin College), Vitor Cardoso and Troels Haugbølle. Censor will be…

MSc Defense: Tianyi Zhou

On Monday June 19 2023 at 12.30 in meeting room Hb1 at Blegdamsvej, Tianyi Zhou will defend his master thesis supervised by Vitor Cardoso. Censor will be Marta Orselli, University of Perugia. The thesis defense will be…

Daniel Hans Munk

Title: B-Physics and Gradient Boosted Decision Trees - Identifying B0->K*0ee Decays using GBDTs for the Study of Lepton Flavour Universality Violation at the ATLAS Detector, CERN Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Holobionts and Hologenomics: past, present and future

In late May the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics in collaboration with Penn State University’s One Health Microbiome Center hosted a two-day symposium on “Holobionts and Hologenomics: past, present and future” with…

Holobionts and Hologenomics: past, present and future

In late May the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics in collaboration with Penn State University’s One Health Microbiome Center hosted a two-day symposium on “Holobionts and Hologenomics: past, present and future” with…

Isabella Henum

Title: Exploring the chemical enrichment of galaxies within 600 Myr after the Big Bang Supervisors: Victoria B. Strait, Kasper E. Heintz, Gabriel B. Brammer

Lise Klungsøyr Nøland

Title: The local interstellar environment of high-redshift star-forming galaxies probed with gamma-ray bursts Supervisor: Kasper Elm Heintz

Luka Vujeva

Title: Finding the most efficient survey design for discovering high-redshift galaxies with JWST Supervisor: Charles L. Steinhardt

Mads Nymann-Lynggaard and Cecilie Valet Henneberg

Title: Simulated Data and Exposure Time Calculator for the NOT Transient Explorer Supervisors: Johan P. U. Fynbo, Joonas Kari Markku Viuho

Nanna has had a baby!

Congratulations to our Ph.D student Nanna Falk Christiansen, who has had a baby on Monday the 19th of June. We from the group wish her and her boyfriend all the best, now that she is on maternity leave, enjoying her tim…

Rachel Alice Gledhill

Title: Mass and Magnification in Abell 370 Supervisors: Gabriel Brammer, Victoria Strait

Researchers reverse stunting in children, challenging WHO recommendations

At present the WHO does not recommend nutrient supplements for children with stunted growth – a health problem that affects more than one in five children under the age of five globally. The rationale is that supplement…

Andrea Vang

Title: Linking Large Scale Atmospheric Modes of Variability with Fluctuations in the Atlantic Ocean Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Matea Elise Marinkovic

Thesis Title: Tropical Cyclones in the Southwest Indian Ocean and Their Impacts on Vanilla Cultivation in Madagascar Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Rasmus Bruhn Nielsen

Title: Towards cluster state generation using charged quantum dot Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Alexey Tiranov

Frederik Bay Nielsen

Title: Delay map modeling in a long-axial field-of-view PET/CT scanner Supervisor: Heloisa Nunes Bordallo

Gases from bacteria and plankton affect the climate – new research center seeks to calculate by how much

We need to find out how much gasses plants, soil, fungi and bacteria emit into the atmosphere. The gases they release influence the planet’s climate, and we know too little about them. On 19 June 2023, possibly the firs…

Peter Andresen

Title: Observing The Universe Using The Antarctic Ice Sheet Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Amit Singh

Title: High-energy neutrino emission from supernovae Supervisor: Irene Tamborra