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Søren Frimann

Evolution of Deeply Embedded Protostars Simulations meet Observations Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Climate variations analysed 5 million years back in time

When we talk about climate change today, we have to recognise the natural variations to be able to distinguish them from the human-induced changes. Researchers from the NBI have analysed the natural climate variations…

Protected Majorana states for quantum information

Quantum technology has the potential to revolutionize computation, cryptography, and simulation of quantum systems. However: quantum states are fragile, and so must be controlled without being measured.

Anders Paaske Drachmann

DUST PRODUCTION IN LATE-TYPE HIGH-MASS STARS THE SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE ISM Supervisor: ANJA C. ANDERSEN

MIKKEL JUHL HOBERT

THE ROLE OF CORE COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE IN THE CONTEXT OF DUST PRODUCTION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE Supervisor: DARACH WATSON

Physicist Peter Lodahl receives prestigious EliteForsk Award

Peter Lodahl, professor of quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has received the prestigious Danish elite researcher award, the EliteForsk Award 2016. Peter Lodahl works with…

Dark Cosmology Centre in hunt for gravitational wave sources

Today it was announced that gravitational waves, a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, have been directly detected for the first time and astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute’s Dark…

The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead atoms with extremely high energy in the 27 km long particle accelerator, the LHC at CERN.

Hannah Kleppin

Unforced climate transitions as a scenario for Dansgaard-Oeschger events Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Markus Jochum

Gabija Kiršanske

Electrical control of excitons in semiconductor nanostructures: from quantum dots in photonic-crystal devices to the exciton Mott transition in coupled quantum wells Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lodahl and Assoc. Prof. Søren…

The solar system’s ninth planet in sight

Two American researchers believe that they have found evidence that there is still a giant planet in our own solar system that we have never seen. It has long been known that the small dwarf planet Sedna moved in a…

Heidi Lundgaard Sørensen

A WAVEGUIDE PLATFORM FOR COLLECTIVE LIGHT-ATOM INTERACTION Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Georgios Magdis receives grant from Villum Foundation

Georgios Magdis, an assistant professor at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of five million kroner from the Villum Foundation’s Young Investigator Programme.

Sofus L. Kristensen

Doppler-Free Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy of Molecular Iodine Supervisors: Sigrid Skovbo Adsersen and Jan Westenkær Thomsen

Diana Juncher

Modeling the Cloudy Atmospheres of Cool Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Hot Exoplanets Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Jean-Baptiste Sylvain Béguin

A one-dimensional quantum interface between a few atoms and weak light Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Johannes Møller Astrup

Where Is The Galaxy Counterpart of DLA2225+0527? Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Mikkel Theiss Kristensen

Rare Emission-line Galaxies in the COSMOS Field Main supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo, co-supervisor: Bo Milvang-Jensen

Very high silicon content surprises Mars researchers

New results from the Mars rover Curosity show that some rocks in Gale Crater have a high content of the element silicon. Since the accumulation of silica typically require a combination of both heat and water, this plac…

Troels Petersen from the Niels Bohr Institute receives Science Dissemination Award

‘A star in the area of communication’ – this is how Troels Petersen is described by colleagues, media and anyone who has experienced him talk about what he is passionate about – physics. Troels Petersen is an associate…

Astronomy archaeology – finding 120-year-old observations

In the basement under the Niels Bohr Institute building on Juliane Maries Vej in Copenhagen they have found astronomical observations that go more than 120 years back in time. The observations were recorded on thin…

Marius Gaudesius

Towards entanglement generation between Cesium-133 atomic ensemble and nanomechanical membrane resonator Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

The world’s most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN in Geneva established collisions between lead nuclei, this morning, at the highest energies ever.

Mark Rudner receives ERC grant of nearly 12 million kroner

Mark Rudner, associate professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has received a grant from the European Research Council, an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million…