News about The University

New book about Dan Zahavi

A new book on Dan Zahavi by Pablo Emanuel Garcia has just been published.

Modeling Economic Agents as Deep Reinforcement Learners

Jeppe Druedahl is awarded the IRFD Sapere Aude grant to bridge theory with empirical evidence.

Polymers in Pharma PhD-course gathered Nordic POP participantscoming from Norway, Finland and Sweden at

The PhD-course gathered 15 Nordic POP participants, mainly PhD students and a couple of master students, at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg from 7.-11. November 2022 to an intensive week of science. The…

Research into how nerve cells regulate communication receives ERC grant

Associate Professor at Department of Neuroscience Alexander Matthias Walter has received an ERC consolidator grant for research into synaptic plasticity.

Opening hours during Christmas and New Year

Friday 23 December: 8am-3pm Saturday 24 December: Closed Sunday 25 December: Closed Monday 26 December: Closed Tuesday 27 December: 8am-8pm Wednesday 28 December: 8am-8pm Thursday 29 December: 8am-8pm Friday 30…

Researcher: The future of learning technology is offline 

If learners are in more control of the technology they use for learning and the data they generate, it can create better learning as well as deeper understanding of the technology, says Postdoc Mark Johnson.

Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective

Nina Grønlykke Molleup receives Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for her project Views of violence - Images as documentary, evidentiary and affective.

Ida Marie Lind Glavind receives The Margaret Clark Award

This year’s award recipient of The Margaret Clark Award is Ida Marie Lind Glavind, PhD student at the Department of Anthropology.

Natália da Silva Perez receives Sapere Aude grant

We are thrilled to announce that Natália da Silva Perez, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies, has been rewarded the Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The Sapere Aude…

SUND receives four Sapere Aude research leader grants

Four researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences receive Sapere Aude research leader grants. They each receive DKK 6 million for their innovative projects.

BRIDGE Alumni Event

Join the lecture from Keynote speaker Prof Edvard Moser on our first alumni event on 14 December 2022 from 14:45-16:00 at Panum.

Zerion Pharma, a successful spin-out from our research environment

Zerion Pharma is a growing company with patents and technology that have been developed mostly by Associate Professor Korbinian Löbmann in the Solid State Pharmaceutics group.

Four SUND researchers receive DKK 11 million from the Inge Lehmann Programme

Four researchers from SUND receive a total of DKK 11 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Inge Lehmann Programme. The programme aims to strengthen talent development and promote gender equality in Danish…

One year, five Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships

Orchids, toads, 3D folding of DNA, the genomic consequences of social structure, and squirrel hologenomics are the five research fields that researchers at the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) will investigate…

Kristian Karlson receives international research award

The European Academy of Sociology has awarded Kristian Karlson this year's Raymond Boudon Award.

Two BMI profiles receive millions in grants from the Inge Lehmann programme

Trisha Jean Grevengoed and Lærke Smidt Gasbjerg are each awarded more than DKK 2.8 million from Denmark's Independent Research Foundation.

Three ERC Starting Grants to SUND researchers

Researchers Lea Haarup Gregersen, Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas and Victor Moreno Mayar each receives a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

DKK 10 million for research into sleep and delta receptors

Two SUND professors have been awarded the Lundbeck Foundation's Ascending Investigator grant. This means more research into sleep in young adults and basic research into the brain's largest neurotransmitter system.

Anne Jerslev awarded the SMID prize 2022

Congratulations to Professor Anne Jerslev from the Section of Media Studies for being awarded the SMID prize 2022. The prize is awarded by the Danish media and communication research community to a person who, through…

Succesfully completed CIP symposium 2022

The CIP symposium 2022 focused on various aspects of how university pedagogy is influenced by the international and multilingual context at universities. You can find the presentations from the day at the CIP website.

The year's best Master's theses are written by BMI students

The Medical Society in Copenhagen has just announced the three winners of the award for best Master's theses, where two BMI students won first and third place.

Anna Kathrine Okholm

Cand. scient. (Molecular Biomedicine), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Recipient of the Nils Foss Talent Prize 2022 makes microalgae more edible

Food chemist Mahesha Manjunatha Poojary from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH FOOD) is one of this year's two recipients of the Nils Foss Talent Prize, and if you ask him what we…

Anxiety, schizophrenia, sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases: Why and how do psychological and somatic disorders occur together?

When a person has multiple psychological and physical disorders, they affect each other. But how? Associate Professor in psychology Karen-Inge Karstoft will study this with a new grant from the Independent Research Fund…