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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…

The KIF Prize 2015 goes to Professor Jens Hjorth

The Danish Network for Women in Physics, KIF has awarded the 2015 prize to Professor Jens Hjorth, the director of the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

Anja Andersen receives the Danish Physical Society’s Communication Award

Anja Andersen, associate professor at the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, has received the International Year of Light Communication Award from the Danish Physical Society.

The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth

New research shows how past abrupt climatic changes in the North Atlantic propagated globally. The study, led by researchers from The Niels Bohr Institute, shows how interaction between heat transport in the ocean and…

Swift satellite detects 1000th gamma-ray burst

The NASA satellite, Swift, has now detected its 1000th gamma-ray burst. Since the launch of the satellite in 2004, it has revolutionised research into gamma-ray bursts.

The Greenland ice sheet contains nutrients from precipitation

New research shows that the ice sheet on Greenland contains the nutrient phosphorus, which was carried by the atmosphere across the country, where it fell with precipitation. This new knowledge is important for...

Jes Jørgensen receives The Academy of Sciences and Letters Silver Medal 2015

In 2015, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awards a silver medal goes to Associate Professor Jes K. Jørgensen from the Niels Bohr Institute for his research into the processes surrounding the formation of…

Photons open the gateway for quantum networks

There is tremendous potential for new information technology based on light (photons), and quantum technology based on photons – called quantum photonics, will be able to hold much more information than current computer…

Mikkel Lindholmer

A Catalogue of Zeldovich Pancakes Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Kilian W. Kluge

Characterization of collective spin states in atomic ensembles trapped around tapered nanofibers Supervisor: Jörg H. Müller

Christoffer Bruun-Schmidt

Infall Velocity in Galaxy Clusters Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Mads Bruun Poulsen

The Sensitivity of the Southern Ocean Circulation to Local Wind Stress Forcing in a Coarse Resolution Coupled GCM Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Luca Dellantonio

Entanglement criteria for Spin Squeezing

Pavel Naselsky appointed Professor

Pavel Naselsky has been appointed professor in the research group Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology at the Niels Bohr Institute. He researches the very earliest universe using observations from the Planck…

KU students win gold in the United States for Mars moss project

Can we develop a moss that can survive and grow on Mars? A group of students from the Center for Synthetic Biology and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen decided to try.

Eugene Polzik receives ERC grant

Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the Center for Quantum Optics, Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has received a grant of nearly 1.2 million kroner (150,000 Euro) from the European…

Almut Pingel

Tau lepton identification and studies of associated Higgs boson production with the ATLAS detector

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Search fore new physics in multilepton final-states using multivariate techniques

Hjalte Frellesvig

Spin-squeezing in Bose-Einstein condensates Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen