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The University of Copenhagen gathers medical anthropologists for a conference on chronic conditions

With close to 500 participants, the Chronic Living conference on 4-6 March will be one of the largest medical anthropological events on record.

Biotech company funds research project on diversity

In collaboration with Genmab, a new anthropological postdoc project at the Department of Anthropology will now explore and help develop the company's efforts to ensure a diverse and inclusive workplace.

New unit at UCPH to put focus on research into children and education

New funding from the Ministry of Children and Education will enable researchers from across the Faculty of Social Sciences to strengthen quantitative research into children’s education and their social mobility.

Georgios Magdis receives Villum Young Investigator Plus grant to investigate the beginning of galaxies

With the Villum Young Investigator Plus, he will be able to look even further into the past, to the first few billion years of galaxy evolution, using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James…

CPHSAXS, the In-House Biological Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) Facility at UCPH

CPHSAXS is a state-of-the-art, high-throughput, small-angle X-ray scattering instrument. Through funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the instrument is now in operation as an open facility.

Feature Interview: Henriette Elisabeth Autzen

Henriette Elisabeth Autzen is one of the newest members of ISBUC. In February 2020, Henriette was recruited as an Associate Professor in Biomolecular Sciences at the Department of Biology, UCPH, establishing her own lab…

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and sparkling”, but the idea is to take a closer look at where elements heavier than iron like platinum and gold actually come…

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are among the beneficiaries this year and their research reaches across the spectrum the smallest to the largest, i.e. from…

New research dispels the myth of nationalism’s fading appeal

Two articles – one written by Professor Claire Maxwell and the other by Benedikte Brincker, Associate Professor – present new sociological insights into nationalism. Both articles appear in the leading journal Sociology…

Danish and Chinese tongues taste broccoli and chocolate differently

Two studies from the University of Copenhagen show that Danes aren’t quite as good as Chinese at discerning bitter tastes. The research suggests that this is related to anatomical differences upon the tongues of Danish…

Kirstine Meyers Memorial Grant for two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

These young, promising researchers are receiving this honorary grant for their outstanding research that brings exciting new contributions in their respective fields.

Three Nordic POP units (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Uppsala) hosting a new European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant

Three researchers, Alexandra Teleki from Uppsala University, Kasper Dyrberg Rand from University of Copenhagen, Timo Laaksonen from University of Helsinki have been granted the ERC Consolidator Grants. This means not…

Claus Thustrup Kreiner: The 2020 Richard Musgrave laureate

When he is laudated The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship Claus joins the good company of peers like Raj Chetty, Timothy Besley, Joel Slemrod, Rachel Griffith, and Michael Keen.

Quantum electronics accelerator awarded to Anasua Chatterjee and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded Assistant Professor Anasua Chatterjee and Associate Professor Ferdinand Kuemmeth an infrastructure grant; adding to the NBI new cryogenic tools to screen quantum devices at low…

CBMR scientists win innovation funding to develop new anti-cancer and obesity drugs

The BioInnovation Institute (BII) has awarded two grants worth DKK 3.5M each to CBMR to develop new drugs based on its basic metabolic research.

Two grants for innovative research to help battle antibiotic resistance

With the use of 3D microscopy and mathematical modeling, Liselotte Jauffred will explore how the spread of antibiotic resistance is influenced by the way microbes organize themselves. Not in a test tube, but in a 3D…

Paul J. Steinhardt is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour 2020

Paul Steinhardt is Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University where he is on the faculty of both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

Sapere Aude Grant for research into the connection between religiosity and wealth

Associate Professor Jeanet Sinding Bentzen from the Department of Economics has received the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Sapere Aude grant for talented research leaders.

Researchers put human mobility into new formula

Researchers at DTU and the University of Copenhagen have developed a model that provides new knowledge about how we move around in our everyday life and bridges a gap in the scientific understanding of mobility.

The University of Copenhagen is home to the world’s best research environment in Sports Science

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Institute of Sports Medicine at Bispebjerg Hospital – both departments at the University of Copenhagen – are together the world’s best research environment in…

Mathematical models contributes to the green transition

Independent Research Fund Denmark supports 65 research projects on green conversion. Associate Professor Trine Krogh Boomsma from the Department of Mathematical Sciences participates. She will find new mathematical…

‘Anthro Walks’ will compensate for COVID-19 restrictions

All students at the Department of Anthropology will get the opportunity to participate in weekly walks with informal academic conversations.

Grant for developing long term weather predictions in Denmark

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to provide us with a much longer perspective on the general weather situation in Denmark.

Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms

Within the scientific community, it is estimated that artificial intelligence — otherwise meant to serve as a means to effectively combat climate change — will become one of the most egregious CO2 culprits should curren…