News about Awards

Spaghetti-armed egghead strives to move people with facts

Hans Henrik Bruun is an especially active voice of reason in public discourse about the present and future of Danish nature. Whenever engaging, he often greets strong emotions with facts. This year's recipient of…

External CEBI member Professor Gabriel Zucman receives the 2023 John Bates Clark Medal

Congratulations to the 2023 John Bates Clark Medallist Gabriel Zucman. The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded annually to an economist under the age of 40, the John Bates Clark Medal recognises outstanding research…

Professor Ruth Loos awarded Obesity Prize for Excellence

Professor Ruth Loos is the first recipient of the new Obesity Prize for Excellence established by the EASO and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Dr. Eun Hye Kim awarded Proxime Accessit in the 2022 ELFA Award

Dr. Eun Hye Kim was awarded Proxime Accessit in the ELFA Award 2022 for her thesis entitled “The Advocate General as an Actor of Change – or Consolidation – in EU Competition Law.”

Atreyee Sen awarded prize for best journal article

Associate Professor Atreyee Sen receives the prize for the best published article in the journal Critical Asian Studies. The article explores moral policing in Mumbai.

Brady Wagoner receives award for outstanding lifetime research achievements

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation selects internationally renowned scientists and scholars from all disciplines for the award, “whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact…

Congratulations to Ian Hickson

on being awarded “Kirsten og Freddy Johansens Lægevidenskabelige Prækliniske Forskerpris 2023".

Congratulations to Michael Lisby

on being awarded a major Semper Ardens Advance Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation.

Anthropological image wins best scientific photo of the year award

The Danish National Research Foundation's award for best scientific photo in 2023 tells the story of a diabetes epidemic that has gone global.

Medical Museion wins communication award for 'The World is in You'

Medical Museion wins the communication award “Formidlingsprisen 2022” for the exhibition project 'The World is in You'. The exhibition explored how our bodies are connected to the world in and around us.

Danmarks Geologipris goes to Globe researcher

The Geological Society of Denmark has awarded their annual ‘Denmark’s Geology Prize’ to Associate Professor Christian Mac Ørum Rasmussen from GeoBiology. Christian receives the award for his unique contribution to the…

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…

Congratulations to Mads Lerdrup

On being awarded a grant from The Novo Nordisk Foundation

Policies' implications on labor supply and inequality within families

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen has been awarded The Semper Ardens Accelerate grant from The Carlsberg Foundation

Videnskabsklubben receives the Amalienborg Prize

December 13, Professor Petrine Wellendorph participated in a ceremony at Amalienborg, where Videnskabsklubben received the Amalienborg Prize from HM Queen Margrethe on behalf of Dronning Margrethes og Prins Henriks Fond…

This year's 'invisible hand': "Capturing the attention of a student requires relevance and motivation"

The teaching prize "The Invisible Hand" is awarded each year to a lecturer at the Department of Economics who has demonstrated excellent teaching skills. This year the award goes to associate Professor Anders…

Brian Lystgaard Due receives the UCPH Innovation Award

Brian Due received the award for his interdisciplinary basic research into people's interaction with new technology.

Modeling Economic Agents as Deep Reinforcement Learners

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

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.

Kristian Karlson receives international research award

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

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…

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.

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…