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Abraham Pais Prize awarded to Helge Kragh

The American Physical Society has awarded the 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh.

Leading Danish researcher receives Niels Bohr medal

One of the world’s leading researchers on catalysis, Prof. Jens Kehlet Nørskov from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), received the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal sunday October 7 on Bohr's birthday.

Rune Haugseng first recipient of the Viggo Brun Prize

Rune Haugseng, who has been a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 2015, is the first recipient of the Norwegian Mathematical Association's Viggo Brun Prize. The prize will be awarded to younger…

Martin Emil Jakobsen is awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize

The Danish Mathematical Association's Thesis Prize of DKK 15,000 will be awarded to Martin Emil Jakobsen on Friday, 7 September 2018.

Teacher of the year at SCIENCE: A formula for causality and coincidence

34-year old Jonas Peters, associate professor of statistics, from Department of Mathematical Sciences is a great inspiration to his students, and therefore, and in spite of the fact that the young talented researcher ha…

DFF funds research in mathematical population genetics

Carsten Wiuf, professor in statistics at Department of Mathematical Sciences, has received a research grant of DKK 5,4 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Marie Curie grant to research in secure communication

Giacomo De Palma from the QMATH Centre has received one of the very rare Individual Fellowships from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme (MSCA).

PhD student awarded the NBI TA prize for teaching in Linear Algebra

The prize for the best TA at Niels Bohr Institute is awarded for only the second time. The prize was established by the Teaching Committee based on a recommendation from the Physics Students Council.

He will tackle the impossible: learning causality from data

Jonas Peters, Associate Professor in Statistics from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 8.2 million DKK from VILLUM Young Investigator Program. It will enable him to form a…

Mark Rudner receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s teaching award 2017

At the Niels Bohr Institute's annual kick-off meeting on January 25, 2018, the Jens Martin Prize was awarded to Mark Spencer Rudner for his education at the bachelor's degree "Condensed Matter Physics 1 (CMP1)".

Research project will ensure pension savings

Department of Mathematical Sciences participates in a new IT-research project aimed at providing tools for better solvency and risk management. Innovation Fund Denmark invests DKK 9 million in the project.

Jonas Peters receives research grant from Carlsberg Foundation

“Learning by doing: How to adapt to changing environments” is the title on Jonas Peters’ research project, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship.

Professor Thomas Mikosch receives the Humboldt Prize

The Humboldt Research Award has been granted to Professor Thomas Mikosch, professor in actuarial mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, in recognition of his past accomplishments in research and…

Fascinated by fish

Camilla Trab Damsgaard, Associate Professor in child nutrition at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports will receive the SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2017 for being the initiator and…

ERC Consolidator Grant to Nathalie Wahl

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Nathalie Wahl a Consolidator Grant for her research in topology.

Marie Curie grants to two SYM postdocs

Tobias Barthel and Gábor Szabo, postdoc researchers from the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, have won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which they will carry at our department.

Women in Physics Prize 2017 awarded to up and coming astrophysicist Sarah Pearson

Together with the well-deserved KIF prize of 5000 Danish crowns, Christina Nis, Professor MSO at Roskilde University and member of the KiF Prize award committee, delivered these fine words to the Columbia-based Phd…

Jürgen Schukraft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2017

Jürgen Schukraft, one the world’s leading physicists in the study of the Quark Gluon Plasma, has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2017. He is a member of the DISCOVERY (DNRF) center of excellence…

Niels Martin Møller awarded prestigious Sapere Aude grant

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Niels Martin Møller has received a “Sapere Aude Starting Grant (Research Leader)" from the Independent Research Fund of Denmark. The grant is aimed at highly talented younger researchers…

Mogens Høgh Jensen appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

Mogens Høgh Jensen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by HM Queen Margrethe on the 275th anniversary of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, which took place on 13 November 2017.

Leading researcher in evolution to be bestowed with an honorable doctorate

Professor Gonzalo Giribet, researcher of zoology and animal evolution at Harvard University, will receive the honorary doctorate from University of Copenhagen on November 17, after nomination from the Natural History…

The Gates Foundation support health and math project

Postdoc researcher Robyn Stuart, from the Statistics and Probability Theory group at Department of Mathematical Sciences, receives funding for a 15 month health and math project on modeling "care cascades”.

Danish professor receives Japanese order for his research and communication

Professor of gastrophysics at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, DSc. Ole G. Mouritsen, has been decorated by the Japanese government with ‘The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck…

Jesper Grodal elected as Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Professor Jesper Grodal from MATH at University of Copenhagen is honored for his contributions to algebraic topology, representation theory and their interactions - and for service to the profession.