News about The University

Award-winning researcher dreams of stellar explosions and strives for equity and inclusion in academia

She studies the giant explosions of dying stars and dreams of experiencing and extracting data from a supernova close to Earth. Professor Irene Tamborra from the Niels Bohr Institute also tirelessly promotes equity and…

The Graduate School is closed 5 & 6 March 2024

The Graduate School is closed 5 & 6 March 2024. Telephone calls and emails will not be answered. Your enquiry will be answered as soon as possible.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen wins the EliteForsk Award

H. M. Queen Mary and Minister for Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund will today present the prestigious EliteForsk awards to Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, one of five young researchers who have distinguished…

10 Guiding principles for learning in the laboratory

This Perspective shares 10 guiding principles relating to university laboratory education, drawing on research over the last decade.

Social networks explored in new SODAS project

How do social networks actually emerge and how do different social behavioural strategies affect their structure? This is what Josefine Bohr Brask will explore with the support of a large grant from Novo Nordisk.

Tune H Pers receives award for outstanding research on obesity and diabetes

Tune H Pers receives the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research in 2024 for his research.

Problem Solved! - Problems with PhD Planner

The problem with PhD Planner is now solved! Dear PhD Planner user, At the moment it is not possible to upload documents to PhD Planner. This is due to an upgrade of PhD Planner and the connection to the archive…

SODAS søger ny studentermedhjælper til kommunikation og administration

Vi søger en dygtig og grundig studerende til Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) på det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet, Københavns Universitet. SODAS er et interdisciplinært forsknings- og uddannelsescenter på tværs…

Special issue of Visual Anthropology

With a stellar lineup including Dima Saber, Abdul Rahman al-Jaloud, Stefan Tarnowski, Ugur Ümit Üngör, Chad Elias, and Thomas Keenan, we explore the various dimensions of image use, archives, and recollections in the…

Vil du være SODAS nye centeradministrator?

Har du lyst til at hjælpe med at videreudvikle Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)? Vi søger en alsidig centeradministrator (special- eller chefkonsulent) til at holde styr på og udvikle SODAS, som er et…

Call for papers: Human rights in eighteenth-century global and colonial contexts: Scandinavia and beyond

We invite both scholars working on natural and human rights in the Scandinavian countries and scholars working on other European and non-European countries.

Eleven projects received funding from the CEMES Spring Call 2024

The distribution proved challenging as so many projects showed high quality and original ideas. The Committee decided to support the following applications (in alphabetical order): “Academia and cultural production as…

Large grant makes it possible to continue groundbreaking research in the brain

DKK 35 million grant enables Professor Ole Kiehn to continue his research into brain motor control and to shed light on fundamental mechanisms of motor disorders in neurodegenerative diseases.

SAVE THE DATE for 5th Nordic Conference on Paediatric and Orphan Medicines on May 14-15, 2024 in Helsinki

EU Paediatric Regulation (EC 1901/2006) came into force in 2007 with the aim to improve the health of the children in Europe by increasing the research and authorization of medicines for children and improving the…

New publications by RYA researchers

Three new articles are out. Two in Comunicazioni Soziali on audiovisual content for children (edited by Chiarulli, Fumagalli and Redvall) with chapters by Christa Lykke Christensen (on Minisjang) and Jakob Freudendal (o…

New research blogs on the RYA 2023 conference

Two blogs are now out on the Reaching Young Audiences conference at the University of Copenhagen in November 2023. One for CSTonline by Jakob Freudendal, and one for Flow Journal by Eva Novrup Redvall.

Exhibition: The Art of Ikat - A Cambodian Renaissance

Enter the woven world of Cambodian silk ikat, hol in Khmer, a resist-dye weaving technique and century-old textile craft. While sericulture and weaving have been activities grounded in villagers’ lives in the…

Revolutionary zebrafish model unravels host gene influence on microbiota dynamics

In a leap forward for microbiome research, scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking zebrafish model designed to unravel the intricate interplay between host genetics and the microbiota. The study promises to reshape ou…

The Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Fellowship 2024

We are honoured to be able to welcome one of the most important scholars of Auster’s work, Aliki Varvogli. She will be in residence from 2 to 28 April 2024

Lila Lee-Morrison awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

INTERSECT fellow Lila Lee-Morrison was recently awarded the prestigious 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant under the book category.

The Graduate School Closes early 7 February 2024

The Graduate School closes early Wednesday 10 January. From 14:00 telephone calls and emails will not be answered. Your enquiry will be answered as soon as possible.

New INTERSECT Research fellows in spring

We are pleased to announce that Juliette Davret and Sean Yuxiang Li will be INTERSECT Research fellows in spring 2024. We are thrilled that they will join our community and look forward to collaborating with them.

Podcast about malaria

A new hologenomic paradigm for understanding and treating parasite infections

In a new study, researchers shed light on the intricate relationship between host–gut microbiota interactions and their influence on parasite infections in farmed Atlantic salmon. Highlighting the importance of a…