News about Physics

Congratulations to three PhD candidates

Congratulations to Helle Kjær who succesfully defended her PhD Thesis on August 25, 2014. Helle Kjær is our third Centre for Ice and Climate candidate to finish this year.

Martin R. Henriksen

Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy on Ultra Cold Atoms

Jochen Heinrich

Reconstruction of boosted W ± and ZO bosons from fat jets Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen

Johan Samsing

DYNAMICS OF STARS, DARK MATTER AND THE UNIVERSE Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Brian Møller Andersen receives 1.2 million kr. for research into superconductors

Brian Møller Andersen has received a grant of 1.2 million kr. from the Villum Foundation for the research project ‘Unconventional superconductors’.

Ece Kilerci Eser

ACTIVE GALAXIES: A Study of Local Seyferts and Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

Rasmus Westphal Rasmussen

Determination of the neutrino mixing angle 𝜃23 octant and differentiation among flavour symmetries Supervisor: Dr. Subir Sarkar

William Gryffydd Beynon Parry

Analysing the Mass Structure of Small Gravitational Lens Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters Supervisors: Claudio Grillo (DARK Fellow) and Lise Christensen (Assoc. Prof.)

Cosmic grains of dust formed in supernova explosion

New research published in Nature shows that not only can grains of dust form in gigantic supernova explosions, they can also survive the subsequent shockwaves they are exposed to. Led by researchers from Aarhus and DARK

Cosmic grains of dust formed in supernova explosion

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University shows that not only can grains of dust form in gigantic supernova explosions, they can also survive the subsequent…

Helle Astrid Kjær

Continuous chemistry in ice cores -Phosphorus, pH and the photolysis of humic like substances Academic supervisors: Anders Svensson and Matthew S. Johnson

Grants from FNU to Astrophysics and Biophysics

Two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, Marianne Vestergaard at the Dark Cosmology Centre and Lene Oddershede in Optical Tweezers have both received grants of approx. 6-6½ million kroner from FNU

Rikke Lund Saust

Investigating the Nature of Damped Lyman-α Absorbing Galaxies Supervisor: Lise Christensen

FNU grants to Biophysics and Oceanography

Two professors at the Niels Bohr Institute, Mogens Høgh Jensen, Professor of Biophysics, and Markus Jochum, Professor of Oceanography, have both received a grant of 2.4 million kroner from FNU

Two NBI researchers receive Sapere Aude grants

Two NBI researchers, Charlotte Fløe Kristiansen, a professor in theoretical high energy physics and Albert Schliesser, an assistant professor in quantum mechanics have both received grants from the Danish Agency for…

The ALICE group at NBI receives 6½ million kroner to research primordial soup

The ALICE group at NBI has received a grant of 6½ million kroner from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences to research the universe’s primordial soup using collisions of atomic nuclei at the LH…

Ann-Sofie Bak Nielsen

Extinction curves and the total-to-selective extinction ratio for dust formed in the type IIn SN 2005ip Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen

Constructing an Extended Cavity Diode Laser for Iodine Spectrometry Supervisors: Jan Westenkær Thomsen and Bjarke Takashi Røjle Christensen

Karsten Bjerrum Dideriksen

A Laser System for a Deterministic Single Photon Source Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Kasper Ejdal Lund

Quantum Phase Transition in an Ion Trap Supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Solvej Knudsen & Freja Thilde Pedersen

Producing adiabatic fiber tapers - Numerical simulations and measurements Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Jürgen Appel

Jacob Svensmark

Effect of asphericity in caustic mass estimates of galaxy clusters Supervisor: : Assoc Prof Steen H. Hansen

Yongbiao Weng

Title: Continuous Flow and Discrete Measurements of the Water Isotopes in an Firn Core from Greenland Supervisor: Bo Møllesøe Vinther

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, new adjunct professor of high energy astrophysics

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, USA, and he is also head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Santa Cruz Institute. He is now employed as adjunct professor at…