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Large grant for world-class research in algorithms

Professor Mikkel Thorup receives a grant of DKK 29.5 million from the VILLUM foundation to continue his successful basic research centre, Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC).

New types of chemicals found in Danish drinking water

Measurements reveal more than 400 different chemicals in water from a single Danish waterwork. Several of the compounds can have adverse health effects. According to the University of Copenhagen analytical chemists…

New types of chemicals found in Danish drinking water

Measurements reveal more than 400 different chemicals in water from a single Danish waterwork. Several of the compounds can have adverse health effects. According to the University of Copenhagen analytical chemists…

Conference in Paris on OUP Handbook “History of Quantum Interpretations”

A conference celebrating the publication of the OUP Handbook on the History of Quantum Interpretations, co-edited by Christian Joas from the Niels Bohr Archive, was held in Paris from 14–15 April, 2023.

April Webinar

FutureArcticLIves partners conduct monthly webinars around the 14th of each month, discussing preliminary results and other relevant subjects.

Evaluation of the value of genetic testing for cystinuria in the Danish population of English bulldogs

In this study, the occurrence of three mutations in the Danish population of English bulldogs was investigated. Seventy-one English bulldogs were genotyped using TaqMan assays.

Animals go extinct on Mauritius. That puts the ecosystem at the island at risk

When an ecosystem is threatened, new species cannot necessarily replace those that disappear, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen.

How did the Andes Mountains get so huge? A new geological research method may hold the answer

How did the Andes – the world's longest mountain range – reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen may be able to…

March Webinar

FutureArcticLIves partners conduct monthly webinars around the 14th of each month, discussing preliminary results and other relevant subjects.

Newsletter no 33 is out

Progress of the AgroEco-HPM project and funding for the "KlimaGødning"-project (Climatefertilisation - model for climate impact of fertiliser use in Danish agriculture) and much more.

Obituary for professor emeritus Neil Jones

Neil Deaton Jones, professor emeritus at DIKU, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, passed away Monday, 27 March 2023, shortly after his 82nd birthday. He will be remembered for his semina…

Rebecca Schmieg

Ph.D. thesis: Collective Spin-Oscillators for Light-Atom Interfaces Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik

Danish carpenters will learn to build homes with hemp and straw

For the next three years, carpentry apprentices at vocational schools across Denmark will be taught new sustainable and climate-friendly construction methods. The University of Copenhagen spearheaded project will serve…

Dorthe Dahl Jensen awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

Congratulations to Dorthe Dahl Jensen for being awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

How to build human airways; a lesson from frogs

How airways develop, is a complex process that has puzzled scientists for many years, but it turns out that we can learn a lot from frogs.

Lana Zupancic

Title: Shallow Subsurface Imaging: A Geophysical Investigation using Integrated Methods Supervisors: Mohammad Youssof and Klaus Mosegaard

New publication: How app companies use GitHub

DISTRACT researchers, Associate professor Anders Blok, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto, and student assistant Jonathan Salka have published a new article in the Journal of Cultural Economy. The article is based on their…

Diversity of surface-active arthropods in young forests in Denmark – Comparing the effec

Anna K. Zimmermann successfully defended her thesis

Does salmon choose its own microbiome?

A new study by Rasmussen et al. 2023 in the scientific journal ISME finds that wild Atlantic salmon has an unique and surprisingly stable microbiota.

Does salmon choose its own microbiome?

A new study by Rasmussen et al. 2023 in the scientific journal ISME finds that wild Atlantic salmon has an unique and surprisingly stable microbiota.

Mikkel Tang

Superradiant Lasers Based on Strontium-88 Supervisors: Jörg Helge Müller

Ethicists’ commentary on hierarchies of animal “value”

Ethical question of the month, January 2023 A recent media article on the needs of chimpanzees that are “so closely related to humans” caused me to reflect that people, including veterinarians, tend to ascribe more valu…

Katarzyna Magdalena Dutkowska

Tracing star formation at high redshift using the Milky Way as a template Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Lars E. Kristensen Assessment Committee: Prof. Jes K. Jørgensen (chair), Assoc. Prof. Angela Adamo, Dr. Mario…

Anne Noer Kolborg

On the origin of metals - Understanding the role of mixing in galactic chemical evolution Supervisors: Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and Prof. Steen Harle Hansen