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The unorthodox research ideas still have golden days at the Department of Biology

This year's 49 Villum Experiment grant recipients have been selected from a strong field of over 400 applicants. 11 of the grants went to researchers from SCIENCE, and of these, BIO accounts for an impressive 5: Deyon…

Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology - DISTRACT talk with Christian Borch & Nicholas Skar-Gislinge

On Friday the 15th of September, 2023, professor Christian Borch & postdoc Nicholas Skar-Gislinge presented their work entitled ”Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology” in a DISTRACT talk. Abstract: Sociology has…

Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created.

Researchers Secure Villum Experiment Grants to Explore New Boundaries

The Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics is celebrating that two of our researchers, Emilio Mármol Sánchez and Antton Alberdi, have been awarded the prestigious Villum Experiment Grant, each receiving 1.99 million Danis…

Simon Christian Debes

Title: Determining Detector Efficiency And Timing Through Muon Tomography And Simulation Calibration Using Graph Neural Networks On IceCube Data Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Is Danish research ready for data-driven interdisciplinarity?

Data-driven research is rushing forward with enormous potential, but is easily drowned in practice.

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.

Newsletter no 35 is out

Read about the latest updates in Daisy, progress in the AgroHPM project, recent articles using Daisy, and more. All in the latest version of the quarterly Daisy newsletter, Newsletter no 35.

Second project workshop in Copenhagen

In June 2023, the project team from Ghana, Burkina Faso, UK and Denmark met in Copenhagen for a week of meetings, presentations and workshops.

Villum Foundation supports bold ideas

Three researchers receive grants from the Villum Experiment. All projects are meant to push the boundaries of research and lead to breakthroughs.

Bioengineered carbon sequestration: exploiting enzymes to enhance direct air capture of CO2 by microalgae

Microalgae consume CO2 and convert it by photosynthesis into biomass and useful bioproducts. How can we optimize their ability to capture CO2 directly from the air?

Brain-altering parasite turns ants into zombies at dawn and dusk

It takes over the brains of ants, causing them to cling to the tops of blades of grass where they can be eaten by cattle and deer. The common liver fluke has an exceptional life cycle as it moves through snails, ants an…

Brain-altering parasite turns ants into zombies at dawn and dusk

It takes over the brains of ants, causing them to cling to the tops of blades of grass where they can be eaten by cattle and deer. The common liver fluke has an exceptional life cycle as it moves through snails, ants an…

Distinguished Wigner Lecture

Vitor was a Distinguished Lecturer at the Wigner 121 Scientific Symposium, and talked about the gravitational wave revolution and new, powerful tests of General Relativity and black hole physics. The Wigner Research…

Toxic effects of high O2 in microalgae and cyanobacteria

Why does O2 inhibit photosynthesis and what can we do about it?

Why does CO2 inhibit photosynthetic microbes?

Photosynthetic organisms usually struggle to get enough CO2 for photosynthesis, but too much CO2 appears to choke the organisms for unknown reasons that we wish to explore

Willingness-to-pay for reduced carbon footprint and other sustainability concerns relating to pork production

In this 2022 questionnaire-based study, we investigated willingness-to-pay for more sustainable pork among consumers in Denmark, Germany, the UK and Shanghai, China.

Two Former CPR Post-Docs Awarded Prestigious ERC Starting Grants

ERC Starting Grants are awarded each year to exceptional early-career scientists. In 2023 there are two former CPR post-docs on the list.

Rasmus Damgaard Nielsen

Title: Massively parallel simulation of dusty protostellar systems Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Åke Nordlund

Six of nine planetary boundaries exceeded

New study led by Professor Katherine Richardson updates the Planetary Boundaries framework and shows human activities are increasingly impacting the planet.

Six of nine planetary boundaries now exceeded

New study led by Professor Katherine Richardson updates the Planetary Boundaries framework and shows human activities are increasingly impacting the planet.

Disguised as tree bark and another species: Newly discovered gecko is a master of disguise

An international team of scientific researchers, among them a University of Copenhagen herpetologist, has discovered a new gecko species in Madagascar that resembles tree bark during the day and had been mistaken for a…

Flood adaptation in Glefe

New Master Thesis explores explores adaptation strategies, challenges, and possibilities for future development

Methods diversity in social data science

On the 13th of September 2023, Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation about Methods Diversity in Social Data Science to a group of data scientists at the danish company LEGO. The talk included a number of examples of…