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University of Copenhagen home to the world’s leading research environment in sports science

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Institute of Sports Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, rank as the world’s leading research environment within sports science in the ‘Global Ranking of Sport Science…

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…

Official opening of Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q)

The official opening of the new Center of Excellence, Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) was celebrated on September 17 in Festauditoriet at the Faculty of Science.

VILLUM Experiment millions to six NBI researchers

Six researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have received just under DDK 11 million in research funding from the Villum Foundation, which will be used for projects or ideas that are…

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.

Udvikl dit kursus med effektiv story-board metode

Cirka 20 undervisere fra Medicin-, Farma- og Veterinær-uddannelsen, har engageret sig i at udvikle og eller redesigne kurser med afsæt i en 90-120 minutter såkaldt ABC-workshop, som COBL har adapteret fra University…

What causes superconductivity? It will take legwork!

With a grant of 5,662,844 DKK from the Danish Council for Independent Research, Brian Møller Andersen at the Niels Bohr Institute will have the opportunity to try to understand the superconducting properties of…

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).

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives grant of 4.4 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for Microphysics of the…

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.

Digitale undervisningsmaterialer løser udfordringer på valgfag

Slide med speak fra præsentationen: Organisk Delirium På kursusportalen beskrives valgfagets undervisningsform som: ”Ophold på hospitalsafdeling (diagnostisk eller klinisk) og vejledningstimer med klinisk…

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…

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives a Villum Young Investigator grant on 7.350.000 DDK for…

Giorgos Leloudas receives 10 million DKK to investigate the “blackest” of black holes in the Universe

The research in the black holes in the center of galaxies gets a boost on 10 million DKK with a Villum Young Investigator grant to assistant professor Giorgos Leloudas at DARK Cosmology Centre.

Lars Egstrøm Kristensen receives 9.3 million DKK to look for the building blocks of life in the Universe

From dead molecules to life – but how? Lars Egstrøm Kristensen, associate professor at the Astro and Planetary research section, has received 9.368.760 DKK from the Villum Young Investigator programme.

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…

Climate research receives a 4.5 million DKK grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

Carlsberg Foundation supports a climate project with 4.5 million DKK grant, that will provide new knowledge about the mechanisms of the sudden climate change of the past, improving our ability to handle the risk of the…

ERC Consolidator Grant to Nathalie Wahl

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