News about The University

The prize for the best thesis in computer science goes to a physics student

Niklas Maximilian Heim, Master’s student in computational physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives this year’s prize for best thesis in computer science.

Nordic POP supported PhD Thesis of Rami Ojarinta (UEF) publicly defended

On the 25th of October M.Sc. (Pharm.) Rami Ojarinta’s doctoral dissertation, entitled The dissolution and formulation characteristics of co-amorphous systems was publicly examined at the School of Pharmacy, University o…

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded the Mohn Prize for her important role in climate change research

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen together with former Minister of Education and Research Tommy Ahlers in Greenland. The Scientific Committee wrote in their recommendation: “By ranking Dorthe Dahl-Jensen first, the committee…

August Krogh on Tour through Denmark

In 2020 it is 100 years ago that August Krogh – one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century – was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of the capillary motor regulatin…

250 participate in Danish Single-cell Symposium and workshop

Danish Single-cell symposium and workshop builds on last year's success

CORS Annual Conference 2019: Public health and innovation – Is regulation a friend or a foe?

Nordic POP is a partner of the Conference organized by Copenhagen Centre for Regulatory Science, University of Copenhagen. The Conference will focus on the role of regulation in protecting public health, as well as in…

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

Simon Gritschacher, postdoc at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which he will carry at our department.

Mathias Luidor Heltberg from the Niels Bohr Institute, receives one of three Ph.D awards

Mathias Luidor Heltberg, Niels Bohr Institute earns the 2019 PhD Award for his doctoral dissertation, 'Complex Dynamics in Cell Signalling', and his exceptional research in dynamic systems and how they effect a wide…

Award to mathematician for best PhD thesis

Manuel Krannich today receives one of the three awards awarded by the SCIENCE Faculty for the best PhD dissertation of the year (submitted in 2018). He receives the award for the thesis "On characteristic classes of…

Danish Single-cell Symposium and workshop – October 3-4

The Single Cell Symposium 2019 is being held in the Maersk Tower on October 4. A workshop in wet-lab methods for single-cell omics is being held the following day on October 4. S

3 researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive grants from Villum Fonden

VILLUM FONDEN awards DKK 98.5 million in grants to 52 bold research projects within the technical and natural sciences. For the third year running, VILLUM FONDEN has selected innovative research projects to receive…

Researchers from two of the Nordic POP universities met for networking in Kuopio

Researchers from two of the Nordic POP universities met for networking in Kuopio Researchers from two of the “Nordic POP universities”, University of Eastern Finland and Uppsala University, met in the three-day internal…

Medical Museion wins international award

The Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark, has won the prestigious UMAC Award for the museum’s experimental exhibition Mind the Gut.

Researchers to map the social mobility of siblings

The European Research Council has awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant worth DKK 11 million, to sociologist Kristian Karlson for an ambitious research project designed to identify areas in which there is the…

International postdoctoral grant to Martin Speirs

The Independent Research Fund Denmark is investing just under DKK 22 million this year in 16 younger researchers' careers and original ideas, which have the potential to grow significantly in an international research…

Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

Associate Professor Irene Tamborra at the Niels Bohr Institute receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award. The prize was presented to her during the opening ceremony of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC)…

Tiina Sikanen (University of Helsinki) among 2019 ERC Proof of Concept Grantees

Prof. Tiina Sikanen (The University of Helsinki, The leader of Nordic POP work package 4) is one of the researchers who have been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2019 in the second batch of research projects. Her…

Welcome new students

Dean Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen welcomes all new students of social sciences to the University of Copenhagen.

”Hvordan kommer du videre ind i bughulen?”

Interaktive videoer med indbyggede spørgsmål og opgaver får studerende til at tænke og handle selvstændigt fremfor på baggrund af udenadslære.

Samarbejde om digitalt undervisningsmateriale sikrer ensartethed og løfter kvalitet

Da fagsøjlen for infektionsmedicin besluttede at samarbejde om fælles undervisningsmateriale var det for at ensarte undervisning og løfte kvalitet, fortæller ordførende professor Jens Lundgren.

Skru ned for støjen fra sociale medier og op for din egen digitale ”backchannel”

Forskning har vist, at undervisningsrettede digitale ”backchannels” hjælper studerende til at fokusere på emnet og til at deltage mere aktivt under forelæsninger. Professor MSO, Biomedicinsk Institut, Nicole Schmitt er…

SUND undervisere sparer tid og løfter kvalitet med video-eksperthjælp ved hånden

Professor Bente Gammelgaard var en af de første til at bruge COBL’s tilbud om brug af video-redigeringssuite med sidemandsoplæring fra videoproducer. Det var en stor hjælp, fortæller hun.

Quantum information pioneer to be awarded honorary doctorate

Charles H. Bennett of IBM, a pioneer of quantum information science, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on 8 November 2019 upon recommendation of the Department of Mathematics.

Kell Mortensen receives the 2019 Walter Hälg prize

ENSA (The European Neutron Scattering Association) awards the Walter Hälg Prize every other year to a European researcher for an excellent contribution to the field of neutron scattering