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"The Festival Feeling"

Research assistant Emilie Munch Gregersen has recently featured in a video, explaining some findings from DISTRACT's research at the People's Meeting (Folkemødet). In the video, Emilie talks about "the festival feeling"…

Daniel Dalsgaard Jonsson

Title: Modelling Collapse and Accretion of Protostellar Systems Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Åke Nordlund

Eva Iris Otto defends PhD thesis

On the 22nd of June, 2023, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto successfully defended her thesis entitled Coding [values]: App-making in the Danish digital attention economy. On the committee of Eva's defence was Professor Ayo…

Researchers on UN Maritime Organization: "At the moment, it’s working against its own green transition"

The UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) is actively contributing to the shipping industry being far off course from ever reaching its climate goals. In large part, this is because the organization lacks…

Vegetables and legumes can prevent heart conditions

A vegetarian or vegan diet can help prevent high cholesterol and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is the most frequent cause of death among people above the age of 50.

Atlas Lundbergh Varsted

Title: Predicting albedo in Greenland using Machine Learning Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Jesper Ejlebæk Holm

Title: Firn-air Modelling in the Community Firn Model Supervisors: Vasileios Gkinis and Michael Döring

Laura Marie Dufke

Title: A hadronic calorimeter for ALICE Supervisor: Ian Bearden

Marie Cecilie Boysen

Title: The EGRIP Dustprofile: Investigating dust content of 40,000 year old Greenland ice. Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Anders Svensson

We are wasting up to 20 percent of our time on computer problems

Even though our computers are now better than 15 years ago, they still malfunction between 11 and 20 per cent of the time, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University concludes. The researchers…

Associate Professor Żylicz awarded ERC Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Associate Professor Jan Żylicz and his team a 1,5 million euro grant for their work on unravelling specificity of epi-metabolic regulation in development.

Bianca Eline Sandvik

Title: Impact of Wind Turbines on Local and Regional Winds Across Denmark Supervisors: Eigil Kaas and Harald Rieder (BOKU, Wienna)

Green Solution Centre pilot project grant

A pilot project under GSC living lab – “Our plant-based future”.

Lærke Halkjær

Title:Analysis of water-, landspouts and tornadoes in Denmark Supervisors: Aksel Walløe Hansen and Sebastian Pelt

Niels Schøtt Hvidberg

Title: Anatomy of Abrupt Climate Change Supervisors: Sune Olander Rasmussen og Aslak Grinsted.

Wild foods contribute to women’s nutrition during the lean season

Around the world poor people struggle with food insecurity. In some countries, food that grows naturally in forests and on common land (wild food) is relied upon to supplement the daily caloric intake. Researchers from…

Mette Baungaard

Title: High Spin Scattering Amplitudes Supervisors: Prof. Lars Buchhave & Dr. Hannah Diamond-Lowe

New Ph.D.-fellow: We should utilize the body to learn programming 

When working with computers, we must remember that we are human beings, says new Ph.D.-fellow Fridtjof Ronge Gjengset.

Amalie Beate Albrechtsen

Title: Sensitivity to the Neutrino Mass Ordering in the IceCube Upgrade Supervisor: David Jason Koskinen

Centennial Conference “Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries of Physics”

A Centennial Conference celebrating the centenaries of the Niels Bohr Institute (founded in 1921) and Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in Physics (awarded to him in 1922) will take place in Copenhagen from 7–11 August 2023

Hao Zhang

Title: Spectral analysis of the CASSOWARY 31 lensing system Supervisor: Lise Bech Christensen

Maiken Kristiansen Revheim

Title: Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Water Vapour Fluxes from Automatic Weather Station Records. - A Study of Surface Water Vapour Fluxes in a Changing Climate Supervisors: Christine S. Hvidberg, Jason Box (GEUS)

Perceptions of the rabbit as a low investment ‘starter pet’ lead to negative impacts on its welfare

This paper shows that many rabbits live in unsuitable conditions, and owners who perceive rabbits as low investment ‘children’s pets’ are more likely to not provide recommended resources.

Earth was created faster than we thought. This makes the chance of other habitable planets in the Universe more likely

Over the past decades, researchers thought Earth was created over a period of more than 100 million years. However, a new study from UCPH suggests that the creation of Earth was much more rapid, and that water and other…