News about The University

Leading researcher in evolution to be bestowed with an honorable doctorate

Professor Gonzalo Giribet, researcher of zoology and animal evolution at Harvard University, will receive the honorary doctorate from University of Copenhagen on November 17, after nomination from the Natural History…

The Gates Foundation support health and math project

Postdoc researcher Robyn Stuart, from the Statistics and Probability Theory group at Department of Mathematical Sciences, receives funding for a 15 month health and math project on modeling "care cascades”.

Jesper Grodal elected as Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Professor Jesper Grodal from MATH at University of Copenhagen is honored for his contributions to algebraic topology, representation theory and their interactions - and for service to the profession.

Virtual fieldtrips i undervisningen

Første halvdel af 2017 har SUNDs Centre for Online and Blended Learning undersøgt hvordan virtual reality (VR) kan bruges til at forbedre undervisningen på fakultetets uddannelser. Det typiske argument for brugen af V…

Renowned mathematician to be awarded honorary doctorate

Professor Karen Vogtmann, world-renowned for her research in topology and geometric group theory, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on November 17, upon the recommendation of the…

Outstanding PhD trio receives honours

Mathematician Robin Reuvers was honored for his PhD project on the so-called Bose-gases, when SCIENCE presented this years PhD awards.

Spanish award to QMATH postdoc

The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society will in October award postdoc Angelo Lucia the Vicent Caselles Award for brilliant work of international impact.

Funding for mathematical experiments

Associate Professor Jesper Lund Pedersen and postdoc Alexandra Muñoz have received funding from the VILLUM FOUNDATION to think outside the box. Their projects could lead to radical breakthroughs within mathematics. If…

Statistics professor named Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE 2017

Professor Susanne Ditlevsen at the Department of Mathematical Sciences is so good at making figures and mind-bending statistical calculations interesting and accessible for her students that she has now been awarded…

Research support for biostatistics and L-functions

Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences awards 51 DFF-Research Project Grants to researchers in Denmark to the sum of approximately DKK 159 million. Two of these projects are led by researchers from…

KU researcher with bad climate news won the Danish Research Result of the Year

Gary Shaffer, Professor Emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, and Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen from DTU have made the year’s most important scientific discovery, according to the users of Videnskab.dk.

Large ERC grant for Kim Sneppen

An advanced ERC grant for Kim Sneppen of DKK 16.500.000 was awarded for development of new methods and models to explore the diverse and complex world within and between cells, for investigating how diversity emerges an…

Sparreska Prize to Dan Petersen

The Sparreska Prize will be rewarded to Dan Petersen, associate professor at Department for Mathematical Sciences, by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Niels Bohr Institute welcomes 6 new Marie Curie Fellows

From “Quantum Supremacy” to planet-disks interactions, the Niels Bohr Institute opens its doors to ever more scientific excellence, with 6 new Marie Curie Grants for a total of € 1,3 million, so just short of 10 Million…

Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant to QMATH postdoc

Jed Kaniewski, postdoc at QMATH, has won a competitive Marie Curie-Fellowship, which he will carry at our department during the next two years.

Carlsberg supports Danish Mars research

Morten Bo Madsen, head of the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of 2.5 million kroner from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project: A Field Trip 250 million km from home – Salary for Essentia…

Gerard ’t Hooft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016

The Dutch professor of theoretical physics, Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft has been awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2016 for his groundbreaking work on black holes, quantum gravity and quantum field…

Large EU grant for astronomy project

Astrophysicist Heidi Korhonen, associate professor in the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute has received a grant of 3.2 million kroner to lead an EU project that will train young researchers in…

Joachim fra Kerteminde

Portrait of iGEM team member Joachim Larsen in his hometown local newspaper

Professor Steffen Lauritzen has received the Humboldt Prize

The Humboldt Research Award has been granted to Professor Steffen Lauritzen, professor in statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, in recognition of his past accomplishments in research and teaching.

Quantum technology boosted by 20 million kroner from the Ministry of Science

Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation has awarded 20 million kroner to a new centre, QUANTECH, which will build up a research infrastructure comprised of a facility with a number of instruments for…

Mathematician receives Carlsberg Foundation Research Award 2016

Professors Morten Broberg and Tobias Holck Colding received the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize 2016 for excellent research in international development law and mathematics, respectively.

Star and planetary scientists get millions of hours on EU supercomputers

The universe is full of mysteries. Mysteries that cannot be solved by observation alone, but researchers can examine them using modelling. However, this requires enormous processing power and is very expensive.

Nordstat poster prize

Frederik Riis Mikkelsen, a PhD student at MATH, won honors and prizes in a poster competition at the conference Nordstat 2016.