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Sune Halkjær & Jonathan Ortved Melcher

Title: Understanding millennial-scale climate change with simple dynamical systems. Supervisor: Sune Olander Rasmussen

Building a Danish reference genome sequencing infrastructure

Centre Director Tom Gilbert is thrilled with a new opportunity to build a local reference genome sequencing infrastructure to produce high quality genomes here in Denmark from animals, plants, fungi, and other complex…

Building a Danish reference genome sequencing infrastructure

Centre Director Tom Gilbert is thrilled with a new opportunity to build a local reference genome sequencing infrastructure to produce high quality genomes here in Denmark from animals, plants, fungi, and other complex…

Construction work near the Biocenter - Test piloting performed

The piloting will begin on Monday Janurary 30th, and it is expected to last approx. 10 working days. AEM is still in dialogue with the contractor, and should you experience any irregularities, you are very welcome to…

DKK 20 million from the A.P. Moller Foundation to the green transition

In the future Geocenter Denmark with the participation of IGN will be able to collect seismic data and knowledge about the underground for use in the green transition and for the training of students.

Modern arms technologies help autocratic rulers stay in power

Autocrats and dictators quickly acquire new arms technologies from abroad and often use them against their own citizens. Now a study shows that the spread of military technologies inhibits democratic reform.

Construction work near the Biocenter - Test piloting

As mentioned, the construction work involves driving 32 steel piles into the ground during the month of February. A meeting with the contractor and the Maintenance Department was held yesterday due our concern for the…

New measurements show high air pollution in the Copenhagen metro

The concentration of harmful particles in the air is 10 to 20 times higher in the metro than on the most polluted stretch of road in Copenhagen, new measurements made by the University of Copenhagen show. More…

Danish milk consumers are critical of advanced breeding methods in dairy production

Danish milk consumers are critical of advanced breeding methods in dairy production, but only 1 in 5 is unwilling to drink milk from dairy cows bred with semen derived from such methods Lund, T.B., Sandøe, P., Secher,…

Dawoon Jung

Visiting Stay: March 2023 Dr Dawoon Jung is a Research Fellow in the Ocean Law and Policy team at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and an associate editor of the Asian Journal of…

Dawoon Jung

Dr Dawoon Jung is a Research Fellow in the Ocean Law and Policy team at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and an associate editor of the Asian Journal of International law.

The highest Greenland temperatures in 1000 years

Recent high temperatures on the ice sheet in central and northern Greenland lies are unique, when compared to 1000 years of reconstructed climate conditions on the ice sheet.

Anna Maria Klüssendorf

Title: Bipolar Phasing of Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Glacial Period Supervisor: Anders Svensson

Postdoc Freek Witteveen awarded prestigious PhD Prize

Postdoc Freek Witteveen won the prestigious Dutch PhD Stieltjes Prize for the academic year 2021-2022.

Presentation of Ethnoplatform at Als Research consultancy

On Wednesday January 18th, PhD student Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Assistant Professor Kristoffer Albris gave an invited guest talk at the consultancy company Als Research, based in central Copenhagen. While Als Research…

What the heck are pulses? European unawareness stands in the way of this “green” superfood

European consumption of pulses doesn’t stack up against national dietary recommendations – with Denmark in last place. This is the finding of a new EU-funded study by the University of Copenhagen as part of the…

Construction work near the Biocenter

There is a risk that this type of construction work may be noisy and can sometimes produce low-frequency vibrations. For further details, please see the attached letter from the construction management (in Danish only).…

COVID calculations spur solution to old problem in computer science

Mathematician from University of Copenhagen was keen to forecast the evolvement of the COVID epidemic. Instead, he ended up solving a problem which had troubled computer scientists for decades.

Lachlan Bryant Lugg

Investigation of the ongoing impacts of climate change in Australia

Eva Maria Gonzalez Ruiz

Single-photon sources as a key resource for developing a global quantum network Supervisor: Prof. Anders S. Sørensen

Anna Ida Katharina Kirchner

Title: North Atlantic Circulation Variability and Teleconnections to Surface Climate Conditions in CMIP6 Models Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Christian Michelsen

Biological Data Science - Ancient genomics, anesthesiology, epidemiology, and a bit in between Principal Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen, NBI Co-supervisor: Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Globe Institute

The Vetschool receives important accreditation: “It means everything!”

The EAEVE accreditation is vital to the veterinary programme’s international collaborations and the existence of the animal hospitals. “Without it, too many doors would close on us,” says Professor Charlotte Reinhard…

Christoffer Ousager

The role of International Law in accommodating Climate Action in the European Union