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Carl Winsløw is at the helm of CERME: We must handle our growing pains 

For the 13th time, leading European researchers in didactics of mathematics will gather at the CERME congress.

Christian Lykner

Title: The ALICE Forward Hadronic Calorimeter: Construction, Testing, and Understanding the Second Prototype. Supervisor: Ian Bearden

HOPE team

Congratulations to the HOPE team on the acceptance of the paper

Jonas Richard Damsgaard

Title: A Reconstructing of Melt Variability in Greenland for the Past 2000 Years Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Mads Lundsgaard Andersen

Title: Sensitivity of winter climatic conditions in Europe to various surface forcing in the EC-Earth model Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Plant Cell Wall Meeting in Malaga

Oxymist was represented by several members at the recent Plant Cell Wall Meeting in Malaga.

Ethicists’ commentary on Cooperation in the veterinary field and emergency care practices

Ethical question of the month, April 2023 On a Friday morning, a patient is presented with a mild fever and has been acting depressed for a few days. Radiographs reveal a pointed, metallic foreign body lodged in the…

Hussam receives Ascending investigator grant

10 mill NNF grant within plant science, agriculture and food biotechnology

"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…