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Modeling Economic Agents as Deep Reinforcement Learners

Jeppe Druedahl is awarded the IRFD Sapere Aude grant to bridge theory with empirical evidence.

Ida Marie Lind Glavind receives The Margaret Clark Award

This year’s award recipient of The Margaret Clark Award is Ida Marie Lind Glavind, PhD student at the Department of Anthropology.

Kristian Karlson receives international research award

The European Academy of Sociology has awarded Kristian Karlson this year's Raymond Boudon Award.

Anne Jerslev awarded the SMID prize 2022

Congratulations to Professor Anne Jerslev from the Section of Media Studies for being awarded the SMID prize 2022. The prize is awarded by the Danish media and communication research community to a person who, through…

The year's best Master's theses are written by BMI students

The Medical Society in Copenhagen has just announced the three winners of the award for best Master's theses, where two BMI students won first and third place.

Recipient of the Nils Foss Talent Prize 2022 makes microalgae more edible

Food chemist Mahesha Manjunatha Poojary from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH FOOD) is one of this year's two recipients of the Nils Foss Talent Prize, and if you ask him what we…

Stefan Voigt loves to teach – and is now being honoured for it

Stefan Voigt from the Department of Economics receives education award from the Danish Fincance Institute.

University of Copenhagen professor wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Professor Morten Meldal, of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work with what is known as click chemistry – when a chemical…

Miriam Wüst elected to the EALE Executive Committee, 2022

The European Association of Labour Economists was founded in 1989 in order to promote the advancement of knowledge in the field of labour economics in Europe and elsewhere.

Sarah Zaccagni is the winner of the 2021-2022 edition of the Vaona Prize for her Ph.D Thesis

The award ceremony has been held on September 30, 2022 in the Vaona Hall of the University of Verona. As part of the event, Sarah presented the main findings of her Ph.D. thesis, titled “Essays on Economics of Health an…

Professor Jørgen F.P. Wojtaszewski receives award for deepening the understanding of how exercise makes muscles more sensitive

This year Professor Jørgen Wojtaszewski was selected as one of two runners up and will receive DKK 500,000 for his research projects ‘Personalized Phosphoproteomics – Turning Phenotypic Variance into Scientific…

Teacher of the Year: A living legend, whether in glitter or gladiator garb

He is a living legend in his department – known to occasionally sport a gladiator costume or sequin jacket and electric guitar. Not a speck of dust has settled on this epic lecturer after 38 years of teaching. To the…

Helge Kragh receives 2022 Svend Bergsøe Prize

The Svend Bergsøe Foundation has awarded the 2022 Svend Bergsøe Prize for Science Dissemination to Helge Kragh

Professor receives honorary award for 11-year-old study that has been cited more than 2,800 times

In Denmark, we are famous for our register-based research, and now Professor Elsebeth Lynge – one of the pioneers in the field – receives the honorary 10-Year Impact Award. However, new work procedures threaten Danish…

Patrick Thöni wins Best Paper Doctoral Award

Patrick Thöni receives Swiss Finance Institute Best Paper Doctoral Award for having shed light on asymmetric information and financial taxation affect trading activity and market liquidity in a multi-market setting.

Frederik Plesner Lyngse wins Best Paper Award prize

Gender gaps in performance and pay are pervasive in high-skilled occupations, and they display a clear widening pattern following the early career and the subsequent arrival of children.

The Clay Research Award to Galatius & Randal-Williams

The 2022 Clay Research Award are made to Søren Galatius (University of Copenhagen) and Oscar Randal-Williams (University of Cambridge) for their profound contributions to the understanding of high dimensional manifolds…

Elisenda Feilu receives prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

The sought-after grant from ERC is given to groundbreaking and excellent research, and this time the honour goes to Elisenda Feliu from MATH.

Diploma Award to Dustin Clausen

Associate Professor Dustin Clausen has received the Hartmann Foundation's Diploma Prize 2022 for his work on developing and understanding the deep connection between geometry and number theory, two basic fields in…

Professor inspired by housewives and schoolchildren

University of Copenhagen professor Dennis Sandris Nielsen has been awarded SCIENCE’s Dissemination Award 2022 for his willingness and ability to communicate research about the broader societal perspectives of bacteria,…

Frikk wins cesifo affiliate award

Scientific originality, policy relevance and the quality of exposition of his paper results in ward to Frikk Nesje

The University of Copenhagen is among the world’s best research environments in Sport Science

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Institute of Sports Medicine at Bispebjerg Hospital – both departments at the University of Copenhagen – are among the world’s best research environments in “Spor…

Jun Ye awarded the Niels Bohr Medal of Honour 2021

Jun Ye is a world leading researcher in the fields of atomic physics, many body physics and fundamental tests using ultra-precise measurements.

Royal Aacdemy's silver medal to Jonas Peters

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awards its silver medal to Professor Jonas Peters, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, for his research in causality.