News about The University

MATH team clear winner of international data-climate competition

Team CoCaLa, four PhD students and two postdocs from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, won the international competition "Causality 4 Climate" by proposing models and solutions in 34…

Rune Christiansen wins award for the best student talk

At the conference of the International Biometric Society in Adelaide, Australia, Rune received the award of the best student talk for his presentation about causal inference on spatio-temporal data.

Medical Museion awarded DKK 4,7M for science communication project

CBMR research will reach an even wider audience thanks to a 4,7 million kroner grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to support the Medical Museion and their project ‘Microcosmos/Macrocosmos’.

Atul Deshmukh kickstarts group with Future Leaders Award

His group hopes to use mass spectrometry-based proteomics to discover new proteins and peptides for treatment of type 2 diabetes

Nordic POP supported PhD Thesis of Rami Ojarinta (UEF) publicly defended

On the 25th of October M.Sc. (Pharm.) Rami Ojarinta’s doctoral dissertation, entitled The dissolution and formulation characteristics of co-amorphous systems was publicly examined at the School of Pharmacy, University o…

August Krogh on Tour through Denmark

In 2020 it is 100 years ago that August Krogh – one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century – was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of the capillary motor regulatin…

250 participate in Danish Single-cell Symposium and workshop

Danish Single-cell symposium and workshop builds on last year's success

CORS Annual Conference 2019: Public health and innovation – Is regulation a friend or a foe?

Nordic POP is a partner of the Conference organized by Copenhagen Centre for Regulatory Science, University of Copenhagen. The Conference will focus on the role of regulation in protecting public health, as well as in…

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

Simon Gritschacher, postdoc at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which he will carry at our department.

Award to mathematician for best PhD thesis

Manuel Krannich today receives one of the three awards awarded by the SCIENCE Faculty for the best PhD dissertation of the year (submitted in 2018). He receives the award for the thesis "On characteristic classes of…

Danish Single-cell Symposium and workshop – October 3-4

The Single Cell Symposium 2019 is being held in the Maersk Tower on October 4. A workshop in wet-lab methods for single-cell omics is being held the following day on October 4. S

Researchers from two of the Nordic POP universities met for networking in Kuopio

Researchers from two of the Nordic POP universities met for networking in Kuopio Researchers from two of the “Nordic POP universities”, University of Eastern Finland and Uppsala University, met in the three-day internal…

Medical Museion wins international award

The Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark, has won the prestigious UMAC Award for the museum’s experimental exhibition Mind the Gut.

Researchers to map the social mobility of siblings

The European Research Council has awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant worth DKK 11 million, to sociologist Kristian Karlson for an ambitious research project designed to identify areas in which there is the…

International postdoctoral grant to Martin Speirs

The Independent Research Fund Denmark is investing just under DKK 22 million this year in 16 younger researchers' careers and original ideas, which have the potential to grow significantly in an international research…

Tiina Sikanen (University of Helsinki) among 2019 ERC Proof of Concept Grantees

Prof. Tiina Sikanen (The University of Helsinki, The leader of Nordic POP work package 4) is one of the researchers who have been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2019 in the second batch of research projects. Her…

Welcome new students

Dean Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen welcomes all new students of social sciences to the University of Copenhagen.

”Hvordan kommer du videre ind i bughulen?”

Interaktive videoer med indbyggede spørgsmål og opgaver får studerende til at tænke og handle selvstændigt fremfor på baggrund af udenadslære.

Samarbejde om digitalt undervisningsmateriale sikrer ensartethed og løfter kvalitet

Da fagsøjlen for infektionsmedicin besluttede at samarbejde om fælles undervisningsmateriale var det for at ensarte undervisning og løfte kvalitet, fortæller ordførende professor Jens Lundgren.

Skru ned for støjen fra sociale medier og op for din egen digitale ”backchannel”

Forskning har vist, at undervisningsrettede digitale ”backchannels” hjælper studerende til at fokusere på emnet og til at deltage mere aktivt under forelæsninger. Professor MSO, Biomedicinsk Institut, Nicole Schmitt er…

SUND undervisere sparer tid og løfter kvalitet med video-eksperthjælp ved hånden

Professor Bente Gammelgaard var en af de første til at bruge COBL’s tilbud om brug af video-redigeringssuite med sidemandsoplæring fra videoproducer. Det var en stor hjælp, fortæller hun.

Quantum information pioneer to be awarded honorary doctorate

Charles H. Bennett of IBM, a pioneer of quantum information science, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on 8 November 2019 upon recommendation of the Department of Mathematics.

From research and foreign policy in Oslo to UCPH Political Science

With 25 years of experience in research and as a political advisor, Norwegian senior researcher Nina Græger is relocating to Copenhagen to head the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen from 16…

The Next Stage in Metabolic Research

Leading metabolism researchers met for the conference Metabolism Day which shed a light on which research activities CBMR will focus on in the next years.