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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…

Edis Devin Tireli and Mads Mølbak Hyttel

Title: Exploring a common solution to Dark Matter, Neutrino oscillations and Baryogenesis of the Universe: Displaced Heavy Neutral Lepton searches at the Large Hadron Collider Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy

Mexicans should consume less ultra-processed products – especially pregnant women

Ultra-processed products negatively impact Mexican pregnant women, and Mexico could learn a great deal from Denmark when it comes to living a healthier life, says Adriana Granich, a Mexican epidemiologist and medical…

Søren Leth-Petersen interviewed about data management at DNRF’s annual meeting 2022

Forskerne har altid bygget videre på hinandens resultater, og i en verden, hvor forskning bliver mere og mere digital, er der brug for at gøre data nemmere at gå til. Stort set alle danske forskere vil i de kommende år…

Equine cardiologi meeting 2022

This year Equine cardiology meeting was held at the Panum Institute.

Interdisciplinary interactions in Bilbao – first ever Applied Hologenomic conference

In the middle of September 2022 people came from all over the world to Bilbao in the Basque Country to attend the first ever Applied Hologenomics conference. The conference consisted of three days of exchanging research…

BARC welcomes four new PhD students

BARC welcomes PhD students David Rasmussen Lolck, Hanwen Zhang, Shuyi Yan, and Joel Andersson

Boosting umami flavour to get us to love green food

With an advanced degree in food science in her back pocket, Charlotte Vinther Schmidt has secured two dream jobs as an independent food entrepreneur and a researcher at the University of Copenhagen. We interviewed the…

Framework predicts genetic diversity loss

New study published in Science with CMEC co-authorship resolves a 100 year old challenge for predicting global genetic diversity loss.

New Publication from MATRIX

Review article about Machine Learning for Microbiome research

Plant-based foods: New specialisation in the MSc Programme in Food Science and Technology

We have to get better at processing plants into climate-friendly foods, while at the same time focusing on nutrition, health, and taste. That’s why we, at the University of Copenhagen, are offering a specialisation in…

See You Later Thick Data! Blog series on Anthrodendum

DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen have - in collaboration with PhD student at Aarhus University Clara Rosa Sandy - written a blog post series that has been published on the widely…

Sophie Lund Schrøder

Drag in Binaries - Addressing the role of hydrodynamics in stellar binary evolution Supervisors: Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and Prof. Jens Hjorth

We are on TWITTER

MATRIX is now on Twitter

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen will give talk as part of the AI seminar series

Associate professor at SODAS Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen will, as part of the AI seminar series, give a lecture on big data for the prediction of student success

Gergely Friss

Chemical effects of episodic accretion Supervisor: Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Greatest increase in animal species can help us understand and control ocean deoxygenation

Deoxygenation can make large areas of the ocean uninhabitable. New study offers knowledge of how oxygen levels affect marine life – this may help us preserve marine ecosystems. “In the past 50 years, we have already los…

Jonathan Leon Schubert

Title: Interference Between Majorana States in the "Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay" at Colliders Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy

Arun Krishna Ganesan

Title: Matter-Neutrino Resonance in Binary Neutron Star mergers Supervisor: Irene Tamborra

DTU recruits PhD Student Adele Pioppi

Adele just started in Prof. Ákos Kovács' group.

Opportunities and Challenges in Applying the 3Rs to Zoos and Aquariums

This paper analyses opportunities and challenges for each of the three Rs when applied to animals housed in zoos and aquariums.

Creepy apps cause emotional stress

We know that apps collect all sorts of data about us, and that makes us feel uncomfortable. In a new study researchers from the University of Copenhagen have measured how uncomfortable and ‘creeped out’ using apps can…

Creepy apps cause emotional stress

We know that apps collect all sorts of data about us, and that makes us feel uncomfortable. In a new study researchers from the University of Copenhagen have measured how uncomfortable and ‘creeped out’ using apps can…

Experts agree: Dairy cattle's welfare worse than beef cattle

Cattle welfare experts rate the welfare of dairy cattle as lower than that of beef cattle, research from the University of Copenhagen shows.