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Claus Thustrup Kreiner: The 2020 Richard Musgrave laureate

When he is laudated The Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship Claus joins the good company of peers like Raj Chetty, Timothy Besley, Joel Slemrod, Rachel Griffith, and Michael Keen.

Paul J. Steinhardt is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour 2020

Paul Steinhardt is Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University where he is on the faculty of both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

The University of Copenhagen is home to the world’s best research environment in Sports 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 together the world’s best research environment in…

Mathematical models contributes to the green transition

Independent Research Fund Denmark supports 65 research projects on green conversion. Associate Professor Trine Krogh Boomsma from the Department of Mathematical Sciences participates. She will find new mathematical…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation supports data science at MATH

Professors Susanne Ditlevsen and Niels Richard Hansen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences have been granted a total of DKK 16.6 million to explore new methods for statistical inference and to identify causal…

The Royal Academy’s gold medal to Gerd Grubb

The gold medal from The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters was awarded for a lifelong effort for Danish science. HM The Queen presented the award at a celebration on the occasion of the Queen's 80th birthday. …

Award for Valuable Work on the Mental Health of Infants, Toddlers and Their Parents

Associate Professor Mette Skovgaard Væver, University of Copenhagen, receives this year’s ‘A Good Start in Life’ Award

Irene Tamborra receives KIF Prize 2020

The Danish Network for Women in Physics (KIF) has awarded the 2020 honorary prize to Associate Professor Irene Tamborra, leader of the AstroNu group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Quantum for Life – a new research centre

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted Professor Matthias Christandl from the Department of Mathematical Sciences a 6-year grant of DKK 48.6 million to build a cross-disciplinary research centre exploring the use of…

Charles Marcus honoured with the H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal

The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science is awarding an H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal in physics to Professor Charles Marcus.

Malte Nielsen wins the 2019 Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize

A thesis on statistical problems in DNA identification has been assessed by the Danish Mathematical Society as the country's best thesis submitted in 2019. On 11 September [POSTPONED!], Malte Bødkergaard Nielsen will be…

Three new mathematical research projects are launched with DFF support

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) supports this year three researchers from the Department of Mathematical Sciences with grants of between two and 2.9 million DKK.

The EMS Prize to Adiprasito and Nam

The European Mathematical Society (EMS) awards every fourth year 10 young researchers for excellent contributions in mathematics. This year, Karim Adiprasito and Phan Thành Nam are among the winners. The first is a…

Christian Furrer awarded with the GAUSS Prize

Christian Furrer from the University of Copenhagen and PFA Pension has been awarded this year's GAUSS Prize by the German Association of Actuaries for outstanding scientific work in insurance and financial mathematics.

New research project about statistical inference

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) supports the development of new robust statistical methods for analyzing large and complex volumes of data. Professor Susanne Ditlevsen is to lead the four-year research…

Novo Nordisk supports research in mathematical biology

Mathematical tools and methods can lead to breakthroughs in medical research. That’s recognized in the Novo Nordisk Foundation, who is funding another research project at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Elite Research Prize to Mads Meier Jæger

Professor Mads Meier Jæger, Department of Sociology, receives the Elite Research Prize of DKK 1.2 million for excellent research.

Maiken Nedergaard honored by American Stroke Association

Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc., co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, professor in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, received the Thomas Willis Lecture Award from the…

Upcoming MATH researcher receives VILLUM grant

VILLUM FONDEN announced today, that the Villum Young Investigator grant is awarded to mathematician Torben Krüger. He will from 1 July 2020 be an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Carlsberg Internationalisation Fellowship to MATH PhD

PhD Kevin Aguyar Brix is on his way to the University of Wollongong in Australia, where he will continue his research in the project “Fine structure of C*-algebras associated to topological dynamics”.

Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesell¬schaft (DPG) have named OSA Fellow Eugene S. Polzik, the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, the 2020 recipient of the Herbert Wather Award.…

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.

Professor Charles Marcus awarded the Industrial Award 2019 from The Danish Academy of Natural Sciences

This year’s recipient of the Industrial Award is Charles Marcus, Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute and Scientific Director of Microsoft Quantum – Copenhagen.