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PhD defense Sarah Nissen

Sarah Nissen sucessfully defend her PhD thesis titled: The effect of long-term exercise on cardiac conduction and electrophysiology in Standardbred racehorses - -With a translational perspective to human athletes.

Researcher: Cultural aspects of quantum theory are missing in physics classes 

Quantum mechanics is interpreted in many different – often unscientific – ways. This opens up questions about the foundations of quantum theory and its relationship with culture that physics educators should not ignore,…

Stephan Sauer receives DKK 40 million NNF grant

Congratulations to professor Stephan P. A. Sauer for leading this exciting new quantum computer project supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation with a grant of DKK 40 million.

Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience

On August 22, 2022, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) invited Anne Bach Nielsen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Nina Blom Andersen, reader at University College Copenhagen…

Two CHEM professors receive Villum Experiment grants

Professors Henrik Kjærgaard and Morten Meldeal from the Department of Chemistry, UCPH are receiving the “Villum Experiment grants” – each receiving DKK 2 million.

Astronomers discover a swarm of galaxies orbiting a hyper-luminous galaxy

Using the Very Large Telescope and the radio telescope ALMA in Chile, a team of astronomers including researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute has discovered a swarm of galaxies orbiting the surroundings of a…

New field expedition to Ecuador

A new expedition to Ecuador from the Villum Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity aims at enhancing the understanding of biodiversity hotspots by collecting data from birds.

Two grains, mutual gain: surviving drought through varietal collaboration

Some draw water from the soil’s depths, while others absorb nutrients nearer to the surface with shallow, wide root systems. Fields of grains with mixed properties could be the future for farmers hoping to protect their…

Villum Experiment supports a new unconventional EvoChip project

The Villum Experiment Call supports unconventional ideas with potential breakthrough. This is exactly what characterise Assistant Professor Ostaizka Aizpurua’s new project: EvoChip: pioneering comparative evolutionary…

CellX Infrastructure Network strengthens single cell omics in Denmark and at BRIC

The Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science has granted now DKK 51 million to the ‘CellX’ project, which aims to provide researchers across Denmark with better access to the analysis of cells and tissues at…

Call for Papers: Crossing Borders and Fostering Collaborations

Call for Papers for the Fifth AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

DNA in Viking poop sheds new light on 55,000-year-old relationship between gut companions

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites – the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite’s global spread and its…

New data memo on YouTubes ban of Russian state media

Reseachers from SODAS and Political Science publishes new data memo looking into YouTubes global ban of Russian state media

Ngo Ying Lo

Title: The Need for Speed - An Investigation of bottlenecks towards optimization of EC-Earth3-HR (on CRAY XC50) Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Emma Karin Lyeteg Lund

Embodying Systems Thinking: An in-depth investigation into five climate change-professionals’ experience of Alexander Technique Supervisors: Lise Tjørring and Anders Svensson

Martian oxygen factory passes first major test

New results from the red and rocky surface of Mars have shown that MOXIE, an oxygen generator that Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen and fellow institutions have been deeply involved with, has passed…

Martian oxygen factory passes first major test

New results from the red and rocky surface of Mars have shown that MOXIE, an oxygen generator that Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen and fellow institutions have been deeply involved with, has passed…

NCSU recruits new postdoc Raven Bough

Raven just started in Assist. Prof. Oliver Baars' group

Elloise Jensen Fangel-Lloyd

Title: Fewer storms as a consequence ofclimate change - Decreasing baroclinicity observed in Lorenz energetics and EOF analyses of climate data Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen and Eigil Kaas

Ethicists’ commentary on appropriate use of pharmaceuticals

Ethical question of the month, June 2022 You are an equine veterinarian who relies on firocoxib as your “go to” for chronic arthritis pain. There was no equine-labelled product in Canada until recently, so you were…

Katharina Scheidt

Title: Modeling Paleotemperatures from Stable Nitrogen Isotopes with the Community Firn Model Supervisors:Dr. Vasileios Gkinis, Dr. Michael Döring & Dr. Guido Vettoretti

Documentary takes a behind the scenes look at AQRIFood

A new documentary by Danish TV2 focuses on plant-based foods that are more sustainable and will be able to nourish the growing global population in the future.

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…

English bias in computing: Images to the rescue

Training sets for Machine Learning are normally created in English. This introduces cultural bias. A new image-grounded benchmark developed by researchers from the University of Copenhagen enables a more diverse…