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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.

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

In Science by Exposito-Alonso, M., Nogués-Bravo, D., Zess, E., et al. (2022)

Major investment for developing Denmark’s first fully functional quantum computer

Denmark’s first fully functional generally applicable quantum computer will be available in 2034. This is the objective of the ambitious Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme that is being launched in…

Major investment for developing Denmark’s first fully functional quantum computer

Denmark’s first fully functional generally applicable quantum computer will be available in 2034. This is the objective of the ambitious Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme that is being launched in…

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Net zero: Copenhagen’s failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans

Copenhagen recently defaulted on its pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2025. This early failure in the global race to net zero emissions may foreshadow backtracking by other target-setters, indicating that pledges to…

Thore Husfeldt explains the algorithms behind Tinder

Thore Husfeldt appeared in the Danish news program Deadline with a brief explainer of the role played by algorithms, in particular matching algorithms occasioned by the centenary of the online dating platform Tinder. In…

New students 2022-2023

MSc, Interns and PUK students in DynaMo

Conference presentation

Post doc Sarah Nissen is sharing her knowledge about atrial fibrillation and training induced cardiac remodeling at The European Europhysiology Conference

Will the use of domesticated animals in rewilding projects compromise animal welfare?

Based on a survey of public media in Denmark, this paper identifies different animal welfare issues relating to rewilding projects.

A transnational study on veterinarians’ recommendations concerning radiotherapy in dogs and cats with cancer

Using an online questionnaire (N=636), we investigated what treatment Austrian, Danish and UK veterinarians would recommend for a cat and a dog in a disease scenario where adjunctive radiotherapy would be optimal.

Rami Al-Belmpeisi and Vito Tuhtan

Title: Simulated analogues using Deep Learning Supervisors:Troels Haugbølle, Rajika Kuruwita

Congratulations to Tamara Gerber

Congratulations to Tamara Gerber at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis 15th of September, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…

Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…

Jonathan Schubert

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

Tamara Annina Gerber

Ice flow signatures on small and big scales Supervisors: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Sune Olander Rasmussen

Master student discovers a group of galaxies clustered together in the early Universe

While developing and testing astronomical software on existing data, a master student in astronomy fortuitously discovered a group of galaxies in the very early Universe.

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,…