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Starch from plants is key to bioplastic that is actually degradable

Professor Andreas Blennow’s research group experiments with bioplastics, nutritionally healthy crops and antibiotic multiresistance, but sustainability is the bond that ties Starch together.

Zihua Wang

Title: Characterization of high-Q ultralight membranes towards novel optomechanical designs Supervisors: Prof. Eugene Simon Polzik, Dr. Georg Enzian

Manar el Akel

Unlocking the sulphur chemistry in a protostellar environment physical and chemical conditions Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jes K. Jørgensen

New type of extremely reactive substance in the atmosphere

For the first time, an entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds has been discovered under atmospheric conditions. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, in close collaboration with international…

New discovery about distant galaxies: Stars are heavier than we thought

A team of University of Copenhagen astrophysicists has arrived at a major result regarding star populations beyond the Milky Way. The result could change our understanding of a wide range of astronomical phenomena,…

New discovery about distant galaxies: Stars are heavier than we thought

A team of University of Copenhagen astrophysicists has arrived at a major result regarding star populations beyond the Milky Way. The result could change our understanding of a wide range of astronomical phenomena,…

A quantum drum that stores quantum states for record-long times

With a coherence time of one hundred milliseconds, the membrane can for example store sensitive quantum information for further processing in a quantum computer or network.

Danish astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather

A Danish astrophysics student at the Niels Bohr Institute has used a mathematical approach to unveil how global temperature increase engenders locally unstable weather on Earth.

New measurements from Northern Sweden show less methane emissions than feared

It is widely understood that thawing permafrost can lead to significant amounts of methane being released. However, new research shows that in some areas, this release of methane could be a tenth of the amount predicted…

Planets of binary stars as possible homes for alien life

Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to new targets in the…

Planets of binary stars as possible homes for alien life

Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to new targets in the…

Sowing the seeds for the future of plant-based foods

Seeds were planted of selected oat, pea, and fava bean varieties, as the first phase of the AQRIFood project completed. The crops are well-established and growing well.

Zoe Ansari

Estimating photo metric redshifts and inferring quantities of dustin supernovae with machine learning Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Christa Gall and Dr. Adriano Agnello

Alan Sven Oesterle

Title: Quantum Enhanced Optical Magnetic Induction Tomography through Back-Action Evasion and Conditional Spin Squeezing Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Simon Polzik

Clara Ferreira Cores

Title: Shallowness and susceptibility: Tidal disruptions in DM halos simulations Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen, Axel Widmark

Daniel Abdulla Bobruk

Title: Characterisation of Silicon Crystals for use in Collimation System Upgrades at the SPS and LHC Particle Accelerators Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded Hans Egede Medal

On Wednesday, ice core researcher Dorthe Dahl-Jensen was awarded the Hans Egede Medal for her research into Earth’s climate history. Her research has included longer stays on Greenland's deserted ice sheet and offers a…

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded Hans Egede Medal

On Wednesday, ice core researcher Dorthe Dahl-Jensen was awarded the Hans Egede Medal for her research into Earth’s climate history. Her research has included longer stays on Greenland's deserted ice sheet and offers a…

Georgia Anyfantaki

Title: Characterization of quantum state of light emitted by quantum emitter Supervisors: Alexey Tiranov, Peter Lodahl

Guozhen Ma

A Complete CENSUS of Quasars Supervisor: Johan Fynbo

How plants colonized the land

University of Copenhagen researchers have shed new light on how plant life became established on the surface of our planet. Specifically, they demonstrated that two genes are indispensable for allowing terrestrial plant…

Isaac Roca Caritg

Title: Experimental implementation of a Top Hat beam shaper Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Simon Polzik

Jacob Henriksen

Title: Improving performance by guiding Monte Carlo Marko Chain sampling Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

Kaare Endrup Iversen

Title: The Good, the Bad & the Noisy - Characterisation of IceCube Neutrino Events Using Graph Neural Networks Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen