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Danish Data Science gets extra boost: Everyone can apply for support from new academy

Do you have a good idea for a PhD project, a course, or an event within data science? Soon, you will have the opportunity to apply for funding and support from the new Danish Data Science Academy. This will help train…

UCPH Computer Science students at the forefront: Will present their theses at a reputable conference

Two newly minted MSc graduates in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen, Anna Lesniak and Prangshuman Das, have made their mark at a reputable international conference.

Giulia Perotti

Ice and Gas - Linking Infrared and Millimetric Observations towards young Solar-type Stars Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jes K. Jørgensen

The University of Copenhagen has its first Chief Innovation Officer

Marius Sylvestersen is the University of Copenhagen’s first head of a newly established shared innovation centre.

Researcher: Drop the notion that we can protect our own data

Users should not ultimately be the ones responsible for protecting their data, as the long, cryptic privacy settings on many apps suggest. In reality, we have almost no power over our data and who uses it for what,…

Clara Celeste Qvotrup

Title: Deflecting waveguides for three-dimensional quantum photonic integrated circuits Supervisor: Leonardo Midolo

New invention keeps qubits of light stable at room temperature

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have developed a new technique that keeps quantum bits of light stable at room temperature instead of only working at -270 degrees. Their discovery saves power and money and is …

Researchers test virtual reality as a tool for promoting vaccination

234 random passersby got the opportunity to try a new virtual reality game, when researchers from the University of Copenhagen visited Fælledparken to test the efficiency of VR technology within health information.

Researchers test virtual reality as a tool for promoting vaccination

234 random passersby got the opportunity to try a new virtual reality game, when researchers from the University of Copenhagen visited Fælledparken to test the efficiency of VR technology within health information.

Alfred B. Hansen

Analysis of dipolar interactions in trapped 2D BoseEinstein condensates Supervisor: Michele Burrello

Algorithm reveals the mysterious foraging habits of narwhals

An algorithm can predict when narwhals hunt – a task once nearly impossible to gain insight into. Mathematicians and computer scientists at the University of Copenhagen, together with marine biologists in Greenland, hav…

Emil Jermiin Pedersen Frost

Bound states in vortex cores of type-II superconductors - Numerical solution of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations on a disc Supervisor: Brian Møller Andersen

Jeppe Jon Cederholm & Laura Lund Rysager

A Marine Outlet Glacier Model - A Model Based on the Perfect Plastic Approximatio

Oliver Solow

Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon states in the vortex cores of unconventional superconductors Supervisor: Brian Møller Andersen

Rebekka Frøystad

Title: Measuring d18O of atmospheric oxygen for synchronizing ice core records Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Miren Lamaison Vidarte

Title: Photonic Control-Phase gate based on emitters with chiral interactions Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Stefan Sajin-Henningen

Studying the Kondo Effect using Larsen's Pseudo-Fermions Supervisor: Jens Paaske

Mikkel Thorbjørn Mikkelsen

Title: Multiphoton and heralded entanglement sources for applications in quantum cryptography Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Ravitej Uppu

Rasmus Ranum Hansen

Solving the turbulence closure problem I - The tropical ocean mixed layer

Researchers’ algorithm to make CRISPR gene editing more precise

Researchers from Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen have developed a new method, which makes CRISPR gene editing more precise than conventional methods.

Ancient air bubbles speak to a much warmer Antarctica during the ice-age than once believed

Twenty thousand-year-old air bubbles have revealed that Antarctic temperatures during the last ice age were markedly different than what the leading science once suggested. This is according to new research in which the…

Ancient air bubbles speak to a much warmer Antarctica during the ice-age than once believed

Twenty thousand-year-old air bubbles have revealed that Antarctic temperatures during the last ice age were markedly different than what the leading science once suggested. This is according to new research in which the…

Jonas Hermann Damsbo

Title: A Case Study of Severe Cloudburst Events in Denmark Supervisors: Aksel Walløe Hansen, Niels Woetmann Nielsen

Artificial intelligence enhances efficacy of sleep disorder treatments

An algorithm based on 20,000 nights of sleep that can improve the diagnosis, treatment and our overall understanding of sleep disorders has been developed at the University of Copenhagen.