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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,…

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…

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