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Black holes helped quenching star formation in the early Universe

While some galaxies form stars at a continuous rate, others die out and lead a more passive life. What made these galaxies stop forming stars at an early age is not well established, not the least because they are so…

Camilla Birch Okkels

Title: Theoretical optimizations of quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Ethicists’ commentary on humane killing of healthy surplus animals

Ethical question of the month, March 2022 The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) position statement on the Care of Neonatal Calves on Dairy Farms states that euthanasia/humane killing of surplus calves is th…

Arnau Morancho Tarda

Title: Search for prompt heavy neutral lepton decays into tau leptons with the ATLAS detector Supervisor: Stefania Xella

Beñat Martinez de Aguirre Jokisch

Title: Dispersion engineering of atom-nanophotonic crystal waveguide interfaces Supervisors: Prof. Eugene Simon Polzik, Jean-Baptiste Béguin

Daniel Magleby Sørensen

Title: Estimating glacier ice volume using image inpainting Supervisors: Troels Christian Petersen, Niccolò Maffezzoli

Love Alexander Mandla Pettersson

Title: Exploring near-term quantum applications with graph states from quantum emitters Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Stefano Paesani

Marie-Louise Riis

Title: Piggyback Riding the Higgs Searches: A Hunt for Heavy Neutral Leptons with Tau Triggers Supervisor: Oleg Ruchayskiy

Nicolas Remy Høegh Pedersen

Title: Nano-Opto-Mechanical Systems for photon control Supervisor: Leonardo Midolo

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