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Birgitta Nordström receives the KIF Lifetime Achievement Award

The board of KIF has decided to give this special Lifetime Achievement Award to Associate Professor Emerita Birgitta Nordström for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.

New project maps illegal mining and global environmental crime

With a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from the UCPH will study how minerals are irregularly mined in Ghana and end up in technological products, only to return and dumped as e-waste.

Georgios Garidis

Title: Offshore wind power modeling and forecasting with very high-resolution weather forecasts Supervisors: Troels Christian Petersen, Pierre Pinson

Laurits Høgel

Positioned InAs Quantum Dots from Selective Area Growth - Manufacturing, Characterization and Optical Measurements Supervisors: Peter Lodahl and Peter Krogstrup

Marcus Melhedegaard Thomsen

Title: Convolutional neural networks for charged particle detection using Hough transform in the ATLAS detector at HL-LHC Supervisor: Stefania Xella

Sif Kristine Fugger

Title: Design and characterization of nano-mechanical quantum photonic devices Supervisors: Leonardo Midolo, Peter Lodahl

Jo Verwohlt Damm

Title: Future Cosmological Constraints on Dark Matter Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen, Radosław Wojtak

Robots can improve agriculture, but old laws stand in the way

Agricultural robots have the potential to address labour shortages and increase global food security. However, outdated laws are an obstacle for these new technologies according to a new study from the University of…

Economics of climate change: One per cent makes a world of difference

Frikk Nesje and his colleagues have created international awareness by building bridges in the political debate as to how much we should invest in the climate.

Haider Fadil Ali Hussein Al-Saadi

Title: Neutrino Reconstruction with Graph Neural Networks Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Reported record-distant explosion turns out to be probably just a piece of space junk

A perspective into how science sometimes operates: Even with the most careful measures taken to ensure the validity of a scientific result, every so often some results are bound to turn out to be mistaken or inaccurate.…

Arianne Brooks

Whispering-gallery-modes in QD-embedded micro disc resonators for optical routing Supervisors: Nir Rotenberg, Leonardo Midolo and Peter Lodahl

Malte Algren

Title: Improving electron & photon reconstruction at ATLAS using a convolutional neural network Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Sampo Saarinen

Optomechanics at the room temperature - Towards classical and quantum applications Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Farmers' share of food prices has fallen

The path from farm to fork is getting longer and longer on a global scale. In fact, most of what we pay for food doesn’t go to those who grow or raise foods, but to food processors, packagers, transporters and others. A…

Matthieu Williams

Title: Statistics, Properties and Origin of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at High Redshifts in the IllustrisTNG Universe Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen, Michaela M. Hirschmann

Researchers develop tracking tool that reveals toxic compounds in indoor environments

Contaminated soil beneath a dwelling can send toxic fumes through flooring and affect the health of residents. At the same time, furniture, paint, building materials and other household items also release compounds that…

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among others, have peered back 10-12 billion years into the universe and found six galaxies that mysteriously ran out of gas…

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among others, have peered back 10-12 billion years into the universe and found six galaxies that mysteriously ran out of gas…

The bridge builder who opened up computer science

After 35 years of research, Jørgen Bansler now becomes professor emeritus. He has built a bridge between computer science, humanities, and social science.

Astronomers see the same supernova three times — and predict a fourth to appear in 16 years

The enormous gravitation of a cluster of galaxies warps space to the extent that light from distant galaxies is deflected and brought to us from multiple directions. This effect has enabled astronomers from the…

Astronomers spot the same supernova three times — and predict a fourth sighting in 16 years

The enormous gravitation of a cluster of galaxies warps space to the extent that light from distant galaxies is deflected and brought to us from multiple directions. This effect has enabled astronomers from the…

Emma Louise Bødker Espersen

Title: Origin of Gas Metallicity Gradients in Observed and Simulated Galaxies Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen, Michaela M. Hirschmann, Maritza A. Lara-Lopez

From VHS tapes to YouTube: Terrorist recruitment since 9/11

Developments in technology have been profound since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. The growth of social media has facilitated the recruitment of members to extremist groups,…