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Ancient riddle solved: Danish researchers find a way to make faba beans safe for all to eat

Consuming large amounts of faba beans can be dangerous for about 400 million people due to a compound called vicine, which accumulates in the beans. This limits their potential as a widespread, sustainable source of…

Ancient riddle solved: Danish researchers find a way to make faba beans safe for all to eat

Consuming large amounts of faba beans can be dangerous for about 400 million people due to a compound called vicine, which accumulates in the beans. This limits their potential as a widespread, sustainable source of…

Ying Wang

Novel nanofabrication methods and processes for antum photonic integrated circuits Supervisor: Peter Lodahl & Leonardo Midolo

Danish invention to make computer servers worldwide more climate friendly

An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer servers. Computer servers are as taxing on the climate as global air traffic combined,…

Danish invention to make computer servers worldwide more climate friendly

An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer servers. Computer servers are as taxing on the climate as global air traffic combined,…

Martin Jan Sandberg

Title: Procedures for Modeling Dust Evolution Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Aake Nordlund

Climate report: Home buyers ignore flood risk

Buyers neglect to investigate the risk of flooding until after purchasing new homes according to a new report from the University of Copenhagen. The report also reveals that home prices are only slightly affected by…

Nanna Marie Baars Støvelbæk

Title: Dust formation in type IIn supernova 2014ab Supervisor: Christa Gall

New in ISBUC: Eva Kummer

Eva Kummer is one of the newest members of ISBUC. In April 2021, Eva was recruited as an Associate Professor in the Structural Biology Group at the Centre for Protein Science, UCPH.

The sense of smell in older adults declines when it comes to meat, but not vanilla

Contrary to what science once suggested, older people with a declining sense of smell do not have comprehensively dampened olfactory ability for odors in general – it simply depends upon the type of odor. Researchers at…

Jeppe Detlefsen

3D-printed fiber-coupled vapor-cell magnetometer Supervisor: Eugene S. Polzik

Kristina Sundgaard Jepsen

Title: Fitting the extinction curves of GRB host galaxies using dust models Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Maureen Eyers Bøge Jørgensen

Title: Optimizing an O2 extraction system to measure atmospheric d18O in ice core Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

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

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.

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…

Jeppe Jon Cederholm & Laura Lund Rysager

A Marine Outlet Glacier Model - A Model Based on the Perfect Plastic Approximatio Supervisor: Christine Hvidberg

Rebekka Frøystad

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