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Researchers puncture explanation for largest increase of biodiversity in Earth's history

The greatest increase in marine biodiversity on Earth was not due to the explosion of an asteroid, as previously believed. In fact, the explosion caused the development of new animal species to stagnate for a period of…

Danes have reduced meat consumption – but we lag behind other Europeans

A major new survey on meat consumption in Europe reports that Europeans have a growing appetite for plant-based foods and that meat consumption has dipped. While this applies to Denmark as well, Danes lag behind the…

Katrine Frantzen

Spectral Analysis of the Kilonova AT2017GFO using Tardis and X-shooter Data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Katrine Høier Frantzen

Title: Spectral analysis of the kilonova AT2017gfo using TARDIS and X-shooter data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Mads Juhl Storr-Hansen

Title: Improvement of Photon PID through Machine Learning Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Nikki Arendse

Cosmic Dissonance - Addressing tensions in modern cosmology Supervisors: Prof. Jens Hjorth and Dr. Radosław Jan Wojtak

Julien Westhoff

Visual Stratigraphy of the EastGRIP Ice Core Supervisors: Prof Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Prof Ilka Weikusat

Danish children love fish, but eat it all too rarely

Danish children eat less than a third of the recommended amount of fish. A new study by researchers at the University of Copenhagen reports that this isn’t because kids don’t like fish – in fact, they’re wild about it.…

Ultracoherent mechanical devices

Similarly, a phononic crystal is a fabricated object with a repeating pattern that gives it a particularly useful property – a bandgap that forbids the propagation of motion at certain frequencies. This allows us to…

Can we become more climate-friendly with the help of our personality traits?

Psychologists will investigate whether they can get participants to act more climate-friendly by adapting initiatives to their personality traits.

Innovative chip built by UCPH physicists resolves quantum headache

Quantum physicists at the University of Copenhagen are reporting an international achievement for Denmark in the field of quantum technology. By simultaneously operating multiple spin qubits on the same quantum chip,…

Innovative chip built by UCPH physicists resolves quantum headache

Quantum physicists at the University of Copenhagen are reporting an international achievement for Denmark in the field of quantum technology. By simultaneously operating multiple spin qubits on the same quantum chip,…

Kick-start of a new generation of climate scientists

The training of 15 PhD international students at 17 European research institutions begins this week, with a kick-off meeting in Denmark, hosted by Critical Earth partner the University of Copenhagen (Department of…

New QMATH Publication in Nature Physics

QMATH researcher showcases the limitations of near-term quantum devices

The green transition starts in your municipality

Local citizens need to be involved in the green transition if the climate crisis is to gain broad public support, researchers argue. Local citizens’ assemblies focussing on climate issues may prove an important part of…

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.