News about Awards

The prize for the best thesis in computer science goes to a physics student

Niklas Maximilian Heim, Master’s student in computational physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives this year’s prize for best thesis in computer science.

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded the Mohn Prize for her important role in climate change research

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen together with former Minister of Education and Research Tommy Ahlers in Greenland. The Scientific Committee wrote in their recommendation: “By ranking Dorthe Dahl-Jensen first, the committee…

August Krogh on Tour through Denmark

In 2020 it is 100 years ago that August Krogh – one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century – was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of the capillary motor regulatin…

Marie Curie grant to Simon Gritschacher

Simon Gritschacher, postdoc at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation, has won the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which he will carry at our department.

Mathias Luidor Heltberg from the Niels Bohr Institute, receives one of three Ph.D awards

Mathias Luidor Heltberg, Niels Bohr Institute earns the 2019 PhD Award for his doctoral dissertation, 'Complex Dynamics in Cell Signalling', and his exceptional research in dynamic systems and how they effect a wide…

Award to mathematician for best PhD thesis

Manuel Krannich today receives one of the three awards awarded by the SCIENCE Faculty for the best PhD dissertation of the year (submitted in 2018). He receives the award for the thesis "On characteristic classes of…

International postdoctoral grant to Martin Speirs

The Independent Research Fund Denmark is investing just under DKK 22 million this year in 16 younger researchers' careers and original ideas, which have the potential to grow significantly in an international research…

Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

Associate Professor Irene Tamborra at the Niels Bohr Institute receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award. The prize was presented to her during the opening ceremony of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC)…

Quantum information pioneer to be awarded honorary doctorate

Charles H. Bennett of IBM, a pioneer of quantum information science, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on 8 November 2019 upon recommendation of the Department of Mathematics.

Kell Mortensen receives the 2019 Walter Hälg prize

ENSA (The European Neutron Scattering Association) awards the Walter Hälg Prize every other year to a European researcher for an excellent contribution to the field of neutron scattering

Peter Krogstrup receives Elektroprisen 2019

Professor Peter Krogstrup receives Elektroprisen 2019, annually awarded by The Danish Society of Engineers, IDA. Peter Krogstrup is professor in quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,…

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, receives scientific prize

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives the 2019 MERAC Prize from the European Astronomical Society for the Best Early Career Researcher.

Bronze Medal to Jonas Peters from the Royal Statistical Society

Jonas Peters has been awarded The Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society. He will be presented with the award at a ceremony during RSS’s annual conference in Belfast in September.

Albert H. Werner receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Albert H. Werner, Postdoc in quantum information at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, has received 10 million DKK from the VILLUM Young Investigator Program.

Emilie Capron receives international Early-Career Scientist Award

Emilie Capron received the IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) Early Career Scientist Award for her outstanding research in Earth Sciences and her international research cooperation. She is currently…

SCIENCE Dissemination Award to Therese Graversen

35-year-old assistant professor and statistician Therese Graversen of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences has won the SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2018 presented by UCPH’s Faculty of…

Prestigious research grant for quantum mathematician

Professor Matthias Christandl of the Department of Mathematical Sciences has just received the European Research Council's Consolidator Grant, awarded to outstanding scientists with a promising scientific career.

Abraham Pais Prize awarded to Helge Kragh

The American Physical Society has awarded the 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh.

University of Copenhagen home to the world’s leading research environment in sports science

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Institute of Sports Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, rank as the world’s leading research environment within sports science in the ‘Global Ranking of Sport Science…

Leading Danish researcher receives Niels Bohr medal

One of the world’s leading researchers on catalysis, Prof. Jens Kehlet Nørskov from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), received the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal sunday October 7 on Bohr's birthday.

Rune Haugseng first recipient of the Viggo Brun Prize

Rune Haugseng, who has been a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 2015, is the first recipient of the Norwegian Mathematical Association's Viggo Brun Prize. The prize will be awarded to younger…

Martin Emil Jakobsen is awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize

The Danish Mathematical Association's Thesis Prize of DKK 15,000 will be awarded to Martin Emil Jakobsen on Friday, 7 September 2018.

Teacher of the year at SCIENCE: A formula for causality and coincidence

34-year old Jonas Peters, associate professor of statistics, from Department of Mathematical Sciences is a great inspiration to his students, and therefore, and in spite of the fact that the young talented researcher ha…

DFF funds research in mathematical population genetics

Carsten Wiuf, professor in statistics at Department of Mathematical Sciences, has received a research grant of DKK 5,4 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.