News about Awards

SCIENCE PhD Prize to Alexander Sokol

The SCIENCE PhD Prize has just been awarded for the first time. The Faculty awarded three outstanding young scientists, all of whom have had some impressive PhD programmes. One of them is Alexander Sokol from MATH.

Biophysicist Pernille Yde receives prestigious award

The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science, SNU has awarded the prestigious Kirstine Meyer Grant to Pernille Yde for her research in biophysical computer models with special focus on inflammation and diabetes.

Elisenda Feliu receives prestigious Sapere Aude grant

Assistant Professor Elisenda Feliu has received a Research Leader grant from the DFF/Sapere Aude programme. The grant is aimed at very talented researchers who have demonstrated the ability for original research at a…

Thomas Mikosch receives DFF grant

Professor Thomas Mikosch has received a grant of DKK 1,902,451 from the The Danish Council for Independent Research for the project "Large random matrices with heavy tails and dependence."

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives European Agassiz Medal

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, head of the Centre for Ice and Climate at NBI, has been awarded the Louis Agassiz Medal by the EGU (European Geoscience Union). She is receiving the medal for her outstanding scientific…

Postdoctoral fellowship to Sune Precht Reeh

PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Sune Precht Reeh, has received a postdoctoral fellowship at 1.7 million DKK from the Danish Council for Independent Research. The grant is to be used on a two-year…

Eugene Polzik’s research chosen as the year’s best by Ingeniøren

Ingeniøren (The Engineer) has chosen Eugene Polzik’s research on teleporation as the year’s most important Danish research results in science. Eugene Polzik is the head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr…

Dissemination Award to Søren Eilers

Professor Søren Eilers has received the Science Dissemination Award at a reception 10 December 2013. With the award came the trophy "The Golden Megaphone" and 25,000 DKK.

YouTube pioneer named teacher of the year

Chemistry professor Jan H. Jensen is the 2013 recipient of the University of Copenhagen’s prestigious Harald Award as teacher of the year for his innovative teaching. The award will be presented at the University’s…

2 million DKK for research in number theory

Anders Södergren, a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, has received 2 million DKK for a two year project "Number Theory and Automorphic Forms in High Dimensions”.

Celebrating a Niels Bohr professorship

Thursday, August 29th, the Department of Mathematical Sciences celebrated a Niels Bohr professorship and the opening of a new research frontier in Danish mathematics in the arithmetic area.

Chinese honorary doctorate to Professor Uffe Haagerup

Professor Uffe Haagerup has received an honorary doctorate from East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai. China has only awarded 277 honorary degrees in the past 30 years.

Adam P. W. Sørensen is heading for Australia with FNU-stipend

On February 15 PhD from Department of Mathematical Sciences Adam P. W. Sørensen will head towards new challenges as a postdoc at University of Wollongong

Asger Törnquist receives grant from VELUX

Assistant professor Asger Törnquist has been chosen to receive a 378.200kr grant from VELUX Visiting Professor Programme.

Professor Susanne Ditlevsen granted 28 millions for interdisciplinary research project

Professor in statistics Susanne Ditlevsen from Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen has with an 28DKK million grant from KU’s 2016 fund got a unique possibility for creating high profiled…

Professor Jan Philip Solovej receives ERC grant

Professor in mathematics Jan Philip Solovej has passed the competitive selection

ESF awards 14th European Latsis Prize to Professor Uffe Haagerup for ground-breaking and important contributions to the theory of operator algebras

The European Science Foundation (ESF) has awarded this year’s European Latsis Prize to Professor Uffe Haagerup

Hesselholt receives Niels Bohr professorship

Professor Lars Hesselholt has received a Niels Bohr professorship and its associated grant of DKK 30 million from the Danish National Research Foundation.

Eilers receives grant from Villum Foundation

Professor Søren Eilers has received a large grant from the VILLUM FONDEN.

Ib Madsen awarded Ostrowski prize

The Ostrowski Foundation has announced that Ib Madsen has been awarded the prestigious Ostrowski Prize for 2011 which he shares with David Preiss and Kannan Soundararajan.

Nordic honorary award to Kirsten Hastrup

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Kirsten Hastrup, Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, its most distinguished award, the ’Gad Rausing’ award, on 20 march