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Tetyana Pitik receives award for the best PhD thesis in Danish astronomy

Tetyana Pitik receives the 2024 IDA PhD award at the Annual Danish Astronomy Meeting hosted in Roskilde on May 22 and 23, 2024.

Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. Their study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing evidence that…

Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. Their study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing evidence that…

Tomás Ortín visits Strong

Professor Tomás Ortín from the Instituto de Física Teórica (Madrid) visited Strong in May. Tomas is an expert on gravity, supergravity and string theory. Besides being a collaborator of the group, working with David…

A strong team visits IHES

Recently, two members of the Strong Group, Gregorio Carullo and Marina De Amicis, traveled to the quaint town of Bures-sur-Yvette, near Paris, to visit the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES). The purpose o…

Meet Andreas – New PhD in Algorithms and Applications

Andreas has been at NQCP as a student since the start of the program in 2023. He is now stepping into a new role as a PhD student here at NQCP in our Algorithms and Applications Group.

Andrew Wayne Mayo

Detecting and Characterizing Small Planets in Diverse Environments DTU Advisor: Lars A. Buchhave, UCB Advisor: Courtney Dressing, KU Advisor: Jes K. Jørgensen

New project may take the leading position in photonic quantum technology

Denmark is set to redefine photonic quantum computing with the launch of a five-year research and innovation initiative, backed by a grant from the Innovation Fund. The 'Fault-Tolerant Quantum Photonics' (FTQP) project…

Eclipse of time: a journey into black holes

Vitor has written a book (Eclipse of time: a journey into black holes, or "Eclipse do tempo: um guia para entrar em buracos negros," in portuguese) on black holes, a journey that starts with the notion of time and…

Three Individual EU MSCA Fellowships to NBIA

Marica Minucci will join the Strong Group as a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to work on the FundBHspec project: “Fundaments of Black Hole Spectroscopy” in collaboration with Rodrigo Panosso Macedo. This…

Young researcher has created a sensor that detects errors in MRI scans

Hvidovre Hospital has the world's first prototype of a sensor capable of detecting errors in MRI scans using laser light and gas. The new sensor, developed by a young researcher at the University of Copenhagen and…

Young researcher has created a sensor that detects errors in MRI scans

Hvidovre Hospital has the world's first prototype of a sensor capable of detecting errors in MRI scans using laser light and gas. The new sensor, developed by a young researcher at the University of Copenhagen and…

Thorsten Balduin

Dusty grain in charging protoplanetary disks and the potential emergence of lightning Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Largest James Webb program yet approved: led by researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center

Among the successful proposals that have now been selected by the committee is the largest program ever conducted with Webb, “COSMOS-3D”, led by assistant professor Koki Kakiichi at the Cosmic Dawn Center.

Superradiant atoms could push the boundaries of how precisely time can be measured

Superradiant atoms can help us measure time more precisely than ever. In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen present a new method for measuring the time interval, the second, mitigating some of th…

Superradiant atoms could push the boundaries of how precisely time can be measured

Superradiant atoms can help us measure time more precisely than ever. In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen present a new method for measuring the time interval, the second, mitigating some of th…

Strong PhD Days in Aud A

The Strong Group organized a two day PhD event on April 18-19, 2024, which took place in the historic Auditorium A at Blegdamsvej. The program gave voice to 9 of the Strong PhD students, as well as our two artists in…

Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with…

Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with…

Irene Livia Kruse

Chasing the Storms - A Simulation and Observation-Based Exploration of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Cold Pools, from the Midlatitudes to the Tropics Supervisor: Jan O. Härter

Weria Pezeshkian publishes in Nature Communications

Together they have developed a software package designed to model and study biological membranes at the so-called mesoscale of living organisms. The software package is made publicly available and is likely to spark…

Jannik Höller

Development of a Deep Learning Approach for the Segmentation of Convective Cold Pools in Satellite-Observable Data Supervisor: Jan O. Härter

Sarah Pearson receives an ERC starting grant

NBI Assistant Professor has been awarded an ERC starting Grant from the European Commission.

Vadim Rusakov

Star formation in galaxies across cosmic time - Stellar Populations in Multiwavelength Photometric Observations Supervisor: Charles L Steinhardt