Researchers invent "methane cleaner": Could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air. The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases…
Svend Krøjer Møller Controlling and Protecting Coherent QuantumStates Academic advisor: Prof. Karsten Flensberg
Thesis award to black hole spectroscopy measurements Strong member Gregorio Carullo received a prize from his Alma Mater, the University of Pisa, for the best PhD thesis in the field of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science and Geoscience, defended in 2022. The prize wa…
Anthropologist to explore “out of the way” places’ dreams of becoming tech landscapes What does it mean for “out of the way” places to build technological futures, and how can these futures reproduce or reconfigure social and economic inequalities? This is what Samantha Dawn Breslin will explore thanks t…
Student creates green investment tool A student at University of Copenhagen has developed a method for optimizing profit relative to risk while also including sustainability and social responsibility concerns. The tool is relevant to both professional and…
Fighting for Biodiversity in Africa In an article published in Danish Journal Udenrigs, Associate Professor Stig Jensen, details the fight for biodiversity in Africa. With an increasing threat of extinction to multiple animal species on the continent,…
Communication transforms surveillance into quality control Students at University of Copenhagen analysed the adoption of an AI-backed tracking system recently installed by university hospital Rigshospitalet.
Hans Stærkind Optical Magnetometry for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik, Assoc. Prof. Esben T. Petersen and Research Fellow Vincent O. Boer.
New TEM at CAB CAB has received grants from the governmental research infrastructure roadmap, which allowed to invest in a state-of-the-art Scanning / Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The Talos system allows full control of the…
An updated floristic map of the world In Nature Communications by Liu, Y., ..., Borregaard, M.K., ... Rahbek, C. and Wang, Z. (2023)
BARC welcomes two new Faculty in 2023 BARC has had a great year - partly because we got to welcome terrific new researchers to the team. Read more about two of them here.
Diversification of flowering plants in space and time In Nature Communications by Dimitrov, D., ..., Nogués-Bravo, D., ..., C, Rahbek & Wang, Z. (2023)
Dissemination and Outreach Workshop Report is now available Stakeholders, including researchers, community leaders, local political interest groups, and planners, discussed the project's findings
Eirik Finserås Eiriks research is related to a comparative assessment of national licensing procedures for offshore wind in the North Sea Basin. Currently entitled `A Comparative Legal Analysis of North Sea Offshore Wind Licensing…
Emilie Munch Gregersen presents Ethnote at Maastricht University Ethnography group's monthly sessions During the latest monthly session of the Maastricht University Ethnography Group, Emilie Munch Gregersen presented digital fieldnote app Ethnote
JEG HAR SMAGT PÅ BITTER RAPSKAGE. DET KOMMER DU NOK OGSÅ TIL I FREMTIDEN The potential of rapeseed cake as a novel plant based food product
Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Videnskab fra vilde hjerner’ Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest in the Danish podcast Videnskab fra vilde hjerner (Science from Wild Minds) hosted by Professor of astrophysics at University of Copenhagen, Anja C. Andersen.…
Innovative phage therapy project to combat "flesh-eating disease" In a stride towards combating the rising global threat of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, also known as the “flesh-eating disease”, the Leo Foundation has granted 4 million DKK to a new innovative phage therapy…
New article: "Exposure to urban and rural contexts shapes smartphone usage behavior" DISTRACT Researchers Anna Sapienza, Sune Lehmann, and DTU researchers Laura Alessandretti and Marita Lítlá has recently published an article in PNAS Nexus
ngEHT white paper on Fundamental Physics Black holes can be studied with gravitational waves, but also with light. After the pioneering Event Horizon Telescope images, the next generation observatories - ngEHT - promise to give us amazing new information on…
Investigating structures of nanocrystals 3D electron diffraction is a rapidly evolving technology that lets researchers examine the atomic structure of pharmaceutical – as well as many other – materials at nanoscale.