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Denmark's first quantum information science programme to open soon

With quantum technologies blossoming globally, the demand for quantum experts is already high across several sectors. To meet this demand, the University of Copenhagen will soon open Denmark's first quantum science…

Let your mind control the computer

With electric signals from human brains as the only input, new software can perform computerized image editing. This marks a new paradigm in artificial intelligence.

Helene Pehrsson

Master's project: Greenland in a warmer world: A modelling study of the Greenland ice sheet Supervisor: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Jonathan Piet Fjeldvig Gammeltoft

Title: Radiation dose calculation uncertainties on cone beam CT scans of the Ethos radiotherapy machine used for daily adaptation. Supervisors: Ivan Richter Vogelius, Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje

Magnus Quaade Oddershede

Master thesis: Modelling of Ocean Turbulence: Effects of resolution on predictive power of ocean models Supervisor: Markus Jochum

How to see the forest and the trees

PhD student Mar Moure shares learnings and impressions from this year's IUFRO Risk Analysis conference "Socio-ecological conflicts in forest management: risks of (not) adapting?".

Tommaso Ferrari

Integration of Image Data for Improvement of Laser Altimetry of Mars Using Inverse Problems Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

First AQRIFood leaf samples are ready for nutrient analysis

Once analyzed, the samples collected from our Sejet breeding plots will hopefully reveal the best quality crops for plant-based foods.

Green and sustainable food should become the automatic choice

One of the main obstacles to introducing a more climate-friendly food culture in Denmark is the many everyday barriers. So says Professor Bente Halkier, who researches everyday life.

Peter Valentin Ukkonen

Improving the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency of atmospheric radiative transfer computations by using machin elearning and code optimization Supervisor: Eigil Kaas, (NBI) and PhD Kristian Pagh Nielsen (DMI)

Martin Froelund

Perturbation Methods in Ensemble Weather Forecasts Supervisor: Peter Ditlevsen

Simon Peter Heselschwerdt

An analysis of the consistency between observed atmospheric winter variability and weather anomalies in the North Atlantic region Supervisor: Jens H. Christensen

Free roaming black hole detected in our galaxy for the first time

Astronomers estimate that there should be 100 million black holes roaming among the 100 billion stars in our galaxy. They are the remnants of supernova explosions that happened throughout the 10 billion years of the…

Kristian Lyck Lotzkat

Title: Exascale modelling using GPUs Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Åke Nordlund

Welcome Jeppe - New master student

Jeppe Refshauge Christensen is doing his master studies in Biotechnology for 9 months at the DynaMo Center. He will be working on producing the health promoting glucoraphanin, using baker’s yeast as production platform…

Black holes helped quenching star formation in the early Universe

While some galaxies form stars at a continuous rate, others die out and lead a more passive life. What made these galaxies stop forming stars at an early age is not well established, not the least because they are so…

Black holes helped quenching star formation in the early Universe

While some galaxies form stars at a continuous rate, others die out and lead a more passive life. What made these galaxies stop forming stars at an early age is not well established, not the least because they are so…

Camilla Birch Okkels

Title: Theoretical optimizations of quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Ethicists’ commentary on humane killing of healthy surplus animals

Ethical question of the month, March 2022 The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) position statement on the Care of Neonatal Calves on Dairy Farms states that euthanasia/humane killing of surplus calves is th…

Arnau Morancho Tarda

Title: Search for prompt heavy neutral lepton decays into tau leptons with the ATLAS detector Supervisor: Stefania Xella

Beñat Martinez de Aguirre Jokisch

Title: Dispersion engineering of atom-nanophotonic crystal waveguide interfaces Supervisors: Prof. Eugene Simon Polzik, Jean-Baptiste Béguin

Daniel Magleby Sørensen

Title: Estimating glacier ice volume using image inpainting Supervisors: Troels Christian Petersen, Niccolò Maffezzoli

Love Alexander Mandla Pettersson

Title: Exploring near-term quantum applications with graph states from quantum emitters Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Stefano Paesani

Marie-Louise Riis

Title: Piggyback Riding the Higgs Searches: A Hunt for Heavy Neutral Leptons with Tau Triggers Supervisor: Oleg Ruchayskiy