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Fitness watches generate useful information, but increase patient anxiety

How does measuring our sleep, exercise and heart rates using various apps and fitness watches affect us? Self-quantifying may better the understanding of our individual health, but according to a new study, it also give…

"I only had one French fry": New method will shield food studies from untruthful answers

A great deal of food research hinges upon the honesty of participants in relation to what they say they have eaten. In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen, among others, deployed a method that in…

Separating Gamma-Ray Bursts: Students Make Important Breakthrough

By applying a machine-learning algorithm, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, have developed a method to classify all gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), without needing to find an afterglow.

Alaskan volcano linked to mysterious period with extreme climate in ancient Rome

An international team, including researchers from the University of Copenhagen, has found evidence suggesting that the megaeruption of an Alaskan volcano may be to blame.

Growing sustainable oyster mushrooms on by-products

Researchers at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, together with three companies, are developing a food ingredient from oyster mushrooms that are grown on e.g. by-products from the beer…

Sweet taste is enhanced if the surroundings "look sweet"

A sweet drink tastes even sweeter if you drink it in surroundings that are also visually associated with sweetness. This is shown in a new study from the Future Consumer Lab at the Department of Food Science at the…

Digital climate-activism in a Scandinavian corona-era

A new research project, headed by Anders Blok, looks into how green NGOs in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have continued their climate political efforts during the lockdown.

Margaret Mallory Harlan

Title: Continuous flow analysis of the Dye 3 ice core: New data from old ice

New rules for thesis writing in UCPH FOOD’s MSc programmes

The rules for thesis writing in UCPH SCIENCE MSc programmes will change soon, which will affect both students and our partners in the food industry. The time allowed for writing a thesis has been shortened, so UCPH FOOD…

Steffen Kristiansen

Title: Quantification of bipolar volcanic eruptions during the last glacial period (12-60 ka) based on Greenland and Antarctic ice cores

Congratulations to Jesper Liisberg

Congratulations to Jesper Baldtzer Liisberg at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended his PhD thesis Friday 26 June 2020, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

CLIMACCESS survey tested at Legon

The south partners carried out a pilot test of the CLIMACCESS survey at the Legon Campus, University of Ghana. Click to read more and access the survey questions.

PhD study stays in Copenhagen

A planned period of three month study stay in Copenhagen for PhD students Abuba and Prince was extended to more than four and a half month (2. February - 19. June) due to the Corona lock-down. Click to read more.

New research centre puts focus on political mobilisation and protest

A new research centre under the Department of Sociology will shed light on the growing numbers of civic protests targeting issues such as social injustice, discrimination and climate change.

Upcoming UCPH FOOD professor Serafim Bakalis receives The Hutchison Medal

Serafim Bakalis, who starts on 20 July 2020 as professor in Dairy Product and Technology at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH FOOD), has been awarded The Hutchison Medal for a…

How do we increase diversity in Computer Science? Inspiring insights from our webinar with two experts

The Department of Computer Science was honored to have Dr. Carol Frieze and Dr. Jeria Quesenberry from Carnegie Mellon University share the story about how they managed to transform the gender diversity among the…

Maliha Khan

Forbush Decreases and Atmospheric Parameters

Astronomical discovery: How novae light up the sky

An international team, including researchers from the University of Copenhagen, has for the first time demonstrated that most of their brightness comes from shockwaves created in a unique and a previously unknown…

Albert Sneppen

Systematic Variations of the Stellar Initial Mass Function Supervisor: Charles L. STEINHARDT

Helene Pehrsson

Title: Marine outlet glacier dynamics in Greenland

Marie Cecilie Boysen

Godfrey’s Island Rule and the Indonesian Through Flow

Deep Learning online Workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute: Great Learning

Following the latest developments of the COVID 19 pandemic, the planned Workshop on Perspectives and Applications of Deep Learning for Accelerated Scientific Discovery in Physics was turned into an online event.

Lau Dam Mortensen

Title: Using linear decorrelated machinelearning models for particle identification of high energy electrons with energy more than 80GeV in real data from the Large Hadron Collider in CERN Supervisors: Troels Christian…

QMATH tracks the spread of Danish Coronavirus from genetic data

During the lockdown researchers at QMATH switch gears and investigate the genomic data of Danish Coronavirus cases.