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Post cruise reception

Former president of Iceland guest of honour in post-cruise reception hosted by the Danish embassy.

ROCS research cruise

A team of scientists and researchers left port in June 2021 on HAFRÓ research vessel Árni Friðriksson for the ROCS Centre’s first research cruise.

Yulii Bardenshtein

The role of wind parameters in Rogue Wave probability predictions Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Cecilie Hede

Evolution of the Rate of SNe IIN with Redshift Supervisors: Jens Hjorth, Radoslaw Wotjak, & Christa Gall

Laurent Lindpointner

Title: Incorporating a dynamical Greenland Ice Sheet into a Global Climate Model System Supervisors: Aslak Grinsted, Marianne Sloth Madsen, Shuting Yang

Sarouyeh Khoshkolgh

Uncertainty Quantification in Seismic Subsurface Modelling by Informed Proposal Monte Carlo Supervisor: Prof. Klaus Mosegaard

Sissal Vágsheyg Erenbjerg

Oceanography of the Faroe Shelf and Sundalagið Norður - A modeling approach Supervisor: Eigil Kaas, Knud Simonsen, Bogi Hansen

When obligations to animals and clients colide

Ethical question of the month, June 2021 You are a recent graduate and have taken on a new client who has several “rescue” horses. The patient presented is a Miniature horse that is having difficulty walking. You…

Asli Dilara Ugurlu

Novel Optical Polymer-Based Interfaces to Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits Supervisors: Prof. Peter Lodahl & Assoc. Prof. Leonardo Midolo

Mikkel Skaarup

Techniques to improve cone-beam computed tomography image quality and the application of imaging for response assessment in radiotherapy Supervisor: Professor Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje

Using artificial intelligence to fingerprint suspicious proteins

An artificial intelligence tool created by researchers at the University of Copenhagen can quickly and accurately identify suspicious or particularly 'talented' proteins in our bodies based upon their movements alone.…

Using artificial intelligence to fingerprint suspicious proteins

An artificial intelligence tool created by researchers at the University of Copenhagen can quickly and accurately identify suspicious or particularly 'talented' proteins in our bodies based upon their movements alone.…

How bird’s species made new Professor Serge Belongie world-famous within Computer Vision

New Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Serge Belongie, recently moved from New York to Copenhagen to take Danish AI research to new heights.

This is how much Danes are willing to pay to protect nature and prevent noise from motorways

Danes are quite willing to pay to prevent noise pollution, protect unique natural areas and avoid animal collisions when it comes to the construction of new motorways. This is the conclusion of a new report by…

Marta Agnieszka Mrozowska

Title: Hitting rock bottom: How the Earth system resists cooling and/or lowering atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the glacial periods Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Thea Quistgaard

Title: Laki to Tambora: Signal Restoration and Pattern Recognition in Ultra High Resolution Volcanic and Isotopic Signals Supervisor: Vasileios Gkinis and James Avery

Niels Bohr Archive and Department of Science Education welcome Hans Halvorson

Professor Halvorson will first and foremost conduct research on the basis of the archival holdings of the Niels Bohr Archive

Julie Munch Torndal

Title: A Study of Top Anomalous Couplings at a Future e+e- Collider Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Niels Nymand

Title: Spectral element and the adjoint method in seismology - Modelling of discontinuous boundaries Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

Survey succesfully completed

The WP-A household mobility survey was conducted in July-August 2021 by a team of 10 persons led by Martin Oteng Ababio and Maya Møller-Jensen. The collected survey data include information on 1053 households and 2104…

Kathrine Mørch Groth

Title: Probing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Models with Cosmogenic Neutrinos and Photons Supervisors: Markus Ahlers, Yoann Genolini

Researchers use diamonds to comprehend the foundation of Earth’s continents: "Without it, humankind wouldn’t exist"

Deep beneath Earth’s crust lies a rocky upper mantle that stabilizes the planet’s continents and is among the primary reasons for the existence of life on Earth. In a new study, researchers from the University of…

Digitization of Natural History is now getting its own professorship

With his new professorship, Kim Steenstrup Pedersen will lead a new unit that will be responsible for the digitization of the museum's 14 million objects.

Kasper Heintz is awarded 180 hours at the Very Large Telescope to study fast radio bursts

In an exceptionally large program, postdoc and DAWN affiliate Kasper Heintz will now have the opportunity to study the host galaxies of the so-called "fast radio bursts".