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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 DKK 3,988,469 to a new innovative phage therapy…

Julien Ochala receives Ascending Investigator grant from the Lundbeck Foundation

We are happy to announce that Associate Professor Julien Ochala has been awarded a research grant from the Lundbeck Foundation's Ascending Investigator program worth DKK 4.95 mio. This grant is a testament to the…

SDU Academic day about Danish L2 in Teacher Education

Lecture by Line Krogager Andersen.

Associate Professor Jakub Sedzinski Awarded ERC Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Associate Professor Jakub Sedzinski and his team a two million euro grant for their work on understanding how mechanical forces regulate embryo development.

New EU-funded project will explore how AI shapes scientific knowledge

Et nyt projekt finansieret af Det Europæiske Forskningsråd vil forstå effekten af kunstig intelligens på skabelsen og udbredelsen af videnskabelig viden.

Sorcha MacLeod receives €2M grant from the ERC

Dr. Sorcha MacLeod has been awarded a Consolidator Grant of €2 million from the European Research Council for a new project aiming to provide crucial insights on the contemporary nature of mercenaries, and their…

Three SUND researchers receive ERC grants for groundbreaking research

The Consolidator Grant is given to three experienced researchers from SUND for projects examining childhood adversities and inequality, tissue development and novel RNA modifications.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of African Studies

There is an increase in technological consent forms, in research institutions in both Africa and the Nordics. It is often explained in complex legal terms and presented in written form. This increase in informed consent…

UCPH elections 2023 - Do you know the members of the PhD Study Board and what they do for you?

The members of the Study Board consist of representatives from the scientific staff and representatives from the PhD students. As a member you can get influence on how the PhD students are doing and how the conditions o…

Different understandings of higher education: How students in Germany conceptualise the purpose and aims of higher education

Postdoc Gregor Schäfer has published the article “What is higher education to contemporary students in Germany?” in the journal Higher Education Quarterly. The purpose, aim and goals of higher education itself have been…

The Boeing Quantum Creators Prize awarded to Freek Witteveen

At the newly held Chicago Quantum Summit, postdoc Freek Witteveen from the department’s QMATH Centre won the 2023 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize.

CIP Symposium 2023- find the presentations

CIP's Symposium on November 2, 2023, had a special theme focusing on Professor Anne Holmen's overall contributions to research in multilingualism, language teaching and learning, sociolinguistics, and more.

Denmark funds BRIC cancer research projects

From left: Fena Ochs, Jesper Andersen, Niels Behrendt Thanks to the generous donations made during the 2023 Knæk Cancer show last month, run by Danish Cancer Society and TV2, BRIC researchers Fena Ochs, Niels Behrend…

Clean Sweep: Department of Computer Science takes home three Business Awards

Two researchers and two students from the Department of Computer Science were presented with this year's business and innovation awards from the Faculty of Science.

DKK 24 millions for brain research at SUND

The 'Ascending Investigators' grants from the Lundbeck Foundation are awarded to researchers from across the country, including five from SUND. .

Jennifer Suurbaar

Ph.D., University of Ghana

Professer Paul Dupree - honorary doctorate recipient

Our OxyMiST partner, Professor Paul Dupree from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, received an honorary doctorate in natural science from the University of Copenhagen on November 10. The…

Systematic review finds gaps in understanding microbe-driven acclimation and adaptation in wild vertebrates

In a recent preprint titled "Quantitative synthesis of microbe-driven acclimation and adaptation in wild vertebrates," researchers from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics and University of Exeter conducted a…

Waste sorting at the Library

From 15 November and for the rest of the month, waste sorting bins will be set up in the library (as in the rest of KU). And these will be the ones you have to use here after. The bins around the study environment will…

Celebrating our new Professor Vito Foderà

Thursday November 9 we celebrated Vito Foderà’s inauguration as Professor here at Department of Pharmacy.

Dates and deadlines for winter 2023/2024 at the Graduate School

Please be aware of the following dates and deadlines for winter 2023/2024: The Graduate School administration will be closed from 22 December 2023 at 14:00 until 2 January 2024 at 10:00. No case processing will be…

Professor Thue W. Schwartz wins UCPH Innovation Prize 2023

A founding member of CBMR, Professor Thue W. Schwartz is a pioneering fundamental researcher and co-founder of countless spinouts who has won this year's UCPH Innovation Prize.

Cecilie Rubow is Teacher of the Year at the University of Copenhagen

At the University of Copenhagen's annual commemoration, anthropologist and Associate Professor Cecilie Rubow has received the Teacher of the Year Award 2023 for excellent and inspirational teaching.

Johan Ulrik Nielsen is awarded the Gold Medal for his Prize dissertation 🥇

Indo-Europeanist Johan Ulrik Nielsen finishes his MA with a prize dissertation - and he was awarded the gold medal for it!