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Congratulations to Marius Simonsen

Congratulations to Marius Folden Simonsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday 31 August 2018.

Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change

In Trends Ecology and Evolution by Nogués-Bravo, D., Fordham, D. A., et al. (2018)

Two PhD students are enrolled

Two of the expected three students have been enrolled for the 4 year PhD program at the University of Ghana. The project partners welcome Abubakari Abdallah who will focus primarily on work package A and Prince Gyekye…

Jesper Nygård appointed professor of experimental solid-state physics

The University of Copenhagen has appointed Jesper Nygård from the Niels Bohr Institute to a new professorship in experimental solid-state physics.

Partner meeting in Copenhagen

The first regular partner meeting has been held in Copenhagen. On the agenda were general discussions and plans for the way forward, the final selection of field sites and initial methodological training activities.

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

Published in PNAS by Steffen, W., ..., Richardson, K., et al.

Christian Zhou Raahauge

Cavity Enhanced Molecular Clocks and Their Applications

Mathias Bouchacourt

Towards Continuous Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy on Cold Atoms

Mikkel Tang

Modeling Lasing in a Thermal Strontium Ensemble

Planet at risk of heading towards irreversible “Hothouse Earth” state

Keeping global warming to within 1.5-2°C may be more difficult than previously assessed. An international team of scientists, with the participation of Center from Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of…

Carlos Reyes

The crustal and sedimentary structure of the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean, derived from seismic

New observations link gigantic star collisions to homeless short duration gamma ray bursts

Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have been involved in detecting a beam of light that provides a link between neutron star mergers and short duration gamma ray bursts. The result is no…

Mikkel Jensen

Environmentally induced neutrino decoherence in IceCube Advisors: Dr. David Jason Koskinen and Dr. Thomas Simon Stuttard

Milky Way type dust particles discovered in a galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth

An international research team, with participation from the Niels Bohr Institute, has found the same type of interstellar dust that we know from the Milky Way in a distant galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth.

Sociologist Deborah Lupton to be awarded honorary doctor

Professor Deborah Lupton will be awarded with an honorary doctorate at the University of Copenhagen. Lupton was nominated by the Department of Sociology.

Kick-off/Inception workshop in Accra

The Kick-off workshop was organized by the Ghanaian partners. It took place at the Alisa Hotel in Accra with participation from a number of stake holders and all project partners. Click to read more...

Partner meeting and excursions in Accra

In connection with the Inception workshop, all partners met in Accra for project meetings and excursions to flood prone areas.

Jesper Rask Pedersen

No slip lateral boundary conditions for Veros

Thorsten Bæk and Ryan Yde

Optical magnetometry - Exploration of an optical caesium vapor magnetometer and the possibilities for unshielded measurements Supervisor: Kasper Jensen

Carlos F. D. Faurby

DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTION ANALYSIS IN COUPLING OF LIGHT TO SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS Supervisors: Anders S. Sørensen and Sumanta K. Das

2nd Insects to feed the world confernce in China

GREEiNSECT project members very active at 2nd international conference.

Michael Zugenmaier

Towards a room temperature single photon source based on atomic vapour Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have recently provided the scientific community with a much-needed computer model.

Charles Marcus elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Charles Marcus on being elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Charles Marcus is a professor and Center Director of the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr…