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New blog looks at social consequences of a cashless economy

Researchers at the Department of Anthropology have launched a new blog, which discusses the transition to a cashless economy and the impact on the cash-reliant and indebted urban poor.

Jacob Thornfeldt Hansen

Title: Motional Quantum States of Cesium Atoms Trapped Around a Nanofiber Supervisors: Prof. Eugene Polzik, Assoc. Prof. Jörg Helge Müller

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…

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…

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.

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 Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Anders Svensson

Steffen Kristiansen

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

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.

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 Supervisor: Eigil kaas

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

Marine outlet glacier dynamics in Greenland Supervisor: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Marie Cecilie Boysen

Godfrey’s Island Rule and the Indonesian Through Flow Supervisor: Eigil Kaas

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.

Jesper Baldtzer Liisberg

Abrupt climate change and the nitrogen cycle Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

CLIMACCESS provides framework for teaching

The background and relevance for the CLIMACCESS project, as well as it specific research objectives and methodologies, have been used in several teaching activities at the University of Copenhagen. These include…