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50 years of computer science in Denmark: From a basement at the University of Copenhagen to indispensable for all of us

In 1970, pioneers founded the Department of Computer Science in a basement at the University of Copenhagen - The first of its kind in Denmark. Among other things, Denmark's first e-mail was sent from the department's…

Carlos Fernando Duarte Faurby

Title: Frequency conversion of single photons for long distance quantum communication Supervisors: Leonardo Midolo, Xiaoyan Zhou, Beatrice da Lio

Marcus Horskær Bredtved

Title: Analysis of type Ia supernovae from the Young Supernova Experiment Supervisors: Jens Hjorth, Radoslaw Jan Wojtak

Why doesn’t your zoom lecture dance?

”So why, when it comes to education online, does so much seem deathly? Why doesn’t your zoom lecture dance? If the internet dances, why can’t education join in?” A blogpost by postdoc Mark Johnson in the Post-pandemic…

Adam Søsted Knorr

Title: Spectroscopy of Advanced Integrated Nanophotonic Devices and Quantum Dots Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Ravitej Uppu

Computers can now predict our preferences directly from our brain

A research team from the University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki demonstrates it is possible to predict individual preferences based on how a person’s brain responses match up to others. This could…

Computers can now predict our preferences directly from our brain

A research team from the University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki demonstrates it is possible to predict individual preferences based on how a person’s brain responses match up to others. This could…

Sara Elisabeth Dahl Pinholt

Title: Improving Z and Higgs selections in ATLAS using Machine Learning Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Differences between leopards are greater than between brown bears and polar bears

New research demonstrates that African and Asian leopards are more genetically differentiated from one another than polar bears and brown bears. Indeed, leopards are so different that they ought to be treated as two…

Significantly reducing agricultural CO2 emissions by way of wheatgrass

Wheatgrass has the potential to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Denmark by up to 10 percent according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Carlsberg Research Laboratory. Over the next five…

Significantly reducing agricultural CO2 emissions by way of wheatgrass

Wheatgrass has the potential to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Denmark by up to 10 percent according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Carlsberg Research Laboratory. Over the next five…

Jean-Loup Tastet

Searching for Heavy Neutral Leptons at CERN Supervisor: Oleg Ruchayskiy

Kerttu Maria Peensoo

Developing a Method for High Resolution Water Isotope Measurements in Ice Cores Supervisors: Vasileios Gkinis, Yang Zhang, Thomas Blunier

All Danish universities join forces for the largest research and tech fair in the Nordic region

DIGITAL TECH SUMMIT will be Denmark's unifying showcase for digital technologies and a venue for strong research environments, technology leading companies, and start-ups.

Big Brother isn’t always as clever as we think

New research questions the value of digital surveillance and big data. Sometimes traditional and less privacy-invasive data can predict human behaviour much more effectively.

Researchers show new holistic approach to genetics and plant breeding

A group of researchers has discovered a new approach to cereal plant breeding that takes into account the internal "calculator" of plant seeds that makes them continuously reorganise themselves (global coherence). The…

New physics at stake? Deviation from the standard model of physics confirmed

An ultraprecise measurement of spinning muons, heavier cousins of electrons, in magnetic fields has strengthened a 20 year old signal of new physics, potentially yielding the first sign of new fundamental particles or…

ALMA Discovers Rotating Infant Galaxy with Help of Natural Cosmic Telescope

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center at UCPH/DTU found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when the Universe was only 7% of its…

Karsten Bjerrum Dideriksen

A room-temperature single-photon source with built-in memory Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations

Cosmic Dawn Center – a collaboration between Technical University of Denmark and the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen – will be at work from the very beginning. The primary focus will be on learning more…

Beetles that pee themselves to death could be tomorrow’s pest control

Various beetle species have gobbled through grain stores and weakened food production worldwide since ancient times. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a better way of targeting and…

“Life in the time of Covid-19” is the focus of the QE Data Challenge co-organized by CDE staff

Associate professor Daniel Spikol and professor Morten Misfeldt participate in the organisation of the 2021 QE Data Challenge.

New invention can reduce agricultural pesticide use: Distinguishes harmful insects from helpful ones

A researcher from the University of Copenhagen has developed an algorithm that, in tandem with a sensor, makes it possible to distinguish crop-harming insects from helpful ones that pollinate and contribute to plant…

Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections internationally

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen gathered the data from the ice cap in 2015, and this work has now come to fruition in the form of more exact predictions of local climate conditions.