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Professor: There have always been women in gaming, but they are missing in the story-telling

Did you know that world's first eSports champion was a woman? And that some of the first and most popular computer games were developed by women? DIKU's Professor Pernille Bjørn aims to rewrite the history of gaming by…

Grant for developing long term weather predictions in Denmark

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to provide us with a much longer perspective on the general weather situation in Denmark.

Lilja Dahl

Source-Apportionment of Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds, Halogenated Species and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases at Mt. Cimone (Italy) by applying Positive Matrix Factorization with a Lifetime Correction Method…

Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms

Within the scientific community, it is estimated that artificial intelligence — otherwise meant to serve as a means to effectively combat climate change — will become one of the most egregious CO2 culprits should curren…

Sofie Helene Bruun

Title: Variability classification of PTF lightcurves Supervisors: Jens Hjorth, Adriano Agnello

Daniel S. Nielsen

In search of new Higgs bosons Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Kassiani Tsemperlidi

Title: Image Guided & Adaptive Radiotherapy in Esophageal Cancer Supervisors: Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Mirjana Josipovic

Galaxies in the Very Early Universe were Surprisingly Mature

Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This is the conclusion of an international team of astronomers who studied distant galaxies with the Atacama Large…

Measuring the expansion of the Universe: Researchers focus on the importance of measuring velocity

Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they move away from each other, researchers have measured the expansion rate of the Universe (the Hubble constant).

Researchers take a stand on algorithm design for job centers: Landing a job isn't always the right goal

Algorithms that assess the risk of citizens becoming unemployed are currently being tested in a number of Danish municipalities. But according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen, gaining employment is not…

Inks containing lead were likely used as drier on ancient Egyptian papyri

Analysing 12 ancient Egyptian papyri fragments with X-ray microscopy, University of Copenhagen researchers were surprised to find previously unknown lead compounds in both red and black inks and suggest they were used…

Inks containing lead were likely used as drier on ancient Egyptian papyri

Analysing 12 ancient Egyptian papyri fragments with X-ray microscopy, University of Copenhagen researchers were surprised to find previously unknown lead compounds in both red and black inks and suggest they were used…

Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara

There are far more trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel than most would expect. A combination of artificial intelligence and detailed satellite imagery allowed a team from the University of Copenhagen and…

Nanna Bach-Møller

Title: Atmospheric Disequilibrium Model - Model Development for Exoplanet Atmosphere Simulations Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Albert Schliesser awarded fellowship at the Optical Society of America

Optical Society of America awards a number of scientists the honor of a fellowship. The award honors the individual new fellow and the contribution he/she has made to the field of optics and photonics or achievements…

Irene Tamborra receives KIF Prize 2020

The Danish Network for Women in Physics (KIF) has awarded the 2020 honorary prize to Associate Professor Irene Tamborra, leader of the AstroNu group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Using Your Smartphone in Class Does Not Affect Your Learning

A large-scale research project among university students reveals that using your mobile phone in the classroom does not affect your learning negatively

Faith and Science: A conversation with Prof. Johan Fynbo

DAWN Professor Johan P. U. Fynbo was recently invited to give a longer discussion on the interplay between faith and science.

Photon turnstile brings order to light

With the creation of a turnstile for light in glass fibers, quantum optics researchers from Germany, Denmark and Austria have succeeded in directly converting laser light in optical fibers into a single file of isolated…

Rodrigo A. Thomas

Optical spin-mechanics quantum interface: entanglement and back-action evasion Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Anton Lauenborg Andersen

Quantum Key Distribution and Entanglement Distribution with Satellite Links Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Bjørn Hübschmann Mølvig

Low-Energy Neutrino Reconstructions using Recurrent Neural Networks Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Cecilie Toftdahl Olesen

Efficient Generation of Pure and Indistinguishable Single Photons Supervisors: Peter Lodahl and Ravitej Uppu

Emil Gorm Nielsen

Evidence of transverse momentum dependent flow angle and magnitude fluctuations at the LHC with ALICE Supervisor: You Zhou