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Assistant Professor in SNSPDs

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) is expanding its talented and international team to add to its cutting-edge quantum programme in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. At the Niels Bohr…

Expert in qubit control and readout for cryostat-based experiments

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) is expanding its talented and international team to add to its cutting-edge quantum programme in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. At the Niels Bohr…

Senior Postdoc of SNSPDs

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) is expanding its talented and international team to add to its cutting-edge quantum programme in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. At the Niels Bohr…

Assistant Professor of Neutral Atom Quantum Technologies

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) is establishing a talented and diverse international team to create a cutting-edge quantum programme in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Low-Loss Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Photonics

Bachelor/Masters Project Description At NQCP we are building a quantum computer in which single photons carry quantum information in silicon microchips. The performance of such circuits critically depends on one number:…

Light Cone: The Art of Giving Abstract Physics a Physical Presence 

In an exhibition at the Round Tower, science and art merge in a celebration of the 350th anniversary of Ole Rømer’s discovery of the speed of light.

Engineering High-Efficiency Off-Chip Routing

Masters Project Description At NQCP we are building a quantum computer based on a novel platform, using spin-selective optical transitions to interfere photons from “artificial atoms” trapped in our silicon lattice. The…

Microwave Superconducting Devices for Spin Qubit Control

Masters Project Description Optically active spin defects in silicon provide a promising platform for quantum computing and quantum networks. They are efficient quantum emitters, yet they can also operate as coherent…

Optical and electrical control of spin-photon interfaces

Distributed quantum computing offers a path to scaling quantum computers. One promising approach to implement such architecture relies on spin-photon interfaces: long-lived qubits that couple efficiently and coherently…

Optical characterisation of Silicon colour centres for future Quantum Computers

Masters Project Description Silicon is the backbone of modern electronics, and it has great potential to become the foundation of quantum technologies as well. Certain atomic-scale defects in silicon emit single photons…

David Eisenbud joins NBIA's Scientific Advisory Board

We warmly welcome David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley) who will join NBIA's International Science Advisory Board. David Eisenbud was the first Marianne and Peter Landrock Visiting Professor of Mathematics…

Martin Pessah has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant

The project will investigate how black holes embedded in the gaseous disks around supermassive black holes can pair up, evolve, and eventually merge. These environments, found in active galactic nuclei, may play an…

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to IceCube pioneer Francis Halzen

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Charlotte Fløe Kristjansen receives Simons Collaboration grant

The collaboration is led by Jaume Gomis from the Perimeter Institute and involves researchers from Caltech, MIT, Princeton, Stony Brook, Yale etc. The collaboration will run for four years with the possibility of…

Supernova or black hole? Ghost particles’ “flavor” may determine the fate of dying stars

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that previously overlooked property of ghost particles may be a key part of the explanation for why some stars explode, while others collapse into black holes.

Amin Doostmohammadi to lead new 75M DKK center on the Physics of Living Tissue

Active Matter is one of the most promising avenues in Biological Physics today. Amin Doostmahammadi's new center will tackle one of biology's most fundamental questions: How do individual cells coordinate their actions…

Researchers create a Little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the Universe’s first moments

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in recreating the primordial matter that filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang – by smashing much smaller atomic nuclei together than previously…

Breakthrough in unusual galaxy may help unravel the mystery of dark matter

For the first time, researchers have discovered a globular cluster stellar stream in a galaxy beyond the Milky Way – specifically in an ultra-diffuse galaxy.

Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro joins NBIA as MSCA Fellow

Marcelo earned his PhD in July 2022 from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, followed by a three-year postdoctoral associate position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Marcelo will join the…

Niels Bohr Institute Wins Flagship European Grant for the Physics of Living Matter

International research team, led by Amin Doostmohammadi at NBI, awarded the first European edition of Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme

Kurt Stokbro Joins CBQS spin-out

Deep-tech investor and entrepreneur Kurt Stokbro joins Magnolia Quantum Sensing as business advisor and first investor, supporting the commercialization of breakthrough quantum sensing technology for MRI.

A new model for dark energy rewrites the fate of the Universe

New study based on six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey challenges the standard cosmological model - could force a rethink of what drives the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

Martin Pessah Receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award

The award recognizes internationally renowned researchers for their outstanding academic achievements and future potential. It will support extended research visits to Germany, during which Martin Pessah will strengthe…

Third BOHR21 Workshop hosted by the Niels Bohr Archive

The Third BOHR21 Workshop takes place in Copenhagen from 29 June to 1 July 2026 in the historic Auditorium A at the old Niels Bohr Institute.