News about Physics

Charlotte Fløe Kristjansen receives Villum Investigator Grant

Professor Charlotte Fløe Kristjansen, currently the Deputy Head of Institute for Research at Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) has been awarded a Villum Investigator grant of 20Mkr from the Villum Foundation to explore how…

Top Researchers Receive Multi-Million DKK Grants from Villum Foundation

How can we recycle plastic more effectively? And how can we transmit data using less energy? Eleven top researchers receive more than DKK 300 million from Villum Foundation for research that may help answer those…

Firuza Foundation Fellowship to NBIA

Thanks to generous support from the Firuza Foundation NBIA has been able to dedicate a 3-year Firuza Foundation Fellowship to new theoretical developments in Quantum Sciences. The initiative aims at capitalizing on …

PhD Project in Laser Enhanced Fabrication of Quantum Devices

The project State-of-the-art quantum devices will need state-of-the-art fabrication tools. In this project we will combine methods of quantum optics to enhance tomorrow's fabrication tools. This challenging and…

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to CERN LHC experiments

The Fundamental Breakthrough Prize has been awarded to all the physicists that have contributed to the success of the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN.

On the Trail of the Mystery of Time – New Book on Time for Non-Physicists

Associate Professor Troels Harmark has published a book, On the Trail of the Mystery of Time, which attempts to explain to ordinary people what the fascinating concept of "time" really is.

Johan Samsing recieves 2025 MERAC Prize

Johan Samsing receives this year's MERAC prize, which is awarded by the European Astronomical Society, for his pioneering work on ways to probe the origin of binary black hole mergers in the new era of observational…

Quantum Sensing

On January 20–21, a group of CBQS researchers from DTU — Sarah, Luca, Chu-Dan, and Alex — participated in a workshop on solid-state quantum sensing and hyperpolarization in Ulm. The event addressed both experimental and…

Kasper Elm Heintz among Berlingske’s Top 100 Talents

Congratulations to Kasper Elm Heintz, assistant professor at the Cosmic Dawn Center, who has been selected as one of the top 100 talents in Denmark 2025 in Berlingske’s annual award for his discoveries in observational…

James Webb discovers earliest sign of the Universe becoming transparent

The first galaxies in the Universe were born enshrouded in a “foggy” gas, and could not be seen clearly until they had cleared up this fog. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by astronomers…

János Takátsy and Lorenz Zwick receive EU MSCA Fellowships

2 EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

Galaxies do not affect black hole spectroscopy

When a black hole is disturbed, it “rings” like a bell before settling down - a phenomenon known as black hole ringdown. The study of the vibration modes of black holes is called spectroscopy, in analogy with atomic…

Strong students write paper in ´Lenshouse´

A group of the Strong PhD students, Juno Chan, Conor Dyson, Jaime Redondo-Yuste, and Luka Vujeva, along with a master's student, Matilde Garcia, set out on a research retreat in order to produce a paper in just one week

European Research Award to Johan Samsing

Johan Samsing receives the European MERAC award 2025 for "Best Early Career Researcher" from the European Astronomical Society for his groundbreaking contribution to Gravitational Wave Astrophysics.

Iterative quantum phase estimation: a trade-off between number of iterations and circuit dimensions

Iterative quantum phase estimation: a trade-off between number of iterations and circuit dimensions

“Super-Earth” in planetary system shedding new light on planetary evolution

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, including an ultra-short period planet with one of the highest densities ever measured.

Major project launched: improving climate models with historical data

How can climate history help us create a more accurate picture of the future climate? A major European consortium, consisting of 24 partners, will spend the next four years working intensively to answer this question.

Jacob Bourjaily receives Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize 2025

At an award ceremony on February 24. former NBIA Associate Professor Jacob Bourjaily received the Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize for 2025

Filippo Leveraro

Title: Novel Techniques for Fast and Precise Estimation of Qubit Decay Rates Supervisors: Jacob Hastrup and Morten Kjaergaaard

New insights into galaxy growth and dark matter from James Webb

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, has released a comprehensive study on how galaxies and their dark matter have evolved across most of the history of the…

Meet Anna - New PhD in the A&A and E&O Teams

Anna has been at NQCP as a research assistant since September. She is now stepping into a new role as a PhD student here at NQCP in both our Algorithms & Applications and Education & Outreach groups. We caught up with…

CLUVEX VIRTUAL EXCHANGE WEEK ANNOUNCEMENT

CLUVEX VIRTUAL EXCHANGE (1 ECTS) 12—16 May 2025

Paper selected for Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2024

The paper "Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to All Orders" by Poul H. Damgaard and Kanghoon Lee has been selected to be one out of six papers in the Physical Review Letters section of Particles and…

PhD defense by Daniele Pica, NBI/Perugia

On February 20, 2025 at 14.00, in Aud. A. Daniele Pica will defend his PhD thesis supervised by Marta Orselli (University of Perugia) and Troels Harmark (NBI). The thesis defense will be in English.