News about Physics

Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation supports Visiting Scientist Program at NBIA

5-year program for Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation Visiting Scientists

PhD fellowships in Superconducting Quantum Optics for Scalable Quantum Computing

The start date is (expected to be) 15th December 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. What will be the possible projects? We are seeking motivated PhD candidates to join our team in pursuing cutting-edge and unique…

Student Assistant in Data Management

About us 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. The…

Vitor Cardoso receives Simons Foundation grant for strong gravity research

Vitor Cardoso is one of 12 PIs at different institutions, who will receive the support from the Simons Foundation for a collective project on gravity and black hole research.

Quantum leap in precision sensing across technologies

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a tunable system that paves the way for more accurate sensing in a variety of technologies, including biomedical diagnostics.

Sound Signals in Computer Chips – Almost Without Signal Loss

Assistant Professor Xiang Xi and Professor Albert Schliesser at the Niels Bohr Institute have managed to get vibrations to travel around a membrane with almost no loss. In fact, so little loss that it is far better than…

Postdoc of Quantum Materials

Project Description The electronic band structure of a material contains information which is useful for quantum device engineering, such as lifetimes, scattering rates, and scattering mechanisms. The method of choice…

Our 2025 Summer Party

Great weather, good food, and even better company.

Master defense by Matilde Garcia

On June 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM in room HB1 at the Niels Bohr Institute, Matilde Garcia will defend her master thesis supervised by Associate Professor Jose Maria Ezquiaga.

Zvi Bern receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2024

Zvi Bern is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute of Honour for his remarkable list of scientific achievements in theoretical physics. His association with the Niels Bohr Institute goes back more than 40 years.

A 1960s idea inspires NBI researchers to study hitherto inaccessible quantum states

Scientists have created a new way to study the highly volatile quantum states in superconducting vortices, whose existence has been known since the 1960s, but it has been very difficult to verify them directly, until…

All you wanted to know about black hole spectroscopy

Black holes vibrate, like stars, or guitar strings. The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential.

Look up in June

Read here (in Danish) about the star trinity in the bright June night sky.

Environmental Dynamics in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

With the upcoming launch of the LISA mission, scientists will detect gravitational waves at lower frequencies than ever before, and this will bring new data on galactic centres and the monstrous black holes that reside…

Cosmic Waltz

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters shows that electromagnetic observations of stars

Nanofabrication Engineer at NQCP

About us 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. At the…

Galaxies Best Paper Award

The paper "Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope” by the ngEHT collaboration, where Vitor Cardoso was Working Group leader and Yifan Chen Topic Leader, was selected as the winner of the…

Center Coordinator retreat 2025

From September 1, 2025, the new Center of Gravity funded by the Danish National Research Foundation will officially start.

NQCP Quantum Demonstrator lead

Role description In close collaboration with Quantum Foundry Copenhagen (QFC) and international partners, we aim to pioneer fabrication methods for state-of-the-art quantum processors. The results of this combined…

Galactic dust reveals hidden patterns in stunning new images from James Webb

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by a Danish bachelor student has uncovered surprising new details about the fine structure of cosmic dust in nearby galaxies.

The 5th Scandinavian meeting on gravitational-wave science

The Scandinavian community has been producing exciting results in the field and met for the 5th Meeting on Gravitational Wave Science in Scandinavia on May 15 and 16 at the University of Copenhagen.

First light from student-built radio telescope

During the last six months, academic employee Gaurav Kumar, together with master students Kaj Grimstrup, Jiazhe Li, and Omar Rashdan, have built two radio telescopes. One of them now observed its first light, while the…

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…

Boosting high-frequency gravitational wave and ultralight dark matter searches

Boosting high-frequency gravitational wave and ultralight dark matter searches