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Full Recording: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research webinar

On June 24 2025, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted a webinar on Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research.

Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave

COPE Director Emmanuel Raju, along with many of his peers, is a review author in a new report from the Imperial Grantham Institute. The report examines how climate change contributed to the recent European heatwave and…

NBIA signs Memorandum of Understanding with ICISE in Vietnam

International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, serves as a unique science and education, welcoming national and international conferences, specialized professional…

Black holes in comic books!

Rodrigo Panosso Macedo has been awarded the Carlsberg Mindelegat outreach grant to launch an entertaining and visually striking science communication project that brings black hole physics to life through comics and…

Reflections on gravity

The Strong group did a three-day retreat in fabulous Fuglsang Herregaard. The retreat consisted on individual reflections, group discussions on the status of our scientific activity and open challenges. We also…

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. The combined efforts from theoretical…

Welcome GW231123, the Most Massive Binary Black Hole Observed Through Gravitational Waves

Black holes are a mystery, but today we have substantial evidence of their existence. A prolific way to detect them is through gravitational waves—ripples in space and time produced when two black holes merge with each…

Apply for COP 30 participation

The application process for obtaining accreditation as a university employee for COP 30 is now open. Application deadline is 13 August 2025.

Preserving predation

New journal article out July 2025: 'Preserving predation' by Jordan O Hampton, Thomas M Newsome Amy Dickman and Peter Sandøe.

Laura Vang Rasmussen among this year’s recipients of the Frontiers Planet Prize

The Frontiers Planet Prize has just been awarded to three scientific papers, one of which has Associate Professor Laura Vang Rasmussen as the co-first author.

Notification of noisy work

Date Time Type of construction work Where Other From July 21, 2025 Refurbishment of Unit At specific periods during the summer, noise disturbances may occur, with some expected to begin from calendar…

CAB celebration

CAB would like to thank everyone who participated in the celebration of our successful past years with two major grants, the Danish Roadmap for Research Infrastructure and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Infrastructure…

Changing oceans documented in new interdisciplinary theme issue

A new Royal Society interdisciplinary theme issue guest edited by Globe Institute researchers reveals shifting seas in response to long-term human impacts

Digital detox as a status symbol: Morten Axel Pedersen and Kristoffer Albris interviewed for Weekendavisen

DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen and Kristoffer Albris have been interviewed for the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen on how digital detox has become a status symbol. The article can be found here

Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation supports Visiting Scientist Program at NBIA

5-year program for Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation Visiting Scientists

Professor Knud J. Jensen has become affiliated with the new Centre for Protein Design

Professor Knud J. Jensen from the Department of Chemistry collaborates with a new state-of-the-art research centre to design AI-based proteins to solve everything from diseases to the climate crisis. #ProteinDesign

Beatriz Martinez Romera appointed as a member of the Danish Climate and Energy Law Association

During professor Ole Hansen’s stay as visiting scholar in Bologna, Beatriz Martinez Romera has been appointed as a member of the Danish Climate and Energy Law Association

New study points to Skagerrak as nursery area for the enigmatic Greenland shark

The Greenland shark – the world's longest-living vertebrate – is most often associated with cold Arctic waters. However, a new international study led by researchers from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and…

Researchers turn sugar beet pulp into superfood

Researchers from UCPH FOOD have discovered a way to transform the byproduct of sugar production, pulp, into an edible and protein-rich product using fungi and fermentation.

Supercomputer and AI to boost Danish cancer treatment – new project awarded €7 million

With a grant of over €7 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Grand AI Challenge, the AIM@CANCER project will enable researchers to harness the vast amounts of imaging data generated during radiation therapy for…

Level 4, Building 10 at Panum is temporarily closed until October

The entire 4th floor of Building 10 at Panum will remain closed until October due to environmental cleanup and demolition. Some noise disturbances may occur.

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.

A more complete expansion for black hole ringdown waveforms

Each musical instrument has its own unique sound spectrum. Similarly, a ringing black hole emits gravitational waves with its own characteristic frequencies (or ``quasinormal modes''). Black hole spectroscopy is the…

Congratulations to our RASOPTA PhDs

Congratulations to the first of the RASOPTA PhDs.