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Namely Names 2013/14
Mars research receives FNU grant
13 February 2014
Morten Bo Madsen, who leads the Mars Group in Astrophysics and Science at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of just over 3.8 million kroner from FNU, the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences.
Bo Vinther receives 7 million kroner from the Research Council for ice core research
06 February 2014
Bo Vinther, associate professor in the research group Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a Sapere Aude grant of 7 million kroner from the Danish Council for Independent Research.
Lab managers and instructors win this year’s Jens Martin Prize
05 February 2014
The Niels Bohr Institute award for teacher of the year, the special Jens Martin Prize, has been awarded to a group of teachers: The lab managers and lab instructors for the courses Mechanics 1 and 2.
6.7 million DKK for Danish CERN research
23 January 2014
Research at CERN receives 6.685 million Danish kroner from NUFI, the National Committee for Research Infrastructure under the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The funds are granted for the operation and the development of...
10.8 million kroner for research into quantum information technology
16 January 2014
Two researchers, Mark Rudner and Michael J. Kastoryano from the Niels Bohr Institute, have received support from the VILLUM FOUNDATION’s Young Investigator Programme for research into quantum information technology.
Eugene Polzik’s research chosen as the year’s best by Ingeniøren
03 January 2014
Ingeniøren (The Engineer) has chosen Eugene Polzik’s research on teleporation as the year’s most important Danish research results in science. Eugene Polzik is the head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute
Prestigious EU Grant for Climate Research at the Niels Bohr Institute
10 December 2013
Center for Ice and Climate at NBI, DMI and the Bjerknes Center in Norway has received a shared grant of approx. 90 mill. Danish Crowns for Arctic climate research focusing on abrupt climate change and consequences of such change for the Greenland
Darach Watson receives Lundbeck Foundation Research Prize
31 October 2013
Darach Watson has been awarded the Lundbeck Foundation Research Prize for Young Scientists for his outstanding and innovative research in astrophysics, where he has developed a groundbreaking method for measuring distances in the cosmos
Discovery Center receives 40 million kroner
30 September 2013
The Discovery Center for Particle Physics at NBI has received a grant of 40 million kroner from the Danish National Research Foundation. This grant means that the Discovery Center, which was established in January 2010
Peter Krogstrup appointed assistant professor at QDev on nanowire growth
01 August 2013
As of May 2013, Peter Krogstrup has been appointed assistant professor at the Center for Quantum Devices. He will be working on MBE growth of nanowires.
Researcher from NBI one of the keynote speakers at the Lattice Conference
04 July 2013
Joyce C. Myers, postdoc in the research group Theoretical Particle Physics at NBI will be one of the keynote speakers at the large international conference, Lattice 2013 in Germany.
Denmark contributing to the world's largest telescope for searching for life in the unive
16 April 2013
The Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and DTU space are investing at total of 37 million kroner in a new telescope, which will be called the European Extremely Large Telescope, E-ELT.
