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Namely Names 2017/18
Charles Marcus elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
09 May 2018
Congratulations to Charles Marcus on being elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Charles Marcus is a professor and Center Director of the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute.
From musician to professor of quantum physics
08 May 2018
Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen has had a meteoric career in a complex area of research and after only a relatively short period of time in the world of physics, and he can now call himself a professor of quantum physics.
The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK
25 April 2018
Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives grant of 4.4 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for Microphysics of the Universe.
PhD student awarded the NBI TA prize for teaching in Linear Algebra
23 April 2018
The prize for the best TA at Niels Bohr Institute is awarded for only the second time. The prize was established by the Teaching Committee based on a recommendation from the Physics Students Council.
Eugene Polzik receives ERC Advanced Grant for the second time, this time for 16.2 million DKK
12 April 2018
Since the ERC Advanced Grant was established ten years ago in 2008, 50 of these special grants have been awarded to Danish researchers. Eugene Polzik is the first researcher from Denmark who has been awarded this grant twice.
Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos
30 January 2018
Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives a Villum Young Investigator grant on 7.350.000 DDK for his neutrino research.
Giorgos Leloudas receives 10 million DKK to investigate the “blackest” of black holes in the Universe
26 January 2018
The research in the black holes in the center of galaxies gets a boost on 10 million DKK with a Villum Young Investigator grant to assistant professor Giorgos Leloudas at DARK Cosmology Centre.
Mark Rudner receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s teaching award 2017
25 January 2018
At the Niels Bohr Institute's annual kick-off meeting on January 25, 2018, the Jens Martin Prize was awarded to Mark Spencer Rudner for his education at the bachelor's degree "Condensed Matter Physics 1 (CMP1)".
Lars Egstrøm Kristensen receives 9.3 million DKK to look for the building blocks of life in the Universe
25 January 2018
From dead molecules to life – but how? Lars Egstrøm Kristensen, associate professor at the Astro and Planetary research section, has received 9.368.760 DKK from the Villum Young Investigator programme.
Climate research receives a 4.5 million DKK grant from the Carlsberg Foundation
12 December 2017
Carlsberg Foundation supports a climate project with 4.5 million DKK grant, that will provide new knowledge about the mechanisms of the sudden climate change of the past, improving our ability to handle the risk of the future climate change.
