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Rector remains the highest-paid employee at the University of Copenhagen. This is what he, and the rest of senior management, earn a year.
Nine University of Copenhagen students win world championships gold in synthetic biology. They have developed an idea for hybrid fishing nets made from from spiders’ webs and sea silk that can help stop pollution of the ocean by microplastics
She googled her way to finding out that she is the country's youngest woman with the title of professor. She knows there is still gender bias in the world of research
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen Morten Meldal wins Nobel prize.
Glaciologist and geophysicist Dorthe Dahl-Jensen has received an award from the Carlsberg Foundation for long-standing research into ice cores and climate.
Sebastian Dall Mayoni and Jonathan Transbøl started work at the University Post as full-time journalists on 1 August.
»We are very sad to learn that Ben Mottelson passed away on 13 May 2022. He was a remarkable human being and physicist, and his deep thinking, warm personality, contagious enthusiasm, playfulness and laughter will be sorely missed,« write several of Ben Mottelson's former colleagues in their obituary of the Nobel Prize winner from Copenhagen‘s Niels Bohr Institute.
Some people reacted with scepticism when the University of Copenhagen’s newly appointed prorector Kristian Lauta announced that he wanted to be evaluated on the number of UCPH T-shirts were worn at Danish secondary-school class reunions. But, according to the new prorector, if you can get people to put on the T-shirt, you can solve everything from well-being to interdisciplinarity.
»So just fix it,« Anja C. Andersen often thinks. She sees progress in the university's efforts to achieve gender equality, but she is »mega frustrated« over the pace of change.
Two University of Copenhagen scientists are among the winners of this year's Danish elite researcher prize. One of them is Professor Naja Hulvej Rod. She heads a large research project on two million Danish children that has proven that the risk of premature death is 4.5 times higher for people who have experienced severe stress as children.
