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Professor Kjeld Møllgård has a long career behind him, including as Rector of the University of Copenhagen. His biggest achievement, however, was when he recently found a new cerebral membrane.
All Danish research should be freely accessible by 2025, according to the Danish national strategy for open access. But universities can’t keep up.
Female politicians are referred to less respectfully on the internet than their male colleagues. This places women in politics, and our societies, at a disadvantage, according to one of the researchers behind a new study.
Which scientific articles from the University of Copenhagen have been influential within their own field? We took a deep dive into some scientific citation numbers.
The University Post has extracted the most cited articles by scientists associated with Danish universities from a key citation database, and covering the years 2012-2021.
Prorector David Dreyer Lassen says science communication is of the utmost importance for UCPH. Dissemination of research results is a parameter that is considered when employing or promoting researchers.
Journalists need his language skills and in-depth understanding of the country. But press interviews take time away from his research and do not earn him points in the University merit system. Sharing scientific findings with the public should be a quantifiable parameter for researchers, he argues.
Communicating research results to the public is important, but it is not specified in researchers’ contracts, so they are forced to do it in their spare time, three researchers say.
The University of Copenhagen's Commemoration 2022 was marked by a strange combination of ceremony and activism.
Did you know that you might pick up your next bout of flu from a cash dispenser? Two medical students helped set up a study that looks at where we get infected with influenza and other viruses.
