Niels Bohr Institute

Happening at the Niels Bohr Institute

New B.Sc. students:

Welcome to 142 new physics students

We are pleased to welcome everyone with an introduction program consisting of a voluntary kickstart…

Black holes and gravitational waves:

Black Hole Week at NBI

This August we are celebrating black holes in Copenhagen! There are many reasons to be excited. We…

Inaugural Lecture:

Inaugural Lecture by Pascale Deen

Neutron scattering as the essential tool for the study of exotic emergent magnetic states of matter…

"Bohr Fencing Club" Takes the Gold

Three physics students from NBI, Sejr S. Bergman, Ivan Kanev and Peter E. Rischel, succeeded in…

"Kig op" at Videnskab.dk

This month's starry sky

Read here (in Danish) what's currently visible on the stellar sky.

Quantum computer

University of Copenhagen and MIT Join Forces for Transatlantic Research in Quantum Computing

Quantum computers have the potential to change the world. A new collaboration between Novo Nordisk…

New DNRF chairperson:

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen new DNRF chairperson

The Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund, has appointed Professor…

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Professor at the section of Physics of Ice and Climate (PICE) at the Niels Bohr…

Professor Charles Steinhardt of DARK is currently hosting a summer student program

DARK Summer Student Program

Join us in welcoming a diverse group of bright young minds to our summer student program, led by…

Invisible Galaxies, Through a Scientist’s Eyes

Glimpsing into the galaxies of the past: that is the daunting task that students from the Universit…

Research news

The first galaxies:

James Webb discovers record-distant galaxy, again

With the confirmation of two galaxies seen around 300 million years after the Big Bang, we are now…

Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, University of Copenhagen researchers have become the first to…