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Irene Tamborra Receives grant from Villum Foundation

2021.01.25

Knud Højgaard Foundation Associate Professor Irene Tamborra has received a grant from the Villum…

Biophysics: Amin Doostmohammadi publishes in Nature Physics

2020.12.18

An international collaboration between Amin Doostmohammadi and researchers at Oxford University and…

Igor Novikov has been awarded the John Archibald Wheeler Prize 2020

2020.12.16

The first John Archibald Wheeler International Prize and Medal has been awarded to Igor Novikov,…

Mathias Luidor Heltberg receives Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship

2020.12.14

Mathias Luidor Heltberg has been awarded a three-year Carlsberg Reintegration Fellowship. Mathias…

Paul J. Steinhardt is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honor

2020.12.01

Established in 2010 to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of Niels Bohr, the Niels Bohr…

Poul Henrik Damgaard receives grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark

2020.11.24

NBIA Director Poul Henrik Damgaard has received a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark to…

Tobias Heinemann Receives Villum Experiment Grant

2020.11.02

Understanding how planets form is not only a fundamental key ingredient for unraveling how life ha…

Irene Tamborra wins KIF Prize 2020

2020.10.09

The Danish Network for Women in Pysics (KIF) has awarded the 2020 honorary prize to NBIA's Knud…

Charles Marcus receives the Ørsted Gold Medal

2020.09.30

The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science is honoring Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor…

Carlsberg Foundation Research Infrastructure Grant to the Theoretical Astrophysics Group

2020.09.24

Assistant Professor Pablo Benitez-Llambay Professor MSO Martin Pessah The Theoretical…

Hjalte Frellesvig receives Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship

2020.08.05

After completing his PhD-program at the Niels Bohr International Academy in 2014, Hjalte Frellesvig…

Four EU Marie Curie Individual fellowships to the NBIA in 2020

2020.04.15

Caltech post-doc Clément Bonnerot has been awarded a two-year EU Marie Curie individual fellowship…

Amin Doostmohammadi publishes in Nature Physics

2020.04.05

In a study published in Nature Physics, NBIA Assistant Professor Amin Doostmohammadi together…

Three young NBIA researchers receive Villum Young Investigator Grants

2020.03.03

The three NBIA researchers Postdoctoral researcher Mauricio Bustamante and Assistant Professors Ami…

Carlsberg Foundation Young researcher Fellowship to Jason Koskinen

2019.12.03

NBI Associate Professor Jason Koskinen has received a three-year Young Researcher Fellowship from…

NBIA launches EU COFUND program

2019.10.11

NBIA has received an EU COFUND grant to partially fund a number of both Junior Fellowships and…

Charles Bennett awarded this year's Micius Quantum Prize

2019.09.06

Simons Visiting Professor Charles H. Bennett has been awarded The Micius Quantum Prize 2019 for his…

Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

2019.07.29

Knud Højgaard Associate Professor Irene Tamborra receives the award for outstanding work in the…

Johan Samsing receives EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

2019.07.23

Johan Samsing, Einstein and Spitzer Fellow at Princeton University, has received a 2-year EU Marie…

Irene Tamborra receives 2019 MERAC Prize

2019.05.14

The 2019 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher in New Technologies (Multi-Messenger) is…

Villum Young Investigator Grant for Michele Burrello

2019.05.14

NBIA Assistant Professor Michele Burrello has been awarded a Villum Young Investigator Grant for th…

Matthias Wilhelm is awarded a Villum Young Investigator Grant

2019.05.14

Development of new theoretical methods to understand the thermodynamics of strongly coupled quantum…

Irene Tamborra is awarded Sapere Aude Starting Grant

2019.01.21

Irene Tamborra, Knud Højgaard Associate Professor and leader of the NBIA AstroNu group, has receive…

Andrew McLeod becomes Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

2018.11.29

NBIA postdoc Andrew McLeod has received a two-year Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for…

Irene Tamborra receives Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation

2018.11.28

Irene Tamborra, Knud Højgaard Associate Professor and leader of the AstroNu group, receives a…

George Mamatsashvili receives EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

2018.10.23

George Mamatsashvili (Humboldt Fellow at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) has been awarded a…

NBIA researchers publish the answer to a century-old cosmic mystery in Science

2018.07.13

Assistant Professor Markus Ahlers, Niels Bohr Professor Subir Sarkar and postdoc Dr Mohamed Rameez…

Martin Pessah receives grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark

2018.05.14

NBIA Professor MSO Martin Pessah has received a grant of 2.6 MDKK from the Independent Research…

Charles Bennett is awarded Wolf Prize

2018.04.10

Simons Visiting Professor Charles H. Bennett has been awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics 2018 for…

Paper in Nature Physics: Recreating a comet in the lab

2018.03.19

Laboratory bow shock generated in magnetised plasma-obstacle interaction excites plasma waves,…

NBIA-researchers receive EU grant

2018.03.15

Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, Jacob Bourjaily, Poul Henrik Damgaard and Michael Trott have received 4.4…

Matt von Hippel receives EU Marie Curie Fellowship

2018.03.05

NBIA post-doc Matt von Hippel has been awarded a personal two-year EU Marie Curie Fellowship…

Markus Ahlers receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

2018.01.26

NBIA Assistant Professor Markus Ahlers has been awarded a Villum Young Investigator Grant for the…

Buchalter Cosmology Prize to Subodh Patil

2018.01.11

A paper co-authored by NBIA Assistant Professor Subodh Patil entitled “Magnon Inflation: Slow Roll…

Carlsberg Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship to M. Rameez

2017.11.30

NBIA Post-doc M. Rameez has received a Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship…

Michael Trott receives project grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark

2017.11.27

NBIA Associate Professor Michael Trott has received a grant of 1.7 MDKK from the Independent…

NBIA-researchers publish in Nature

2017.11.24

NBIA scientists Markus Ahlers, Mohamed Rameez, Subir Sarkar and Jason Koskinen and their colleagues…

Jacob Bourjaily receives ERC Starting Grant

2017.08.18

NBIA Assistant Professor Jacob Bourjaily has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant of 1.5 MEuro…

Simons Visiting Professor Itamar Procaccia wins EPS Prize

2017.08.01

This year's Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize from the European Physical Society (EPS) has…

Simon Caron-Huot receives the Gribov Medal

2017.07.06

This year's recipient of the Gribov Medal is NBIA Visiting Professor Simon Caron-Huot. The Gribov…

Niels Bohr Professor Subir Sarkar receives the Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize 2017

2017.04.10

Prof. Subir Sarkar, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,…

Barry Simon is new member of NBIA's Scientific Advisory Board

2017.02.16

Barry Simon, IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech joins the NBIA…

Pablo Benitez-Llambay receives Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

2017.02.14

NBIA postdoc Pablo Benitez-Llambay has received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to support his…

NBIA Assistant Professor Jacob Bourjaily has been awarded a prestigious Young Investigator Grant from the Villum Foundation

2017.01.23

Jacob Bourjaily's research involves the reformulation of quantum field theory in order to make th…

Emil Bjerrum-Bohr is recipient of Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation

2016.12.13

NBIA Associate Professor Emil Bjerrum-Bohr has received a three-year Distinguished Associate…

David McGady receives Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation

2016.11.29

NBIA postdoc David McGady has received a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship for two years from…

Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek delivers this year's Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture

2016.11.25

Thanks to the generous support from Raymond and Beverly Sackler, the Niels Bohr International…

NBIA post-doc Pablo Benítez-Llambay receives Carlos M. Varsavsky Award

2016.10.25

Pablo Benítez-Llambay has received the Carlos M. Varsavsky Award for his PhD thesis entitled…

Jeppe Trøst Nielsen, Alberto Guffanti and Subir Sarkar question whether the expansion of the universe is really accelerating

2016.10.22

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the…

Christian Brinch and Oliver Gressel discover an intriguing binary proto-stellar system

2016.10.13

Christian Brinch and Oliver Gressel, both assistant professors at NBIA, have discovered an…

Mohamed Rameez wins the 2016 CHIPP prize

2016.08.24

Congratulations to newly arrived postdoc Mohamed Rameez for winning the 2016 CHIPP prize for…

Supersymmetry bet settled at NBIA workshop

2016.08.24

During a meeting at the Niels Bohr Institute in 2000 a Supersymmetry Wager was passed around among…

Ben Brown publishes in Nature Communications

2016.08.01

NBIA post-doc Ben Brown, in collaboration with Dan Browne at University College London, and Naomi…

Stephen Hawking visits the NBIA and gives public lecture

2016.07.11

Stephen Hawking will join the NBIA Simons Program on cosmology and particle physics and participat…

Jacob Bourjaily publishes monograph with Cambridge University Press

2016.06.08

Jacob Bourjaily, Assistant Professor at the Niels Bohr International Academy, publishes the…

Irene Tamborra and Jason Koskinen receive Villum Young Investigator Grants

2016.01.28

Two members of the NBIA have received Young Investigator Grants from the Villum Foundation: newly…

The Simons Foundation supports the NBIA

2015.12.18

The NBIA has just received generous support from the Simons Foundation in New York under their…

Irene Tamborra is new Knud Højgaard Assistant Professor at the NBIA

2015.11.11

Irene Tamborra, presently at the GRAPPA Institute for gravitation and astroparticle physics in…

Mark Rudner receives ERC Starting Grant

2015.10.07

NBIA Associate Professor Mark Rudner has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the Europea…

Oliver Gressel receives Johann Wempe award by the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik

2015.09.17

In honour of Prof. Dr. Johann Wempe (1906 - 1980), the last director of the former Astrophysical…

Chris Pethick awarded Feenberg Medal

2015.08.17

The Feenberg Medal for 2015 has been awarded to Chris Pethick for his work on ultracold atomic…

The NBIA establishes a Director's Council

2015.06.01

At a founding meeting on May 27th, the NBIA has established a Director's Council of prominent…

Guido Festuccia receives ERC Starting Grant

2015.04.06

Guido Festuccia, who joined the NBIA as an Assistant Professor in 2013, has been awarded a…

Michael Trott receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

2015.03.02

NBIA Associate Professor Michael Trott has been awarded a substantial Villum Young Investigator…

Emil Bjerrum-Bohr's recent paper is "Editors' Suggestion" at Physics Review Letters

2015.02.18

Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, Barry Holstein, Ludovic Planté, John Donoghue and Pierre Vanhove (a frequent…

Outreach award to Jacob Bourjaily

2015.01.15

Jacob Bourjaily was named the recipient of the Casey Award for public outreach from the Public…