Tim White has joined the Stellar Astrophysics Centre on 1 October 2015.

Anne Cathrine Thorup has joined the department as administrative coordinator on the COMIQ project from 21 September 2015

The department has employed Lotte Holmegaard as scientific coordinator from October 12, 2015.

Jill Miwa has joined the Department as Associate Professor from 1 September 2015

Richard Balog joined the Graphene Coated Nanoparticles and Nanograins (GRANN) project on 1 August 2015

The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) has awarded a grant of DKK 5.4 million from the Sapere Aude programme to Associate Professor Simon…

Orbits of 74 small extrasolar planets are found to be close to circular, in contrast to previous measurements of massive exoplanets.

Filipe F. Bellotti joined the the theoretical few-body physics group as a Postdoctoral Researcher on April 1st, 2015.

Ralf Blattmann has joined the group of Klaus Mølmer on the 1st of April. He will be a postdoc working on theoretical aspects of quantum measurement…

Jacob Johansen has joined the nuclear physics group at IFA on April 1st. He will be working with Hans Fynbo on experimental studies of low and medium…

Do you work with light or light-based technologies in your daily activities? If so, we need you to give a lecture at one of Denmark’s upper secondary…

Charlotte Sanders has joined the group of Philip Hofmann on the 1st of January.

During the last decade, physicists throughout the world have developed and refined laser spectroscopy research to such an extent that it is now…

Using a computer game, a research group at Aarhus University has found a way to gain deeper insight into the human thought process. The results have…

Et internationalt forskerhold har ved Stanford Linear Accelerator Center vist, at en bøjet krystal kan afbøje en høj-energi elektronstråle. Fra IFA…

PhD student Christian Kraglund Andersen receives EliteForsk travel scholarship for a stay at Sherbrooke University in Canada

Mikkel Nørup Lund receives DKK 1.7 million to fund the project "The internal dynamics of stars: high-precision depth-dependent asteroseismology with…

February 1st 2015 Jesper Olsen has been employed as associate professor in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)

The next generation of electronics needs new materials. Researchers at Aarhus University have now not only succeeded in doing away with the wrong…

The oldest known planetary system has been discovered around the star Kepler-444. This is the result of calculations of data from the Kepler satellite…

Anne Ersbak Bang Nielsen, Oliver Kirsebom, Victor Silva Aguirre and Christoffer Karoff receive grants from the VILLUM FONDEN, Young Investigator…

Danish scientists thought they had made a mistake when they discovered a huge electric field in a thin layer of solid nitrous oxide, commonly known as…

A group of physicists based at Aarhus University has succeeded in finding a solution to how to calculate the mutual ‘behaviour’ of atoms located…

There is a comprehensive focus in Søren Ulstrup’s work discovering new properties in new types of materials. With a prestigious Sapere Aude grant, the…

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Michael Holzscheiter has joined the Department on a 6-month leave from the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of New Mexico in…

Dmitry Tikhomirov has started as a postdoc at AMS 14C Dating Centre.

Mark Hugo Stockett joined the group of Steen Brøndsted Nielsen on 1 December 2014 as a postdoctoral researcher with financial support from…

Now that the decision has been taken to start work on building the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in 2015, astronomers at Aarhus…

Videnskab.dk awards an annual prize for the Danish research result of the year. The ten research results that will be competing for reader votes this…

Professor with Special Responsibilities (MSO) Peter Balling, Department of Physics and Astronomy, works with light and materials. On 21 November, he…

On Saturday 25 October, Dean Niels Chr. Nielsen officially opened Aarhus University’s southernmost permanent research facility – the new SONG…

In the last 8 months a fully robotic telescope in Tenerife has been carrying out high-precision observations of the motion of stellar surfaces. The…

Klavs Hansen has joined the Department 1st August on a sabbatical leave from University of Gothenburg, and will work with Steen Brøndsted, Lars H.…

Astronomers have possibly caught the first glimpse of how a new type of supernova explodes. The observations have just been published in Nature.

The thin carbon material graphene is even better at converting light to electricity than previously thought – it just requires two layers. Researchers…

A group of Aarhus University researchers headed by Ulrik Uggerhøj has produced intense gamma radiation for the first time ever by sending an electron…

Students from Aarhus University’s Chemistry Show and Physics Show, along with students from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), are the newly…

The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) has just awarded research funds as part of the Sapere Aude research career programme.

The Physics Show is basking in acclaim at present. It has become an international viral hit with its Rubens Tube, and has also defended its title as…

Albert Bruix will join the group of Bjørk Hammer

Astrophysicists at Aarhus University have written a new textbook on exoplanets. The book is a new type of teaching resource that makes it possible for…

Using a combination of laser beams and ice-cold gas, researchers at Aarhus University have succeeded in cooling molecules so much that they stand…

Ulrik Uggerhøj, Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been appointed Professor of High-Energy Nuclear Physics at Aarhus University.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just decided to build the PLATO satellite, which is planned for launch in 2024. PLATO will begin a detailed search…

Let us face facts. We only understand very little of the universe around us. In a newly developed theory, researchers try to take a peek at the…

For a year from 1 February 2014, Professor Hannestad will have the opportunity to concentrate on his research project at the Aarhus Institute of…

Using data from the Kepler satellite, a team of researchers at Aarhus University has pinpointed yet another exoplanet. The planet is the size of…