News from CHEM

counterfeiting

2026.01.06

Danish chemist's invention could make counterfeiting a thing of the past

Every year, companies lose billions of kroner when goods are copied or illegally resold. But a new…

Announcement

2026.01.06

PERMA Full-Scale Methane Eradication Photochemical System (MEPS)

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and partners are developing a Danish photochemical…

grant

2025.12.19

UCPH Chemistry receives DKK 19 million grant from the new "Villum Infrastructure Programme"

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Associate Professor Kirsten Marie Ørnsbjerg Jensen,…

Project Management

2025.12.17

Welcome to Allan Jønsson

Allan Jønsson is the new project manager for CHEM’s relocation to NBB. With more than 10 years of…

QEX

2025.11.17

QEX: A Major European Leap in Quantum Research

QEX (Quantum EXcellence) co-managed by Denmark and the Netherlands—with key contributions from…

PhD Award

2025.10.06

PhD Award to Chemistry’s Jacob Kæstel-Hansen

Congratulations to Jacob for receiving the SCIENCE PhD Award for groundbreaking research in machine…

ERC Grant

2025.09.24

ERC Grant for Michael Martin Nielsen

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Postdoc Michael Martin Nielsen at the Department of…

Award

2025.09.07

Professor Jan Rossmeisl is awarded the Faraday medal for electrochemistry 2025

Jan Rossmeisl gave a plenary lecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle September 1st, 2025, wher…

Carbon Capture

2025.09.05

Scientists transform plastic waste into efficient CO2 capture materials

From waste to valuable resource: Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a method t…

Award

2025.09.02

Professor Morten Meldal received the Hans Christian Ørsted Award

Nobel Prize laureate Morten Meldal received the Hans Christian Ørsted Award 2025 in Rudkøbing for…

Protein Design

2025.07.09

Professor Knud J. Jensen has become affiliated with the new Centre for Protein Design

Professor Knud J. Jensen from the Department of Chemistry collaborates with a new state-of-the-art…

Chemistry teaching materials

2025.06.26

New chemistry teaching material coming to high school!

Free chemistry lessons for high school! New sustainable material ready 1 August at alterkemi.dk -…

Award

2025.04.01

Inflection Award for Margarita Poderyte

Congratulations to Margarita Poderytė, Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, selected…

Mars

2024.07.01

Organic material from Mars reveals the likely origin of life’s building blocks

Two samples from Mars together deliver the "smoking gun" in a new study showing the origin of…

Proteins

2024.05.22

New weapon against dementia

The clumping of proteins is at the root of a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders that affect…

2024.01.17

New national project aims to strengthen diversity in research environments

For many years, research environments in the fields of technical and natural sciences have been…

Chemistry

2023.12.18

Researchers invent "methane cleaner": Could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns

In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and…

air pollution

2023.11.22

Smog from Copenhagen’s Bispeengbuen heads straight into living rooms

A large amount of the heavy automobile pollution from Copenhagen’s Bispeengbuen thoroughfare goes…

chemistry

2023.11.01

Major EU grant will make metal alloys the catalysts of the future

New international research collaboration to trailblaze the next generation of catalysts – a…

2023.10.20

Honorary doctorate in natural science to prof. Paul Dupree

During the upcoming annual commemoration on 10th November, 2023, Professor Paul Dupree from the…

2023.10.17

The Novo Nordisk foundation NMR facility at the Department of Chemistry

On the 22. September there was the inauguration of the Novo Nordisk Foundation NMR facility at the…

sustainability

2023.08.04

Hartshorn salt and “baking” solves a serious environmental problem

Polyester is the second most used textile in the world and an environmental menace, especially…

2023.07.28

NNF Challenge Programme grant of DKK 60 awarded to Professor Nikos Hatzakis

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a Challenge Programme grant of DKK 60 million to Professor…

2023.03.28

Electron diffraction infrastructure facility

Based on a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, a new facility for single-crystal electron…

diabetes

2023.02.23

"We have miscalculated for decades – half of an insulin dose may not work as expected"

New research suggests that a large portion of a diabetic's insulin dose is unlikely to work as…

Air pollution

2023.01.20

New measurements show high air pollution in the Copenhagen metro

The concentration of harmful particles in the air is 10 to 20 times higher in the metro than on the…