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2024 VOLT Publications Highlights

2024 was the first full year running for VOLT Center, and and there have been many exciting activities, collaborations, new people joining, cool instruments arriving and promising data being generated. This has also bee…

Aarne Puisto

Aarne Puisto is writing a doctoral dissertation on the effectiveness of legal remedies under Finnish public procurement rules at the University of Lapland under the supervision of Professor Kirsi-Maria Halonen.

Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area

Associate Professor Emmanuel Raju and PhD Fellow Nick Baumgart from COPE and the Global Health Section join their peers in this new study (featured on the Guardian) titled "Climate change increased the likelihood of…

Villum Young Investigator grant for Yi Jiao from VOLT

Yi Jiao, former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoc at VOLT was just awarded a prestigious Young Investigator grant from the Villum Foundation. The official award ceremony took place in January at the Queen's Hall,…

Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

As a student, Professor Eske Willerslev had an idea: He wanted to extract DNA directly from the soil. This has led to major scientific breakthroughs and an entire new research field, eDNA, for which he now receives one…

Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

As a student, Professor Eske Willerslev had an idea: He wanted to extract DNA directly from the soil. This has led to major scientific breakthroughs and an entire new research field, eDNA, for which he now receives one…

Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic people to sacrifice unique "sun stones"

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen can now show…

Coastal Conflicts presents findings to Policy Fellows at Queen Mary Center

How do we deal with rising water levels and storm surges in Denmark? This question was raised by current and former policy fellows as the Queen Mary Center at UCPH gathered the alumni network at the Danish Architecture…

Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice

It is expected that the 2,800 meter deep ice core drilling down to the bedrock under the Antarctic ice sheet for the first time will reveal crucial details about the earth's climate and the history of the atmosphere mor…

Welcome to our new PhD Fellows

The OxyMiST project greets our two new PhD fellows today – Niels Gudmand Christiansen and Marie Hesse.

Media portrayals of climate advocates to be explored

New research project from the Department of Political Science will investigate who speaks out in the media about fighting climate change and what impact these people have on public attitudes towards climate change.

One of world's largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This rare, natural flooding…

One of world's largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This rare, natural flooding…

Warming temperatures may shrink wetland carbon sinks

An international team of scientists buried 19,000 bags of green tea and rooibos in 180 wetlands across 28 countries to measure the ability for wetlands to hold carbon in their soil, known as wetland carbon sequestration…

Successful PhD and postdoc conference at IGN

The Global Wetland Center was well represented at IGN's PhD and postdoc conference 2024.

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc fellowship for 2 exciting projects.

Economist wants to shed light on corporate waste

How is a company's waste production and recycling affected by owners, managers, employees and lenders? Professor Morten Bennedsen will investigate this in a new project supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Mikkel Langgaard Lauritzen

Modeling the Greenland Ice Sheet’s Flow and Mass Loss From Past to Present Advisor: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Climate election: The weather shapes who is voting and what they are voting for

A new study shows how climate disasters influences election results by making voters think about climate change.

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Technology Special Edition

CLIMA's seminar on April 10, 2025, at the University of Copenhagen offers students and junior researchers a chance to present their work on climate, energy, and sustainability.

Adam Orford

Adam D. Orford teaches at the University of Georgia, specializing in environmental law and decarbonization, and leads Georgia’s National Zoning Atlas work.

Andrea Tronci

Andrea Tronci is a PhD fellow in Legal Sciences at the University of Cagliari. The doctoral dissertation investigates the role of administrative discretion in the new Italian public contracts code (d. lgs. 36/2023).

Emanuele Guarna Assanti

Emanuele Guarna Assanti is a postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Law at the University of Calabria in Italy.

Jacques Hartmann

Jacques Hartmann holds a PhD from Cambridge, has taught international law, and worked as a Legal Officer at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.