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Congratulations to Shouwen Jin, whose PhD paper is among the top 1% highest cited papers in China during the period 2018–2020, earning him a prestigious prize from IOP Publishing.
Congratulations to Francesca Rizzo, who has just been awarded the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics’s “Kippenhahn Prize” for her paper which was published last year in Nature.
Birgitta Nordström has been awarded the special Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.
Even with the most careful measures taken to ensure the validity of a scientific result, every so often some results are bound to turn out to be mistaken or inaccurate. An example is seen this week in Nature, Matters Arising, where three papers — one of which is from DAWN — enter a scientific dispute.
Obituary: Noted Astrophysicist and senior researcher emeritus at DTU Space, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, who contributed to several significant discoveries throughout his long career, has passed away at the age of 73.
Using the HST, the ALMA radio telescope, and gravitational lensing, astronomers from DAWN have found six galaxies in the early Universe that died by running out of gas. Exactly how they ran out is a bit of a mystery.
Gravitational lensing has allowed the light from a distant supernova to reach us four times; three in 2016 and — we predict — a fourth time in the year 2037.
In an exceptionally large program, postdoc and DAWN affiliate Kasper Heintz will now have the opportunity to study the host galaxies of the so-called “fast radio bursts” — intense millisecond pulses of radio waves that are yet unexplained.
In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them. This phenomenon may enable us to see multiple versions of the same thing.
Congratulations to Johan Fynbo, who has received a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, to look for quasars in a new, unbiased way.
