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Food

If we are to feed the growing population, we need to make food production more sustainable.
Metro on bridge in a green area near Ørestad, Copenhagen

Green transportation

The transportation sector is emitting more and more CO2 from cars, trucks, airplanes and shipping. To reverse this trend, more of the known solutions and technologies need to come into play.

Artificial intelligence

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have never been faster. The technology seems to hold almost unlimited potential, and it is hard to imagine where it will all end.

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New research centre to build knowledge to solve large-scale PFAS pollution

University collaboration in a new PFAS research centre will provide research and knowledge on how authorities can prevent, contain and clean up extensive PFAS pollution.

New instrument to track Earth's declining reflectivity

The earth reflects less sunlight than it did 20 years ago. Will we continue to lose reflectivity, and how will it affect our climate? At DTU, several researchers are participating in international missions to monitor developments.

New centre to support microchip design and manufacturing in Denmark

More Danish companies must be able to design and manufacture advanced chips. The new Danish Chips Competence Centre brings together the leading players in the field and provides the industry with direct access to knowledge, networks and production facilities.

DTU President on graduate reform: It's positive that politicians have listened

The agreement on the upcoming candidate reform has been renegotiated. For DTU, this means that a proposal to create an alternative industry master's programme will become a reality.
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Current topics

Through a number of current topics, we focus on how DTU's research creates value for society and people and delivers technical solutions to the major societal challenges.

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20 December 2024

Season’s greetings from DTU’s President, Anders Bjarklev

The President takes a look at some of the students' wishes on the Christmas tree in DTU's library, and also shares his own Christmas wish.
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University affairs

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09 January 2025

New research centre to build knowledge to solve large-scale PFAS pollution

University collaboration in a new PFAS research centre will provide research and knowledge on how authorities can prevent, contain and clean up extensive PFAS pollution.

20 November 2024

Ulrich Krühne receives DTU's Teaching Award 2024

An AI-generated role-playing game and chemistry assignments coded in Python are two essential reasons why Associate Professor Ulrich Krühne is honoured with the award, which recognizes extraordinary efforts to develop learning, teaching and education at DTU.

20 November 2024

DTU on graduate report: We will be educating even fewer engineers

The work of the Graduate Committee has been concluded, but DTU is not satisfied with the result. According to the President of DTU, the Graduate Committee’s recommendations will result in a significant decrease in DTU’s intake of MSc students.
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Events

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15

jan

Water Quality Monitoring Using Quartz Sensors Modified With Metal-Organic Frameworks

15. jan 13:00 - 15:00 | Ph.d.-forsvar af Jaskaran Singh Malhotra

16

jan

PhD Defence "Quantum Random Number Generation and Quantum Scissors for Secure Communications"

16. jan 09:00 - 12:00 | Lucas Nunes Faria will defend their PhD thesis "Quantum Random Number Generation and Quantum Scissors for Secure Communications", Thursday, January 16th, 2025.

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PhD defence by Ditte Bentsen Christensen

16. jan 13:00 - 16:00

20

jan

PhD defence - Fabian Luca Buchauer

20. jan 13:00 - 16:00

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