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2021 onwards
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16/11/2020
We are happy to welcome Ruifang Su, who has joined the group and the group of Niko Hildebrandt as a shared PhD student.
01/11/2020
We are thrilled to announce that we with Videnskabsklubben will be developing an outreach program on the topic of chemistry.
15/10/2020
We are advertising a PhD position, if you are interested have a look at the University of Copenhagen Job Bank.
23/10/2020
Patrick has left for his first research visit to Gothenburg. He will be trained by Teodora Retegan Vollmer in seperation science in order to reproduce and study the industrial processes in our lab.
01/09/2020
Today we are welcoming Dane Shennan to the group. In a project co-hosted by CAS, he will be working on separation science aimed at building an automated set-up for lanthanide separation.
29/08/2020
Today was a great day, and today was a sad day. We celebrated the great work on nanomaterials and optical sensors David has done over the last two years, and we said goodbye and thank you to David. He will be heading out in the real world, and thus leave us behind.
29/08/2020
Today we celebrated Lea, and her work over the past year. Lea defended her MSc thesis and is now working full time towards obtaining her PhD degree.
28/08/2020
Today we celebrated Nicolaj, and his work over the past year. Nicolaj defended his MSc thesis and is now working full time towards obtaining his PhD degree.
10/06/2020
Great news. The grant co-written by Patrick on "Improving rare earth separation - characterising the interface during hydrometallurgic treatment" has been awarded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
01/06/2020
We are back from the enforced Corona break. We have been back for some time on limited hours, but now we are fully back in the lab.
31/05/2020
Although I have not been working on triangulenium dyes since my PhD, we are still working on the application of triangulenium dyes. Today a chapter on the use of triangulenium dyes in fluorescence polarisation assay was published, read it here.
23/04/2020
Congratulations are in order. Elena's MSc was published as an invited paper today. You can read her paper here.
18/03/2020
Congratulations Lucile. Lucile was visiting from ENS Lyon last spring, and her work has just appeared as an invited paper in Journal of the Rare Earths. You can find it here.
02/03/2020
We are officially welcoming Lu Wang and Laura Grenier, who join the group as postdocs, and Mathilde Rove, who joins the group as a MSc student.
26/02/2020
Lea has been awarded the prestigious Eliteforsk travel grant. For more see here.
23/01/2020
Congratulations Villads. He just defended his BA project and got the highest grade. Well deserved I might add.
21/01/2020
I was thrilled to learn that a joint project with Niko Hildebrandt was funded. We will be sharing a PhD student over the next three years.
06/01/2020
Congratulations Lea. Her paper on the how solution structure influences physicochemical properties of lanthanide complexes was published as a Forum Article in Inorganic Chemistry today. You can read it here.
21/12/2019
I was informed that we were awarded funds from the KU Proof-of-Concept pool to work on commercializing our next generation optical sensors.
21-22/11/2019
Olivier Maury from ENS Lyon was in Copenhagen to take part in the annual group workshop and to give a departmental seminar.
15/11/2019
The Novo Nordisk Foundation has decided to fund our project titled "Developing the first 2D optical chemosesors for next generation process control in single use equipment ". Recruitment of the first postdoc will start shortly.
28-29/10/2019
I was in London, attending Chemistry Means Business as a finalist of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Emerging Technologies Competition.
24-25/10/2019
We were fortunate to have Niko Hildebrandt visiting Copenhagen and gave a departmental seminar.
10-18/10/2019
I was on a small lecture tour in the UK, giving departmental seminars in Oxford, Manchester and Durham. Visiting with Professors Stephen Faulkner and Robert Pal, and speaking at Oxfordshire primary school.
08/10/2019
We hosted a workshop on absorption spectroscopy given by PerkinElmer.
25-28/09/2019
I gave a lecture and participated in a great workshop on imaging in oncology organised by Oncology Grandouest.
20/09/2019
Congratulations Elena del Giorgio. Elena passed her MSc exam today with the finest marks. She is swiftly moving on to a PhD in Birmingham.
05/09/2019
We've been selected to present our technology at the RSC Emerging Technology Competition final in London in October. For more information see the RSC webpage.
11/08/2019
Congratulations Nicolaj. He has been awarded a Fulbrigth Scholarship to visit and work Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt at FSU and take all that he has learned of 4f elements and apply it to the 5f elements.
05/07/2019
Our optical authentication technology was featured in the Innovation Foundation Denmark newsletter.
04-05/07/2019
Prof Niko Hildebrandt was so kind to invite me to give a talk in his group in Orsay, and to act as an external examiner for Chi Chen's PhD. Chi did a tremendous job and is know Doctor Chen, and I had a great sat in Orsay.
24/06/2019
Today we are celebrating as we have received an InnoExplorer grant to complete the last part of the commercialization process for our optical authentication technology.
17/06/2019
Congratulations are in order. Charlotte's M.Sc. thesis work was today accepted for publication in ChemPlusChem.
16-21/06/2019
I had the immense please to take par the the 2019 edition of the Matrafüred conference on chemosensor science. It is one of the best specialised conferences that I have attended, and I was lucky to be introduced to the wonderful chemosensor community.
06/05/2019
Today fundamental science was represented in the Danes favourite chat show. I was live on national TV with talking about our work with anti-counterfeiting.
04/06/2019
Our anti-counterfeiting technology was featured in K-News, the news blog of the publisher that prints all Danish laws.
06/05/2019
Today we welcome Lucile Bridou from ENS Lyon who will spend the next couple of months in the group working on responsive lanthandie complexes.
03-04/05/2019
Elena, Helene and Lea attended the Danish organic chemistry graduate symposium (TOKS), which this year was in Copenhagen.
30/04/2019
Congratulations Christian. Today his manuscript describing the time-response of our optical sensor was accepted for publication in ACS Omega.
24/04/2019
Congratulations Nicolaj. He won the Best Talk prize at the IGGS meeting in Odense.
24/04/2019
Maria and Nicolaj attended the Danish Inorganic Graduate Student Symposium IGGS in Odense.
24/04/2019
I took part in an event hosted by Videnskabsklubben as part of Forskningens Døgn at the Geological Museum. A great event where high school students gets to spend an afternoon with a scientist.
11/04/2019
I gave a lecture on optical sensors at the Danish Royal Academy and took part in a panel discussion about the immeasurable with a linguist, a philosopher and a physicist.
08/04/2019
We are on the cover of J Phys Chem A with our paper: Electronic Energy Levels of Dysprosium(III) ions in Solution. Assigning the Emitting State and the Intraconfigurational 4f–4f Transitions in the Vis–NIR Region and Photophysical Characterization of Dy(III) in Water, Methanol, and Dimethyl Sulfoxide. Its all about disprosium, see it here.
17-22/03/2019
Maria, Patrick & Nicolaj attended School and Conference on Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space hosted by ILL in Grenoble.
19/03/2019
I attended the annual meeting on research and university policy hosted by the Royal Acedemy of Science and Letters. This years topic was Freedom in Research.
25/02/2019
In the Young Academy we have written an article about the transition from academia to the private sector. It was published in Altinget today.
22/02/2019
8 weeks into 2019 and 8 papers published. That is a record for the group, as well as otter madness and pure coincidence. Paper number 8 is a review of dynamic sensor properties published in Analyst, read it here.
20/02/2019
We are on the cover of EurJIC with our paper: Illuminating the Intermolecular vs. Intramolecular Excited State Energy Transfer Quenching by Europium(III) Ions. Suitable there is fireworks, see it here.
20/02/2019
I was in the local Danish News, talking and showing about our new optical authentication system. They wrote an article, opened the evening news with the story and made two smaller videos featuring our work. The long one and the one minute version.
20/02/2019
Congratulations AK and Martin. A paper that has been a long time coming out is based in AK's bachelor thesis. AK graduated as a PhD last year, so time did fly. The manuscript is about pH responsive molecules and is out in ChemPhotoChem.
20/02/2019
I was on national Danish Radio, on P1 morgen, talking about our new optical authentication system. Listen in here.
19/02/2019
Ritzau picked up the University of Copenhagen press release describing our results within optical authentication. In turn, most major Danish newspapers published the piece from Ritzau. The consequence is that our work was features in newspapers like Børsen, Ekstrabladet, BT, Kristelig Dagblad, and many more.
14/02/2019
Yet another sensor paper is out, this one focusing on calibration and inverse functions in chemosensor development. Read the paper en ACS Sensors here.
09/02/2019
Congratulations Nicolaj! His first first author paper has just come out in J Phys Chem A. With the paper Riikka also comes full circle as this is the project she started on when joining the group, and also was the last paper she contributed to prior to moving on. You can read the paper here.
06/02/2019
ACS issued a press release on our work on optical authentication systems published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in January. A few media outlets picked it up, and New Atlas ran a feature under the topic of 'Good Thinking'.
24/01/2019
AK has been working hard since obtaining her PhD last February, and the fruit of her labour can now be read in European Journal of Inorganic chemistry. You can read her latest paper here.
16/01/2019
Riikka has been evolving our optical authentication system that now has been validated on no fewer than 10.000 security codes, all the work is summarised in a manuscript that has been published today. You can read the paper here.
04/01/2019
It is a sad day. Riikka had her last day in the research group today. More or less exactly three years ago Riikka arrived in Denmark as the first Postdoc in the research group. Three years later she has published 8 papers , made a patent, and has been part of a Spin-Out company. Next on the agenda is a baby girl, but thereafter some employer will be extremely lucky to take her on as she moves out into the real world.
28/12/2018
Another step towards next generation chemosensors was published today. We are proud that our first attempt at a proper optical pH sensor was published today in ACS sensors.
27/12/2018
A huge welcome to Maria. She is an inorganic chemist who joins as a PhD fellow. Her task will be to bridge our studies of solution structure with the more classical approach based on solids and single crystals.
20/12/20
The research group has lost its innocence. Today the first junior member leaves the group. AK has been with us from the very beginning, so it is hard to see her go. She is leaving academia, headed for the real world that is very lucky to have her.
13/12/2018
AK's sixths paper was published today. We have been looking further on the excited state energy transfer cascade in a specific lanthanide complex. Read more here. AK's time in the group is drawing to an end, and we are slowly closing the chapter in the book of lanthanide solution chemistry that she has been working on. This is the third paper on this specific series of lanthanide complex, hopefully the chapter will end up with four sections.
11/12/2018
We are continuing our work towards next generation chemical sensors. We are taking baby steps, and are still working towards our first sensors: and optical pH sensor. First part of our work was published in August, the second part appeared today in Advanced Materials Technologies
03/12/2018
Welcome back Helene, who today started her PhD in lanthanide chemistry. She will be exploring new reactions en-route to making kinetically inert lanthanide complexes and continue her work on lanthanide complex solution structure.
29-30/11/2018
I had the great pleasure to visit Teodora Retegan and Christian Ekberg at Chalmers. I think we may have started a collaborative project where we hope to unravel the chemistry behind the NdFeB magnet recycling work Teodora's research group has perfected.
21/11/2018
Happy and surprising news: we just received an instrument grant from Carlsbergfondet. We will use it to expand the capabilities of our luminescence lab.
15/11/2018
The group attended the Lunderser meeting at the University of Copenhagen, where preparative chemists from Copenhagen (UCPH and DTU) and Lund (LU) meet and discuss science. I moderated a session and Patrick and Nicolaj presented posters.
07-08/11/2018
I attended the annual retreat of the Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of Numbers and Letters. We discussed research and university policy with key lobbyists, and designed interdisciplinary research projects.
06/11/2018
Congratulations Aysha. She passed her BA project in Nanoscience today. Aysha worked on the speciation of terbium(III) triflate in methanol as a funciton of nitrate concentration and on terbium(III) photophysics.
01/11/2018
The group went for the annual team building exercise. We went to an escape room aptly called 'The Lab', which we solved in about half the allotted time without any incidents. Having concluded that we work well together we went to see the Little Mermaid and then for lunch.
28/09/2018
Helene finished her Master of Science in Chemistry. She finished with top marks for unravelling the effect of diastereomeric arms on lanthanide complexes of DOTA-monoamide. We look forward to welcoming back her back for a PhD later in the year.
27/09/2018
Charlotte completed her Master of Science degree specialising in organic chemistry. Charlotte finished on a high, receiving top marks for her work on new triplet dyes. I look forward to follow your career DTU.
27/09/2018
Loyan Salah completed his studies for a Master of Science in Chemistry specialising in organic chemistry. He finished with top marks for his work on multicomponent reactions on lanthanide complexes and isocyanide synthesis. Thank you for a great year Loyan.
26-28/09/2018
Robert Pal from Durham University is visiting. Rob is acting as external examiner on three thesis and giving a departmental seminar.
17/09/2018
Today our Account of Chemical Research on kinetically inert lanthanide complexes was published online. It has been years coming but it is finally out.
17/09/2018
The first paper describing our work on optical chemosensors is out. It describes a fluorescent pH sensor using DAOTA and DMQA, it is the first report of an triangulenium dye used in this type of applications. You can read it here.
05/09/2018
Well done Helene. As a Master student she beat all the competition and took a poster prize at ICfE 10 for her work on chiral DOTA-monoamide ligands.
02-06/09/2018
Most of the group presented posters at the 10th International Conference on f-Elements in Lausanne. The meeting is like a great family reunion for the f-elements community, this year flavoured with an honorary symposium for Andre Merbach and Jean-Claude Bünzli.
28/08/2018
I attended the ChemPubSoc Europe reception celebrating the 2017 Fellows. It was great meeting up with the ChemPucSoc Europe editors and the many excellent European chemists among the fellows.
26-30/08/2018
Patrick, Nicolaj and I attending the 7th EuChemS conference in Liverpool, presenting posters and giving a talk. The venue and the plenary talks were amazing, while the rest was a colourful mix of presentations. The students got to shake hands with Nobel laureate and the editor of JACS, not something all 4th year students get to do.
25/08/2018
Congratulations Nicolaj. He just won a travel award from the Danish Chemical Society allowing him to attend the EuChemS conference in Liverpool.
25/06/2018
Our paper on lanthanide luminescence from europium(III) and terbium(III) ions bound to the glycocalyx of CHO cells is finally out. A big thanks to Miguel and Riikka for pulling this through. The paper can be found here.
12/06/2018
I spend the day listening, discussing and lecturing on university based innovation and start-ups at the 13th Annual Biophysics PhD Meeting at Søminestationen in Holbæk. A very interested and engaged audience heard talk on Patent Law, Biotech start-ups, and my own experience from three university start-ups.
08/06/2018
Patrick presented our work at the annual Nanoscience Student Symposium, and he did very well according to members of the audience. Also those not part of the group.
07/06/2018
Congratulations Lea. She just won a junior travel award so she can attend the 10th International Conference on f-Elements (ICfE) in Lausanne in September.
20/05/2018
We're on twitter! As we realise that communicating science to colleagues and the general public needs to happen on a variety of platforms, @f_elements will now tweet on our work and activities.
19/05/2018
I arrived in Krytun to take part in the 23rd summer school on f-elements. ~40 PhD students and 10 lecturers teaching on f-elements chemistry and luminescence in a forest in Poland. A great set-up for learning new aspects of f-elements chemistry and for networking and enjoying the company of the great f-elements scientists. I gave three lectures, two on fundamental f-elements coordination chemistry and one on optical sensors.
18/05/2018
Congratulations Lea! Lea's bachelor thesis was selected as the best bachelor thesis 2017 at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen. The prize and diploma was given to Lea by the Head of Department at the annual Chemistry Gala Party. Its a big honour for Lea and a great win for the group.
17/05/2018
The MOOT video about our anti-counterfeiting technology is now live, see the MOOT channel.
17/05/2018
Congratulation Lea, her first first author paper was published ahead of print today. The review describes how NMR and luminescence spectra of lanthanide complexes should be interpreted based on the timescale of the experiment. Hopefully, it will also act as a guide to new researchers in the field, in particular those trying to understand the NMR spectra of DOTA-like complexes.
09/05/2018
Finally, the last paper from AK's PhD was published ahead of print. It was quite the struggle and the paper has been with the publisher for more than half a year. We are very happy with how the paper turned out, even though the timeline has been warped as this paper predates the paper that was featured on the cover of Dalton earlier in the year. The paper also marks the first paper from our collaboration with Rebecca Abergel and her team at LNBL and the University of California at Berkeley.
25/04/2018
Part of the group attended a PDF workshop arranged by Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen. They report that it was great to meet Simon Billinge, one of the modern proponents of total scattering and PDF analysis and that a wide range of applications of PDF was showcased: from the local structure of metal clusters, bones and batteries to classic materials science. And as a proper workshop should, it furthered the students own work with PDF.
24/04/2018
We're expanding the group with two PhD fellows. The positions are sponsored by the Villum Foundation , see the official posting of the jobs here.
18/04/2018
Part of the group attended the 2nd Inorganic Graduate Student Seminar in Odense, he reports: "IGSS 2 was a great opportunity to meet chemist from the other universities in Denmark. It is more relaxed atmosphere to present your work in, as everyone attending is a student. It was also really fun to see what goes for inorganic chemistry in places like AU and SDU. It was a chance to network and exchange ideas and I think it can help a lot towards doing more collaborations."
16-17/04/2018
I was at the annual Nano-Science Center retreat and presented our research on fundamental lanthanide(III) coordination chemistry.
14/04/2018
AK's paper on the effect of solution structure in sensitised lanthanide luminescence was published in today's issue of Dalton Transactions. Furthermore it was featured on the cover. Congratulations AK and Leila.
11/04/2018
MOOT (www.moot.video) visited the research group and filmed the work on optical authentication. Stay tuned, we will link to the movie when it is released.
03/04/2018
Nature Photonics have written about our new optical authentication system, read the item here.
06/03/2018
I met with the Minister for Higher Education to discuss the fate of the radioactive waste at Risø.
01/03/2018
Tukan ID was incorporated and the web site is now live: Tukan.io. We hope to have the first products ready at the end of the year.
23/02/2018
6½ years after we started our work on optical sensors the first scientific publication on out work has been published in ACS sensors. We have elaborated on the work presented in our 2013 patents. The paper marks the first in a row of publications on optical sensor fabrication, testing and standardisation. See the paper here.
23/02/2018
Congratulations Anne Kathrine R Junker! AK successfully defended her PhD dissertation and has been awarded the PhD degree.
18/02/2018
The news on our optical authentication system has travelled the globe, with news features from USA, most of the European countries, and to China. See the summary here.
15/02/2018
The 2014 class of Nanoscience students did a great job in their first University course. With a slight delay, the results are now published in Nanomaterials.
27/01/2018
I was invited to the morning show on P1 the Danish national talk radio, to talk about using our new optical authentication system for anti-counterfeiting purposes. You can listen to the interview here.
26/01/2018
We can finally reveal what we have been working on the last 18 months, a new optical authentication system! Our work was published today in the January issue of Science Advances.
02/01/2018
AK has submitted her PhD thesis. She will be the first PhD student graduating from the research group. A significant milestone for her and the group.
19/12/2017
A big thanks to Riikka, Miguel, Casper and Tom. Our second Plos ONE paper on exploiting lanthanide luminescence in microscopy was published today. We use the narrow emission bands of lanthanide(III) ions to generate absolute contrast in spectrally resolved microscopy.
13/12/2017
A big thanks to Riikka, Miguel, Casper and Tom. Our second Plos ONE paper on exploiting lanthanide luminescence in microscopy was published today. We use the narrow emission bands of lanthanide(III) ions to generate absolute contrast in spectrally resolved microscopy.
27/11/2017
A big thanks to Riikka, Miguel, Casper and Tom. Our joint paper on using phantoms to improve reproducibility in bioimaging was published in Plos ONE today.
27/11/2017
Elene, Lea, and Nicolaj are now published authors as the paper on Stern-Volmer quenching by lanthanide(III) ions was published today in EurJIC.
25/11/2017
Congratulations to AK, who today got her paper on thioxanthone synthesis and photophysics accepted for publication in MAF.
22-23/11/2017
I was in Durham visiting David Parker, Alan Kenwright and Robert Pal and acting as external examiner for David's 61st PhD student.
16/11/2017
We had our annual group personal development event, a little late this year as we arranged it so that Elena could take part. We now all now our personality type and are quite good at guessing that of others.
14-15/11/2017
I was in Zurich visiting the Mettler-Toledo optical sensor R&D unit.
11/11/2017
Today was the day of the annual Coffee and Cake (and Port) event in the research group. It was a huge success and we look forward to the next instalment.
08/11/2017
Congratulations Riikka, who won the poster price at the annual Danish Bioimaging Network Meeting in Copenhagen.
05/10/2017
Today Elena Dallerba graduated, completing her Master in Chemistry. She is not heading to Australia for a PhD.
04/10/2017
Our new commercialisation project, where we work on using lanthanide luminescence for anti-counterfeiting purposes, have been mentioned in a feature published in New Scientist. The feature is here, while a follow up story describing the huge problem with fake goods can be found here.
28-29/09/2017
I was in Chalmers on a PhD committee for a student of Kasper Moth-Poulsen, and visiting Teodora Retegan and Christian Ekberg in the Nuclear Chemistry section. It was great seeing the amazing facilities available at Chalmers.
10-13/09/2017
Riikka and AK attended the 15th itration of the MAF conference in Bruges, representing the group with two great poster presentations.
04/09/2017
Welcome to Charlotte, Helene and Loyan. The brave souls have started their MSc projects in various aspects of lanthanide chemistry, a year full of challenges and fun chemistry.
01/09/2017
Welcome to Lea and Nicolaj, who started their PhD today. They will be working with lanthanide coordination chemistry for the next 5 years using very different approaches. Lea comes from organic chemistry, and will tease out structure property relationships in paramagnetic NMR. Nicolaj will be shining light on fundamental lanthanide coordination chemistry using a holistic approach.
31/07/2017
A big congratulation is in order. Elene, Lea, and Nicolaj got their first paper accepted for publication in EurJIC today. Congratulations to AK and Riikka who also are authors on the paper that treats Stern-Volmer quenching by lanthanide(III) ions in great detail.
02-05/07/2017
The entire group went to the European Inorganic Coordination Chemistry conference. The 4th instalment of the conference series was hosted here in Copenhagen, so there was no excuse not to go.
26/06/2017
I attended the annual workshop on the food science education. I will be teaching basic organic chemistry for biosciences from 2018.
18-22/06/2017
I attended the 28th Rare Earth Research Conference in Ames, Iowa. The excellent conference was hosted by ISU and the Ames National Lab.
20/06/2017
The Young Academy opinion piece on the PhD education was published in the Danish Online Newspaper Altinget.dk, read it here.
15/06/2017
Congratulations to Lea, Patrick, and Nicolaj who all successfully defended their bachelor reports.
07/06/2017
I co-hosted the Young Academy (DUA) annual summer party, celebrating DUA and my first year as a fellow.
19/05/2017
The group attended the annual Department of Chemistry Gala party with great success, and we all look forward to next years instalment.
15/05/2017
We say goodbye to Christian, who has completed his 1 year postdoc working on materials for optical sensors. His work was with FRS-systems ApS, and will be published in the following years. If you are interested in optical sensors, set a citation alert monitoring Christan G. Frankær.
09/05/2017
We attended the first Danish IP fair, representing the University of Copenhagen with two of our inventions.
05/05/2017
I had the great pleasure visiting with Nina Lock at iNano in Aarhus, in order to act as the external examiner for Paolo Lamagni's Part A exam.
24-26/04/2017
I attended the hugely popular FluoroFest Workshop, this instalment was hosted in Glasgow by David Birch. I can warmly recommend attending this workshop and interact with fluorescence experts from academia and industry.
05/04/2017
We were fortunate to receive funding from the University of Copenhagen Proof-of-Concept programme to develop a hardware prototype for our anti-counterfeiting technology.
05/04/2017
Congratulations to Riikka, who is the lead author on Review published today in April issue of Nature Reviews Chemistry, where it is also featured on the Cover.
04/04/2017
The last paper based on the synthesis I did during my time in Oxford was published today in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, where it is also featured on the Cover.
21-26/03/2017
I toured Southern England with meetings in London, Milton Keynes (or rather Chicheley Hall, the set of Pride & Prejudice), and Oxford.
13/02/2017
Patrick started his BA project this week, he will be exploring dipicolinate ligands in lanthanide coordination chemistry, a new area in the group.
07/02/2017
We visited Hamilton in Bonaduz, Switzerland to discuss our pH sensor technology.
25/01/2017
Our paper on triangulenium photophysics has been published. It is the fourth and final paper out of Sidsel's Master's thesis, so a big thanks and congratulations to Sidsel.
24/01/2017
Congratulation to Nikolaj Kofod, he defended his Research Project and is now ready to start his BA project.
23/01/2017
Great news. I have received a Villum Young Investigator grant for a total of 10,000,000 DKK.
17/01/2017
Lea Nielsen has started her BA project today, she will be making kinetically inert lanthanide complexes of different symmetry.
05/12/2016
Congratulation to Anne Kathrine with her paper on responsive lanthanide(III) complexes which was published this week in Inorganic Chemistry.
18/11/2016
Bo W. Laursen and I was honoured to receive the University of Copenhagen's Innovation Prize. The University's press release can be found here.
07/11/2016
The Danish high-brow news outlet Mandag Morgen used me as a source in a series of articles on University based innovation. One of them is not behind a subscription wall and can be found here.
30/10/2016
An educational film on critical elements was released today. I contributed a bit to the manuscript and is featured at a couple of points in the film. If you disregard the geologist spin on the overall theme and in specific elements, I am happy with the result, which can be found here.
18/08/2016
Today I was featured on Danish national radio. I was asked to explain why a safety vest may appear to glow in dim light. If you are fluent in Danish you can find my answer 46 minutes into the program. I try to catch the reader up on fluorescence, photochemistry, and the chemistry of vision in 5 minutes.
05-08/07/2016
I attended the 42nd ICCC in Brest. A great conference, with great people, and good science.
10/06/2016
Congratulations to AK, who won the poster prize at the annual meeting of the Danish Chemical Society.
01/06/2016
I was accepted into the Young Academy, the junior assembly at the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. I look forward to heated discussion and working for more research on the Danish political agenda.
18/05/2016
The work of Bo W Laursen and I that resulted in the formation of the University spin-out FRS-systems was highlighted in the periodical Ingeniøren and online at Ing.dk.
17/05/2016
Christian Frankær joined the group as a PDRA, working with FRS-systems on making the worlds best optical sensor systems. He is to figure out how oxygen behaves in solution as a function of pressure in complex mixtures.
29/04/2016
AK shared her work with PhD student from all universities in Denmark at the yearly meeting for Student of Organic Chemistry here in Copenhagen.
18/04/2016
The final paper originating in my PhD work was accepted for publication in Chemistry an European Journal.
01/03/2016
Kishwar Hussain joined FRS-systems as engineer, she will start by working in close collaboration with the University to secure solid knowledge transfer from research to the Spin-Out.
08/02/2016
Elena Dallerba joined the group as a masters student. She will be working on synthesising and investigating chromophore appended lanthanide complexes.
01/02/2016
FRS systems Aps are moving in. We are clearing desks for CEO Henrik Dørge, our new engineer, and an industrial postdoc.
23/01/2016
Our work on porous materials for optical sensors was featured in the Sunday version of the newspaper Politiken as well as on-line.
04/01/2016
Riikka Arppe joined the group. She will be with us for 2 years working on lanthanide luminescence in all shapes and forms.
01/01/2016
Happy New Year. 2015 was a productive year for all shapes and sizes, so I have not kept you updated with all publications. We reached 14 papers accepted in 2015, see them all in the Publications fan.
21-22/12/2015
AK gave a talk on her work with crown ethers at the 2015 annual meeting of theRSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Group was held at Durham University.
18/12/2015
FRS-systems ApS signed a license agreement with KU for the rights to produce and sell optical sensors based on our research.
30/11/2015
Carlsbergfondet generously sponsored 200.000 DKK towards our new pulsed 532 nm|355 nm|266 nm picosecond pulsed laser for time-resolved microscopy.
17-20/08/2015
I was at the 250th ACS national meeting in Boston. I presented our work on lanthanide emission based microscopy and about the teaching innovation that is the Nano1 course at the University of Copenhagen.
19/08/2015
I visited with Peter Caravan in the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Havard Medical School. They have all the kit for imaging you can imagine, from PET over MRI to optical.
15/08/2015
We're in the Danish news again, this time for the research done in the Nano 1 course.
14/08/2015
Today I visited the young an energetic chemistry department at the University of Nevada, Reno and for a seminar at LNBL in Berkeley. Thanks to Ana de Bettencourt-Dias for the invitation.
12/08/2015
Today I gave a seminar at LNBL in Berkeley. Many thanks to Rebecca Abergel for the invitation and the members of the Heavy Elements Lab for stimulating conversations.
10/08/2015
It's time to PArTI! Our paper on Photon Arrival Time Imaging was accepted for publication. We believe this new method of time-resolved imaging may be the future in background free imaging.
04/08/2015
First week after the summer holiday and Ilkay and Sidsel's paper on the synthesis of fluorescent ADOTA dyes for conjugation to biomolecules have been accepted for publication in EurJOC.
02/08/2015
We, my first year Nano1 students and TAs (from 2013) and I, are on the back cover of ChemNanoMat.
30/07/2015
AK went to Oxford to work Professor Stephen Faulkner and his group.
10/07/2015
FRS-systems Aps and KU dyes Aps were founded. FRS-systems is short for Fast Reliable Sensor systems and develop and market 2nd generation optical sensors. KU dyes make and market fluorescent dyes of all shapes and sizes.
02/07/2015
A research paper based on the work performed in the 2013 Nano1 course has been published in ChemNanoMat.
02/07/2015
I'm on Danish national radio and in the Danish Newspaper Berlingske today, with the story of the Nano1 course.
23/06/2015
The last chapter in our studies of multinuclear lanthanide complexes was accepted for publication in Journal of Luminescence. The work was mainly focused on...luminescence.
29/05/2015
The aminorhodamine paper is finally out with pages numbers, find it here.
28/05/2015
The Villum Foundation awarded me a two-year Villum Postdoc Block-stipend. The new postdoc will be working on projects using lanthanide centred emission in microscopy application.
12/03/2015
The aminorhodamine paper, based on work from my PhD, was accepted for publication in Chemistry an European Journal. It details the photophysics of this intriguing dye.
19/02/2015
We finally got the last issues sorted with the refurbished prep-LC system, which will be up and running with full automation and both fluorescence and diode array detectors.
17/02/2015
Our work with oxygen responsive multimetallic lanthanide complexes is out in this weeks Chemical Science.
29/01/2015
A paper on the behaviour of azaoxatriangulenium dyes in PVA and silica was accepted for publication in Dyes and Pigments. A big thanks to our collaborators in Texas.
05/01/2015
Anne Kathrine Junker is welcomed as a new PhD fellow in the group. AK will be working on the synthesis, purification and characterisation of kinetically stable lanthanide complexes.
18/12/2014
Liao's microscopy papr demonstrating imaging using spectrally resolved lanthanide centred NIR emission bands was accepted for publication in Chem Comm.
11-19/12/2014
The annual Christmas visit in Oxford with the Faulkners and the Faulkner group. Papers were finished and conferences planned, it was also the big goodbye to Mike who is moving back home to New Zealand.
30/10/2014
Our newly remodelled, Waldner furnished, laboratory is ready for use, we will over the next weeks be installing our Cary Eclipse Fluorimeter, Cary 300 absorption spectromter, Thermo Fisher Ascent Platereader, Thermo Fisher UHPLC and the new DSC system.
13-15/10/2014
I was on a short research visit with Professor Stephen Faulkner at University of Oxford.
18-19/09/2014
Professor Stephen Faulkner visited Copenhagen and gave the Departmental seminar the 19th of September.
01/09/2014
I begun my stint as Associate Professor in the Nano Chemistry Section at the Nano-Science Center & Department of Chemistry.
22/08/2014
It is now official, I got tenured at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen. I have been aware of this for a while, but this Friday it was made official by the Head of Department. I will be starting as Associate Professor September 1st 2014.
09-15/08/2014
I gave one of the 7700 presentations at the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. A good meeting by the standards of these, I learned a lot of Nuclear Chemistry from great session arranged by the NUCL division of ACS.
27-31/07/2014
I took part in the 14th Dalton Discussion in Edinburgh titled Advancing the Chemistry of the f-elements. A great meeting, unfortunately the penultimate of its kind.
19-25/07/2014
I attended the ICCC 41 in Singapore, a select audience was present at my talk.
27/06/2014
Keble College, Oxford University, has awarded my the title of Collaborating Research Scholar for one year starting October 2014. I will be part of the advanced study centre, and will also continue my collaboration with Professor Stephen Faulkner.
19-27/06/2014
I was travelling, first a visit in Oxford to complete a paper for the upcoming Dalton Discussion in Edinburgh, followed by a trip to California in order to attend the 27th Rare Earth Research Conference. My two talks on responsive lanthanide probes and lanthanide based self-assembly was well received.
19/05/2014-31/05/2014
DPhil student Leila Hill from the group of Professor Stephen Faulkner at Oxford University is visiting to do various experiments involving self-assembly of lanthanide containing systems.
12/05/2014
Several confirmation e-mails from PACS, the ACS abstract system, came today. As a result I will be going to the US twice over the summer, speaking at the 248th ACS national meeting in San Francisco and twice at the 27th Rare earth research conference 2014 in Nevada.
07/04/2014
The FT300 from PicoQuant arrived and was installed, the standard functions have been tested and are working above expectations, while the specialized functions are yet to be tested.
13/03/2014
A paper from my PhD work on the physical chemistry of DMQA was accepted for publication in ChemPlusChem.
13/03/2014
The full paper summarising our results and our approach to lanthanide based self-assembly was accepted for publication in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.
26/02/2014
I will be going to Singapore in June to give a talk at the ICCC 41.
17-21/02/2014
I visited the group of Professor Stephen Faulkner in Oxford. A pleasant and productive visit where we concluded a couple of projects and started planning the f-elements conference 2015 to be held in Oxford.
11/02/2014
The paper describing the synthesis and properties of DMCA was accepted for publication in Chemistry an European Journal.
11/02/2014
I received a postdoc. grant from the Danish Research Council|Technology and Production Sciences allowing me to work on lanthanide probes for bioimaging throughout 2015.
06/02/2014
I am now a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC).
06/02/2014
The abstract submitted to the 14th Dalton Discussion in Edinburgh, July 28-30 2014, was accepted. I will be attending the meeting that is titled Advancing the Chemistry of the f-elements.
24-25/01/2014
I attended the Torkil Holm Symposium in Copenhagen, the leading Chemistry Event in Denmark, with several world leading experts within the field of the molecular sciences.
23/01/2014
Congratulations to Kristoffer Laugesen! He passed his bachelor project exam completing the requirements for a bachelor degree in Nanoscience from the University of Copenhagen.
01/01/2014
I was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry,University of Copenhagen.
16-17/01/2014
Bo W Laursen and I had a splendid visit by Professor David Birch from Strathclyde, an world-leading expert in molecular spectroscopy and fluorescence technology.
18/12/2013
The new spectrometers: a Varian CARY Eclipse fluorescence spectrometer and a Varian CARY 300 absorption spectrometer, was received. Many thanks to Carlsbergfondet, Lundbeckfonden and the Danish Research Council, Technology and Production sciences.
16/12/2013
Congratulations to Martin Rosenberg, who was awarded the prestigious Sapere Aude 'Forskningstalent' grant from the Danish Research Council.
14/12/2013
The self-assembled rhenium corner was published and highlighted on the cover of Dalton Transactions.
04/12/2013
I received a grant from Carlsbergfondet allowing me to continue the work on remote substituent effects in lanthanide complexes.
29/11/2013
The remote substituents paper was published and featured on the cover of Chemistry - a European Journal.
28/11-06/12/2013
I visited the group of professor Stephen Faulkner in Oxford. As always a very pleasant and productive visit, including a lunch at Manuel Tropiano's new home: Christ Church College.
27/11/2013
I gave a lecture at the geological museum on 'fluorescent dyes in curing cancer' as a contribution to the event: chemistry and the future.
19/11/2013
The remote substituents paper was highlighted by Chemistry Views.
04/11/2013
We received the fluorescent/luminscent based plate reader: Thermo Fisher Fluoroskan Ascent FL. Thanks to Copenhagen Spin-Outs.
10/10/2013
Frederik Østerbye has started as our external software engineer on the Optical Sensor Project.
13/09/2013
The paper showing the first remote substituent effects in lanthanide complexes was accepted for publication in Chemistry - a European Journal.
27/09/2013
Martin Rosenberg received a grant from the Danish Research Council, Technology and Production sciences allowing him to stay in the group as a post-doctoral research associate to January 1st 2016.
09/09/2013
Kristoffer Laugesen joined us as a bachelor project student working on the optical sensor project.
02/09/2013
The Nano 1 course kicked off with 60 students, the biggest intake on Nanoscience at University of Copenhagen ever. The question is how successful this years research project will be.
25-30/08/2013
I attended ECSBM 15 in Oxford and gave a talk detailing the benefits of using long fluorescence lifetime probes to study protein rotational movements.
12-14/08/2013
I visited the Division of Physical Chemistry of Microscopic Systems at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to initiate a collaboration, where we are to investigate ionic dyes in the gas phase.
27/07/2013
The paper on the self-assembled rhenium corner was accepted for publication in Dalton Transactions.
27-28/06/2013
I attended the Bioimaging Workshop Copenhagen 2013, giving a talk on 'Long fluorescence lifetime probes in optical imaging'.
25/06/2013
Exploratory pre-seed funding from Novo Nordisk Fondet was awarded to the optical sensor project
20/06/2013
The solvent response paper was accepted for publication in PCCP
14/06/2013
Proof of concept funding from Copenhagen spin-outs was awarded to the optical sensor project
12-16/06/2013
I gave a talk at SCANDEM 2013 (Copenhagen), a conference primarily on electron microscopy, but with session on optical microscopy. The talk resulted in a new group of collaborators, based in Finland, is trying to use triangulenium dyes in their work
02-09/06/2013
I visited the group of professor Stephen Faulkner in Oxford. As always a very pleasant and productive visit, this time concluded by attending the annual Faulkner BBQ.
15/05/2013
A press release, send out at the same time as the article in 'Politiken', generated more than 25 individual new stories on the internet. Sites in Holland, Korea, India, Brasil, US and Denmark carried the story. More than 10 potential collaborators contacted Bo W. Laursen and I as a consequence of reading the news items.
12/05/2013
An article in the major Danish newspaper 'Politiken' was publiced on the research with triangulenium dyes Bo W. Laursen and I has performed over the last 5 years.
01/04/2013
The Lundbeck Foundation decided to fund the optical sensor project
24/03/2013
PLOS One accepted the paper describing ADOTA and DAOTA in bioimaging for publication
01/03/2013
Martin Rosenberg joined the group as a post-doctoral research associate working on the optical sensor project
22/02/2013
The paper describing the unique properties of ADOTA and the application of the dye in polarization assays for the binding of large (60 kDa to 300 kDa) biomolecules to a large binding partner (60 kDa to 300 kDa) was accepted for publication in Methods and Application in Fluorescence, the paper is highlighted here
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