Skip to ContentSkip to Navigation
About us Faculty of Science and Engineering News

Caputi member of new Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN)

20 April 2017

Prof. Karina Caputi from the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (University of Groningen) has been named associate member of a newly funded Danish Excellence Research Centre to study the early Universe (DAWN). This new centre has received an award of 66 MDKK (9 million euros) from the Danish National Research Foundation. In addition to the Danish-based astronomers, the centre will have seven founding associate members from top institutions over the world, including Caputi from the University of Groningen.

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is a new basic research centre whose main purpose is to uncover how and when the first galaxies formed. DAWN is a Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in close collaboration with DTU Space.

More information

Last modified:14 August 2017 5.23 p.m.
Share this Facebook LinkedIn

More news

  • 13 March 2025

    Maria Antonietta Loi honored as Materials Research Society Fellow

    Prof. Maria Antoinietta Loi of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (University of Groningen) is appointed as Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). 

  • 11 March 2025

    Water: what if there is sometimes too much of it?

    A changing climate affects all sorts of things, from energy and food supplies to natural disasters such as floods. Researchers at the University of Groningen work on models to get a better grip on such changes, and to be able to make predictions.

  • 05 March 2025

    Women in Science

    The UG celebrates International Women’s Day with a special photo series: Women in Science.