Introduction > Organisation > Departments and centres
Departments and centres
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Theology
- Inter-faculty
- Outside of Faculties
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Departments (clinical and pre-clinical):
- Department of Biomedical Sciences
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Department of Clinical Medicine (is a merger of):
- Department of Orthopaedics and Internal Medicine
- Department of Surgery and Internal Medicine
- Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Sensory Sciences
- Department of Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Paediatrics
- Department of Diagnostic Sciences
- Department of Forensic Medicine
- Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology
- Department of Large Animal Sciences (in Danish only)
- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
- Department of Odontology
- Department of Pharmacy
- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology (is a merger of):
- Department of Public Health
- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology
- Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Science (is a merger of):
Schools
- School of Oral Health Care
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
Research centres:
- Center for Epidemiology and Screening
- Center for Healthy Ageing
- Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism
- Centre for Medical Parasitology (CMP)
- Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre
- Copenhagen Studies on Asthma in Childhood
- Danish Arrhythmia Research Centre
- Danish Stem Cell Centre
- Drug Research Academy
- Food, Fitness & Pharma (UNIK)
- Research Unit for General Practice (in Danish)
- The Lundbeck Centre for Neurovascular Signalling (LUCENS)
- The Lundbeck Foundation Centre for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging (CIMBI)
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
- Wilhelm Johannsen Centre for Functional Genome Research
Faculty of Humanities
Departments and institutes (with centres):
- Centre for Language Technology
- Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
- Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
- Centre for Canon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Literate Societies (CIF)
- Center of Global South Asian Studies
- The New Islamic Public Sphere
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
- Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP)
- The International Ph.D. Programme for Transnational and Migration Studies (TRAMS)
- Centre for Latin American Studies
- Centre for Translation Studies and Lexicography
- The University of Copenhagen Translation Centre
- Center for Transnational American Studies
- Centre for Australian Studies
- Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
- Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES)
- Center for Subjectivity Research
- Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism
- Cognition, Culture, Interaction and Audiovisual Media
- Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism (CESEM)
- Department of Scandinavian Research
- Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics
- Roots of Europe
- Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES)
- Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP)
- Danish National Research foundation’s Centre for Language Change In Real Time (The Lanchart Centre )
- Centre for Gender Studies (contact info)
- Centre for Reading Research (only in Danish)
- Studies in Danish as a Second and Foreign Language (in Danish)
- Centre for Gender Studies (in Danish)
- Royal School of Library and Information Science
- SAXO Institute
- Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES)
- Centre for the Aristotelic Tradition (only in Danish)
- Centre for European Midieval Studies (only in Danish)
- Centre for Cultural Analysis (only in Danish)
- Center for Healthy Aging
- Centre for Textile Research
Faculty of Law
Centres of Excellence (CoE)
Research centres:
- CECS - Centre for European Constitutionalization and Security
- Centre for Enterprise Liability
- Centre for Information and Innovation Law
- Centre for Pension Law
- Centre for Studies in Legal Culture
- CESEL - Centre for European Studies in Economic Law
- CORA - Centre for Public Regulation and Administration
- FOCOFIMA - Forum for Company Law and Financial Market Law
- WELMA - Legal Studies in Welfare and EU Market Integration
Faculty of Science
Departments and institutes (with centres):
- Department of Biology
- Center for Ancient Genetics
- The Bioinformatics Centre
- Center for Comparative Genomics
- Center for Functional and Comparative Insect Genomics
- Center for GeoGenetics
- Center for Macroecology, Ecology, and Climate
- Centre for Social Evolution
- Danish Archaea Centre (DAC)
- The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre (CMRC)
- Department of Chemistry
- Copenhagen Centre for Atmospheric Research
- Centre for Molecular Movies
- The Danish Center for Scientific Computing (DCSC)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences
- The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre (CMRC)
- Department of Geography and Geology
- Centre for Strategic Urban Research
- HOBE - Center for Hydrology - Hydrological Observatory
- Nordic Center for Earth Evolution
- Department of Science Education
- Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Centre for Symmetry and Deformation
- Niels Bohr Institute
- Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK)
- Danish Center for Biophysics - BioNet
- The Danish Center for Scientific Computing (DCSC)
- DISCOVERY - Center of Excellence in Particle Physics Phenomenology
- Centre for Energy, Environment and Health (CEEH)
- Centre for Ice and Climate
- Center for Models of Life
- Centre for Molecular Movies
- Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies (CPNSS)
- Center for Quantum Optics (Quantop)
- Natural History Museum of Denmark
- Center for GeoGenetics
- Center for Macroecology, Ecology, and Climate
- Center for Star and Planet Formation
- Nordic Center for Earth Evolution
- Arctic Station, Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland
Cross-disciplinary research centres:
- Earth System Science Center
- eScience Center
- Nano-Science Center
- NanoChalk
- Polar Science Center
- Space Science Center
Faculty of Social Sciences
Departments and centres:
- Department of Anthropology
- Waterworlds - Natural Environmental Disasters and Social Resilience in Anthropological Perspective
- Department of Economics
- Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM)
- Centre for Experimental Economics (CEE)
- Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE)
- Development Economic Research Group (DERG)
- Econometrics Group
- Economic Policy in the Modern Welfare State (WEST)
- Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU)
- Finance Research Unit (FRU)
- INET Center of Imperfect Knowledge Economics
- Macroeconomics and the Historical Record (MEHR)
- Microeconomic Research Unit (MRU)
- Department of Political Science
- Centre for Advanced Security Theory
- Centre for European Politics
- Centre for Military Studies
- Centre for Voting and Parties
- European Research at the University of Copenhagen (EURECO)
- Department of Psychology
- Centre for Supervision
- Centre for Theoretical and Empirical Consciousness Studies
- Centre for work and organizational psychology
- Copenhagen Child Anxiety Project
- Copenhagen University BabyLab
- Research Centre SUBSTANce
- The Centre for Psychotherapy Research
- The Copenhagen Bulimia Trial
- Department of Sociology
- Centre for Research in Existence and Society
- Centre for Research in Sexuality – Culture/Society/Health
- Centre for the Sociological Study of Science, Expertise & Society
- Coordination for Gender Research
- Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS)
- Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)
Faculty of Theology
Departments:
Research centres:
- Centre of African Studies
- Centre for the Study of the Use of the Bible
- Centre for Medieval Rituals
- Centre for European Islamic Thought
- Centre for Naturalism and Christian Semantics
- Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre

