Our mission

There is more in the signal than instruments currently use.

The energy around us, radio waves, light, heat, carries information about what it came from, bounced off, or passed through. We use only a small part of it: light to see with, radar to place an aircraft, a thermal camera to find a body in the dark. Catch more and you learn more, not just where a thing is, but what it is, what it is made of, and what stands between it and the instrument. Physics sets one limit, the faintest signal that noise allows. Much of what is discarded above that limit is discarded because of how instruments are built, not because it could not be measured.

Today that means fainter signals, from more places, read more deeply, and as those gaps close, others open. The work spans the sensors themselves, the hardware that surrounds them, the engineering that takes an instrument out of the laboratory, and the reconstruction that turns faint measurements into a picture of the world.

How we work

Principles of the lab

01

Models we can trust

Each one says where it applies, by how much it is wrong, and how it warns you when it has left its range.

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What we publish, we publish honestly

Negative results included.

03

Curiosity, with discipline

We follow a question a long way, and we test what we find rather than defend it.

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One roof

Physicists, engineers and technicians, without hard lines between them.

Join us

Who we want

People who would rather spend four years on one instrument than four months on twelve slides. What you build here is deployed in the field, not left on the bench. We ask that it be built and measured, not described.

Where we stand

Instruments that let a machine understand the world rest on the same physics as instruments that watch people. We build under Danish and European accountability. Europe should not depend on others for the ability to see.

Where we sit

Part of the Weibel Group

Bring us a hard problem.