Uffe Gråe Jørgensen is an associate professor of astrophysics and planetary science at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, where he heads the Exoplanets & Astrobiology research group and the Centre for Extraterrestrial Life (CELS), a cross-disciplinary collaboration spanning biology and chemistry. His work focuses on discovering and characterising exoplanets, modelling their atmospheres, and searching for biosignatures that could indicate life beyond Earth. He is a prominent science communicator, regularly appearing in Danish media and podcasts on the search for extraterrestrial life.
Jørgensen is co-author on a new article in Astronomy & Astrophysics (June 2025) as part of the MiNDSTEp collaboration on microlensing and exoplanets.
Jørgensen commented to TV 2 on the strongest evidence so far for life beyond Earth, when a Cambridge team published findings of the chemicals DMS and DMDS in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18b via the James Webb telescope.
Jørgensen is co-author on an article in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (April 2025) on characterization of exoplanet systems.
Jørgensen participated in a YouTube video about astrobiology and life in space, produced in October 2024.
Jørgensen was a guest on the podcast 'Videnskab fra vilde hjerner' (January 2024) and explained how advanced computer models are used to search for signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres.
