Ingunn Kathrine Wehus

Academic interests

• Cosmological physics
• Cosmic microwave background and astrophysical foregrounds
• Intensity mapping
• Dark energy and modified gravity
• Quantum field theory and extra dimensions

Background

• Professor at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA), University of Oslo from 2019
• Associate Professor at ITA, University of Oslo (UiO) 2018-2019
• Researcher at ITA, UiO 2015-2018
• Postdoc at JPL/Caltech 2012-2015
• Research Associate at University of Oxford 2012
• Research Associate at Imperial College London 2011
• Postdoc at Department of Physics, UiO in collaboration with Caltech 2008-2010
• Associate Professor at Oslo University College 2007
• Dr. Scient. in theoretical physics from University of Oslo 2006

Collaboration

• Cosmoglobe coordinator
• Global Component Separation Network coordinator
• COMAP member and local team leader
• SPIDER member and local team leader
• PASIPHAE member and local team leader
• LiteBIRD external collaborator and local team leader
• GreenPol member and local team leader
• Planck Scientist and LFI and HFI core team member
• QUIET member

Funding awards

• 12 MNOK Research Council of Norway (RCN) FRIPRO funding for COMAP (2025-2029)
• 2.0 M€ European Research Council (ERC) CoG funding for Cosmoglobe (2019-2025)
• 4.5 MNOK INTPART funding for Global Component Separation Network (2018-2022)
• 4.5 MNOK RCN ROMFORSK funding for Norwegian participation in future CMB missions (2017-2020)
• 7.6 MNOK RCN FRINATEK funding for Norwegian participation in SPIDER (2016-2019)
• 5.0 MNOK RCN ROMFORSK funding for Norwegian participation in COMAP (2016-2019)
• 1.2 MNOK AVIT funding for computing nodes and storage for SPIDER (2015)
• 2.7 MNOK RCN FRINAT funding for Dark energy from extra dimensions (2008-2010)

Prizes and awards

• University of Oslo Research Award 2024

Publications

• For an updated list of publications, please see arXiv