UiO The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics

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Organisation

The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics is divided into two research sections, one IT unit and one management unit.

Management unit

Role	Full name
Institute leader	Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort (office room 204)
Substitute leader	David Fonseca Mota (office room 104)
Section leader Cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics	David Fonseca Mota (office room 104)
Section leader Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics	Mats Carlsson (office room 206)
Educational leader	Frode Kristian Hansen (office room 301)
Admin. unit leader	Kristine Aall S. Knudsen (office room 208)
IT/Technical unit leader	Torben Leifsen (office room 105)

Administration unit

Role	Full name
Head of office	Kristine Aall S. Knudsen (office room 208)
Centre coordinator for RoCS	Benedikte F. Karlsen (office room 207)
Study consultant	Morsal Saba (office room 106a) Aura Victoria Wilson (office room 106b) (on parental leave) Ida Emilie Moe (office room 106b)
Communication advisers	(on parental leave) Martina D'Angelo (office room 106b) Ana Isabel Silva Martins (office room 109) Eyrun Thune (office room 201 B)
HR Responsible	Elin Thoresen (Ø210 Dep. Physics)
Institute economist	Erlend Kummen (Ø210 Dep. Physics)
Responsible for accounting, invoices travel reimbursements	Vanitha Marimuthu (Ø210 Dep. Physics)
Project economist	Chrishny Joseph for RoCS

IT/Technical unit

Role

Full name

IT leader

Torben Leifsen (office room 105)

IT-support

Kjell Andresen (office room 104)

Unni Fuskeland (office room 104)

Project Related IT Services -

PRITS

Terje Fredvik (office room 214)

Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan (office room 214)

Martin Wiesmann (office room 214)

Research sections

Cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics

Leader:

David Mota (office room 104)

Permanent staff:

Hans Arnold Winther (office room 101b)

Øystein Elgarøy (office room 102)

Hans Kristian Kamfjord Eriksen (office room 102a)

Ingunn Kathrine Wehus (office room 103)

Per Barth Lilje (office room 107)

Frode Kristiansen Hansen (office room 301)

Claudia Cicone (office room 402)

Sijing Shen (office room 403)

Researchers:

Sigurd Kirkevold Næss (office room 108)

Duncan Watts (office room 109)

Mathew Galloway (office room 109)

Eirik Gjerløw (office room 109)

Reijo Keskitalo (office room 109)

Håkon Dahle (office room 116)

Farbod Hassani (office room 501)

Postdocs:

Nils-Ole Stutzer (office room 108)

Jonas Gahr Sturtzel Lunde (office room 108)

Raelyn Sullivan (office room 109)

Katrine Glasscock (office room 109)

Robert Wissing (office room 401)

Rubinur Khatun (office room 401)

Boy Lankhaar (office room 401)

Stephen John Molyneux (office room 401)

Abdolali Banihashemi (office room 501)

José Ricardo Correia (office room 501)

Andrius Tamosiunas (office room 502)

PhD students:

Leo Bianchi (office room 108)

Ana Isabel Silva Martins (office room 109)

Vetle Amundsen Vikenes (office room 109)

Synne Sigstad Jørgensen (office room 109)

Angela Bonato (office room 109)

Akhil Lasrado (office room 401)

Herman Sletmoen (office room 501)

Jakob Borg (office room 502)

Dennis Fremstad (office room 502)

Jonas Broe Bendtsen

Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS)

Leader:

Mats Carlsson (office room 206)

Permanent staff:

Marianne Gjestvold Omang (office room 116)

Viggo Hansteen (office room 202)

Sven Wedemeyer (office room 203)

Luc Rouppe van der Voort (office room 204)

Tiago Pereira (office room 205)

Boris Gudiksen (office room 206A)

Prof. II/ Adjunct Professors:

Juan Martinez Sykora (office room 201)

Åke Nordlund (office room 201)

Guillaume Aulanier (office room 201)

Bart De Pontieu (office room 202)

Ineke de Moortel (office room 202)

Lyndsay Fletcher (office room 202)

Senior Engineers

Mikolaj Szydlarski(office room 214)

Andrius Popovas (office room 214)

Researchers:

Petra Kohutova (office room 202)

Maryam Saberi (office room 202)

Guest researchers

Shahin Jafarzadeh

Daniel Nóbrega Siverio

Guoyin Chen (room 210)

Postdocs:

Valeriia Liakh (office room 210 A)

Fan Zhang (office room 213)

Prasanta Gorai (office room 213)

Carlos José Diaz Baso (office room 216)

Pooja Devi (office room 216)

PhD students:

Sascha Ornig (office room 210)

Ignasi Josep Soler Poquet (office room 210)

Aline Rangøy Brunvoll (office room 210A)

Semya Amouche Tønnessen (office room 210A)

Mats Kirkaune (office room 216)

Oscar Soler Pérez

Other Institute's members - Emeriti

Oddbjørn Engvold (office room 116)

Jan Trulsen (office room 116)

Olav Kjeldseth-Moe (office room 116)

Adjunct Professor in collaboration with Dep. Geology

Jane Luu (Earth Evolution and Dynamics)