Astrophysics and forskning.no: How we make outer space accessible
The editor at forskning.no, Aksel Kjær Vidnes, shares experiences from inside the Nordic region’s largest science news site, along with tips and tricks for science communication.
Aksel Kjær Vidnes is a Norwegian journalist and editor. Since 2022 he has served as the editor-in-chief of Forskning.no, Nordic region’s largest online science news site, which includes the youth initiative ung.forskning.no, the English‑language ScienceNorway.no, and Forskersonen, forum for debate and researchers’ own popular-science articles.
Aksel trained as a journalist at the University of Queensland in 2005 and studied sociology at the University of Oslo in 2008, where he wrote the master’s thesis "Young people’s social use of webcams" about young people’s use of web-based communication technology.