Network for top female researchers

Petra Ágota Szilágyi is a professor at the Section for Catalysis and Organic Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry. Her research is focussed on the design and sustainable synthesis of metal-organic frameworks for energy and environmental applications. She is currently working on projects aimed at the development of atom-efficient catalysts for the conversion of greenhouse gases, and solid-state ion conductors.

My name is Petrus Xi Young, an interdisciplinary explorer at MN-ITS working at the intersection of energy innovations, environmental impacts, and sustainable development. I coordinate the Renewable Energy Systems master’s program, where I also develop research on how emerging energy technologies can support green transitions in diverse global contexts, with a focus on energy system optimization and socio-technical integration.

Luiza Angheluta is a Professor of Physics and section leader in condensed matter physics at the Department of Physics, UiO. Her research focuses on the theoretical statistical physics of collective behavior in systems with topological defects—such as superfluids, crystals, liquid crystals, and active matter—with interdisciplinary applications in biology, geosciences, and materials science.

Ana Ozaki works as associate professor at the Department of Informatics (IFI), DKM group. Her research in Artificial Intelligence focuses on knowledge representation and machine learning theory. Ozaki is the principal investigator of the project Learning Description Logic Ontologies funded by NFR. She also works as one of the principal investigators of the Norwegian Centre for Knowledge-driven Machine Learning.

Cecilie Morland is a professor of pharmacy with a specialization in pharmacology and leads the Neurobiology and Toxicology group at the Department of Pharmacy. Her research primarily focuses on the impact of nutritional choices and physical exercise on brain health, especially related to aging and age-related diseases. By elucidating the mechanisms through which these lifestyle factors affects the brain, she aims to develop medications that can mimic and/or enhance the protective effects.

Trine B. Rounge is a professor of bioinformatics at the Department of Pharmacy and part of the Bioinformatics in Life Science (BiLS) environment. Her research focuses on discovering early cancer detection biomarkers, including work on the CRCbiome project and omics variation through the Genome of Europe and JanusRNA projects.

Hanne Røberg-Larsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo. She leads the Bioanalytical Chemistry (BACH) group, focusing on developing and applying automated sample preparation and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) systems. Her current projects include research on organoid and organ-on-chip systems as alternatives to animal models in drug development and disease studies, focusing on the health effects of persistent organic pollutions.

Jasmin Niess is an Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo and a member of Design4Dem: Designing Technologies for Democracy and the Design group. Her research focuses on the design of human-centred interactive systems that address challenges ranging from individual well-being to societal transformation, particularly in areas such as health, human-centred AI, and democratic participation. She regularly holds key service roles in the international HCI research community, contributing to the development and direction of the field as a whole.

Associate Professor Josefine Eilsø Nielsen is a member of the Pharmaceutical Technology@UiO research group at The Department of Pharmacy. Her research is dedicated to harnessing the self-assembly properties of soft materials, such as biomacromolecules, for targeted drug delivery. She specifically focuses on antimicrobial peptides and peptide-like drugs, exploring their potential to address the challenges of antimicrobial resistance and viral pandemics.

Silvia Masiero is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Health Information Systems Planning (HISP) Centre, Department of Informatics. She is the author of Unfair ID (Sage, 2024) and of over 80 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of Information Systems and Information Technology for Development. She is Editor-In-Chief of the journal IT for Development and the Chair of the IFIP 9.4 Working Group on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development.

Biodiversity and paleogenetic group

Department of Biosciences

In my group we use genomic tools to study evolutionary and ecological processes that drive population and species distributions over spatial and temporal scales. Our research covers an extensive temporal range and a large variety of taxa. I find it specifically interesting to work in a highly interdisciplinary research environment and I thoroughly enjoy supervising and guiding young scientists. At the moment our projects focus on studying palaeoarchives preserved in caves to analyse past biodiversity in Scandinavia, and we are about to start our recently funded ERC Synergy EcoArch, on the drivers of landscape change in the Afrotropics during the past 6000 years.

Thordis Linda Thorarinsdottir is a professor of statistics and data science at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo. Her research focuses on developing stochastic models and methods for the environmental sciences, drawing on both statistical and machine learning models. Thordis currently serves as deputy head and research leader of the Mathematics Department.

Özgü Alay is a Full Professor at the Department of Informatics (IFI), University of Oslo, and section leader for Distributed Infrastructure and Security (DIS). She co-leads the Sustainable Immersive Networking Laboratory (SINLAB), which investigates sustainable immersive networked applications over digital infrastructure as well as the sustainability of the digital infrastructure itself.

Judith Reindl is an Associate Professor in Biophysics and Medical Physics at the University of Oslo (UiO). Her research integrates radiation biology, medical physics, and advanced ion-beam therapies, including proton minibeam and innovative spatial fractionation approaches, with preclinical models and data-driven methods. She leads interdisciplinary projects at the interface of physics and medicine, aiming to develop biologically optimized and personalized radiation therapy strategies.

Sabita Maharjan [SM'19] is a Full Professor at the Networks and Distributed Systems (ND) Group at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. She leads the Energy Informatics research at IFI. She worked as a Research Engineer in Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore in 2010. She was a Visiting Scholar at Zhejiang Univeristy (ZU), Hangzhou, China in 2011, and a Visiting Research Collaborator in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA in 2012. From 2024-2016 she worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Simula Research Laboratory (SRL), Norway. From 2017-2022, She worked as a Senior Research Scientist at SRL and SimulaMet, Norway and as an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Professor Maharjan is a recipient of the IEEE TCGCC Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2020. She is the Highly Cited Researcher for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 according to Web of Science- which is an accolade given in recognition of the exceptional research performance demonstrated by multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% of citations for field and year- worldwide.

Her current research interests include Energy informatics, vehicular networks, 5G Beyond and 6G, network security, Internet of Things, and AI for networks. Highlight on her current projects include the UiO Energy Convergence Envirobment PriTEM (coordinator), the RCN project CRISP (UiO Lead), and the National AI Center AID (Resaerch Area Leader) and TRUST (Research Area Leader).

Ira Didenkulova is a Professor in Mechanics at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Oslo. She is mostly interested in dynamics and impact of extreme ocean waves, such as tsunami and freak waves by modelling them both theoretically and experimentally. She is currently serving as a Programme Committee Co-Chair of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly.