Professor of hydrology, Chong-Yu Xu, is retiring in February 2026 after more than 20 years at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo. This was marked with a pleasant farewell gathering with colleagues from the department, former students, and several research collaborators.
Recent results from a national study survey show that students at the University of Oslo (UiO) are highly satisfied with their study programmes. Students are spending more time on organised learning activities and are largely present on campus.
Are you a master's student at the Department of Geosciences? Would you like to contribute to a good start for our new master students in August 2026? Then you might be one of our new buddy coordinators. Apply within 1 May.
Six startups and innovation projects took part in the pitch contest held at the Norway Life Science Conference 2026. The health tech company Eupnea, represented by two medical students, took first place.
The lecture "The Secret World of Seamounts" was held on 4th of February 2026 by Professor Carmen Gaina, who is a marine geoscientist with the Department of Geosciences and part of PHAB centre of excellence.
The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award 2025 was presented by Stephanie Werner, Director of PHAB to the award winner Gabrielle Kleber, at a seminar in the Science Library at University of Oslo on the 5 of February.
Two workshops brought together geoscience students, staff and experts on 30 January. The event, part of the iEarth Co‑Creation Forum, explored how teaching can be developed through collaboration between instructors and students. It was organised by the Section for Geodidactics at the Department of Geosciences.
Six new projects have been admitted to UiO:Life Science's innovation programme for health-related life sciences, SPARK Norway. The teams will develop their ideas to products and solutions benefiting patients and society.
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea based on your research that can contribute to solving an important need in society, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields. The call is aimed at both commercial and non-commercial projects. The application deadline was16 March 2026.
The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences, which recognises outstanding contributions to the geosciences by women, has been awarded for 2025 to Gabrielle Kleber of UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or master's student in life sciences and looking for career opportunities outside academia - then you must sign up for Norway Life Science 2026!
The Department of Chemistry made history in 1969 when Odd Hassel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Together with skilled colleagues he helped develop an electron-diffraction apparatus capable of imaging chemical structures. Since then, the department has nurtured many strong research groups. Now the institute is entering a new phase as it prepares to move into the Life Sciences Building.
It is nearing the end of GoNorth’s research cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Recently, researchers Carmen Gaina and Alexander Minakov (University of Oslo) and Thomas Funck (GEUS) succeeded in collecting seismic data and ROV images from the Polarstern seamount in the deep sea.
PhD candidate Jacqueline Kay Knutson (University of Oslo and NIVA) has received this year’s student award in the Fægriprisen for an article about the irreversible landscape changes when permafrost disappears.
Five projects have completed UiO:Life Science’s innovation programme in health-related life sciences, SPARK Norway.
The funding is for research to develop new medications for bacterial infections and cancer. The purpose of convergence environments is to promote interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers at the Life Sciences Building and other researchers at the University of Oslo (UiO). One of eight such environments will be led by Professor Reidar Lund from the Department of Chemistry. The funding is for a period of four years.
The Norway Life Science Conference 2026 will address the areas where Norway has world-leading research. How can we, based on these areas, facilitate knowledge-based innovation, a competitive life sciences industry, and increased national value creation?
Four UiO researchers across three projects have been awarded ERC Synergy Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). They will study snow in extreme environments, the use of AI to create synthetic DNA, and how humans and climate have shaped biodiversity in Africa.
Neurodevelopmental conditions, embryonic development, biodiversity, cancer control, medications, addiction, mental health and drug delivery are topics the new convergence environments will explore.
Defect engineering in the ultra-wide band gap semiconductor α-Ga₂O₃
High-temperature TAP reactor studies of ammonia oxidation
Porphyrinic zirconium-based metal-organic frameworks for coupled thermal- and electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
PHAB Postdoctoral Fellow Jyotirmoy Paul was awarded the 2023-24 'Institute Medal' for his Ph.D thesis from the Indian Institute of Science.
In September, Professor Regine Hock hosted a seminar that highlighted the exchange opportunities available to students in the FieldEX programme. During the seminar, geoscience students presented their experiences and shared photos from their exchanges in Finse, Norway; Alaska; and Svalbard.
