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With 71 people from 21 countries spread over four continents, the researchers at the Center for Excellence in Research kept a high pace.

Heterogeneous catalysis is a key enabling technology for the transition from a fossil-based society to a renewables-based scenario. Industrial catalysts are always shaped into millimeter-sized catalyst objects suitable for large scale industrial use. However, these catalysts invariably suffer from a loss of performance due to carbon deposits. It is vital to understand how these phenomena occur in these shaped objects, resolved both in time and space.

Journal of Catalysis, Volume 401, 1-6.

Joint research between the University of Oslo and Pennsylvania State University resulted in the development of a toolset necessary to understand the chemical changes in amorphous battery materials at atomistic level. This work has been recently published at Chemistry of Materials and has been selected for a cover page of the corresponding issue.

Chemistry of Materials, 35 (7), 2835-2845.

Nanocomposite materials consist of nanometer-sized quantum objects such as atoms, molecules, voids or nanoparticles embedded in a host material. These quantum objects can be exploited as a superstructure, which can be designed to create material properties targeted for specific applications.

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25, 2671.

Professor and glaciologist Regine Hock at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo has been appointed to honorary doctorate at Uppsala University. It is in recognition of her long and dedicated research on glaciers, among other things for having developed models for calculating and forecasting how much the world's glaciers are melting.

The peri-coastal areas of Antarctica, the largest ice-free area of the Antarctic continent where atmospheric conditions have generated one of the most extreme environments on the planet, are undergoing degassing from the permafrost.

From January 1 2023, several changes have been implemented in the organisation of the scientific sections at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo. Four new sections have been created. But not everything changes, three sections continue as before.

Six new teams have been admitted to UiO´s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.

Connecting diverse topics in chemistry, the difference between learning and doing science is not always as clear cut - especially when you apply new tools to open unexplored learning paths.

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 2023!

The UiO Growth House, dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ‘Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking’, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.

UiO:Life Science will fund educational summer research projects for 40 students between April and September 2023 for students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at UiO. We now invite you to suggest projects for one or two students. The application deadline was 1 February 2023.

UiO:Life Science will fund 40 educational summer research projects for students between April and September 2023. Students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The application form opened 17 January and is now closed as we have received maximum of registrants. 

Five projects have completed the SPARK Norway innovation programme in 2022. During the graduation ceremony in December, the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2022 was presented.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has recently announced the recipients of medals and awards for 2023. Two researchers from University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences are on the list.

AstraZeneca, the SPARK Norway programme at University of Oslo and Oslo Cancer Cluster enter a new mentoring collaboration for life science start-ups.

The Norway Life Science 2023 conference brings together key actors for developing a world-leading healthcare industry in Norway. The theme of the conference is interaction between health, technology and society.

Professor of hydrology, Chong-Yu Xu at the Department of Geosciences, UiO has been awarded his second medal and award for 2022 this autumn. In September he received the IWA Publishing Award from the International Water Association (IWA).

Norbert Pirk and Frans-Jan Parmentier, who are CBA researchers, contributed with data from Norway in a research study led by researchers at the University of Zurich.

Reduced indoor temperatures, co-use of buildings, and closed charging ports for electric cars are among some of the measures that will come into effect in an effort to reduce energy usage.

Fifty students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science this summer. The end of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.

The University of Oslo, organised in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), the event "Is there hope for the Oslofjord" on 29 September. The theme arouses great interest and many people participated in Domus Bibliotheca.

In autumn 2021, six new convergence environments were granted funding for a period of four years. The interdisciplinary research groups have started up during 2022 and are well underway with the recruitment of PhDs and Postdoctoral fellows for their research projects.

Arnoldo Frigessi and Arne Klungland are granted Norwegian Centres of exellence.

Many researchers from the Department of Geosciences received grants from Fri projektstøtte (FRIPRO) from The Research Council of Norway (NFR) this time. This was announced by NFR on 5. September. The competition for getting a FRIPRO research grant is, as usual, fierce.