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Listen to Gaute Einevoll talk about neuroscience and technology in these podcast episodes (Norwegian only):

- My work will be focused on the long-standing puzzle of energy transport throughout the solar atmosphere, explains Kilian Krikova.

Yesterday, CBA leader Dag O. Hessen won two awards in the major literature award, Brageprisen. 

Interview with Louise Steffensen Schmidt (The Nansen Legacy), Postdoc at the Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo. Recently, she presented her research work in the lecture: Variability in glacier meltwater runoff to the Barents Sea, at the 3^rd Nansen Legacy annual meeting, 10-12 Nov. 2020.

The Research Council has announced that the innovation award goes to founder and scientific director Agnete Fredriksen in Vaccibody.

The Publish and Read agreements make it possible for researchers to publish openly and at the same time completely free of charge. This article tells you how to proceed.

Maryam Saberi from Iran started working at RoCS two months before the Covid-19 close-down of Norway. 

Roux Prize Press release: Professors and siblings Kristin Braa and Jørn Braa, of the University of Oslo, have been awarded the 2020 Roux Prize, a US$100,000 award for turning evidence into health impact.

The student team representing the University of Oslo at the iGEM annual synthetic biology competition, has presented their project “Sal. coli”. It is the only team from Norway this year, consisting of: Alexander Refsnes-Petkovic, Jonas Aouay Grønbakken and Martin Eide.

The European Space Agency (ESA) have formally adopted Ariel, the first mission dedicated to study the nature, formation and evolution of exoplanets. Ariel is a space telescope planned for launch in 2029. Professor Stephanie Werner at CEED and GEO have been Co-PI in the Ariel Consortium, and is excited. 

We have so far elected the Head of Department, Stephan Oepen, and the Head of Department has appointed a deputy, Ingrid Chieh Yu. These are members of the Department Board by virtue of their positions. The next step is the election of the other members of the Department Board from 1.1.2021 to 31.12.2024.

- This position places me in the best research environment, says Nancy Narang who has worked as a postdoctoral fellow for RoCS since last winter.

UiO:Life Science funds 14 convergence environments that address major challenges within life sciences related to health, environment and sustainable growth. A new application round has started. Researchers from all units at UiO are welcome to participate.

UiO:Life Science funds 14 convergence environments that address major challenges within life sciences related to health, environment and sustainable growth. A new application round has started. Researchers from all units at UiO are welcome to participate.

"Norway is an incredibly beautiful country for its particularly supportive education system."

UiO:Life Science supports projects at UiO that are in line with the UiO life science strategy for research, innovation and education with the aim of securing and strengthening international competitiveness in the life sciences. Open call applies to projects at UiO that are not eligible to apply for funding through the other UiO:Life Science funding opportunities.

Academic employees, post docs and PhD students at UiO within the life sciences can apply for support to strengthen the collaboration with international research environments. The last application deadline was 1 March 2021. 

Academic employees and students at UiO can apply UiO:Life Science for funds for partially financing of open events that are in line with the initiative's strategy. The last application deadline was 1 December 2020.  A new call with application deadline 1 June will be out in the spring 2021.

Colours are often used in figures, diagrams and maps in natural science to show results and data. But choose the right combination of colours so that they not distort your figures. So how do you pick the right colour and colour scale? Get some help from scientists who are specially interested in colour scales, modeling and visualization of science.

Stephan Oepen is elected with 51.33 percent of the votes compared to 48.67 percent for Knut-Helge Rolland.

What happens in the brain of AI-based robots operating under water? Researchers will investigate this question in a new European Horizon 2020 research project. Experts in AI and reliability analysis will cooperate with companies developing underwater robots.

Forty students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science this summer. The summer projects concluded with an exhibition and selection of the best academic and popular science poster.

In a tent in minus 17 degrees in the Bolivian high mountain plateau, Altiplano, a desert that looks like a painting by Salvador Dalí, the world's largest salt flat. These are just some of the experiences Olivier Galland and Caroline Sassier write about in GEO ExPro from their journey by bike along the mighty landscape of the Andes in South America.

After being corona-delayed by six months, it was time to celebrate the first graduates from the innovation program SPARK Norway. The graduation of a total of nine projects was marked with the presentation of diplomas and presentations given by all project managers, also called SPARKees.

Employees and students at IFI can vote for our next Head of Department from October 15th to 20th.