Postdoctoral researchers
| Navdeep Rana | (2026-) Complex Interactions in Living and Active Matter (DSTrain Program) |
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| (2022-2025) Physical modelling of epithelial tissue morphogenesis (ITOM project) |
PhD students
| Pieter Hessel Harkema | (2026-) Active matter physics of early embryogenesis (GENESIS) |
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| Daniel G. Holmedal | (2025-) Precipitation and mixing on complex media |
| Laetitia Drumare | (2024-) Sea ice fragmentation |
| Harish P. Jain | (2021-2025) PhD thesis Collective emergent behaviour of active cellular systems |
| Jonas Rønning | (2020-2023) PhD thesis Topological defects and flows in BEC and active matter |
| Vidar Skogvoll | (2019-2023) PhD thesis Symmetry, topology and crystal deformations: a phase-field crystal approach |
| Kristian S. Olsen | (2018-2021) PhD thesis Active and passive Brownian particles in complex environments |
| Petter Vollestad | (2017-2020) PhD thesis Experimental investigations of two-phase flows. Dynamics of stratified and particle-laden flows in pipes and flumes |
| Audun Skaugen | (2014-2018) PhD thesis awarded the HM the King's Gold medal A unified perspective on two-dimensional quantum turbulence and plasticity |
| Christopher Hawkins | (2011-2014) PhD thesis Non-equilibrium pattern formation in reactive channel flow |
MSc students
| Kjetil Tofte | (2023-2025) MSc thesis A computational study of emergent phenomena in Vicsek-like models |
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| Milos Joksimovic | (2022-2025) MSc thesis Topological defects in p-atics |
| Vebjørn Øvereng | (2022-2024) MSc thesis Vortex-phonon interactions in Bose Einstein condensates |
| Henrik Haugerud Carlsen | (2021-2023) MSc thesis Quantum vortex reconnection and Kelvin waves |
| Øyvind Augdal Fløvig | (2021-2022) MSc thesis A phase field crystal model for dislocations in square crystal lattices |
| Emily Qing Zang Moen | (2020-2022) MSc thesis Active particles under confinement: A first-passage time approach to study trapping of active particles near a wall |
| Jonas Rønning | (2018-2020) MSc thesis Dynamics of a 2D Bose-Einstein condensate with an impurity |
| Øydis Larsen | (2012-2014) MSc thesis A phase field crystal study of grain growth in one and two dimension |
| Kristin Myhra | (2009-2011) MSc thesis A phase field crystal study of freezing and melting |
Student Internships
Justine Gebrael, ENS Paris-Saclay, 3 months in 2026
Adam Monev Myrvang, Life Sciences UiO 2026 - summer internship
Amina Asri, Life Sciences UiO 2026 - summer internship
Tony Khoa Nguyen, Life Sciences UiO 2025 - summer internship
Frederik Eichenberger, Life Sciences UiO 2024 - summer internship
Laetitia Drumare, University of Grenoble, 2024
Marie Scheid, ENS Paris-Saclay, 3 months in 2023