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We’re pleased to welcome Elvira Boström, Anders Mathias Rønneberg and Nelson Nicolai Jørgensen as new master’s students at the Hylleraas Centre in Oslo.

Dr. Benjamin Normann Frandsen joins the Hylleraas Centre in Oslo as an externally funded Researcher. Benjamin will explore atmospheric chemistry in extra-terrestrial atmospheres with a unique set of computational-chemistry methods, including density-functional theory, coupled-cluster models, and multi-reference methods.

Is it possible to observe positron-matter complexes before positron-electron annihilation? In a new paper published in The Journal of Chemical Physics by Hylleraas members Einar Aurbakken, Håkon Emil Kristiansen, Simen Kvaal, and Thomas Bondo Pedersen along with Antoine Camper from the Department of Physics at UiO, theoretical simulations of photopositron spectra predict that the answer is yes!

The recent paper on Chemical Interpretation of Time-Dependent Coupled-Cluster Theory by Aparna Krishnan and Daniel Crawford (Virginia Tech), Ben Peyton (Michigan State University) and Hylleraas members Håkon Emil Kristiansen and Thomas Bondo Pedersen has been selected ACS Editors’ Choice.

Thomas Bondo Pedersen presented recent research on making chemical sense of coupled-cluster dynamics at the workshop “New Developments in Coupled-Cluster Theory” in Telluride, Colorado, USA.

We’re pleased to welcome Vladimir Rosenov Koynarev, who has joined the Hylleraas Centre in Oslo as a postdoc researcher. He will be working on the use of antimicrobial and other surface-active peptides to transport drugs across the membranes of human cells for therapeutic purposes. 

The eight Annual Report of the Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences has been published.

This summer Professor of theoretical Chemistry, Ludwik Adamowicz, takes a break from the hot summer in Arizona to work with Professor Thomas Bondo Pedersen and Professor Simen Kvaal at Hylleraas Centre at University of Oslo.

Hylleraas School 2027 will be held at Hotel Hadeland on January 11.-15.

This seminar serie is part of a collaboration between the Japanese research institutions, the Japanese embassy, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Council of Norway, Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, Innovation Norway, Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo, UiO and the Hylleraas Centre. 

The 2026 Almlöf—Gropen Lecture will be given by Prof. Trond Saue, Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantique, CNRS & Université de Toulouse 3 (Paul Sabatier), France, on Tuesday 9th June 2026 as part of a seminar that also features contributions from MSc. Quentin Pitteloud and MSc. Oliver Macphail Bohle from the Hylleraas Centre.

The 2026 Almlöf—Gropen Lecture will be given by Prof. Trond Saue, Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantique, CNRS & Université de Toulouse 3 (Paul Sabatier), France, on Thursday11th June 2026 as part of a seminar that also features contributions from MSc. Quentin Pitteloud and MSc. Oliver Macphail Bohle from the Hylleraas Centre.

Postdoc Lucía Morán-González gave an invited talk at the EPFL University in Switzerland

On April 25, roughly 100 school children aged 7 to 13 visited the Hylleraas Centre and the Department of Chemistry in Oslo to present the research projects they had worked on over the past 6 weeks. The event, “Hvorfor Det?” – a science fair for school kids – was organized by the parents’ board at Ila Skole in collaboration with the Hylleraas Centre.

Recent research results from the Hylleraas Centre were presented by several former and present members at the international workshop “Foundations and Extensions of Density-Functional Theory” at Oslo Metropolitan University.

In April 23 researchers gathered at the University of Tromsø's field station in Skibotn for the annual hackathon. Despite the unpredictable Arctic weather, the week was filled with productive collaboration, focused research, and social activities.

The MRChem group obtained compute time funding through two EuroHPC Benchmark Access Calls for benchmarking their software MRChem on EuroHPC machines.

PhD student Michael Augello received a UiO:Energy Mobility Grant for a PhD exchange of 3 months in Belgium

We’re pleased to welcome Jordan Rio, who has joined the Hylleraas Centre in Oslo as a postdoc researcher. He will be working on the speciation and activation of transition-metal pre-catalysts in solution.

Doctoral candidate Mohamed Eid Ahmed Safy at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Computationally guided CO2 to methanol catalysis: From a mechanistic investigation to a descriptor-based screening" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

The second-to-last Hylleraas Hackathon is coming up! Work focused on a task, forge collaborations, and make friends in the picturesque surroundings of Skibotn. This year, as a treat, a special guest will host a workshop on visual analysis of simulation data using VIAMD!

Researcher Henrique Musseli Cezar granted 10 MNOK for his Early Career FRIPRO project "APExModel: Addressing Antimicrobial Peptides by Integrating Experiments into Modelling”. The APExModel project aims to address the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance by focusing on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs).

The CCSC 2026: Chemical Compound Space Conference aims to cultivate and strengthen a global scholarly network by convening experts, mid-career professionals, and emerging scientists to advance and refine Quantum Machine Learning (QML) through the exploration and utilization of chemical compound space.

Master student Francesco Rumiz in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry from the University of Trieste, has a three months research stay at Hylleraas Centre, Oslo. During his stay he will be supervised by researcher Andre Laestadius.

Three visitors from the Scientific computing group at Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France visited the Hylleraas Centre in Oslo to continue our ongoing collaboration on the development and application of the Hylleraas Software Platform (HSP).