Doctoral candidate Ryan Scott Wilkins at the Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, defended his thesis "Mechanisms of enzyme adaptation to extreme environments: The rational design of a thermophilic chorismate mutase" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
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Dr. Torsha Moitra has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action European Fellowship in the field of Chemistry. Since February 2022, she has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the UiT node of the Hylleraas Centre, in the group of Dr. Michal Repisky and Prof. Kenneth Ruud.
Flavie and Michael start their PhDs at the Hylleraas Center in Oslo, with the support of the EU DN DEMO project.
Doctoral candidate Mahika Luthra at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, defended her thesis "Computational Study on the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 using Transition Metal catalysts with Pendant Amines" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
David Balcells presented the machine learning research done at the Center in several international events
Master of Science Benedicte Sverdrup Ofstad defended her PhD thesis entitled “Time-domain quantum dynamics: Optical properties from time-dependent electronic-structure theory” on 1 December 2023.
Dr. Lucas Lang, Prof. Trygve Helgaker, and Prof. Thomas Bondo Pedersen presented their research at the 59th Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry at ETH Zürich on 11-14 September, 2023.
The impressive experimental achievements of the 2023 Nobel Laureates in physics has stimulated much theoretical activity at the Hylleraas Centre.
Thomas Bondo Pedersen participated in a panel debate about Energy and a Changing World organised by Centre for Advanced Study at Litteraturhuset in Oslo on September 20, 2023.
Aurore Denjean won the best poster presentation award at the 14th European Conference on Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
In a study recently featured in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Hylleraas members Marinella de Giovanetti, Sondre H. Hopen Eliasson, Abril C. Castro, Odile Eisenstein, and Michele Cascella move the first steps into understanding the chemistry of Turbo Grignard reagents.
Odile Eisenstein, newly elected Foreign member of the Royal Society, signed the Charter Book on 14th July
Master of Science Samiran Sen defended his PhD thesis entitled «Advances in Hamiltonian Hybrid Particle—Field Theory: Improving the description of interfacial systems» for the
degree of Philosophiae Doctor on May 26, 2023.
The project involves several research activities in the field of machine learning for chemistry and materials science that will be supervised by Res. Prof. David Balcells at the Hylleraas Centre
The article highlighted includes the work on deep graph learning recently published by Hylleraas members Hannes Kneiding, Lucas Lang, Simen Reine, Thomas Bondo Pedersen, and David Balcells
The Inorganic Chemistry journal features cover artwork by Hylleraas members Abril C. Castro, Michele Cascella, and Odile Eisenstein
The 2023 edition of the Hylleraas School was held in Hadeland on January 10-13
The Norway-Japan Academic Network seminar "Knowledge Triangle in Energy -Research, Education, Business" was held at the Hylleraas centre on February 15. The seminar was part of the 20th anniversary of the Norway-Japan national research contract.
Sigbjørn L. Bore has been awarded the Young CAS project "Can ice be described from first principles?"
Curiosity-Driven Research by School Children—Hvorfor Det? Co-Organized by the Hylleraas Centre.
Members of Hylleraas Centre presented their research at the WATOC 2022 Conference
Master of Science Karolina Di Remigio Eikås defended her PhD thesis entitled «A computational study of cyclic peptides with vibrational circular dichroism» on 16 December, 2022.
Prof. Trygve Helgaker and Prof. Luca Frediani presented their research at DFT 2022 (Aug 28 to Sept 2, 2022), Brussels, Belgium.
Prof. Kenneth Ruud and Prof. Thomas Bondo Pedersen presented their research at MQM 2022 (June 26 - July 1, 2022), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
Dr. Lukas Konecny was awarded a poster prize at the 9th Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications, School and Workshop (Benasque, Spain) Oct 18 -- Oct 28, 2022.