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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!

Master’s student Pia Lohfeld Philine from Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany will visit the Hylleraas Centre for three months. During her stay, she will be supervised by Henrique M. Cezar and Michele Cascella.

In close collaboration with Aparna Krishnan and Daniel Crawford at Virginia Tech and Ben Peyton at Michigan State University in the US, Håkon Emil Kristiansen and Thomas Bondo Pedersen published a paper on an orbital-level interpretation of correlated many-electron dynamics induced by ultrashort laser pulses. The paper is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A as part of the special issue “John F. Stanton Memorial Issue”.

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.

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.

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

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.