2020

The work by Hylleraas Researcher David Balcells has been featured in the front cover of the Chemical Science journal issue 18, published on 14 May 2020.

An international panel have evaluated the Norwegian Centre of Excellence program and found it to have been a great success and instrumental to raising the quality of Norwegian research.

Hylleraas member Sigbjørn Løland Bore defended his PhD thesis "Advances in the Hybrid Particle-Field Approach: Towards Biological Systems" on 23 April 2020, after having presented his trial lecture “Principles of Monte Carlo Simulations” earlier the same day.

Hylleraas Researcher David Balcells has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry with the award for young researchers leading a group

Hylleraas Member Bastian Skjelstad defended his MSc thesis on April 2, 2020

Hylleraas research Magnus Olsen received a Young Investigator Grant from the Villum Foundation.

In their publication The Grignard Reaction - Unraveling a Chemical Puzzle, Hylleraas members Raphael M. Peltzer, Michele Cascella and Odile Eisenstein, in collaboration with Jürgen Gauss  (Uni. Mainz), solve the old chemical puzzle of the Grignard reaction