2024

Since starting his PhD in 1999, Ola has pursuing his passion in the thrilling world of Chemistry.

Erlend Tiberg North was voted by the students as the best educator of the year at the Department of Chemistry UiO and awarded THE GOLDEN SPATULA / DEN GYLDNE SPATEL!

Doctoral candidate Rasmus Vester Thørgersen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, defended his thesis "Antifluorite-type oxides as positive electrodes for Li/Na-ion batteries" for the degree of Philosophiae doctor 6th of December 2024.

SMN won the Realmoro 2024 jury prize for the category "Best ensemble and undertones of conspiracy theories".

Doctoral candidate Johnny Andreas Sannes at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, defended his thesis "Bi-Anion Compounds with Low-Dimensional Crystal Structures" for the degree of Philosophiae doctor 27th of September.

The 6th NordBatt Conference was successfully held by UiO and IFE from 24th-27th of September!

The dawn of a new era is here as we welcome a new section leader for NAFUMA and Section of Inorganic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department at UiO - Anja Olafsen Sjåstad.

Her thesis “Synthesis and Characterization of Cu- and Bimetallic Cu-Ru Nanoparticles” was successfully presented and defended Thursday 22nd of August.

The AVS 24th international Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD 2024) in Helsinki just concluded, and NAFUMA sent the largest delegation ever!

A lot of people are traveling for holidays in July but for Erlend North, Tian Dai, Anders Brennhagen, David Wragg, Abilash Thiagarajan, and Alexey Koposov this July also includes going on beamtime at the ESRF!

Not only did we have a half-day seminar on the last day before the vacation, we also had a summer party to top it off!

Friday 28th of June was Helmer Fjellvåg's last "official" day at UiO, so we put together a full program of talks and activities celebrating his career all the way back to 1978!

Alexey, Dipankar and Anders were at BM01 at ESRF from 17th to 23rd of June to do operando XRD measurements on different battery materials.

Alexey Koposov is one of the partners in "C4Bat - Battery-Grade Carbon for Sodium-ion Batteries" managed by IFE.

His thesis “Bismuth Chalcogenides as conversion/alloying anode materials in Na-ion batteries” was  successfully presented and defended Thursday the 24th of June.

Today is Helmer's actual birthday and he is officially 70 years young!

Amalie, Erlend, Tian and David are currently in Grenoble for the The international Operando Battery Days, 12th-14th June 2024.

His thesis “The Effect of Cobalt Precursors on Cobaltate Thin Films A Study on Atomic Layer Deposition of Lanthanum Cobalt Oxide Thin Films” was successfully presented and defended the 13th of June.

Coworkers, friends and family gathered in the Chemistry Canteen 12th of June to mark a special jubilee for a man who started his career at UiO all the way back to 1974.

His thesis “Atomic layer deposition of barium stannate Surveying new ALD systems for next-generation complex oxide electronics” was  successfully presented and defended Thursday the 6th of June.

The summer is an excellent time to have a photo taken of our research group, and this year the overcast protected us from getting the sun in our eyes

Doctoral candidate Anders Brennhagen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, defended his thesis "Bi metallates as conversion-alloying anodes for Na-ion batteries" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor April 5th.

Doctoral candidate Martin Myhre Jensen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, defended his thesis "Synthesis, Characterization, and In situ / Operando Studies of Pt-Rh Model Catalysts for the NH₃ Oxidation Reaction" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor 1st of March.

Doctoral candidate Bruno Guilherme Fischer Eggert at the department of chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, defended his thesis “Composition tuning microstructure and magnetic properties of High Entropy Alloys and MnNiSi-based compounds” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor 27th of February 2024.