Congratulations to our group member, Dr. Ine Larsen Jernelv, for winning the prestigious Chorafas Prize for her outstanding research. During her PhD studies at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), Jernelv worked on mid-infrared tunable laser spectroscopy for glucose sensing. The work was part of the … Continued
The Optical Nanoscopy group webpage at UiT is now being translated into Northern Sámi! With this translation we want to reach an even broader audience for our research, and explain concepts within optics in an easily understood manner. We wish … Continued
It is our great honor to announce that the SOLIS project led by one of our principal investigators, Dr. Florian Ströhl, has been granted to become part of the prestigious Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN). This adhesion will contribute to … Continued
Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Oliver Vanderpoorten, for winning 3rd place at the MNE 2021 Micrograph Contest Award with his micrograph titled “NANO Hokusai”. The contest was framed within the Micro and Nano Engineering Conference celebrated in Turin, Italy, in September … Continued
Prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia participated in a webinar session from the Norway-Singapore Science Week held on the 2nd of November 2021. In his talk, prof. Ahluwalia presented the “Advances in nanotechnology for medical sensing” using photonic chip imaging platforms in combination … Continued
We were pleased to host Prof. Håvard Danielsen and Dr. Manohar Pradhan from the Institute for Cancer Genetics and Informatics (ICGI), who visited us on October 21st, 2021 at our premises in Tromsø. During their visit, the Nanopath team led … Continued
OPTICA (formerly known as Optical Society of America – OSA) is an international organization that promotes knowledge and opportunities within the fields of optics and photonics. Recently, PhD students and postdocs at the Optics Group (Physics Department) from UiT have … Continued
We are glad to announce that Assoc. Prof. Krishna Agarwal has been assigned a senior member of URSI. International Union of Radio Science (URSI) is one of 26 international scientific unions affiliated to the International Council for Science (ICSU) established in 1919 and has … Continued
Prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia was recently invited for a talk in a seminar organized by the Photonic Engineering Division, Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics at the Warsaw University of Technology. In this event, Prof. Ahluwalia discussed “Photonic chip enabled fluoroscence nanoscopy”. … Continued
Congratulations to David Coucheron for successfully defending his doctoral thesis and achieving a Ph.D. in Science. The ceremony took place in a digital setting on the 24th of March 2021. The evaluation process included both a trial lecture titled «Single Molecule … Continued