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  • Prof. Ahluwalia has been awarded the UTFORSK 2024 grant

    Congratulations to our PI, Prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, on being awarded the prestigious UTFORSK 2024 grant from the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir).” The project titled “Photonics4Life: Educating interdisciplinary researchers to help solve societal challenges in life … Continued


  • One of our paper has been highlighted as an Editor’s Pick in the Journal of Biomedical Optics Express

    We are proud that one of our papers “Plasmonic nano-bowls for monitoring intra-membrane changes in liposomes, and DNA-based nanocarriers in suspension” has been highlighted as an Editor’s Pick in Biomedical Optics Express. Editor’s Picks serve to highlight articles with excellent … Continued


  • Congratulations Dr. Nikhil Jayakumar on Earning his PhD!

    Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Nikhil Jayakumar, member of the nanoscopy group, on the successful completion of his PhD journey! His dedication and hard work have undoubtedly paid off, culminating in the completion of his thesis titled” Label-free super-resolution optical microscopy … Continued


  • Congratulations Dr. Luis Villegas on Earning his PhD!

    Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Luis Villegas, a member of the nanoscopy group, on the successful completion of his PhD journey! His dedication and hard work have undoubtedly paid off, culminating in the completion of his thesis titled” Super-resolution histology“ May his … Continued


  • Dr. Ahmad receives the FRIPRO support from the Research Council of Norway

    Congratulations to our colleague, Dr. Azeem Ahmad, for being granted the prestigious FRIPRO support from the Research Council of Norway to finance his research project “5D quantitative microscopy for real-time monitoring of Engineered Heart Tissue”. The grant consists of NOK … Continued


  • A prestigious selection in connection with LSA’s 10th anniversary

    We are proud to be part of such a prestigious selection. Our paper “Chip-based multimodal super-resolution microscopy for histological investigations of cryopreserved tissue sections” has been selected by LSA for a special collection in Biophotonics and Medical Optics, in connection … Continued


  • Norwegian-Indian cooperation in research, education and innovation

    Prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia participated in the conference entitled “Sustainable Pathways – Norway-India Collaboration in Research, Education, and Innovation” in the presence of three ministers: Minister – Ola Borten Moe, Department of Research and Higher Education, Ola Borten Moe, Minister – … Continued


  • Phase for Life: Hybrid Conference 12-13 August 2023

    We are happy to announce the upcoming INTPART project, “NanoSymBioSys’’ event Phase for Life: Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Life Sciences will be organized on 12-13 August 2023 supported by the Research Council of Norway. Currently, we confirmed physical mobility for … Continued


  • Arif Ahmed Sekh awarded a Start-up Research Grant by the government of India

    Congratulations to our past team member, Dr. Arif Ahmed Sekh, for being awarded a Start-up Research Grant by the science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. The project is related to microscopy video analysis and Artificial Intelligence. The … Continued


  • Ida S. Opstad awarded funding from DLN to participate at the BII Summer School in Copenhagen

    Congratulations to Dr. Ida S. Opstad, who was awarded by Digital Life Norway to participate in the 2022 summer school on bio-innovation and commercialization at the BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen. Together with two other postdoctoral attendees from Norway, Dr. Opstad … Continued


  • New paper on “instant volumetric imaging”

    Congratulations to our PI, Dr. Florian Ströhl, for his recently published paper titled: Multifocus microscopy with optical sectioning and high axial resolution. The research article, published in the prestigious journal OPTICA, reveals a novel technique to acquire several imaging planes … Continued


  • Sunil Bhatt awarded a travel grant for NEO Meeting

    Congratulations to Sunil Bhatt, who was granted travel fees for participating in the prestigious Norwegian Electro Optics (NEO) Meeting 2022 to present his paper ‘Motion trace analysis based on Label-free imaging and MUSICAL’. The NEO Meeting took place in September … Continued


  • Prof. Agarwal invited speaker at UNITUS University

    Prof. Krishna Agarwal was invited to present the OrganVision project (link: organvision.eu) at “A.I. 4 Future” event. The event was organized by the Datrix Group (link: https://datrixgroup.com/en/) on the 21-22 of October at UNITUS university in Viterbo (Italy). The event … Continued


  • Prof. Krishna Agarwal invited to lecture on the DLN course “Transdisciplinary biotechnology” 2022

    Prof. Krishna Agarwal was invited to deliver a talk and share her “experience from working interdisciplinary in science” in the Digital Life Nornay (DLN) Signature Course on “Transdisciplinary biotechnology 2022”. She also led a learning group on the topic of … Continued


  • Zicheng Liu promoted to full professor

    Zicheng Liu was promoted to full professor in September 2022, at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China, due to his contributions to electromagnetic modeling and imaging. He joined NPU as an associate professor in 2021. From 2020 to 2021, he was … Continued