News/Awards

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 further outreach and visibility and will open up possibilities for funding students associated with the…

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 with AI. The presentation is available on Youtube, starting at timepoint 1:07:00

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 by prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia had the opportunity to present the latest progress on multimodal…

It was our great pleasure to host the Indian ambassador of Norway Dr. B. Bala Bhaskar, at UiT, Norway. He visited to Optical Nanoscopy Lab and Marker-free Lab at NT faculty/ Department of Physics and Technology,UiT. He also had an interaction session with all the Indian faculty, researcher, and students at UiT. He motivated and inspired us to…

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 started the “Arctic OSA Student Chapter” intending to create an optics-related network in Norway while…

It is our great pleasure to share the news that the Research Council of Norway has recently funded a project “Nanoscale artificial intelligence in microscopy and nanoscopy for life sciences (*NanoAI)” in which we are proud participants. *NanoAI will develop new frameworks of interpretable and analyzable artificial intelligence (AI) designed specifically for microscopy and nanoscopy…

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 remained relevant and popular over the last century, only thriving and expanding with modernization and…

Good news! A paper written by members of our group has been accepted in Biomedical Optics Express. The work is called “Deriving high contrast fluorescence microscopy images through low contrast noisy image stacks” and presents a new approach to produce a high contrast image using noisy data. The main authors are Sebastian Acuña and Mayank Roy. This is a…

We are pleased to announce that our group member Dr. Ida Sundvor Opstad secured a funding of 200 kNOK through the new endeavor of Digital Life Norway to support young researchers (link here). Dr. Opstad together with co-applicant Mr. Antoni Malachowski at the The Norwegian College of Fishery Science, will use this funding to create an Atlantic environment under the microscope with relevant sea…

Prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia was recently invited for a talk in a photonics seminar organized by the Center for Nano- and Biophotonics at the Ghent University, Belgium. In this event, Prof. Ahluwalia discussed “Nanoscopy-on-a-chip”. On behalf of the Nanoscopy Group, we thank the organizers of the event for giving Prof. Ahluwalia the opportunity to present the…

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”. On behalf of the Nanoscopy Group, we thank the organizers of the event for giving…

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 Biosensing», and a dissertation defense titled «Waveguide-based Excitation for High-throughput Imaging». It was a great opportunity…

Two researchers in our group, Dr. Zicheng Liu and Dr. Ida Opstad have recently featured in the newsletter of The Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN), a Norwegian centre for biotechnology research, education and innovation. Hereby the relevant links to the articles: https://www.digitallifenorway.org/research/nanorip/news/phd-defence-bringing-optical-nanoscopy-to-life.html https://www.digitallifenorway.org/research/nanorip/news/new-publication-myth-bursting-work-microscopy.html