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  • The SOLIS project becomes part of the Centre for Digital Life Norway

    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


  • Oliver Vanderpoorten’s “NANO Hokusai” image wins 3rd place at the MNE 2021 Micrograph Contest Award

    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 invited speaker at the Norway-Singapore Science Week 2021

    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


  • ICGI visits the Nanopath team in Tromsø

    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


  • The Indian Ambassador’s visit to UiT The Arctic University of Norway on 28th September 2021

    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 … Continued


  • OSA student chapter exhibit in MH building – October 6th 2021

    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


  • One of our researchers featuring on DLN newsletter

    One researcher in our group, Dr. Ida Sundvor Opstad has recently featured in the newsletter of The Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN), a Norwegian centre for biotechnology research, education and innovation. For more details, please visit the link below: https://www.digitallifenorway.org/research/nanorip/news/new-publication-chip-based-microscopy-technique.html … Continued


  • New funding for transforming microscopes into powerful knowledge discovery tools

    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 … Continued


  • Prof. Krishna Agarwal becomes a senior member of URSI

    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


  • Publications: a paper from our group has been accepted for Biomedical Optics Express

    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 … Continued


  • Dr. Opstad secures Digital Life Norway Transdisciplinary grant for young researchers

    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 … Continued


  • Prof. Ahluwalia invited to a seminar talk at Ghent University

    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 … Continued


  • Prof. Ahluwalia invited to a seminar talk at Warsaw University of Technology

    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


  • David Coucheron graduates as a Ph.D.

    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


  • Two of our researchers featuring on DLN newsletter

    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 … Continued