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  • Florian Ströhl selected for the Aurora Outstanding program at the UiT

    Congratulations to our group member Dr. Florian Ströhl for been selected among the twenty participants of the second round of the Aurora Outstanding program at UiT. The program is intended to support and mentor talented young researchers who have already shown significant success in their academic careers. More information about the program is available in…

  • Ida Opstad receives her PhD

    Congratulations to Ida S. Opstad for successfully defending her doctoral thesis and achieving a Ph.D. in Science. The ceremony took place at the Department of Physics and Technology at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway on the 29th of January 2021. The evaluation process included both a trial lecture in «high resolution imaging for…

  • Krishna awarded with “Young Achiever Award” from IIT(ISM) Alumni Reunion “BASANT”

    Our PI, assoc. prof. Krishna Agarwal has been selected for the Distinguished Alumnus Award under the category “Young Achiever Award” for the year 2020. IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) recognizes the significant contribution made by distinguished personalities from Industry, Academics, and Research in the momentous function of IIT(ISM) Alumni Reunion “BASANT”, normally held on…

  • Microscopy holograms like in Star Wars

    Congratulations to our young talent, Dr. Florian Ströhl, who has been granted 8 million NOK for his project: Development of Real Volumetric Microscopy through Single Objective Light-Sheet Imaging System (SOLIS) by the Research Council of Norway. Dr. Ströhl and his team will build a completely new type of microscope that will be gentle, fast, high resolution, and…

  • PI from nanoscopy group features in local newspaper

    Assoc. prof. Krishna Agarwal has been interviewed by the Norwegian online newspaper Khrono.no after being granted 3.7 mEUR for her OrganVision project by the FET Open (Future and Emerging Technologies) program. The project, OrganVision, is about developing a real-time high-resolution image processing technology that is suitable for research on organoids as well as creating – and exploiting –…

  • OrganVision is now funded

    Congratulations to our PI, assoc. prof. Krishna Agarwal, for been funded 3.7 million EUR by the prestigious FET Open Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) program given by the Horizon 2020 European Research and Innovation Programme for her OrganVision project. OrganVision, a technology proposal to image organoids real-time label-free, comprises 8 partners spread across 5 cities in…

  • Balpreet featured among top scientists in the fight against COVID-19

    Together with top scientists of different fields, Prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia was interviewed by the European Commission in relation to frontier research against COVID-19. During the interview, prof. Ahluwalia explained the potential of the photonic chip for imaging the COVID-19 at an affordable cost, below EUR 1.000,-. and highlighted the importance of the job done by…

  • First OSA Student Chapter in Norway

    Team members of the Optics Group at the UiT have formed a Student Chapter of the prestigious Optical Society of America (OSA). The Student Chapter, baptized as Arctic OSA Student Chapter, was inaugurated in August 2020 and it is the first Student Chapter of its kind in Norway. The Arctic OSA Student Chapter will be involved in…

  • LightOCT paper among the top 10 downloads in Biomedical Optics Express

    Congratulations to Ankit Butola, Dilip Prasad, and other authors of the LightOCT manuscript for featuring among the top 10 downloads in August 2020 at the prestigious journal Biomedical Optics Express. The article, titled “Deep learning architecture “LightOCT” for diagnostic decision support using optical coherence tomography images of biological samples”, can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.395487  

  • Balpreet chosen by the European Commission to speak about frontier research to fight COVID-19

    Prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia has been chosen by the European Commission to speak about “Frontier research to fight COVID-19”, as part of the European Research and Innovation Days that will take place from 22nd to 24th of September 2020. In his talk, prof. Ahluwalia will present the idea about chip-based nanoscopy and its potential usefulness for…

  • Krishna Agarwal is now a Senior Member at OSA

    Congratulations to assoc. prof. Krishna Agarwal for being promoted as a Senior Member at the Optical Society of America (OSA)! As mentioned in OSA’s website: “OSA Senior Members are well-established individuals with a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within their field that sets them apart from their peers”. The complete…

  • Paper accepted in Scientific Reports

    Congratulations to Ankit Butola and Daria Popova for the acceptance of their paper in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports! A preprint of their manuscript “High spatially sensitive quantitative phase imaging assisted with deep neural network for classification of human spermatozoa under stressed condition” can be found on the arxiv repository: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07377 Cheers for your success!  …

  • SIM-on-chip on the front page of Nature Photonics

    One more time, congratulations to Dr. Helle and collaborators for their success in Nature Photonics. Not only their paper “Structured illumination microscopy using a photonic chip” was published in such a prestigious journal, but it also features on its front page. The Optical Nanoscopy Group at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway is…

  • Balpreet promoted to full professor

    Congratulations to our research group leader, prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia for his promotion to Full Professor at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Balpreet was promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor on March 24th, 2020, after the assessment of a scientific committee who positively valued not only his remarkable research track record…

  • Nanomotion’s data is now openly available

    In connection with our recent post on our accepted paper in CVPR, it is now possible to access all the data and the source code of the study in the following link: https://nanoscalemotion.github.io/ The paper is fully available here.