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  • Highlight: Indian Ambassador for European Research

    In a recent report from the EU Delegation to India, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia shared his experience in living and researching in Europe as an Indian national. Ahluwalia serves a valuable role as an ERC Ambassador to India, and his testimony … Continued


  • Two new MS degrees awarded

    Congratulations to both Sebastián Andrés Acuña Maldonado and Daniel Henry Hansen for successfully defending their Masters’ theses! Sebastian will be continuing his work developing computational nanoscopy algorithms, with a thesis title of “Multiple Signal Classification Algorithm: computational time reduction and pattern … Continued


  • “Optics of the Heart” workshop a success!

    On Monday and Tuesday approximately 20 scientists joined together for a transdisciplinary workshop on cardiac research. The intended purpose of the workshop was to provide the necessary background so that both the nanoscopy group and those from medical biology could … Continued


  • Florian Ströhl joins the lab with a prestigious new MSCA-IF award

    Florian has joined the optics group at UiT as a new postdoc with funding from his Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. His project is entitled “Development of Deep-UV Quantitative Microscopy for the Study of Mitochondrial Dysfunction” and will focus on developing … Continued


  • Nanoscopy on a chip wins the Tycho Jæger Prize in Electro-optics, 2018

    Awarded only once every two years, a team of researchers has been awarded the Tycho Jæger Prize in Electro-Optics for their work developing chip-based microscopy and nanoscopy at UiT. The prize, worth 100,000 NOK, was awarded at the 2018 Norwegian … Continued


  • UiT Research and Development Prize 2018

    Balpreet Ahluwalia was awarded UiT’s annual research and development prize for his extensive work in optics, including developing the “next generation microscope”.   More information, and photo from https://uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=581590&p_dim=88205


  • Krishna Agarwal joins the national Digital Life Excellence program

    Krishna Agarwal was selected as one of five researchers in Norway for the Digital Life Excellence program. The two year program supports young researchers in norwegian biotechnology through mentoring and professional development technology. Read more on Digital Life Norway’s website.


  • ImageJ Plugin for MUSICAL released

    A new implementation of MUSICAL have been released as a plugin for ImageJ/FIJI. MUSICAL is an algorithm used in fluorescence microscopy for obtaining super-resolution images, and up to now was available only in MATLAB. This new version is a new … Continued


  • David Coucheron receives the “New Researcher Award” at the International Microscopy Congress, 2018

    The International Microscopy Congress is only held once every four years, with this most recent meeting held September 9th-14th, 2018, in Sydney, Australia. The “New Researcher Award” is open to PhD students and those within 4 years of completion of … Continued


  • Krishna Agarwal selected for AURORA program

    Krishna Agarwal and Jana Jagerska (also from the Optics group within UiT Physics) have been selected as two of fifteen inaugural participants in the AURORA program at UiT. This program is intended to support and mentor talented young researchers who … Continued


  • Figure of the week in OSA Publishing

    Figure 4 from our recent publication, “Multi-modal chip-based fluorescence and quantitative phase microscopy for studying inflammation in macrophages” was chosen as the image of the week for the OSA Publishing homepage. Congrats to Vishesh and the rest of the coauthors!


  • Video featuring Balpreet Ahluwalia in EURAXESS and ERC

    Check out this nice video featuring Balpreet talking about mobility, his experience with EURAXESS and ERC, and the goals of our lab: https://www.facebook.com/EuraxessLinksIndia/videos/1189368631194281/


  • Interview with BSA in Horizon Magazine

    Read an interview with Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia on the chip-based nanoscopy platform and research in our lab here: https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/next-gen-nanoscopes-can-take-super-resolution-images-atomic-world-dr-singh-ahluwalia.html


  • Cooperation with Singapore (Video in Norwegian)

    This video talks about some of the similarities between Norway and Singapore, and how these can be used to enhance innovation. Featuring Balpreet Ahluwalia on a recent trip to visit labs in Singapore (Norwegian only): https://uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=521359&p_dim=88205


  • Best Masters Thesis Prize for Ida Opstad

    Ida Opstad was awarded the prize for the best masters thesis (2015-2016 academic year) in the Faculty of Science and Technology at UiT. She was awarded a giant check for 10,000 kroner, and has promised to buy at least a … Continued