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  • 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

  • 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

  • PhD candidate awarded with the best poster at the Summer 2022 INTPART meeting

    Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Luis Villegas, for being awarded with the best poster presentation at the Summer 2022 INTPART meeting held in Tromsø, Norway. In his poster, Villegas had the opportunity to talk about his research topic and discuss … Continued

  • Dr. Ine Larsen Jernelv wins the Chorafas prize for her outstanding PhD research

    Congratulations to our group member, Dr. Ine Larsen Jernelv, for winning the prestigious Chorafas Prize for her outstanding research. During her PhD studies at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), Jernelv worked on mid-infrared tunable laser spectroscopy for glucose sensing. The work was part of the … 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

  • 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

  • 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 … Continued

  • 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, … Continued

  • Prof. Ahluwalia receives a 2nd ERC-PoC grant

    Congratulations to our PI, assoc. prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, on his second Proof of Concept (PoC) grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The project titled “Chip-based nanoscopy: an affordable, multi-modal and high-throughput super-resolution imaging platform” in short, “ChipNano”, has … Continued

  • INPART project succesfully accepted

    The project titled “Next Generation Optical Nanoscopy Platforms for Biological System – Symbiosis of Advanced Training, Research and Innovation” has been successfully accepted in the Programme for International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation (INPART) given by The Research Council of … Continued

  • Best poster award for collaborator Liliana Barbieri on joint project

    Congratulations to Liliana Barbieri and team for receiving the best poster award at the EMBL symposium “Seeing is Believing” for a joint project with the UiT Nanoscopy group. More information on the poster, titled “CalQTrace: Simultaneous Calculation and Quantification of … Continued

  • Poster Award at ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School

    Jean-Claude Tinguely received the Best Poster Award at this year’s ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School organized by Ghent University and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. The poster, titled “Photonic integrated circuits for super-resolution microscopy,” presented an overview of the … 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

  • 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