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  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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

  • Nomination for best lecturer prize, NT-Fak

    David Coucheron is nominated for the annual lecturer prize for the faculty of science and technology at UiT. Candidates are nominated by students, and this is a great recognition of the hard work and passion that David puts into his … Continued

  • Travel grant to learn expansion microscopy

    Deanna Wolfson was ranked as the top applicant at the university for the Terje og Valerie Stalder Jacobsens Scholarship. She was awarded 40,000 kroner to travel to MIT in Boston, USA, for two weeks to learn how to perform expansion … Continued

  • Best Poster at MedIm annual conference, 2016

    David Coucheron received the best poster award at the annual conference for the Medical Imaging national research school. Well done, David! Poster title: “Planar waveguide-based high resolution optical microscopy for high-throughput imaging”

  • Ida Opstad awarded MedIm Bridging grant

    Ida Opstad was only one of two students in Norway to receive the MedIm Bridging Grant this year. The grant, with a 225,000 kroner stipend, is intended to provide funding for a student to transition from a Masters degree into … Continued

  • Øystein Helle wins best poster at ICON

    Øystein Helle was awarded the top prize for his poster “Integrated Optical Nanoscopy” at the International Conference on Nanoscopy 2015 in Basel, Switzerland (www.icon-europe.org). To complement his nanoscopic imaging skills, Øystein was awarded an Olympus camera for taking pictures of … Continued