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
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
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 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.
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 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 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!
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
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
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