The projects are funded through the Research Council's of Norway?s open, national competition arena for all subjects and topics, FRIPRO, and go to researchers who are particularly skilled within their fields.
UiO received four out of nine grants within Researcher Projects for Early Career, and three out of nine grants within Researcher Projects for Experienced Researchers.
– Our young researchers at the start of their careers contribute with extremely important research for society. Not least, I am happy to see that the talent is found across the breadth of the university's academic fields. At the same time, we see that our experienced researchers are also making their mark, so it's just a matter of congratulating them," says Svein St?len, Rector at UiO, Svein St?len.
Researcher Projects for Early Career
Jessica Calland, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Basic Medical Sciences
Calland receives funding to research effective strategies for detecting the bacterium Klebsiella and preventing it from spreading in intensive care units.
- Project: Identifying drivers of Klebsiella pneumoniae colonisation in critically ill patients using advanced genomics
- Sum: 10 million NOK
Read more about Calland's research
Eline Visser, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Linguistic and Scandinavian Studies
Visser's project aims to investigate how language models can contribute to automating documentation and mapping of endangered languages.
- Project: Automating language description
- Sum: 8,5 million NOK
Read more about Visser's research
Petra Kohutova, researcher at the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS)
Kohutova will research the sun's outer atmosphere and reveal how the sun's energy waves and matter streams behave, with the aim of providing better forecasts for space weather that can knock out technology on Earth.
- Project: MultiSCORE: Multi-Scale structure of the coronal environment
- Sum: 10 million NOK
Read more about Kohutova's research
Haochi Che, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geosciences
- Project: Cloud phase shifts and their role in shaping Arctic climate toward a warming future
- Sum: 7,8 million NOK
Researcher Projects for Experienced Scientists
Trine Ballestad Rounge, professor at the School of Pharmacy
This project will study stool samples from 80,000 people, with the aim of developing tests that can detect bowel cancer earlier.
- Project: CRCbiome-long: Gut dynamics in health and disease - a population-based longitudinal study
- Sum: 12 million NOK
Read more about Ballestad Rounge's research
Trond Helge Torsvik, head of the Centre for Planetary Habitability (PHAB)
Torsviks project will provide insight into one of the most profound events in Earth's history - the Great Oxygenation Event.
- Project: The Great Oxygenation Event and Planetary Habitability
- Sum: 12 million NOK
Read more about Torsvik's research
Johanne T. Jacobsen, Associate Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine
- Project: Mechanisms of Help and Suppression Shaping Germinal Center B Cell Quality
- Sum: 12 million NOK