Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe has a lot of exciting things in the works these days. In addition to being Head of the Department of Economics, she will establish and lead the new centre for international economics - NORCIE.
Magnus Gulbrandsen has a busy year ahead at TIK. The research centre OSIRIS, which he has led, is coming to an end. At the same time, he is well underway with the RCN project Organising Impact, where a new PhD candidate has recently been recruited.
Ines Alisa Wagner started up her ERC Starting Grant project "WAGE" in January last year. This year looks even more intriguing, because two postdocs are in the making and will give the project a boost.
Alessandro Rippa is almost midway in his ERC Starting Grant project "Amber" at SAI. It is exciting times for him, because all members of his project are scattered all over the world on fieldwork, and he receives continous reports on how their doing.
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale is starting up her ERC Advanced Grant project UNRULY at ISS. She completed appointing her team for the project this autumn and has a lot of thrilling research about to happen.
Scott Gates got an ERC Advanced Grant in June this year. Here he tells how the project "Waging of War" is doing.
Sverre Urnes Johnson at PSI has relocated to Boston with his family of five. From there, he reports on exciting times as a visiting researcher at Harvard from PSI.
Katinka Kristine Holtsmark is researching the role of gas in the climate transition and investments in renewable energy. She is also part of the Norwegian Fiscal Studies at ?I and collaborates with several colleagues there.
Graham Macklin is a researcher at C-REX and wants to understand how the terrorist attacks on 22 July affected a new generation of right-wing extremists. Despite the bleak nature of the research area, he finds that people recognise there are solutions and optimism.
Fulvio Castelacci is in the early stages of a FRIPRO project, which will examine the economic and societal implications of AI and how public policy can help regulate this development.
Marianne Riddervold enjoys solving puzzles and asking questions related to unexpected things. This is one of the reasons why she finds researching European integration at ARENA exciting.
Elina Hartikainen from the Department of Social Anthropology has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, adressing the country's religion and politics. According to her, one of the most important questions of our time is understanding how the turn to religious arguments in conservative politics threaten and reconfigure liberal politics.
Professor Laavanya Kathiravelu at ISS researches whether citizenship has an impact on integration and belonging in Singapore and Qatar. Her own upbringing in multicultural Singapore contributed to her interest in this area of research.
What are the consequences of the school reform 'fagfornyelsen' for students' mental health, school performance, school environment, and dropout rates? These are among the questions Egil Nygaard spends much time on these days. He is a professor at the Department of Psychology and the interdisciplinary center PROMENTA, where they research health and quality of life.
Martin Eckhoff Andresen is currently starting up the TAXBUNCH project, for which he received 8 million NOK in funding from the Research Council for Young Research Talents last year.
Yves Steinebach has received two Horizon Europe grants this year and are off to break some new grounds as principal investigator for a big project and a partner in another.
Anders Jupsk?sas is this months research profile. He is just now in the process of completing a book about the youth organizations of far-right parties.
Kejia Yang at TIK inestigates the acceleration of energy and mobility transitions and is part of the NTRANS - Norwegian Energy transitions research center.
Nefissa Naguib at SAI participates in the working group for AI in research, has participated in a similar AI task force for teaching, conducts research on the Middle East and participates in three interdisciplinary projects.
Alicia Noellie Saes-Louarn at ARENA is preoccupied with the COMPLEX project studying Norwegian government agencies.
Espen R?ysamb went from managing the successful research center PROMENTA for four years to becoming the Head of research at PSI this year. In addition, he juggles three RCN-projects and wants to solve the puzzle of happiness.
Marte Mangset has contributed to the book "Regjeringen" (The government). She works with two parrallel projects funded by the Research Council. Here she tells more about them.
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale from ISS is a social geographer. She is currently looking at the politics of sociomaterial entanglements which shape how efforts to govern uncertainty unfold in a project called ’Unruly Energy Frontiers’.
Katherine Kondor is a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA-IF) Fellow at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX).
Alessandro Rippa from SAI got an ERC Starting Grant recently. He's set to study amber in all it's richness. The project's called “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)" and kicks off next fall.
