TFS Starting Grant Winner 2016, Juha Vierinen, were late 2017 awarded support from ESA - European Space Agency (1 MNOK). The support from ESA will strengthen the space debris aspects of Vierinens TFS-project. Tromsø research foundation congratulates Juha and his group! Juha Vierinen is also one of many
Thank you contributors, winners and audiences who helped make the TFS yearly celebration a memorable and enjoyable day! The photographs below are all taken by David Jensen at UiT. .
UiT-professor Kirsten Krause, PI of one of TFS's three Toppforsk-projects, has recently published her results in prestigious Nature Communications. Kirsten Krause and her colleagues publish in this work the very first account of a genome sequence of a parasite plant; Cuscuta campestris. The results show
On Friday, June 1, Prime Minister Erna Solberg and investor Trond Mohn will visit Tromsø on the occasion of the new A-wing and PET Center at the University Hospital of Northern Norway (UNN). Trond Mohn has given significant gifts to the new PET center. In
The application deadline for the TFS Starting Grant Call 2018 was February 15th, 2018. Eight applications were received and will undergo a comprehensive evaluation that will take about 9 months. Between March and May, the applications will undergo a peer review by international evaluators. Finalists
UiT marked Woman’s Day on March 8th with an exhibition entitled "Did you think?" ("Would you believe it?"), which served to honor female scholars . The person who initiated and organized the exhibition was Kathrin H. Hopmann, one of the TFS Starting Grant candidates. (Site.uit.no/choco) Read more here.
The Mohn Prize for Outstanding Research Related to the Arctic, intended to be awarded every other year, was presented for the first time in January of 2018 at the Arctic Frontiers conference. It was divided between two parties: The team behind ‘The meaning of Ice’