21 projects

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FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Fano manifolds, wall structures and torus fibrations

Polynomial equations, where one polynomial is equated to another, are fundamental to modern technology. They find applications in diverse fields, from the core sciences like chemistry and physics to economics and social sciences. The solutions to these equations take on geometric forms, which can...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2030

Location: Rogaland

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Neutron Scattering and Atomistic Simulations for a SUPERior Understanding of SUPERionic Conduction

Over the last decade battery technology has become an integral part of our lives, powering devices from mobile phones to electric cars, and helping to drive the shift to a greener society. But how do batteries work, and how can they be made cheaper, safer, and more efficient? Many of you probably...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Rogaland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Uncovering the nature of dark matter in the multi-messenger era

Visible objects in our Universe like stars or planets are composed of atoms that in turn are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. But only about 16% of the matter in our Universe is composed of known particles, the nature of the remaining 84% is unknown and is usually referred to as dark mat...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Rogaland

NANOTEKNOLOGI-NANOTEKNOLOGI

Phonon lifetimes; unifying inelastic neutron scattering measurements with first-principle calculations

Solid-state materials, such as thermoelectrics can be used in thermal management, without the need for moving parts. These can harvest waste heat and convert energy to electricity or be used as spot-sized solid-state refrigerators. To discover new materials or optimize existing ones, it is import...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Rogaland

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

Gravitational Wave Signals From Early Universe Phase Transitions

In the very early Universe, a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, a number of phase transitions may have taken place. Just as for the boiling of water (which is also a phase transition) bubbles form. These grow and collide which each other, and for the energies present in the early Universe,...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Rogaland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Deep learning the real-time properties of strongly correlated quantum fields

20th century physics revolutionized our understanding of the matter around us on microscopic scales. Inside protons and neutrons we find three quarks, held together by elementary particles aptly referred to as glue. But our universe has not always been as calm as it is today. Shortly after the Bi...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Rogaland

SANOCEAN-South Africa - Norway, Cooperation on Ocean Research including Blue Economy, Climate change, the Environment and Sustainable Energy

Marine Sewage Outfalls - Environmental Impact Evaluation

The drought in the Western Cape in 2018-2019 led to the proposal to produce drinking water for the City of Cape Town by seawater desalination plants. The city discharges a high volume of untreated sewage effluent into the ocean via the marine outfalls located around the Cape Peninsula. If not tre...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Rogaland

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

Novel real-time lattice techniques for strongly correlated quantum systems

The central scientific goal of this proposal is to generalize the Euclidean simulation method described in the previous proposal into a genuine real-time simulation method. The strategy for reaching this goal relies on incorporating the findings of the original reference (Phys.Lett. B778 (2018) 2...

Awarded: NOK 0.41 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Rogaland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

NORDAN Conference 2018

NORDAN is an annual mathematics conference in complex analysis and geometry, and is the largest meeting place for the Nordic research groups working in this branch of mathematics. In addition, the conference attracts attendees from outside the Nordic region, both from Europe as well as from count...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Rogaland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Smart Community Neighborhood - driven by energy informatics

The current electricity infrastructure in Norway lacks mechanisms for handling mass and concentrated energy demand primarily led by EVs charging requirements. Data-driven decentralized energy systems can address this gap through connection of household RES (Renewable Energy Sources) to the grid. ...

Awarded: NOK 20.3 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Rogaland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry and Polynomial Curvature Invariants: Classification, Characterisation and Applications

A hundred years ago Albert Einstein revolutionized how scientists viewed gravity. With Einstein gravity became a geometric theory where the setting was a so-called Lorentzian geometry. The gravitational interaction was essentially reduced to the curvature of space and where matter (including us) ...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Rogaland

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Signalling via reversible phosphorylation in organelles

Peroxisomes, organelles (about 0.1 to 1.0 µm in diameter) found in animal and plant cells, are involved in fatty acid beta-oxidation, biosynthesis of membrane phospholipids, reactive oxygen species metabolism, photorespiration, and stress resistance. In plants, yeasts, and fungi, peroxisomes pla...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Rogaland

FRIBIO2-FRIPRO forskerprosjekt, biologi

Biogenesis of chlorophyll binding electron transfer complexes

How is the binding of Chlorophyll to proteins of photosynthetic complexes regulated in plants Photosystems contain chlorophyll binding protein complexes for physical and chemical transformation of light energy into a chemical storage form. How the chlorophyll molecules that serve as primary site...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Rogaland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Coherent sheaves on abelian varieties: moduli, derived categories and stability conditions

Theoretical physics has come up with a speculative model for the universe, in which four-dimensional space-time is enriched by additional "puny" dimensions, forming a complex three dimensional manifold of size the order of the Planck length. The project is a purely mathematical study of questions...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Rogaland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Cold adapted transglutaminase in food processing

Transglutaminases (TGs) are a family of enzymes that catalyzes cross-linking of proteins by forming covalent bonds between lysine residues and glutamine residues in different polypeptides. TGs have great potential for the food industry because the isopept ide bonds created by TGs exhibit high res...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Rogaland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Microalgae 2021: Molecular design of improved production microalgae to accelerate the establishment of an algae-based bio-economy in Norway

Microalgae are "tiny plants" of pronounced global ecological importance that have unprecedented capabilities in producing interesting biomolecules. Thereby, they bear an enormous potential in producing biomolecules for diverse commercial and industrial applications in a carbon neutral manner. The...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2022

Location: Rogaland

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Top-up financing of Marie Curie from UiS

The PERFUME (PERoxisome Formation, FUnction, MEtabolism) program is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral Multi-partner ITN providing state-of-the-art research training at the interface of medicine, plant and fungal biology. The PERFUME S&T specifically aims at achieving the understanding of th...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Rogaland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksling Norge-Tyskland

Molecular Identification of Porin Channels in Plant Peroxisomes by Electrophysiological Analyses

Plant biomass production needs to increase world-wide to feed the growing world population and to meet the demands for cellulose-based biofuels. However, plant photosynthesis is inefficient because it is accompanied by photorespiration, which releases up to 30% of fixed carbon as CO2 in higher p...

Awarded: NOK 13,257

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Rogaland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Higher dimensional spacetimes characterised by their scalar curvature invariants

The project is related to classification of higher-dimensional spacetimes utilising their scalar polynomial curvature invariants. It involves the outgoing mobility of Prof. S.Hervik for a 3-month research visit to Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada to visit and work with the group led by Pro...

Awarded: NOK 86,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Rogaland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksling Norge-Tyskland

Coping with Oxidative Stress: Plant Peroxisomes as an Underestimated Player in Oxidative Stress Tolerance

Basic plant research lays the foundation to our understanding of plant adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Abiotic stress conditions generally disturb redox homeostasis and induce oxidative stress, which activates signaling pathways and adapt ive responses. This proposal focuses on t...

Awarded: NOK 22,808

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Rogaland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Synthesis of new alkylated and hydroxylated PAH-standards targeted for marine environmental monitoring of oil spills and produced water

PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) have been of environmental concern for decades due to their biological effects. Smaller PAHs and particularly their alkylated analogues are present in crude oil, and are released to the environment through oil spil ls and produced water discharges in oil p...

Awarded: NOK 62,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland