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Overturning circulation in the new Arctic

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) - carrying warm, salty water to high latitudes - is a key component of the global ocean circulation with profound impacts on climate. Dense-water formation at northern high latitudes is a requirement to sustain the AMOC. This production of de...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

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Snow D-excess OriGin Study

The chemistry of water is influenced by the climatic conditions at every step on the path throughout the water cycle, hence water “remembers” the climate history of this path. When water freezes this information is preserved throughout time. So any snow and ice sample has a climate story to tell,...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

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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

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Airborne Microplastic Detection, Origin, Transport and Global Radiative Impact

Airborne microplastics (<5 mm in size) are considered as emerging contaminants in recent times. Due to their small size, density and non-spherical shapes (e.g., fibers), they are easily resuspended from the land with turbulent flows and the surface of the ocean as bubbles burst and later transpor...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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Virtual-Eye - Learning from human eye scanpaths for optimal autonomous search

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Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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SaltyPORE: Salt precipitation in porous aquifers during CO2 injection

The emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) and the accumulation of this green-house gas in the atmosphere, leading to global warming, is considered one of the most serious threats mankind is facing. CO2 emissions result from the combustion of oil and gas, for example by cars and industries. Many new ca...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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FORESEE - FOREcasting Sea statE Extremes

Both PhD students concluded their research stays with our international collaboration in KNMI (Netherlands) and University of Exeter (GB). Data quality assessment has progressed and a new version of our validation software wavy (anaconda.org/conda-forge/wavyopen) has been made public and taken al...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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A CubeSat formation for space debris characterisation

The QBDebris project aims to demonstrate the successful operation of a CubeSats capable of characterising space debris in situ. Once operational, the satellites will characterise and record the orbital elements of space debris smaller than the ground detection limit (3.2mm) using of the shelf com...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Fourier Methods and Multiplicative Analysis

We highlight a few of the results obtained up to September 2025: A convex body in n-dimensional space has constant width 2 if its projection onto any line is always a segment of length 2. The unit ball is the simplest example, but there are many others in every dimension. Motivated by Borsuk’s c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Establishing next-generation pioneering models for interface mass transfer, breakup and coalescence in turbulent flow

This project has initiated studies that will reveal fundamental understanding of dispersed multiphase flows. Qualitative causal relationships between flow structures and droplets/bubbles have been revealed in the initial phase of the project. Results from these studies have been presented at two ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Airborne Inversion of Rayleigh waves

Understanding Venus' interior structure is critical to determine its origin and evolution and explain why conditions on this planet are so drastically different from Earth. On Earth, seismic waves from earthquakes, recorded by seismometers, reveal our planet down to its core. Deploying seismomete...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

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Tracing the impact of evolved stars on the Galactic chemical enrichment

Stars in the late stages of their lives eject a large fraction of newly synthesized heavy elements and stellar dust particles into the interstellar medium (ISM). They therefore strongly influence the chemical evolution of galaxies. Using state-of-the-art observational facilities across multiple w...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Developing solvents for unclogging the calculational bottleneck in high-energy physics

To uncover the building blocks of the universe and answer such fundamental questions as "What is dark matter?" or "Why is there more matter than antimatter in the universe?", physicists today must perform expensive calculations on supercomputers in order to compare theoretical predictions with ex...

Awarded: NOK 14.2 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Responsible Explainable Machine Learning for Sleep-related Respiratory Disorders (Respire)

Devices, like smart-watches, that can collect health data from "everybody" all the time, and machine learning (ML) to analyze this data will strongly impact future health solutions. They can enable low-cost large-scale screening and long-term monitoring of individuals to automatically detect chan...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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IMod. Partial differential equations, statistics and data: An interdisciplinary approach to data-based modelling

In this interdisciplinary project we combine knowledge from mathematics and statistics, with data from fields such as fluid mechanics and neuroscience, to build, analyse and apply models that can be used both to forecast and understand new situations. Classical models for understanding the world...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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A grand-canonical framework for ground and excited state properties of molecules with electron number fluctuations

In the search for obtaining electronic devices at ever smaller length scales, electronic components utilizing molecules as building blocks has become an topic of interest. Molecules exhibit a plethora of fascinating and potentially useful phenomena in addition to the small-size advantage. In part...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Observational Pyramid with Hyperspectral Nano-Satellites for Ocean Science

The HYPSO-1 satellite was launched into a polar orbit on 13 January 2022. The satellite is designed and operated by NTNU, and carries a hyperspectral imager that is custom made for better imaging of ocean color. Our hypothesis is that HYPSO-1 (and its successor HYPSO-2 launched 16 August 2024) wi...

Awarded: NOK 12.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Multi-disciplinary Study of Atmospheric Ice Accretion Physics & Developing Optimal Technological Solutions to Minimize Ice Accretion Effects

Human activities are increasingly extending into the high northern areas of the Arctic region, where atmospheric icing is a challenge and a safety hazard as it can affect human activities especially related to construction (buildings, communication towers and ski lifts), energy production (wind a...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Mid-IR ultra-short pulsed laser technology for science and green industry (MIR)

The MIR project develops next-generation mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser systems as tools for both fundamental science and green industry. These lasers enable ultra-precise 3D micro-structuring of advanced materials, with direct applications in renewable energy, electronics, and medicine. In the past...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Enabling Highly Automated Cross-Organisational Workflow Planning

Automating workflow planning is one of the most crucial digital transformation activities. Planning cross-organisational workflows requires knowledge from multiple domains. In addition, it requires an overview of how these workflows interact with each other. Existing computer-assisted tools usual...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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LIPS: The Lifetimes of Ionospheric Plasma Structures

This project, called LIPS for short, set out to understand the turbulent breakup of plasma structures in the Earth's upper atmosphere. This abstract goal was intended to provide a better, more holistic understanding of electrostatic turbulence in these layers of plasma. For what good is it to und...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Nuclear shapes and resonances

The atomic nucleus is a many-body quantum system that is bound together by the strong nuclear force. Many properties of nuclei can be understood by describing them as electrically charged droplets of nuclear matter. Other properties indicate that nuclei have a microscopic structure in which the p...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Mixing in Multiphase flows through Microporous Media

When you add milk to a cup of coffee you can efficiently mix the components by stirring with a spoon: the system is brought from a state of separation – where the coffee and the milk exist in separate domains – to uniformity – where the coffee and milk are indistinguishably blended. In porous med...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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AutoCSP: Self-Supervised Neuro-Symbolic Solvers for Constraint Satisfaction

The AutoCSP project addresses problems where the solution is a combination of multiple decision variables, so-called combinatorial optimization problems. The goal is to find a combination that fulfills all constraints that the problem has while optimizing an objective function. Examples of these ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Reducing toxicity in proton therapy through biological optimization

Radiotherapy is one of the most widely used types of cancer treatment, and typically half of all cancer patients receive radiotherapy as a part of their treatment. Proton therapy has been established as a new alternative to traditional X-ray therapy with potential to improve the treatment signifi...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

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The role of anthropogenic dust in the present and future climate system

Anthropogenic dust in the climate system What role do soil dust particles from sparsely vegetated, dry surfaces play in the climate system? And can that role become more pronounced in the future as humans and climate change affect the land surface? These are the key questions that will be tackle...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Large Offshore Wind Turbines (LOWT):structural design accounting for non-neutral wind conditions

Floating offshore wind is a technology that promises to unlock a huge potential in deeper waters. However, it is more than a simple extension of the current offshore wind industry, constituting a new technology on its own right. Despite the many advances already made - and where Norway is driving...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

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Global glacier modeling: Do non-linear feedbacks matter for century-scale projections?

Glaciers around the world are retreating and thinning due to global warming; this directly impacts sea-level rise, streamflow and glacier related hazards. Results from numerical models that simulate the glacier changes into the future have shown that substantial glacier mass losses will continue ...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Understanding the link between lightning, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and gamma-ray glows

Thunderclouds can act as the most energetic natural particle accelerators on earth, producing radiation with energy up to 500 times that of a normal chest X-ray radiography. Radiation is related to the most common type of lightning and is then produced in very short bursts, less than one millisec...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

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Isotopic Transfer Rates During Water Phase Changes

What insights would we gain by directly observing the processes that regulate atmospheric water vapor? The iTRANSFER project is poised to provide us with a precise and accurate means to accomplish this. Water, in its various forms, is not a homogenous substance. It comprises distinct types of wa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

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