16.12.2024: Goodbye to Sigrid
Sigrid has now submitted her bachelor project report. Well done on completing the project, and good luck for your further studies!

29.11.2024: Goodbye to Alicja
Alicja has now finished her Erasmus+ funded visit to our lab. Thank you for all your hard work and delicious Polish cakes! We wish you all the best of luck with the rest of your PhD!

15.11.2024: Floriane defends her thesis
Floriane has today successfully defended her PhD thesis! Many congratulations, Floriane, we are proud of you! Thank you to Prof. Oliver Reiser (Universität Regensburg) and Dr Odd Reidar Gautun (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) for acting as opponents.

11.11.2024: New chemical education paper
Marius has been collaborating with colleagues Maarten Beerepoot and Aleksi Kosonen to develop digital cumulative quizzes as a tool for student learning and assessment in organic chemistry classes for year 1. This work is described in a new paper, out now in the Journal of Chemical Education: Weekly Cumulative Quizzes in Organic Chemistry. Congratulations!

4.11.2024: Manuel joins the team
Dr Manuel Langer has joined the lab as a researcher. Manuel will be working on our joint project with Prof. Annette Bayer on electrochemical and photochemical CO₂ capture. Welcome, Manuel!

2.10.2024: SNOOPY
Marius has joined the Management Committee of the COST action Searching for Nanostructured or pOre fOrming Peptides for therapY (SNOOPY)!

29.7.2024: New lab members
This semester our lab is joined by bachelor student Sigrid Dahlen Konow, who will be working on her bachelor project involving nitroxide radicals. We are also hosting PhD student Alicja Trocka from Gdańsk University of Technology, who is visiting UiT on an Erasmus+ exchange stipend. Welcome, both!

29.7.2024: New paper accepted
Mateusz' second paper, describing the synthesis and properties of a new nitroxide framework, has just appeared in ChemPlusChem as an Accepted Article: Spirocyclic pyrrolidinyl nitroxides with exo-methylene substituents. This invited submission will be featured in a future Early Career Special Collection of the journal.

21.6.2024: Goodbye to Arthur
We say goodbye to Arthur, who is returning to Strasbourg after completing his internship with us. Thank you for all your hard work, and congratulations on a successful internship!

8.5.2024: Goodbye to Anna
Today we have said goodbye to our postdoc Anna, who will be leaving us after more than 2.5 years. Thank you for all your hard work, abundance of smiles and your delicious German bakes! We wish you all the best of luck in your new position at Biotec Betaglucans in Tromsø!

22.4.2024: New popular science article
Floriane's popular science article about her work on photoredox chemistry has been featured on the front cover of the Norwegian Chemical Society's magazine Kjemi. Read it here: Lights, radicals and photoredox catalysis

5.3.2024: Antibiotic research featured
Marius has published a popular science article and video on the science communication website Forskersonen.no (Norwegian only), explaining how our lab is aiming to restore antimicrobial activity in resistant bacterial strains through conjugation strategies. Join Marius in the lab to hear about our research:

4.3.2024: Welcome, Arthur!
The lab is joined by Arthur Aichelmann from Université de Strasbourg, who is visiting us for a research internship this spring. Arthur will be working on antibiotic conjugates. Welcome!

19.12.2023: Merry Christmas from the Haugland group
We recently said goodbye to Lea, who after lots of excellent work has finished her Erasmus+ internship with us. Congratulations, Lea! The group also celebrated the end of the semester at the department Christmas lunch. A successful year is over, and we're looking forward to new adventures in 2024!

15.11.2023: Rainbow lanyards
Marius is leading a pilot project on rainbow lanyards at UiT. By distributing rainbow-coloured lanyards to staff and students at the university, the project aims to increase awareness and show support for LGBTQ+ people. The culmination of the project coincides with Arctic Pride, which takes place in Tromsø this week.

27.10.2023: Funding for CO₂ capture and storage
Marius has secured funding for a research project on carbon capture and storage technologies using photo- and electrochemical methods, in collaboration with UiT colleagues Annette Bayer, Jørn Hansen and Ashot Gevorgyan! The project is funded by Equinor through Akademiaavtalen. Congratulations!

16.10.2023: Farewell and welcome
Luisa has finished her Erasmus+ project in our lab. Thanks for all your hard work, Luisa, and good luck with your next project at the Department of Physics! At the same time, we welcome a new Erasmus+ student, Lea Hofmann. Lea is joining us from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, and will be working on antimicrobial conjugates with Anna. Welcome, Lea!

27.9.2023: Battery research outreach highlights
Mateusz and Marius have been taking part in an outreach programme over the past week, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and Framsenteret as part of the National Science Week in Norway (Forskningsdagene). Via Zoom we have been visiting hundreds of high school pupils in Finnmark county, showed them around our lab and talked with them about our research on stable organic radicals and how this relates to sustainable organic batteries. Thanks very much to Lena Seuthe at UiT, who has been driving around Finnmark and organizing in-classroom battery experiments for a week!

Popular science articles about organic batteries from our lab have been published by UiT and Framsenteret (Norwegian only).

21.8.2023: New students join the lab
The group is growing! We have recently been joined by Jonas, a Norwegian teaching student, and Luisa, an Erasmus+ exchange student from Philipps-Universität Marburg. They will both be doing research projects in our lab during the autumn semster. Welcome, Jonas and Luisa!

16.8.2023: New paper out
Floriane's work on photoredox-driven radical atom transfer reactions of tethered vinyl and alkynyl silanes has now appeared in the Journal of Organic Chemistry! Well done, Floriane!

14.7.2023: Visiting undergraduate
For the past month the lab has been hosting Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann, a visiting undergraduate student from the University of Edinburgh, for a joint research project together with Dr Janet Lovet (University of St Andrews). Ann-Kathrin's visit is generously supported by a travel scholarship from the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.

5.6.2023: First article published
The group's first research article has been published in Communications Chemistry: Conformational tuning improves the stability of spirocyclic nitroxides with long paramagnetic relaxation times. Congratulations to Mateusz and Anna, and all our collaborators!

5.6.2023: Haugland lab at PSRC-10
Floriane and Mateusz have presented posters at the 10th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry in beautiful Kyoto, Japan!

2.6.2023: New preprint
Floriane's work on Radical group transfer of vinyl and alkynyl silanes driven by photoredox catalysis has appeared as a preprint on ChemRxiv. Congratulations Floriane!

4.5.2023: Postdoctoral research position available
We are currently advertising for a postdoctoral research fellow in organic chemistry! The position is fixed-term for 3 years, and will focus on our research on stable organic radicals and/or radical transformations for organic synthesis. The starting salary is NOK 563500 (€47900/£42000) per year. Application deadline: 24.5.2023.

18.1.2023: Stian finishes his Master's degree
Stian has passed his MSc exam today, and successfully completed his MSc in Molecular Sciences. Congratulations, Stian, and thank you for all your efforts! We wish you all the best for the future!

9.1.2023: Presentations at the 2023 Organic chemistry winter meeting
Stian, Floriane and Anna have presented their work at the 2023 Organic chemistry winter meeting in Skeikampen outside Lillehammer, Norway. Well done, team!

21.11.2022: Travel grants for the 2023 Organic chemistry winter meeting
Congratulations to Stian, Floriane and Anna, who have all been awarded travel grants from the Norwegian Chemical Society to present their work at the 2023 Organic chemistry winter meeting in Skeikampen outside Lillehammer, Norway!

9.11.2022: Lab retreat 2022
For our annual retreat, the lab have been enjoying a refreshing visit to the Pust floating sauna in Tromsø city centre, followed by pizza at the iconic Yonas restaurant. Feeling fortified by the compulsory swim in the Arctic sea, we are now ready for the upcoming onset of the polar night!

7.11.2022: Visiting postdoc
Last week we welcomed Dr Danijel Glavač to the lab. Danijel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for biomimetic chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. After securing a research scholarship from his Institute, Danijel is visiting our lab for a month. He's working with Floriane on developing new reactions driven by photoredox catalysis.

31.10.2022: First preprint out
Congratulations to Mateusz and Anna, whose preprint on ChemRxiv marks the first research output from the group! This work is in collaboration with EPR spectroscopist Janet Lovett (St Andrews, UK), computational chemists Sahil Gahlawat and Kathrin Hopmann (UiT), and crystallographer Bjarte A. Lund (UiT).

6.9.2022: EuChemS congress
Marius is back in the lab after attending the 8th EuChemS congress in Lisbon, Portugal.

29.8.2022: Research visit to St Andrews
Good luck to Mateusz, who is off on a two-week research visit to the laboratory of EPR expert Dr Janet Lovett at the University of St Andrews!

16.5.2022: Travel stipend for Anna
Anna has been awarded a competitive travel stipend from the Stadler Jacobsen research fund at UiT - congratulations! The stipend will fund a visit to the laboratory of Prof. Scott Cockroft at the University of Edinburgh.

21.4.2022: Welcome, Stian!
The lab has been joined by Stian M. Rølvaag, who is doing his Master’s project with us. Stian will be working on the synthesis of new linker molecules for the preparation of antimicrobial conjugates. Good luck with your project, Stian!

9.2.2022: Marius joins the SoS early-career advisory board
Marius has been appointed to the 2022–2023 early-career advisory board of Science of Synthesis, published by Thieme. Congratulations!

30.11.2021: Website launch
Our lab website is finally up and running!