Bachelor and Master projects

• Our projects are largely aimed at developing organic and metal-organic materials for bioimaging, photodynamic and photothermal approaches to cancer and antimicrobial therapies, and photocatalytic transformations. Our molecules are colorful and fun to work with!
• The group provides carefully designed, personalized projects and mentoring to a wide range of students – be they the average joe/jane or someone with unusual interests and requirements or for that matter disabled or neurodivergent. 
• You'll gain hands-on experience in half a dozen techniques, including chemical synthesis, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, optical and fluorescence spectroscopy, electrochemistry, quantum chemistry calculations (generally DFT but also ab initio) and in certain projects, synchrotron-based spectroscopies.
• The group offers wide-ranging opportunities for collaboration with (and travel to) leading research groups all over the world.
• You'll get a chance to attend and present at national and international conferences and connect with your peers in Norway and abroad.
• As one of the world’s leading research groups in soft materials, the group is one of Norway’s most prolific, in terms of scientific publications. Pretty much all students (at the master’s level and certainly at the PhD level) leave with a solid record of demonstrable accomplishment and publications.
• The rigorous training our lab will prepare you well for careers in academia and industry; it's no exaggeration to say that our lab has an enviable track record of student placement in highly attractive jobs and professions.

Check out some papers coauthored by bachelor and master student-researchers in our lab!