Basic Research Prize 2020

The 2020 winner of the Basic Research Prize, Professor Abhik Ghosh, Department of Chemistry, will give his talk "Basic Research, Excellence and Diversity: My Take on Some Current Debates at UiT and Beyond" on the 19th of February 2021, 13.15-14.00

Our faculty is doing very well in many aspects of research, including both basic and applied research, and several of our excellent researchers are also bringing their results to the market as commercial products.

However, basic and curiosity-driven research is given much less attention, to a large extent probably because its relevance is harder to communicate to a common public and less funding options available. This is the case even though we all know very well that the applied research and its resulting applications, would not been possible without this solid base of basic research at our faculty.

The Faculty board recognize that our faculty has a particular role and responsibility to keep up a high research activity in our basic fields and to raise the attention and flag their importance. The board therefore invented a “Basic research prize” (“Grunnforskningsprisen”) in 2020, and the first winner of the prize was announced late autumn last year.

Professor Abhik Ghosh has just completed 25 years at UiT and won the Faculty of Science and Technology’s Basic Research Prize. During this period he built the first inorganic and materials chemistry group in northern Norway, which quickly became a mecca for scholars and students from all over the world. In this talk, Abhik will reflect on some of the lessons he learned, as he looks forward to a post-pandemic future at UiT.

You are all invited to seminar (streamed, see link below) and to participate in the celebration of the prize winner and basic research at our faculty.

The event is streamed, with a small audience in the Auditorium: https://mediasite.uit.no/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/910b66faf4254e87af541945b5b98ee821 

Når: 19.02.21 kl 13.15–14.00
Hvor: Digital
Sted: Tromsø
Målgruppe: Ansatte, Studenter, Gjester / eksterne, Inviterte
Kontakt: Jakob Holden Hansen
E-post: Jakob.h.hansen@uit.no
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