New dean period
The Dean’s Office is entering our second 4-year term, and we look forward to continuing the work we have started:
- Important as we go forward, will be the Faculty’s Strategy 2030, which will be adjusted and targeted more clearly. We are well underway, and the document will be sent to the departments soon. In parallel, we are preparing foundational documentation within Life Sciences and Knowledge in Use / Enabling Technologies. The departments have contributed to the latter, and we are in the process of creating a good overview of our activities. Within Life Sciences, the task is to gather the threads and clarify the essence of the many documents that already exist. The strategy and foundational documentation will be further developed into action plans within selected areas.
- One such area is the quantum field. We are well underway in positioning ourselves nationally and developing a collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Intensive efforts have resulted in political engagement and additional funding for the Research Council, which is now announcing NOK 70 million within the quantum field. The Research Council has arranged input meetings, in which we have participated. We are now eagerly awaiting the details of the call!
- We are entering the last year before moving into the Life Sciences Building. There are many pieces still to be put in place. It is important that UiO has not yet entered into a lease agreement with Statsbygg. Acceptable economic conditions are a prerequisite for our three departments to move in. We will not get a detailed overview of the moving process from Statsbygg until closer to summer, but for now, we must make moving plans based on the information available. This spring, clearing, discarding, and disposing will be central to our three Life Sciences departments.
Welcome to the new Faculty Board!
From 1 January 2025, we have a new Faculty Board. Thank you to all of you who ran for election; we were very pleased with the number of candidates this time! The new Faculty Board consists of (main members):
- Solveig Kristensen, Dean and Chair
- Bj?rn Jamtveit, Vice Dean and Deputy Chair
- Rebekka Borsch, External Board Member (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise, NHO)
- Lars Oswald Dahl, External Board Member (Norges Bank Investment Management, NBIM)
- Marianne Fyhn, Representative of Permanent Academic Staff
- Helena B?serud Mathiesen, Representative of Technical/Administrative Staff
- Alexis Christine Carson, Representative of Fixed-Term Academic Staff
- Adam Monev Myrvang, Student Representative
- Jenny Lillebostad, Student Representative
More information about the board and its work can be found on our website. We will hold our first board meeting on 11 March, with a Board seminar the day before. I am looking forward to it!
Welcome to the new Department Heads!
There are also changes at our departments. We have three new Department Heads from the New Year. They are
- Professor Ole Christian Lingj?rde at the Department of Informatics
- Professor Erlend Forn?ss Wold at the Department of Mathematics
- Professor Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics
Congratulations, and I look forward to having you on our leadership team with the Dean’s Office and Department Heads!
Rector Election
The most important event this spring at UiO is the election of a new Rectorate. Three teams have registered, which were announced on 13 January. The election campaign runs until 24 March, when the election opens. On 4 April, we will know UiO’s new Rector and Rector’s Team.
Follow the debates,
And use your vote!
It counts!
With this, I wish everyone a good start to the semester!
Solveig Kristensen, Dean