Previous projects

Summer projects 2025:

1: Energy-efficient and Scalable ML (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Ali Ramezani-Kebry
  • Project suitable for: Master student.

  • Number of students on the project: 2

  • Preferred academic background: Machine learning, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics.
  • Expected research period: The project period is flexible and will be determined collaboratively between the supervisor and the selected student.

2: 2050+ Climate Imaginaries in Norway (Social Science)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Manjana Milkoreit
  • Project suitable for: Master student
  • Number of students on the project: 1
  • Preferred academic background: Master student in the social sciences, e.g., Human Geography, Political Science, or Psychology, with some experience with qualitative and/or computational methods, data organization, Excel, NVivo.
  • Expected research period: April 1 to June 28 (6 weeks or 12 weeks with 50% possible).

3: Songs of Earth - Film Impacts on Human-Nature Relations (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Manjana Milkoreit.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Number of students on the project: 1
  • Preferred academic background: Master student in the social sciences, e.g., human geography, political science, or psychology, with some experience with survey and statistical methods, data organization, Excel.
  • Expected research period: April 1 to June 28 (6 weeks or 12 weeks with 50% possible).

4: Utvikling av EVU: Design for l?ring og omstilling (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Ole Sm?rdal og Anja Amundrud
  • Project suitable for: Bachelor eller masterstudent
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: Studenter med interesse for b?rekraftig utvikling, demokratiutvikling, medborgerskap, og/eller praksisutvikling, og som vil v?re med p? ? utvikle nye videreutdanningstilbud rettet mot ansatte som jobber med energi-, klima, og milj?omstillinger. Formell bakgrunn er enten opptak til en master i utdanningsfeltet, eller opptak som bachelorstudent i UiOs nye b?rekraftsertifikat. 
  • Expected research period: Tidligste start er 1. april. Prosjektet m? v?re ferdigstilt innen 1. oktober.

5: Defect engineering in the ultra-wide band gap semiconductor α-Ga2O3 (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Javier García Fernández, ?ystein Prytz and Holger von Wenckstern
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 1
  • Preferred academic background: The candidate preferentially has an interest in materials properties, with some laboratory experience. Experience with characterization techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) or X-ray diffraction (XRD) are desirable. An interest in thin film growing methods, such as pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) is advantageous.
  • Expected research period: June to September.

6: Complex Vanadate Thin Films for Next Generation Low-Power Electronic Devices (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Henrik Hovde S?nsteby
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: Students on the “Renewable Energy and Nanotechnology” program (3rd year bachelor’s or master students), or chemistry students with specialization in inorganic chemistry. Some background in thin film deposition techniques would be preferred
  • Expected research period: June – August 2025, preferably during the summer vacation when access to relevant infrastructure is easier. The project supervisor will be active at the department for most of the period, and available for supervision throughout the project.

7: High-temperature TAP reactor studies of ammonia oxidation (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Evgeniy Redekop and Daniela Farmer 
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: Experimentalist - chemistry, materials science, catalysis; modeling – physical chemistry, chemical kinetics, mathematical modeling.
  • Expected research period: July to August.

8: Pavement Pollinators: Discovering the secret lives of wild city bees (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Bastiaan Star and Marianne Strand Torvanger
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 3
  • Preferred academic background: Bachelor or master`s students with the following background: ecology/biology, experience/interest in fieldwork, interest in biodiversity research, experience/interest in entomology and biological species identification, interest in public outreach.
  • Expected research period: 8 weeks in the period April 1 until mid-August 2025.

9: EU energy Policy review for modelling (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Marianne Zeyringer, Javed Muhammad Shahzad and Guillermo Valenzuela.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: Renewable Energy Systems, Computational Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics or equivalent. Students having experience with coding (for data visualization/compiling) will be preferred but not necessary.
  • Expected research period: Part-time April to November.

10: SAMWIND- a mixed methods approach on wind power feasibility (Social Sciences and Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Paola Velasco Herrejón and Marianne Zeyringer. For the modelling, Guillermo Valenzuela and Shahzad Javed will be co-supervising. 
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the projects: 3
  • Preferred academic background: 
    • Project 1: Psychology, Development, Environmental Sciences, Human Geography, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Economics, Political Science or closely related subject areas.
      • Experience in field data collection and analysis (desired)
      • Experience using NVIVO (desired)
    • Project 2: Renewable Energy, Physics, Computational Science, Informatics, Mathematics or other quantitative background. Coding experience (e.g. Python)
    • Experience with data handling, especially spatial data (desired)
  • Expected research period: The projects will ideally start from mid May 2025, but can also begin during the summer recess.

11: A Digital Minerals Library for the Twin Transition (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Maja Van Der Velden and Andrea Alessandro Gasparini
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Number of students on the projects: 4
  • Preferred academic background: We are looking for an interdisciplinary team of master students with one or more of the following backgrounds/skills: Design background, such as user experience (UX) or interaction design - HTML skills - Visualisation skills - Interdisciplinary background or interest to work in an interdisciplinary team - Interest in digitalisation, energy transition, sustainability, Anthropocene, just transition, minerals, etc. A variety of backgrounds are of interest for this project: anthropology, chemistry, (human) geography, geology, informatics, sociology, etc
  • Expected research period: Six weeks in the period June 1 until mid-August.

12: Data visualization of energy system model results (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Marianne Zeyringer, Javed Muhammad Shahzad and Guillermo Valenzuela.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the projects: 1
  • Preferred academic background: Computational Science, Informatics, Mathematics, Physics, Energy Systems or similar. Having experience with Python coding will be mandatory.
  • Expected research period: Part-time May to October.

13: Mapping actors, innovations and marketing strategies in the global alternative protein market (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Arve Hansen, Ulrikke Wethal and Johannes Volden
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: Preferred applicants are students enrolled in Master Programmes at UiO departments. The assignment is open to all candidates with at least one year of studies at the Masters level. Interested candidates must submit a statement of purpose/motivation and an overview of academic records and background. 
  • Expected research period: The work is to take place principally in the summer of 2025 (preferably beginning in early June) and the report is to be submitted by September 1 to Hansen/Wethal/Volden. The scope corresponds to six weeks’ full-time work, but the work can also be spread over a longer period according to the applicant’s suited timeframe..

14: Navigating Energy Sovereignty: Insights from the Svalbard Continental Shelf (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: 
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Number of students on the project: 4
  • Preferred academic background: Law students with an interest in international law, energy law, and Arctic governance. Background in maritime law, sovereignty issues, or natural resource law is advantageous.
  • Expected research period: Preferable over the summer.

15: Nuclear Propulsion (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sunniva Siem, Ole Reistad and Sunniva Rose.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 4
  • Preferred academic background: 
    • Physics and informatics. Understanding and interest in physics and programming is important.
    • Law student. Understanding and interest in laws and policies related to energy production, preferably also nuclear energy.
  • Expected research period: Six week duration beginning at any time between April 1 and September 15.

16: Extractivism and Climate Change: A Cultural-Historical Study of Svalbard During the Late Modern Warm Period (1970–2025) (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Dominik Collet
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: History, Climate/Environmental history, Philosophy.
  • Expected research period: July to September.

17: Towards novel electrocatalysts: Meeting the challenge to convert biogas into-methanol (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Petra Agota Szilagyi and Ken Luca Abel.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 1
  • Preferred academic background: Chemistry/Materials Sciences
  • Expected research period: Between mid-July to end of August.

18: Sound and the sociomaterial: Acoustic methods and hydroelectric power in Norway (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Andrea Nightingale and Steve Williams.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Number of students on the project: 1
  • Preferred academic background: Master student in the social sciences, e.g., human geography, political science, or environmental science, with some experience with survey and interview methods, data organization, Excel. Experience with acoustic methods (soundscapes, field recording, audio editing) would be beneficial.
  • Expected research period: July 1 to mid-August (six weeks full time).

19: Little Ice Age (LIA) – a cold long lasting climate crisis and its impacts on Scandinavian society (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Kirstin Krüger
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: Climate, Atmosphere, Ocean-Sea Ice, Environment, Society
  • Expected research period: June - September 2025

20: The Sustainability of High-rise Buildings (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Tanja Winther and Per Gunnar R?e
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Number of students on the project: 2
  • Preferred academic background: Human geography and similar social science disciplines (including sociology, anthropology and political science), as well as master candidates in Development, Environment and Cultural Change. Students must have proficiency in a Scandinavian language, to be able to read documents and web pages in Norwegian.
  • Expected research period: June – September 2025 (tentative)

Summer projects 2024:

1: Assessing the price of green finance (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Fred Espen Benth, Department of Mathematics
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Preferred academic background: Mathematics, statistics and economics, possessing computational skills and with a strong interest in sustainable finance and mathematics.
  • Expected research period: The project period will be agreed with the supervisor, Fred Espen Benth.

2: Correlating Hydrogen-Related Defects with Degradation in Silicon Solar Cells (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Nicole A?mann and Eduard Monakhov, Department of Physics.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Interest in material properties, solid state physics/chemistry, and some laboratory experience. Experience in data evaluation of spectroscopical data and a curiosity for defects in solid state materials are desirable.
  • Expected research period: Starting in July 2024, ending mid-August 2024.

3: Designing a methodology for integrating community acceptance of wind energy into energy system modelling (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Paola Velasco Herrejón and Marianne Zeyringer, Department of Technology Systems.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Psychology, Development, Environmental Sciences, Human Geography, Social Anthropology, Economics, or closely related subject areas. Candidates studying Energy Systems or other Energy related subjects with an interest in learning qualitative data collection and analysis are also highly encouraged to apply.
  • Expected research period: The project will ideally start from May 2024, but can also begin during the summer recess.

4: Education in Energy, Technology, and Environment (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sebastian Zieglmeier and Paal Engelstad, Department of Technology Systems.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Interest in education, energy and environment is satisfying.
  • Expected research period: The project period is flexible and will be determined collaboratively between the supervisor and the selected student.

5: Efficient Large-scale Machine Learning (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Ali Ramezani-Kebry, Department of Informatics.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Preferred academic background: Computer Science, Statistics, Machine learning, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or other relevant field.
  • Expected research period: The project period is flexible and will be determined collaboratively between the supervisor and the selected student.

6: Experimental Introduction to Electrochemistry (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Reidar Haugsrud, Athanasios Chatzitakis, Kevin Gregor Both, H?kon Andersen and Stine Roen.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Natural Sciences. Please see project description.
  • Expected research period: The project period will be agreed with the supervisors.

7: Feedback between fluid and solid dynamics at the tip of a fracture (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Fabian Barras and Gaute Linga.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Physics, Mechanics, Geoscience or Computational Science. Basic programming skills (C++ and/or Python) and knowledge of fluid mechanics is required. Some knowledge of solid mechanics and thermodynamics is an advantage.
  • Expected research period: Six week duration beginning in April or May. Reduced hours are possible for an extended duration.

8: Formative evaluation of school workshops to co-create the energy transition (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Beate Seibt, Charles Samuelson, Marianne Zeyringer and Karin Fossheim.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Preferred academic background: Master studies in Social, Educational, or Natural Sciences with an interest in climate change mitigation or the energy transition. Experience with teaching or conducting workshops is a big advantage.
  • Expected research period: Part-time April-October.

9: GPU-accelerated Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) for Studying Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Porous Media - Applications in Geoenvironment (Natural Sciences)

 

10: Green hydrogen from air (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sabrina Sartori.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
    • Outstanding Bachelor students can also be considered.
  • Preferred academic background: Materials Science, Renewable Energy, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics. Have some experimental experience in a chemistry/physics/engineering laboratory. Interest in data collection and analysis
  • Expected research period: Summer 2024.

11: Kommunens rolle ved vern av myr (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sigrid Stokstad.
  • Project suitable for: Bachelor- og masterstudent.
  • Preferred academic background: Kandidatene som s?ker m? beherske norsk flytende b?de skriftlig og muntlig. Samfunnsvitenskapelig eller juridisk bakgrunn er et krav, og det er en fordel ? ha erfaring med dokument- og tekstanalyse. Gode analytiske og skriftlige framstillingsevner er forventet.
  • Expected research period: Arbeidet skal gjennomf?res i tiden mai 2024 – september 2024. Rapport fra prosjektet skal ferdigstilles til 30. september og er beregnet til ? ta seks uker i fulltids arbeid. Arbeidet med rapporten kan fordeles i tidsrammen for gjennomf?ring. Prosjektet kan revideres ved oppstart etter samtale mellom student og veileder.

12: Mapping Mining: Visualising the social and environmental impacts of mining for the Twin Transition (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Maja Van Der Velden and Andrea Alessandro Gasparini
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Preferred academic background: We are looking for a mixed team of master students with one or more of the following background/skills:
    • Programming skills.
    • Design background, such as user experience (UX) or interaction design.
    • Background in Geology, Human Geography, Anthropology and related studies.
  • Expected research period: Eight weeks in the period June 1st until mid-August 2024.

13: Nuclear propulsion, tying the world together, one split atom at a time (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sunniva Siem, Ole Reistad and Marius Torsvoll.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Physics and informatics. Understanding and interest in physics and programming is paramount.
  • Expected research period: Six week duration beginning at any time between April 1st and September 15th, 2024.

14: Optical resolution of chemical mixing in flows through rocks and soils (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Kevin Pierce, Paula Reis, Khobaib Khobaib and Gaute Linga.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Physics, Geoscience, Mathematics, or Engineering, with interest in fluid dynamics or hydrology. Optics, fabrication, or programming experience would be an advantage. Specific projects will be tailored to students’ skills. We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds.
  • Expected research period: Six week duration beginning in April or May. Reduced hours are possible for an extended duration.

15: Quantitative assessment of school workshops to co-create scenario-based energy transition (Natural Sciences and Social Sciences)

16: Research on Power Profiles in Microgrids (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sebastian Zieglmeier and Paal Engelstad
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Renewable Energy Systems, Mathematics or related fields are encouraged to apply.
  • Expected research period: The project period is flexible and will be determined collaboratively between the supervisor and the selected student.

 

17: Review on AI-Based Digital Twins for Energy Systems (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sebastian Zieglmeier and Paal Engelstad
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Renewable Energy Systems, Mathematics or related fields are encouraged to apply. Knowledge of Programming, Modelling or an interest in AI would be beneficial.
  • Expected research period: The project period is flexible and will be determined collaboratively between the supervisor and the selected student.

18: Review on Modelling a Microgrid with Python (Natural Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Sebastian Zieglmeier and Paal Engelstad
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Renewable Energy Systems, Mathematics or related fields are encouraged to apply. Knowledge of Python programming, Modelling or an interest in AI would be beneficial.
  • Expected research period: The project period is flexible and will be determined collaboratively between the supervisor and the selected student.

19: Samskaping med ungdom - Case Str?ms? (Social Sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Ole Sm?rdal og Anja Amundrud.
  • Project suitable for: Bachelor- og masterstudent.
  • Preferred academic background: Prosjektet passer for studenter med interesse for demokrati og medborgerskap som tverrfaglige tema i skolen, og som vil v?re med p? ? utvikle nye verkt?y, metoder og praksiser. Formell bakgrunn er enten opptak til en master i utdanningsfeltet, eller opptak som bachelorstudent i UiOs nye B?rekraftsertifikat.
  • Expected research period: Tidligste start er 1. april. Prosjektet m? v?re ferdigstilt innen 1. oktober.

20: Digital ocean lab for research on robotic autonomy (Natural Sciences)

21: Sustainable academic mobility (Social sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Johannes Volden and ?yvind Sundet, with oversight from Tanja Winther.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Preferred academic background: The assignment is open to all candidates with at least one year of studies at the master’s level. Candidates must be proficient in a Scandinavian language.
  • Expected research period: The work is to take place in the summer 2024 and the report is to be submitted by September 1 to Volden/Sundet (unless otherwise agreed). See more info in the project description.

22: The Ecological Gentrification of Food (Social sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Arve Hansen and Per Gunnar R?e.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Preferred academic background: Human geography and similar social science disciplines (including Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science), as well as master candidates in Development, Environment and Cultural Change.
  • Expected research period: June – September 2024 (tentative).

 

23: The Sustainability of High-rise Buildings (Social sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Tanja Winther, Hege Westskog and Per Gunnar R?e.
  • Project suitable for: Master student.
  • Preferred academic background: Human geography and similar social science disciplines (including Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science), as well as master candidates in Development, Environment and Cultural Change. Students must have proficiency in a Scandinavian language, to be able to read documents and web pages in Norwegian.
  • Expected research period: June – September 2024 (tentative)

24: Tool Development for spatial thickness and composition distribution prediction in combinatorial PLD thin films (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Holger von Wenckstern, Kevin Gregor Both and Magnus Andreassen.
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level.
  • Preferred academic background: Natural Sciences. Please see project description.
  • Expected research period: The project period is flexible and will be determined collaboratively between the supervisor and the selected student.

25: Unveiling the evolution of mineral precipitates and porous rock geometry during CO2 injection into sandstone and basalt storage reservoirs (Natural sciences)

Summer projects 2023

1: Resolving fluid motion near the air-water interface in model porous media (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Kevin Pierce, Gaute Linga and Marcel Moura, Njord Centre
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Physics, Geoscience, or Engineering, with interest in fluid dynamics or hydrology. For details, please see project description
  • Expected research period: Six week duration beginning at any time between April 1st and September 15th, 2023.

2: Redox Exsolution of Metal Nanoparticle Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion Technologies (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Jonathan Polfus and Andreas Rosnes, Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academical background: Natural sciences. For details see project description.
  • Expected research period: June-August. For details see project description.

3: Characterization and Manufacturing of Pellets for Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Holger von Wenckstern, Kevin Gregor Both, Magnus Andreassen, and Andreas Rosnes, Department of Physics/Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Material science. For details, please see project description
  • Expected research period: 26.06.2023 - 04.08.2023

4: Chiral nanocatalysts for plasmonic activity (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Athanasios Chatzitakis and Kevin Gregor Both, Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Materials science, structural chemistry and physics
  • Expected research period: 6 weeks starting before or after July.

5: Methane to methanol conversion: can we adopt enzymatic strategies to boost performance (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Petra ?gota Szilágyi, Unni Olsbye, MSc Rafael Cortez Sgroi Pupo, Department of Chemistry. 
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Chemistry/Material Science
  • Expected research period: Within the mid-June to mid-August period

6: How does pollution impact sperm quality? (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Becky Cramer, Natural History Museum
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Biology
  • Expected research period: Within 15 June – 30 Aug

7: 2050+ Climate Imaginaries in Norway (Social sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Manjana Milkoreit and Andrea Joslyn Nightingale Department of Sociology and Human geography
  • Project suitable for: Students at master a level
  • Preferred academical background: Social sciences. For details, please see project description
  • Expected research period: May 22 – June 29

8: Ambition in International Climate Negotiations (Social sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Manjana Milkoreit and Andrea Joslyn Nightingale, Department of Sociology and Human geography
  • Project suitable for: Students at master level
  • Preferred academic background: Social sciences. For details, please see project description
  • Expected research period: August 7 – October 29. For details see project description.

9: Sharing material goods for reduced consumption (Social sciences)

  • Project description
  • Project suitable for: Students at master level
  • Supervisor: Ulrikke Wethal and Arve Hansen, Centre for Development and the Environment
  • Preferred academic background: Social sciences. For details, please see project description
  • Expected research period: Summer 2023. For details, please see project description

10: Powering Chile with Renewables - Analyzing Energy Demand from the Atacama Desert til Patagonia (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisors: Isabelle Viole and Sabrina Sartori, Department of Technology Systems
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Engineering, Economics, Physics or similar quantitative subjects.
  • Expected research period: Summer 2023.

11: Spill om klima (Samfunnsfag)

  • Prosjektbeskrivese
  • Veileder Ole Sm?rdal and Anja Amundrud, Department of Education
  • Project passer for: Bachelor og masterstudenter
  • Akademisk bakgrunn: Se prosjektbeskrivelse
  • Periode: Tidligste start er 1. mai. Prosjektet m? v?re ferdigstilt innen 1. oktober.

12: Improving computational foundation of an electricity system model (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Max Roithner and Marianne Zeyringer, Department of Technology Systems
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Computational Science and/or Informatics and/or Physics and/or Energy Systems and/or Meteorology and/or similar
  • Expected reseach period: Summer/Autumn 2023

13: Surveying subsea cables and pipelines with non-ideal sonar (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Andreas Austeng, Gábor Geréb and Peter N?sholm Department of Informatics 
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Natural Sciences with proficiency in Matlab, for details, please see project description
  • Expected research period: The timeframe is flexible but the project should be started before the summer vacations in July.

14: Bias-correction and spatial downscaling of weather data for energy system modelling (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Marianne Zeyringer and Guillermo Valenzuela, Department of Technology Systems
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Natural Sciences, see project description
  • Expected reseach period: To be discussed with supervisors

15: EV load curves of high temporal and spatial resolution for electricity system modelling (Natural sciences)

  • Project description
  • Supervisor: Marianne Zeyringer and Tobias Verheugen Hvidsten,  Department of Technology Systems
  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level
  • Preferred academic background: Renewable Energy Systems, Maths, Computational Science / Informatics, Physics or similar
  • Expected reseach period: Summer 2023.

16: Planning school workshops to co-create the energy transition (Social sciences and Natural sciences)

  • Project description

  • Supervisors: Beate Seibt, Department of Psychology. Marianne Zeyringer, Department of Technology Systems. Karin Fossheim, Department of Political Science

  • Preferred background of candidate: Social sciences and natural science. For details see project description

  • Project suitable for: Students at master level

  • Expected research periode: To be agreed with supervisors. 

17: Mapping trends and tensions in the marketing of plant-based meats (Social sciences)

  • Project description

  • Supervisor: Arve Hansen and Johannes Volden, Centre for Development and the Environment.

  • Preferred background of candidate: Social sciences. For details see project description

  • Project suitable for: Students at master level

  • Expected research periode: Summer 2023. 

18: Data for modelling a future net-zero energy system (Natural sciences and Social sciences)

  • Project description

  • Supervisor: Marianne Zeyringer, Department of Technology Systems

  • Preferred background of candidate: Renewable Energy Systems, Computational Science, Meteorology, Mathematics, Physics, Economics or equivalent

  • Project suitable for: Students at bachelor and master level

  • Expected research periode: To be agreed between supevisor and students.

 

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