A PhD defense is an important step in the career of a young researcher. However, for the defense itself it needs actually three to tango in Norway – the candidate and the two external opponents. This year, I had after some years again the honor to be one […]

En doktoravhandling er et viktig skritt i karrieren til en ung forsker. Men for disputasen trengs det faktisk tre til tango i Norge – kandidaten og de to eksterne opponentene. I år hadde jeg etter noen år igjen æren av å være en av de eksterne opponentene til […]

In their daily work early career students and scientists are usually very busy with generating and interpreting data for their scientific projects. But it is equally important to discuss results and methods. While scientific conferences offer such opportunities in official settings, the annual Master, PhD and PostDoc Days […]

By August 2024 the Natural History Museum (NHM) at the University of Oslo turned 25 years. Not that the entire institutions is that young, but in 1999 the NHM was formally created by the merger of the earlier Botanical, Zoological, Geological and Paleontological museums as well as the […]