Research Groups

The Centre hosts three parallel research groups each year. Each group comprises widely recognised, outstanding researchers from Norway and abroad who are invited to spend up to a year doing research at the Centre. Altogether, 40 to 45 scholars spend time at the Centre each year.

Each group is planned and organised around a unifying theme and is headed by one or two researchers from participating Norwegian institutions.

The three research groups are chosen from the following fields:

• The Natural sciences/Medicine/Mathematics
• The Humanities/Theology
• The Social sciences/Law

Research groups at the Centre for Advanced Study, 2011/2012:

Complex Matter Science, Group leader: Professor Tom Henning Johansen, University of Oslo
Time is Space: Unconscious Models and Conscious Acts, Group leaders: Professors Laura A. Janda and Tore Nesset, University of Tromsø
Cognition in aging - contributions of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neurogenetics, Group leader: Professor Ivar Reinvang, University of Oslo