Thursday 6th June
10:00-onwards Registration, etc - Kristen Nygaards Hus
10:30-11:30 (Optional) Session 0: Two invited sensor talks (proposed by Sensor Decade) - Store Auditorium
11:30-12:30 Lunch break with trade exhibition
12:30-13:30 Session 1: Medical, sensors, etc - Lille Auditorium
Opening comments Justin Wells

• 12:30-13:00 Organ-on-chip meets sensor technology - applications and use-cases for(bio) sensors in preclinical testing, Matthias Busek*
• 13:00-13:15 Photonic chips for super-resolution microscopy, J.C. Tinguely
• 13:15-13:30 Engineered Cortical Microcircuits for Investigations of Neuroplasticity, Nicolai Winter-Hjelm

13:30-14:00 Coffee break
14:00-15:30 Session 2: Biological systems, sensors, etc - Lille Auditorium

• 14:00-14:30 Microtechnology and microelectronics to characterize neurons and networks at subcellular resolution, Andreas Hierlemann*
• 14:30-15:00 The development of the Norwegian Center for Preventive Technology, Frank Karlsen
• 15:00-15:20 NanoFrazor Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography, Vasilis Theofylaktopoulos+

15:30-18:30 Posters at MiNaLab
with food and drinks (pizza ca. 17:00)
18:30-onwards (Optional) Visit to Tilt Oslo, Badstugata 6 


Friday 7th June
09:00-10:15 Session 3: Careers, publishing, funding - Store Auditorium

• 09:00-09:30 An open letter to aspiring authors, Gemma Solomon*
• 09:30-10:00 Applying to The Research Council of Norway - what, where and how? Nina Arnfinnsdottir*

10:00-10:15 Session 4: Physics - Store Auditorium

• 10:00-10:15Tuning the angular dependence of the switching field of thin film nanomagnets, Ida Breivik

10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Session 4: Physics (continued) - Store Auditorium

• 10:45-11:15 Exploring quantum materials with microARPES at ASTRID2 Jill Miwa*
• 11:15-11:30 Investigation of fast pore-scale phenomena using time-resolved X-ray micro-Computed Tomography, Mukul Jaiswal
• 11:30-11:45 Fabricating customized in situ TEM Chips for functional materials, Marthe Linnerud
• 11:45-12:00 Indications of Geometry-Induced Phase Change in hBN/α-RuCl3 Heterostacks, Thorstein Wang

12:15-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Session 5: Chemistry and Applied Sciences - Store Auditorium

• 13:30-14:00 Grow your own diamonds (or: An introduction to the deposition of thin diamond films) Paul May*
• 14:00-14:15 Synthesis of hollow silica spheres from silicon nanoparticles – mechanism, properties and applications, Hennie Marie Johnsen
• 14:15-14:30 Enhanced green hydrogen production using renewable energy resources, Sivagowri Shanmugaratnam
• 14:30-14:45 Multi-Scale X-ray Imaging for Understanding Salt Precipitation During Carbon Sequestration, Jessica Zeman

15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00 Session 6: Applied Sciences - Store Auditorium

• 15:30-16:00 Materials for high performance photovoltaics, Kristin Bergum*
• 16:00-16:15 From Irwing-Kirkwood to Virtual Deformation: Redefining Microscopic, Stress for Interface Simulations, Alexey Nesterenko
• 16:15-16:30 Measuring Aggregate Size using Medium-Frequency Acoustic Signal Attenuation in Carbon Black Nanofluids, Adam McElligott
• 16:30-16:45 Exploring perovskite nickelates for photovoltaic applications, A. Choubey

16:45-17:00 Closing remarks
17:00-18:00 (Optional) Social time before dinner
[committee meetings, etc]
18:30-20:30 Dinner
(Vaaghals, Dronning Eufemias gate 8)
21:00-onwards (Optional) Go to a pub afterwards
(Ph.D. committee to announce details)
Saturday 8th June
09:30-12:00 (Optional) Visit to technical museum
12:00-onwards Lunch for those attending the museum trip

+ indicates sponsor
* indicates invited speakers with 25+5 mins. All other contributions are 12+2 mins

All talks are held in: Kristen Nygaards Hus 
Poster session: MiNaLab Gallery
Lunch and breaks: Section for Semiconductor Physics, Kristen Nygaards Hus, 3rd floor

Public transportation in Oslo is readily available. Routes can be chosen and tickets purchased using the Ruter app (https://ruter.no/reise/ruter-appen/). If travelling to the conference from outside the Oslo area, we encourage our members to take the train whenever feasible. We will have a prize drawing during the conference open to those who utilize the train for at least one way of their travel.

Paul May, University of Bristol

Title: Grow your own diamonds (or: An introduction to the deposition of thin diamond films)

Paul May received his PhD in 1991 at the University of Bristol in the area of plasma etching of semiconductors.  He then co-founded the CVD diamond group there with Prof Mike Ashfold FRS. He later received a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship, followed by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, which allowed him to expand the Bristol diamond activities into a self-contained research group within the department. Paul became a full-time lecturer in 1997, and a Professor in Aug 2009. The Bristol CVD diamond group is now one of the largest university diamond research groups in the UK. Paul’s research focuses upon CVD diamond, but nevertheless remains very diverse, being partway between chemistry, physics, materials and engineering plus some biology and medical applications. Over the years, he has studied the fundamental chemistry of diamond growth via experiment and computer modelling, doping of diamond, X-ray lenses, bioimplants, antimicrobial coatings, microplasma generation, large-surface-area BDD electrochemical electrodes, and most recently, metal adsorption onto diamond for NEA and thermionic emission applications. He has published nearly 250 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, along with several book chapters. He is also noted for his use of the web, particularly websites such as the ‘Molecule of the Month’ and the (infamous) ‘Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names’, both of which are also available in book form.

Mathias Busek, University of Oslo

Title: Organ-on-chip meets sensor technology - applications and use-cases for (bio) sensors in preclinical testing

Mathias Busek is a postdoctoral researcher with a strong focus on microfabrication and design of Organ-/Lab-on-a-Chip systems and 12-years experience in research and development. Mathias received his Master's and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University (TU) Dresden in 2009 and 2018. During his first scientific appointment at the TU Berlin, he pioneered a micro-pneumatic organ-on-a-chip platform that is now commercially used for drug testing by TissUse GmbH. Later, he was project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute of Material Science and Beam Technology (IWS) in Dresden and lab manager for polymer microfabrication at the chair of Microsystems at the TU Dresden. In 2020, he was awarded a Scientia/Marie-Curie postdoc fellowship at the Hybrid Technology Hub – Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo. He is currently developing a pump-free organ-on-a-chip platform.

Andreas Hierlemann, ETH Zürich

Title: Microtechnology and microelectronics to characterize neurons and networks at subcellular resolution

Andreas Hierlemann got his college education in chemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany and a Ph.D. degree in 1996. He held Postdoc positions 1997 at Texas A & M University, College Station, TX and 1998 at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA. He joined the Department of Physics of ETH Zurich 1999, where he was appointed Associate Professor 2004. In 2008, he became Full Professor in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of ETH Zurich in Basel. His research interests include the development and application of microsensor, microfluidic, and microelectronic technologies to address questions in biology and medicine with applications in the fields of systems biology, drug testing, personalized medicine, and neuroscience. For details, see https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/bel/.

Jill Miwa, Aarhus University

Title: Exploring quantum materials with microARPES at ASTRID2

Prof. Jill Miwa leads the experimental condensed matter physics group based at the ASTRID2 synchrotron at Aarhus University exploring the vibrant area of quantum materials research to uncover new physics. The group grow these materials and investigate their remarkable electronic and structural properties using a powerhouse combination of innovative surface scientific techniques, specifically, ultra-high vacuum variable-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy (UHV VT-STM) and synchrotron-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with nanoscale spatial resolution (nanoARPES).

Nina Arnfinnsdottir, Forskningsrådet

Title: Applying to The Research Council of Norway - what, where and how?

Nina currently works as a senior advisor at The Research Council of Norway, with the FRIPRO-call for ground-breaking research. Her background is in biophysics with a PhD from NTNU. She has worked as a post doc on a biosensor project, as a researcher in Justin Wells lab at QuSpin and as a lecturer teaching the course biophysical microtechniques at NTNU. Outside of purely academic activities, Nina initiated a 2-day course called “Crash course in navigating your PhD or postdoc” in 2020. The focus was on sharing tips and tricks to surviving challenges in academia - and some of her best tips might just show up in her talk.

Gemma C. Solomon, University of Copenhagen

Kristin Bergum, University of Oslo

This year's conference is made possible by the hard work of the local organizing committee at the University of Oslo. This year's committee consists of Justin Wells, Håkon Røst, Simon Cooil, Elif Tezel and Alv Skarpeid.