About the Space Physics Group
Space Physics has been a cornerstone of our department since the 1960s. From 2013 to 2023 we led a Centre of Excellence called the Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS) (PI Prof. N. Østgaard) that was funded by the Research Council of Norway. See BCSS annual reports for highlights.
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Our team is diverse, with more than 50% from other countries. It shows the research field’s international standing and our attractiveness. Our team is multidisciplinary, with high academic impact internationally and an engineering component of delivering space hardware for ground-breaking science.
Our students often receive prestigious awards at international meetings hosted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and European Geosciences Union (EGU). All our professors, researchers and postdocs are involved in student supervision, group development, proposal preparation, and leadership responsibilities.