UC Berkeley: Peder Sather Grant Program - Projects with the UiO

The primary mission of the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study is to strengthen ongoing research collaborations and foster the development of new research collaborations between faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and from the consortium of nine participating Norwegian academic institutions.

Projects awarded 2021

Teachers’ Skillful Coping with Disruptive Behavior in Norwegian and American Classrooms

  • Liv Duesund, UiO
  • Elliot Turiel, Berkeley

Optimizing Affective and Cognitive Impact of Network Visualizations 

  • Roger Antonsen, UiO
  • Gregory Niemeyer, Berkeley

A new software for evaluating phylogenetic hypotheses and its application to the evolution of Bilateria

  • James Fleming, UiO
  • John Huelsenbeck, Berkeley

Conservation of biodiversity hotspots: Developing new collaborations and innovative approaches to study lichen biogeography  

  • Einar Timdal, UiO
  • Brent Mishler, Berkeley

Developing and applying probabilistic inversion frameworks for the advancement of paleogeographic reconstruction

  • Trond Torsvik, UiO
  • Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Berkeley

Homotopy continuation for unitary coupled-cluster theory 

  • Andre Laestadius, UiO
  • Lin Lin, Berkeley

Algorithmic Citizenship: Labor, Literacy and Societal Governance in the United States and Europe

  • Susanne Bauer, UiO
  • Massimo Mazzotti, Berkeley


Exploring the Ottoman World: Translation and Interconfessional Relations in the long 19th century

  • Einar Wigen, UiO
  • Christine Philliou, Berkeley


Towards a Global Summit on Gene Editing for Environmental Purposes? An interdisciplinary debate on risk, uncertainty and precaution in the new genetic era

  • Nertila Kuraj, UiO
  • Daniel Farber, Berkeley

Projects awarded 2020

Molecular Mechanisms of Lysosomal Transformation in Cancer

  • Cinzia (Anita Maria) Progida, UiO
  • Roberto Zoncu, Berkeley

Solving Nuclear Data Deficiencies in the A=95 Fission Fragment Mass

  • Sunniva Siem, UiO
  • Jasmina Vujic, Berkeley

Markers of brain activity in early Alzheimer’s Disease: The Berkeley-Oslo alliance

  • Anders M. Fjell, UiO
  • William Jagust, Berkeley

Towards a Global Summit on Gene Editing for Environmental Purposes? An interdisciplinary debate on risk, uncertainty and precaution in the new genetic era

  • Nertila Kuraj, UiO
  • Daniel Farber, Berkeley

Unravelling the genomic basis for adaptation in the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)

  • Helle Baalsrud, UiO
  • Rasmus Nielsen, Berkeley

Post-Conflict Security Structures: The Political-Geography of State Control

  • Scott Gates, UiO
  • Aila Matanock, Berkeley

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