Blog A Critical Friend Blog Trans experiences of belonging in Japan Blog From cozy woodstove to sustainable and healthy woodstove technology Hopefully my PhD project will contribute to a sustainable woodstove future, where the impact on climate is mitigated and the air quality will be improved, which will improve people’s health and quality of life. Blog Home of the Northernmost magic My first expedition to Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, was about observing, absorbing, and participating in big data collection in action. The trip was months delayed due to the pandemic. And it was absolutely magic. Blog Battery testing: developing a new computational tool to reduce experiments Battery behavior is best studied through experiments. However, time-consuming cycling tests are required to ensure that a specific battery design will perform well over its entire life. I aim to develop a new computational tool for long-term battery testing. Blog Green energy: Hydraulic Machinery and Systems A post symposium summary of the 31st Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems (IAHR 2022) in Trondheim. Blog European plaice: a new food source in Norway? Sometimes you don’t have to look that far to find a healthy and delicious new food option. Blog You can actually see the atoms in 3D: Q&A with Paraskevas Kontis Paraskevas (Paris) Kontis joined NTNU in September 2021 as Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering. His work focuses on the relationship between materials’ properties and chemistry at the atomic level. Here, he speaks with NTNU Nano science writer Kelly Oakes about his current research and plans for the future. Blog Making heat pumps hotter to reduce CO2 emissions Food processing, battery production and other industriall processes all demand heating and cooling at the same time. Improving high temperature heat pumps will reduce both energy use and CO2 emissions for these and other industrial processes, and the objective of my PhD is to develop a prototype of such a “hot” heat pump.
