2024 Grantees

2024 Peder Sather Grant Program Awards

BI Norwegian Business School (BI)  

Firming Up Careers: Human Resources Practices and Inequality

Business & Economics – $25,000
Norway: Andreas Kostøl
Berkeley: Sydnee Caldwell

Early Enterprise Development

Business & Economics – $25,000
Norway: Peder Furseth
Berkeley: David J. Teece

The Consequences of AI to Performers’ Rights and Contributions

Social Sciences – $10,000
Norway: Irina Eidsvold-Tøien
Berkeley: Catherine Fisk

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Circular Business Model Experimentation Labs: Learnings from Berkeley & Norway

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $15,000
Norway: Matthew Mark Coffay
Berkeley: Jonathan Weigel

The disconnect between i-frame and s-frame policies

Business & Economics – $15,000
Norway: Helge Thorbjørnsen
Berkeley: Leif Nelson

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Secrets of Giant Microalgae Genomes: Sequencing for Novel Pathway Discovery

Life and Medical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Gareth Gillard
Berkeley: Igor Grigoriev

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Exploring multi-proxy approaches to advance our knowledge of resource availability and exploitation in Stone Age Norway

Arts and Humanities – $20,000
Norway: Heidi Breivik
Berkeley: Christine Hastorf

Capturing Key Physics Behind the Alarming Ice Collapsing Scenes through the development of a novel fully coupled multi physics-ice calving model

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Wenjun Lu
Berkeley: Shaofan Li

Enabling next generation smart electrical grids with distributed computing

Engineering & Design – $20,000
Norway: Geir Mathisen
Berkeley: Edward A. Lee

Long-term thermo-mechanical performance of driven precast concrete geothermal energy piles

Engineering & Design – $20,000
Norway: Rao Martand Singh
Berkeley: Kenichi Soga

Corinna’s Ovid: A new approach to Greco-Roman literature and its postclassical impact

Arts and Humanities – $10,000
Norway: Thea Thorsen
Berkeley: Ellen Oliensis

Further Empowering Children’s STEM Learning Through Embodied Interaction

Education – $20,000
Norway: Michail Giannakos
Berkeley: Dor Abrahamson

Margins of Culture: A Comparative Study of NEET Engagement in Scandinavia and California

Social Sciences – $10,000
Norway: Jan Frode Haugseth
Berkeley: Ann Swidler

University of Bergen (UiB)

Coincidence analysis workshop and applied health services research comparing coincidence analysis with regression analysis

Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Michael Baumgartner
Berkeley: Emmeline Chuang

Mathematical Abstractions for Compiling and Verifying Heterogeneous Numerical Codes

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Magne Haveraaen
Berkeley: Per-Olof Persson

Exploring Undocumented Immigrants’ Experiences Across National Contexts

Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Synnove Bendixsen
Berkeley: Caitlin Patler

Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Berkeley / Norway Workshop

Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Ragnhild Muriaas
Berkeley: Amanda Clayton

Scales of Governance: Systems and Their Workarounds

Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Sarah Hamilton
Berkeley: Ronit Stahl

Photo-nuclear interactions in high energy nuclear collisions at the LHC

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Joakim Nystrand
Berkeley: Barbara Jacak

University of Oslo (UiO)

Evolution-guided design of monoclonal therapeutic antibodies

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Johanne T. Jacobsen
Berkeley: Yun S. Song

Locally Induced Pseudohypoxia As A Novel Strategy To Improve Implant Integration In Irradiated Bone

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Hanna Tiainen
Berkeley: Phillip B. Messersmith

Economics of Innovation

Business & Economics – $23,000
Norway: Fernando Stipanicic Marquez
Berkeley: Lee Fleming

Integrating Perspectives of Norwegian and American Teachers on AI Enhanced Classroom Science Dialogs

Education – $23,000
Norway: Anniken Furberg
Berkeley: Marcia C. Linn

A paleogenomic investigation of the chronology of freshwater adaptation in threespine stickleback

Life and Medical Sciences – $23,000
Norway: Andrew Foote
Berkeley: Craig T. Miller

Filling the Missing Middle: Connecting Experts on Understudied Taxa to Assess Biases, Gaps, and Priorities for Biodiversity Research in the Genomic Era

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Jessica Nelson
Berkeley: Klara Scharnagl

PhyloFun – Spatial Phylogenetics of Fungi for Biodiversity Management

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Mika Bendiksby
Berkeley: Brent Mishler

Decoding and Disabling the FLCN-TFEB Axis in BIRT-HOFF-DUBE Syndrome

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Helene Knaevelsrud
Berkeley: Roberto Zoncu

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Greening the Petrostate? Contradictions of the “Conjoined-Twin” Interdependence of Green and Fossil Capital

Social Sciences – $10,000
Norway: Berit Kristoffersen
Berkeley: Daniel Aldana Cohen

Visualizing The Molecular Mechanisms Of Trade-Offs For Antibiotic Innovation

Arts & Humanities – $15,000
Norway: Christopher Frøhlich
Berkeley: Britt Koskella

University of Stavanger (UiS)

Transracial Intimacies: Exploring Racialization from within the Nordic Family

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Lene Myong
Berkeley: Paola Bacchetta