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