2023 Peder Sather Grant Program Awards
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Ph.D. Course in Behavioral Economics with Shachar Kariv titled, “Confronting Decision Theory with Experimental Data and Vice Versa”
Education – $20,000
Norway: Bertil Tungodden
Berkeley: Shachar Kariv
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Fragile Environments: harnessing creative interventions in sound composition and music technologies to encourage imaginative listening and increased agency in facing the climate emergency.
Arts & Humanities – $20,000
Norway: Heather Frasch
Berkeley: Myra Melford
Creating Geologically Informed Image Processing to Automate the Detection of Hazards and Resources in Glaciated Landscapes
Mathematical & Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Jan Rod
Berkeley: Fernando Perez
Empowering Children’s STEM Learning Through Embodied Interaction
Education – $20,000
Norway: Michail Giannakos
Berkeley: Dor Abrahamson
Empowering Cities’ Climate-resilience Through Satellite-enabled Monitoring: The Management of Disaster Chains
Engineering & Design – $20,000
Norway: Yutao Pan
Berkeley: Kenichi Soga
Growth and Biological Aging of the Namib Desert Endemic Plant Weltwitschia Mirabilis
Life & Medical Science – $20,000
Norway: Michael D. Martin
Berkeley: Todd Dawson
Transferability of Autonomous Technologies Between Automotive and Maritime Engineering: Focusing on Human Roles and Human Behavior Analysis
Engineering & Design – $20,000
Norway: Baiheng Wu
Berkeley: Masayoshi Tomizuka
Workshops for the Exchange of Ideas Regarding Recent Developments on Frictional Drag Reduction for Shipping Emission Reduction
Business & Economics – $20,000
Norway: Lars Erik Holmedal
Berkeley: Simo Makiharju
Personalized Indoor Environment Conditioner for Surgical Microenvironment in Operating Rooms
Business & Economics – $20,000
Norway: Guangyu Cao
Berkeley: Hui Zhang
University of Agder (UiA)
GIS Mapping, Simulation Modelling and Their Pedagogical Applications for Urban History in the Greek Mediterranean
Arts & Humanities – $25,000
Norway: Apostolos Spanos
Berkeley: Christine Philliou
University of Bergen (UiB)
From Lightening to the Dawn of Time: Study of the Timing Structure of Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts with the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor
Mathematical & Physical Sciences – $15,000
Norway: Martino Marisaldi
Berkeley: Raffaella Margutti
Heterogenous Integration of Sensor Films on Pixel Readout Chips
Mathematical & Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Bjarne Sandvik Stugu
Berkeley: Marjorie Shapiro
Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity
Arts & Humanities – $20,000
Norway: Scott Robert Rettberg
Berkeley: Alexandra Saum Pascual
Cognitive Mechanisms of Correlation Neglect
Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Andrey Chetverikov
Berkeley: David Whitney
Adaptation to Climate Change By a Key Player in the Global Carbon Cycle: The Lantern Fish
Life & Medical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Anne Salvanes
Berkeley: Chris Martin
Habitable Air: Urban Inequality in the Time of Climate Change
Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Kerry Ryan Chance
Berkeley: Courtney Morris
University of Oslo (UiO)
Data Assimilation to Quantify Mountain Snow
Mathematical & Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Désirée Treichler
Berkeley: Manuela Girotto
Structure-based Discovery of Chemokine Receptor Antagonists
Life & Medical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Osman Gani
Berkeley: Robert A. Saxton
Workshop: Multimodal Analytics of Moving for Learning
Education – $20,000
Norway: Alexander Refsum Jenesenius
Berkeley: Dor Abrahamson
Uncovering the Main Drivers of Carbon Storage in Marine Plankton: Linking from Primary to Secondary Production
Mathematical & Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Khuong Dinh
Berkeley: Trevor Keenan
Geochronology Along the Southern San Andreas Fault (GSA)
Mathematical & Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Jean-Baptiste Koehl
Berkeley: Roland Burgmann
Tunable Electrons-Magnon Interactions for Ultra Low Energy Device Applications
Mathematical & Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Justin Wells
Berkeley: Frances Hellmann
Adapting Machine Learning to Norwegian Health Data to Enhance Causal Analyses of Patient Pathways and Patients’ Outcome
Life & Medical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Terje Hagen
Berkeley: Alan Hubbard
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Economic Statecraft and Hybrid Wars: Implications for Middle and Regional Powers
Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv
Berkeley: Vinod Aggarwal
The Inferiority Complaint: Exploring Objectionable Hierarchies Within and Across States (THINC)
Arts & Humanities – $20,000
Norway: Kim Angell
Berkeley: Niko Kolodny
Exploring Boundaries-Phonological Domains at the Interface with Morphology and Syntax
Arts & Humanities – $20,000
Norway: Martin Krämer
Berkeley: Hannah Sande