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One of Scandinavia’s finest collections of church art from the Middle Ages lay hidden and forgotten in Norwegian churches for centuries.
NTNU and SINTEF
NTNU is ranked as number one of the universities producing the highest proportion of the research in collaboration with a single partner from industry: SINTEF. THE – Times Higher Education | Geminiresearchnews.com (9 March 2017)
Facts and figures
- Two Nobel laureates in Medicine
- Two students at former NTH are Nobel laureates in Chemistry and Physics
- 10 ERC Grants
- 103 H2020 projects
- 120 large and small laboratories
- 362 doctoral dissertations in 2017 (40 per cent women and 43 per cent international)
- 7135 person-years, of which 4617 are in academic or scientific positions (41 per cent women)
Main partners and collaborators
- SINTEF
- St. Olavs hospital
- Centre for Care Research
- Møreforsking
- The Norwegian Smartgrid Centre
- Business: NTNU provides expertise within commercial possibilities
Research ethics
Architecture
Piren/the Pier, NTNU’s Live Studio project at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, is a cantilevered pier projecting 12 metres out over the Nidelva river in Trondheim. NTNU Live Studio and Piren received an award presented by the Ministry of Education and Research for quality of education in 2015.
Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2014 Nobel Price in Medicine was awarded to the professors May-Britt Moser, Edvard Moser and John O'Keefe for the discovery of grid cells, that provide the brain with an internal GPS essential for navigation.
IEEE Fellow
Professor in cybernetics Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen is the first Norwegian female IEEE Fellow. The prestigious title was awarded in 2016 for contributions to control of marine vessels and snake robots.
Thermodynamics
Professor II Øivind Wilhelmsen has been awarded two prestigious prizes: Excellence Award from European Federation of Chemical, and Prigogine Prize from European Centre for Advanced Studies in Thermodynamics.
A winner of a strong heart!
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