Examples in 2006:

• Researcher Marianne Fyhn, Centre for the Biology of Memory Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience. The prize is awarded for the most outstanding PhD thesis in the general area of behavioral neuroscience submitted and approved during the previous calendar year. Fyhn received the prestigious prize at the 2006 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Atlanta (USA).



• Professor Johan Sjöblom, Department of Chemical Engineering. Statoil's 2006 researcher prize for his research on crude oil emulsions. Knowledge of emulsions is used when choosing process and development solutions offshore. The same knowledge is highly relevant to the development of robust installations on the seabed in the future.



• Adjunct Professor Nils Petter Gleditsch, Department of Sociology and Political ScienceElected to president in the International Studies Association (ISA), which is an academic organization that facilitates research through publication and conventions. With well over four thousand members in North America and around the world, ISA is the most well respected and widely known scholarly association in this field.



• Professor Odd Georg Nilsen, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicin
  Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences



• Professor Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, Department of Engineering Cybernetics IEEE Control Systems technology Outstanding Paper Award 2006



• PhD Tomas Stølen, Department Circulation and Imaging Young Investigater Poster Award



• Associate Professor Espen Robstad Jakobsen, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  The Carl-Erik Fröberg Prize for Young Nordic Authors