Young CAS Fellows

The Young CAS Fellow programme supports outstanding young researchers by giving them the opportunity to build independent research networks and gain experience as research leaders early in their careers.

Below you can see more information about earlier, current, and future Young CAS Fellow Projects.

Read about the application process here >

2023 / 2024

Benjamin Schneider

Oslo Metropolitan Univeristy (OsloMet)

Work and Wellbeing in History

Victor Greiff

Univeristy of Oslo (UiO)

EVOIMMPRINT: Evolutionary Imprints on Human Adaptive Immunity

2022 / 2024

Illustration of a photoactivated redox process. Illustration by Camilla K. Elmar / CAS.

Nani Teig

University of Oslo (UiO)

Disadvantaged Students Who Beat the Odds: Toward a New Generation of Research in Academic Resilience

Ida-Marie Høyvik

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

A Wave Function Based Framework for Describing Photoactivated Redox Processes

2022 / 2023

Vadim Kimmelman

University of Bergen (UiB)

Whole-Entity Classifiers in Sign Languages: A Multiperspective Approach

Veronika K. Pettersen

UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)

Infant Gut Microbiome Acquisition: Off to a Healty Start

2021 / 2023

Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen

University of Bergen (UiB)

Ballads Across Borders: The Faroe Islands in the Norse Story-Telling World (BARD)

Kjetil Lysne Voje

Natural History Museum at University of Oslo (UiO)

The Importance of Measurement Theory in Paleobiology

Daniele Miano

University of Oslo (UiO)

The Roots of Universal History: The Empire, the World, and the Historian (c.200 BCE - 1681 CE)

Kris Shaw

University of Oslo (UiO)

Real Structures in Discrete, Algebraic, Symplectic, and Tropical Geometries (REACTIONS)

2020 / 2021

Catherine A. Bradley

University of Oslo (UiO)

Scattered Songs in Scandinavia: Fragments from A Medieval Motet Manuscript

Erik Tellgren

University of Oslo (UiO)

Global Optimisation in Electronic Energy Landscapes: Finding a Needle in a Haystack

2019 / 2020

Are Skeie Hermansen

University of Oslo (UiO)

Cross-National Comparison of Within-Job Pay Inequality Between Immigrants and Natives

Hilde Nesse Tyssøy

University of Bergen (UiB)

Unraveling the Drivers of Energetic Electron Precipitation

YoungCAS workshop

Before Young CAS developed into a fellowship programme for young researchers, CAS organised YoungCAS workshops. These where one-time workshops, based on the same principle as the fellowship programme today.

The first two years, 2017 and 2018, CAS hosted three workshops: