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FACET - Functional Materials and Materials Chemistry Research Group
At the NTNU Department of Materials Science and Engineering (https://www.ntnu.edu/ima)

01/07/2026

We have an open PhD position in nanopatterning in functional materials:

Job title: PhD Candidate in direct-write nanopatterning of functional materials (305051), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Tuesday, August 25, 2026

22/06/2026

Congratulations to Sofie Brandtzæg Hårberg who successfully defended her thesis “Degradation Mechanisms in Semiconductive Screens of Wet-Design Subsea Cables” on June 17th.
Professor Stanislaw Gubanski, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Professor Hans Edin, KTH, Sweden and Professor Karina Mathisen, Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Science, NTNU served on the evaluation committee.

Professor Mari-Ann Einarsrud, Senior Research Scientist Sverre Hvidsten, SINTEF Energy Research and Professor Julia Glaum have been the candidates’ co-supervisors.

16/06/2026

Big congratulations to Dr. Yu Liu, who successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title “Antiferromagnetism in Strain Engineered Oxide Interfaces” 🤩🌟🏆

The Assessment Committee was:

Assistant Professor Johanna Nordlander, University of Zurich,
Dr. David Cooper, CEA LETI University Grenoble Alps
Associate Professor Christoph Brüne, Department of Physics, NTNU

and his supervisors Associate Professor Ingrid Gullikstad Hallsteinsen and Professor Mari-Ann Einarsrud.

15/06/2026

Last week, the Kavli prize winners were announced - with our Professor Mari-Ann Einarsrud leading the committee on Nanoscience. ❤️
"The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex."
https://www.kavliprize.org/
Watch the prize announcement here: https://youtu.be/_R-thZXd9wU?si=J2hH7LS8oTPI0kQb

13/06/2026

Congratulations to our PhD candidates Katharina Wolk and Egil Ytterli Tokle for their 1st and 2nd prize in the NTNU Nanolab Image contest. Here they are together with the winner of the 3rd prize. We are proud of you.

10/06/2026

Members of the FACET group and their international collaborators have discovered unusual electric behavior in the material K₃[Nb₃O₆∣(BO₃)₂], where dipoles align in a noncollinear pattern. This arrangement produces a hybrid of antiferroelectric and ferroelectric properties. Using advanced microscopy, the team observed electrically switchable nanoscale regions with strikingly sharp boundaries, revealing how the antiferroelectric and ferroelectric behaviors coexist at the nanoscale. The work suggests that many materials with similarly complex dipole structures may host new, tunable electrical functionalities valuable for next generation electronics and sensors.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-026-02139-8

25/05/2026

We are very proud of our PhD candidate Sofie Brandtzæg Hårberg and her latest publication on inception of water trees in XLPE cable insulation. Congratulations to this top viewed article.

22/05/2026

SOME NEWS MATTERS MORE THAN PUBLICATIONS, RANKINGS, AND METRICS

While missiles continue to hit parts of Ukraine, universities are still teaching. Students are still studying. Researchers are still building the future.

Today, our Norwegian-Ukrainian project, “BioMedMat-UA – Advanced Biomedical Materials and Engineering,” has been awarded funding through the Nansen EDU programme by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir).

Read more about this project on LinkedIn:

18/05/2026

Congratulations to Damian Brzozowski!
He successfully defended his thesis titled: Structural Engineering and Interfacial Magnetism in Complex Oxide–Topological Insulator Thin Film Systems on the 11th of May 2026.
Assessment Committee:
Professor Thorsten Hesjedal, University of Oxford, England
Dr. Jos Boschker, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Berlin, Germany,
Professor Randi Holmestad, Department of Physics, NTNU

Supervisors: Associate Professor Ingrid Hallsteinsen and Professor Dennis Meier.

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