Overview of CAS projects

Here are all CAS Research Grant projects hosted by the Centre:

Active projects

2025 / 2026 : Social Sciences

AI and the greatest philosophers. Illustration: Nadia Méndez.

Kjetil Rommetveit

Digital Constitutionalism

2025 / 2026 : Humanities

Project illustration; photo of the process of designing a geopolymer concrete of mining waste. Photo: OiOiOi (2023).

Material Ecologies of Design

2025 / 2026 : Mathematics / Natural Sciences

Project illustration of a sleeping man and a brain map.

Kent-Andre Mardal

Jan Martin Nordbotten

Mathematical Challenges in Brain Mechanics

Future projects

2026 / 2027 : Natural Sciences

Lee Hsiang Liow

Population Processes in Deep-Time Declines

2026 / 2027 : Humanities

Marja Etelämäki

Interaction-Regulating Particles in Scandinavian Languages

2026 / 2027 : Social Sciences

Hilde Christiane Bjørnland

Energy Transition

Former projects

2024 / 2025 : Natural Sciences

Project illustration: Hands with barley. Photo by Annette Øvrelid. Edit by Camilla K. Elmar/CAS.

Rosie (Rosemary Rhiannon) Bishop

Climate, Crops, and Crisis?

2024 / 2025 : Humanities

Project illustration made up of Nigard Glacier, Norway, painting by Johan Christian Dahl (Bergen Kunstmuseum), and a historical temperature graph.

Jens Dominik Collet

The Nordic Little Ice Age (1300-1900) (NORLIA)

2024 / 2025 : Social Sciences

Project illustration

Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Investors in Overlapping Generations

2023 / 2024 : Natural Sciences

Illustration of fragmented road, by Knut Bauer.

Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

François Renard

Friction and Fracture and the Onset of Geohazards (FricFrac)

2023 / 2024 : Humanities

Balancing rocks. Source: Adobe Stock.

Mathea Slåttholm Sagdahl

Attila Geza Tanyi

The Profoundest Problem in Ethics (PROFOUND)

2023 / 2024 : Natural Sciences

HETCLIF. Smog over Delhi. Photo: Bjørn H. Samset.

Marianne Tronstad Lund

Bjørn Hallvard Samset

HETerogeneous CLImate Forcing (HETCLIF)