Anja Andersen

Niels Bohr Insitute, Denmark

anja@dark-cosmology.dk

Nordic Correspondent

<a href=\'http://www.dark-cosmology.dk/~anja\'><strong>Anja</strong></a> received her PhD in astrophysics in 1999, she was a Nordita Fellow with Axel Brandenburg during 2002-2005 and has since 2005 been Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute. Her field of research is centred around the astrophysics of cosmic dust particles, important for the thermal, dynamical and chemical conditions in many astrophysical environments. She has received numerous awards for her research and public outreach.

Annica Black-Schaffer

Uppsala University, Sweden

annica.black-schaffer@physics.uu.se

Nordic Correspondent

<a href=\'http://www.physics.uu.se/sv/node/3079\'><strong>Annica</strong></a> is an assistant professor at Uppsala University in condensed matter theory. She graduated from Stanford University in 2009 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Nordita before joining Uppsala University. Her research interests focus on strongly correlated electron systems and superconductivity. She is currently working on graphene, topological insulators, and high-temperature superconductivity. She also enjoys hiking, skiing, and playing soccer.

Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti

University of Iceland, Iceland

vgmp@hi.is

Nordic Correspondent

Valentina\'s research interests are in string theory, in particular in aspects related to the gravity/gauge duality, also known as AdS/CFT. In the last few years, she has been mainly focusing on applications of the duality to study strongly correlated many-body systems. Valentina started as Assistant Professor at the University of Iceland in 2013.

Jani-Petri Martikainen

Aalto University, Finland

jpjmarti.nordita@gmail.com

Nordic Correspondent

<a href=\'http://tfy.tkk.fi/~martikj2/\'><strong>Jani</strong></a> is a Senior Research Associate at the Aalto University (Finland). He specializes in ultracold quantum gases and is interested in different aspects of quantum many-body problems. Non-professionally he also enjoys learning from other fields of science and pondering societal issues such as climate change, energy, environment, development, and parenthood.

Yasser Roudi

University of Trondheim, Norway

yasserroudi@gmail.com

Nordic Correspondent

Yasser graduated from SISSA in 2005. Since then he has conducted research at University College London, Cornell University and Nordita. In 2010 he joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology as a group leader. In his research Yasser uses statistical mechanics to understand information processing, neural computation and inference. Since 2010, he has also been a Corresponding Fellow at Nordita.

Steinn Sigurdsson

Penn State University, U.S.A

steinn@astro.psu.edu

Nordic Correspondent

<a href=\'http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/steinn/\'><strong>Steinn</strong></a> is a professor and the Head of Graduate Studies in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University, where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, and the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center. He works on a broad range of topics in astrophysics, centered around computational dynamics, in particular dynamics of compact objects and gravitational physics.