Leadership
Krishna Agarwal
Krishna.Agarwal@uit.no
Professor and Principal Investigator
Inverse Problems, Microscopy, Nanoscopy, Electromagnetics
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Funding
Approximate Cumulative Funding (€): 17,002,500
| Project Title | Funding Source | Approximate Amount (€) | Start | End | Roles |
| Project Cymoplive | Funded by UiT Talent Innovation Position grant | 210,000 | 2025 | 2027 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Spemotile | EIC Transition | 2,500,000 | 2025 | 2027 | PI: Krishna Agarwal, WP leader – Jean Claude Tinguely |
| Bioscopy | INCP2, HKDIR | 250,000 | 2024 | 2027 | PI: Krishna Agarwal, Biswajit Chowdhury @ IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Samir Mondal @ AcSIR – CSIO |
| MarGel | MABIT | 100,000 | 2025 | 2026 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| UiT Talent Innovation Main project for Cymoplive | SeFI, UiT | 57,500 | June 2024 | May 2025 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| UiT Talent Pilot Project | UiT Talent | 10,000 | May 2024 | Dec 2024 | PI: Ankit Butola |
| Project Establishment Support for EIC Transition Application 2024 | SeFI, UiT | 20,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Lightweight Super-Resolution Imaging | RCN Verification | 500,000 | 2024 | 2026 | PI: Lars Sorensen (Norinnova), co-PI: Krishna Agarwal and Dilip K. Prasad |
| Fiber Resolution Targets | RCN Verification | 500,000 | 2024 | 2026 | PI: Komal Agarwal, co-PI: Biswajoy Ghosh, Krishna Agarwal, and Bronwyn Smithies (Norinnova) |
| Computational Adaptive Optics | RCN Qualification | 50,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Lars Sorensen (Norinnova), co-PI: Farhad Niknam |
| Grant for staying abroad (NUS Singapore) | UiT IFI | 4,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Rohit Agarwal |
| Pilot innovation project for CAO | UiT Talent | 10,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Farhad Niknam |
| Accelerator funds for Spermotile for attending REACH program | UiT Talent | 20,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Accelerator funds for Cymoplive | UiT Talent | 10,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Accelerator funds for FiRST | UiT Talent | 10,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Komal Agarwal, co-PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Cooperation with Singapore | UiT’s strategic funds | 8,000 | 2024 | 2024 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Summer school at BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen | DLN | 5,000 | 2023 | 2023 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Project establishment funding of ERC Starting proposal 2024 | UiT PES | 10,000 | 2023 | 2023 | PI: Ankit Butola |
| Spermotile | RCN Qualification Grant | 50,000 | 2023 | 2023 | PI: Dilip Prasad, co-PI: Krishna Agarwal, Lars Sorensen |
| Spermotile | RCN Support for REACH program | 15,000 | 2023 | 2024 | PI: Krishna Agarwal and Dilip Prasad |
| NanoRIP | RCN overseas research stay | 80,000 | 2023 | 2023 | PI: Krishna Agarwal, Researcher: Yingying Qin |
| MUSICAL: Light weight super-resolution imaging platform | RCN Qualification Grant | 50,000 | 2023 | 2024 | PI: Lars Sorensen, co-PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Cymoplive: Cyto-Motility and Plasticity in Vitro Live-Cell Assay | RCN Qualification Grant | 50,000 | 2023 | 2024 | PI: Ingrid Skjæveland, co-PI: Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Versatile Resolution Targets for Optical Nano- and Microscopes | RCN Qualification Grant | 50,000 | 2023 | 2024 | PI: Bronwyn Smithies, co-PI: Komal Agarwal and Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Terje og Valerie Stalder Jacobsens forskningsfond | UiT IFT | 6,000 | 2023 | 2023 | PI: Ankit Butola |
| An innovative assay of MUSICAL | Erasmus plus mobility grant | 2,000 | 2023 | 2023 | PI: Sebastian Acuňa and Biswajoy Ghosh |
| Testing AI-based 3D synthetic reconstructions of cell organelles of 2D real microscopy images | DLN’s cross-project funding | 3,000 | 2023 | 2024 | PI: Biswajoy Ghosh and Abhinanda Ranjit Punakkal |
| Nanoscale artificial intelligence in microscopy and nanoscopy for life sciences (*NanoAI) | RCN Enabling technology | 1,200,000 | 2021 | 2025 | PI: Dilip Prasad, co-PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Spermotile | ERC POC | 150,000 | 2023 | 2025 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| MUSICAL toward innovation | Digital Life Norway Innovation Pilot | 100,000 | 2022 | 2023 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Organ Vision | FET Open RIA | 3,700,000 | 2021 | 2025 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Next Generation Optical Nanoscopy Platforms for Biological System -Symbiosis of Advanced Training, Research and Innovation | Norwegian Research Council (RCN) INTPART | 450,000 | 2021 | 2024 | PI: Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia WP Leader: Krishna Agarwal |
| Artificial intelligence solutions to virtually stain label-free cell and tissue images for studying cardiovascular diseases of fish and mammals | UiT Thematic Funding | 3,000,000 (KA 500,000) | 2021 | 2024 | Co-PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Label-free 3D morphological nanoscopy for studying sub-cellular dynamics in live cancer cells with high spatio-temporal resolution | Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant | 1,500,000 | 2019 | 2024 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Integrated optical nanoscopy for pathology and the clinic | Norwegian Research Council (RCN) Nano 2021 | 1,000,000 | 2019 | 2023 | PI: Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia WP Leader: Krishna Agarwal |
| Label-free nanoscopy of living cells through nanoscale refractive index profiler | FRIPRO Young Research Talent | 800,000 | 2019 | 2023 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| High‐throughput and high-resolution pathology using chip-based nanoscopy | Norwegian Research Council (RCN) BioTek | 800,000 | 2019 | 2021 | PI: Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia WP Leader: Krishna Agarwal |
| Chip-based MUSICAL nanoscopy for imaging endocytosis pathways of phage viruses in LSEC | Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF | 200,000 | 2017 | 2019 | Researcher: Krishna Agarwal Host: Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia |
| Pilot project support | UiT Aurora funding | 20,000 | 2019 | 2021 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Event organization support for 3/day workshop on Next-generation live-cell microscopy, 2020 | Digital Life Norway | 20,000 | 2020 | – | PI: Krishna Agarwal and Florian Strohl |
| Strategic funding for personnel | UiT | 1,200,000 | 2019 | – | PI: Krishna Agarwal. Researchers: Arif Ahmed Sekh, Sebastian Acuna, Farhad Niknam, Yi Huang, TBD |
| Project establishment funding of FET Open RIA proposal 2020 | UiT PES | 30,000 | 2019 | 2020 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Infrastructure for label-free nanoscopy | UiT | 500,000 | 2019 | – | PI Krishna Agarwal |
| Top up funding for ERC Starting Grant | UiT | 500,000 | 2019 | – | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Project establishment funding of ERC Starting proposal 2018 | UiT PES | 10,000 | 2017 | 2017 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |
| Digital excellence Program | DLN | 5,000 | 2018 | 2018 | PI: Krishna Agarwal |