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Hedvig Nordeng
Nordeng leads the PharmaSafe research group, using Norway's national health registries to establish the safety of medicines in pregnancy. Her pharmacoepidemiological studies covering hundreds of thousands of pregnancies inform prescribing guidance for expectant mothers across Europe, and she serves the European Medicines Agency as an independent scientific expert.
Trond Helge Torsvik
Torsvik, one of the world's most cited geodynamicists, reconstructs the movement of continents over hundreds of millions of years, linking deep Earth processes to climate and the evolution of life. He co-directs Oslo's Centre for Planetary Habitability, an international hub studying how planets become and remain habitable.
Carl Henrik Knutsen
Knutsen studies how political institutions shape economic development and why democracies endure or erode. He leads major ERC funded projects, contributes to the V-Dem consortium measuring democracy worldwide, and his co-authored book Why Democracies Develop and Decline synthesises evidence widely used by scholars and policy institutions.