IceLab's history

Inspired by the open culture among physicists and biologists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, where several past and present IceLabers have spent PhDs or postdocs, in 2010 we built a physical lab space to share among ecologists, mathematicians, and physicists. Umeå University helped us to cover the reconstruction of dark, narrow corridors with researcher cells into a light, open space with diverse activity areas to foster idea generation.

Funded by Kempestiftelserna since 2020, IceLab launched an initiative to help researchers from different disciplines take their collaborative spark into a full research project with the help of a shared postdoctoral fellow. Since then, three postdocs have joined IceLab yearly under this program and the non-IceLab principal investigators working with them on the project became IceLab affiliates.

We are over 60 researchers connected to IceLab, about half of whom are physically situated in IceLab's open premises. Our collaborative network of affiliated researchers extends into multiple departments and faculties. 

We always look for new collaborative projects and think about ways to innovate our creative activities. Since we believe that the best formula for new ideas is to combine existing ideas, we look forward to hearing from you about your ideas or visions that you would like to realize.

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